Nicola Singh: Pushing Attention – Performance 2

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The second of two performances completes Nicola’s solo exhibition as part of ‘3-Phase’ in the Second Gallery and will incorporate song, spoken word, and movement, set against the transformed frames of weaving and print.

Pushing Attention fleshes out the traces of a private workshop into public. Newcastle based artist Nicola Singh invited artists Kate Sweeney, Phyllis Christopher and Janina Sabaliauskaite to be with their own and each other’s bodies in a workshop setting.

For Eastside Projects, Nicola is inviting intimate photographic traces from this workshop, and the overall sentiment, into an exhibition that encompasses performance, printmaking, textiles and text. Across time, Nicola will translate the printed and photographic elements of the show into tapestry and embroidery – encouraging spillage and transformation between the mediums, pushing at visual representations of body whilst also cultivating a kind of durational ‘being-with’ relationship to the work.

The artist will bookend the exhibition with two performances – marking the changes and alterations to the show throughout its run, continuing Nicola’s exploration of exhibition making through the prism of action and performance. This new work sits within the artist’s current research – to find different representations of form, touch and movement in relation to the body, with an emphasis on the ‘where, how, why and who with’ we touch and tend to our own bodies.

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Part of the unique development initiative 3-Phase, a partnership with Jerwood Charitable Foundation & WORKPLACE, Gateshead, these three solo shows are the finale of three exhibition moments, showcasing work by three artists over an 18 month period.

The exhibitions at Eastside Projects were preceded by group exhibitions at Jerwood Space (Nov-Dec 2017) and WORKPLACE (April-June 2018). 3-Phase offers a supported opportunity and critical platform for the artists to engage with three national organisations over an extended period during which time they have experimented and realised ambitious artistic visions.

The selected artists, each at pivotal moments in their career, have demonstrated a commitment to challenging and pushing the boundaries of traditional modes of exhibition making.