Projects
- An Exercise in Being (How to be White/Black)An Exercise in Being (How to be White/Black) Archival box, printed text, mixed media on ID cards, digital prints on paper, 2014 Excerpt of text: HOW TO BE WHITE: 1. Carry out high fashion trends as if you were white. (For example the messy bun look. You will find it doesn’t work as your hair is already considered messy, this is not an advantage away from hours of teasing or hairspray – it’s a complete invisibility of you enacting the style) 1.1 Nude lipstick will also not work. 1.2 Things that are seen as edgy on white girls aren’t on you. 1.3 You have to first achieve femininity to carry out these fashions – and western ideas of femininity depend on whiteness. 2. Distance self from blackness. 2.1 Don’t consider any conversation about blackness to be concerned with you or speaking to you. 2.2 Play into respectability politics ‘it’s all about how you act’ – which really reads as act out whiteness so people are not suspicious off you’ – I as a teenager in a predominantly black school thought this of black kids who complained about how much they got stopped and search. 2.3 Use slangs less – the type you used is associated with blackness and ‘rude girls’. 3. See things to do with whiteness in general as accessible to you, applying to you, about you, even if you secretly don’t relate to them or hold your experiences. You can’t be the geeky girl who turns into the swan in an American movie (see 1.3)
- Appear... but Only on Your ConditionsAppear... but Only on Your Conditions Acrylic gems, the artist's hair, 150 x 70 cm 2015 As shown at 'Call and Response' a self organised and intiated group show of final year Fine Art Central Saint Martins students at the Amersham Arms in New Cross, with a focus on 'the modes of communication we use to disseminate our 'selves' and how it is received and echoed back to us.'
- Degree Show piece - 'I Want to Offer Myself Up'I Want to Offer Myself Up card, glitter, the artist's hair, vinyl, 250 x 310 cm 2015 "'The work of Rebecca Lindsay-Addy deals quite subjectively with the artist’s identity but also draws in wider issues of cultural identity. She has, in a way, ‘collaborated’ by researching family photographs and finding there a familiar pattern on a favourite bedcover. She also involved family members in making the pieces for the installation, together, on the time-honoured kitchen table. The bedcover pattern forms the basis for her deployment of an arrangement of modular discs across the wall of her given space (again she utilises and emphasises the corner and displays the modules from wall to wall.) The modules are colourful and glittery, they look machine-made from a distance but on closer inspection are hand cut. On many of them you find traces of the artist’s hair attached. Fortunately she was on-hand to talk about the way that people are fascinated by her big, frizzy (perhaps part-Afro?) hair and tend to “touch it without asking.” In the midst of the modular pattern you find a few words written, apparently communicating a certain passion on the part of the artist, or of the artwork itself “I WANT TO OFFER MYSELF UP” They transform the rest of the work into a kind of sacrifice or votive device and so the hair and the glittering circles become, not only about proximity, perspective, privacy and personal and wider culture but also a kind of belief system in which art-making resembles a prayer." - Paul O' Kane - https://750wordsaweek.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/csm-graduation-shows/
Projects credited in
- Kollektiv Interview PublishingWebsite Founder and Administrator, Artist Liaison, Artist Journalist Since 2014 I have published over 197 picture interviews on Kollekitv Gallery. I ask 10 questions and artists respond visually. This method of networking and publicity compliments my curatorial relationship with artists, a way for artists to develop their visual practice as well as have an online item to share on their website.
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