Art Research Installation: Kate Pickering: Myth-ground; Wall-skin; Cloud-breath

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Join us at 43 Lewisham Way, opposite the RHB Building at Goldsmiths University for Kate Pickering's exhibition.

Myth-Ground; Wall-Skin; Cloud-Breath is an exhibition that visually maps the research of Kate Pickering's PhD project (‘Lakewood Megachurch: Bodily Dis/Orientations in a Climate of Belief’) on the occasion of her viva. The exhibition deploys three diagrams as orientation points for the images and performances that form a background to the final thesis submission.

Kate Pickering is a London based artist, writer and PhD researcher (CHASE scholarship) in the departments of Art and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. She produces experimental writing and site-based, performative readings exploring notions of embodiment, belief and sacred space. Her long-form experimental text ‘There is a Miracle in Your Mouth’ moves between the dis/believing body of an exvangelical, a spectacular Texan evangelical megachurch caught in the midst of a hurricane and a fourteenth century anchorite cell in which St. Julian of Norwich is permanently enclosed.

Pickering graduated with an MFA in Art Practice from Goldsmiths College in 2009 and has since exhibited widely. She recently contributed a book chapter to the edited volume ‘Imagining the Apocalypse’ (Courtauld Books Online), has a book chapter forthcoming in ‘Fieldwork for Future Ecologies’ (Onomatopee) and prose poetry in a forthcoming volume titled ‘Corroding the Now’ (Crater and Veer). Additionally, her writing has featured in both academic and artistic journals and publications, including Coils of the Serpent Journal, Soanyway magazine, Misery Connoisseur, EROS journal, Yellow Pages (Copy Press) and K[]NESH Space. She has presented her research for conferences at Goldsmiths, Birkbeck, the Courtauld Institute of Art and the University of Essex. Pickering also runs the artists’ peer critique group Peer Sessions with artist Charlotte Warne Thomas.

https://kate-pickering.com/
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