Every semester, ZHdK's Department of Fine Arts presents a series of public talks with various guests from the contemporary art and culture sector. In the spring semester 2022, all talks will take place via Zoom:
Zoom Meeting: https://zhdk.zoom.us/j/68895737613?pwd=NFI4azNTY0FlMUx4YlBWc2h1UmprUT09
Meeting ID: 688 9573 7613
Kennwort: 029556
Deborah-Joyce Holman is a multidisciplinary artist based in London, UK, and Basel, Switzerland. Holman employs a variety of media in her practice, such as text, sculpture, installation, film- and image-making. Holman’s work has recently been shown at Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2022); Last Tango, Zurich (2022); Unfinished Live, The Shed, New York City & House of Electronic Arts, Basel (2021); 7th Athens Biennial (2021); TransBona-Halle, Basel (2021); Kiefer Hablitzel Prize nomination exhibition, Basel (2021); Conceptual Fine Arts Live, Milano (2021); Cherish, Geneva (2021); Yaby, Madrid (2021); Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2021); La Quadriennale di Roma (2020); Material Art Fair, Mexico City (2020); A Soft Spiral (solo), Mikro, Zurich (2019); Fondation Entreprise Ricard, Paris (2019); Auto Italia, London (2019); Live In Your Head, Geneva (2018); Alienze, Lausanne (2018); OSLO10, Basel (2017); Locale Due, Bologna (2016), among others. As part of her curatorial practice, she worked as Associate Director (2020–21) and as Associate Curator (2021–22) at East London arts organisation Auto Italia. She is the founding director of 1.1, a platform for early-career practitioners in arts, music and text-based practices, with an exhibition space in Basel, Switzerland, which ran 2015 – 2020. Deborah has curated the 2018 and 2019 annual group exhibitions for Les Urbaines, Lausanne.
In this Talk, Holman will speak about her latest moving image work. She will ruminate on Black representation, Black subjecthood and formal, conceptual as well as elusiveness, recital and fabulation as sites of resistance.