Barca
Site specific installation at 25 Francis Street, Hull, HU2 8DT, as part of art residency RE-VIEW - HARI Hull Artists Research Initiative (Encouraging Experimentation and Engagement).
Text by the curator Sarah Pennington: 'Barca, the Italian word for boat, emerges from Amanda Crawley Jackson and Anna Netri's walks around the River Hull, during which they explored the city's long history of colour and paint manufacturing. Responding to the flaking paint on the walls in HARI, which fall between surface and substance, skin and sculpture, architecture and organism, the works made during this residency reinterpret the possibilities of the material past in the present. ...
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Anna Netri is an artist with a background in architecture and urban design, who also works as a Public Art Officer, and is interested in how these sectors can collaborate with the arts. She has developed a number of conceptual arts project with a community engagement focus, blurring boundaries of where art is/isn't seen. To HARI Anna brings an object of multi-functionality which she is developing and uses to enhance how we experience and engage with our environments.
Amanda Crawley Jackson is a writer, educator and curator Based at University of the Arts London, she was born in Hull and lives between London and Sheffield. Her research focuses on place, memory and repair. It navigates the boundaries of the visible/invisible, spoken/unspoken, often delving into issues of displacement and the spatial dimensions of trauma. Her process is rooted in repeated or durational engagements with place, combining walking, dwelling and photographic notetaking with found texts, fragments and objects to recontextualise and reimagine conventional understandings of place and identity. She is particularly interested in contemporary philosophies of neuroplasticity and the possibility they afford for developing new ways of thinking about how time works in place. This manifests in her practice through detailed attention to how places are reused or altered, but still bear visible traces of their earlier forms or uses.
HARI enjoyed this residency's collaborative and conversational nature, particularly the peripatetic aspect as a means of getting closer to a subject, and loves the mix of research and activity brought to consensus in the
intertwining of these overlapping practices.'