DEMONIC HALF-PERSON with Jamie Crewe

Wednesday 1 May 2024

5:45 - 8:00PM

About the event

Join artist and filmmaker Jamie Crewe for an artist’s talk at Turner Contemporary in which Crewe will discuss ‘DEMONIC HALF-PERSON’, a creative technique that recurs throughout their practice. This event is co-facilitated by OSE Associate Emelia Kerr Beale, who will host a Q&A after the talk.

‘DEMONIC HALF-PERSON’ describes positions or states of inhumanity, and things that are not quite people. It asks: what might be escaped when humanity is shrugged off, or torn from a person? What are you licensed to do to a person who is not (fully, completely, or correctly) a person? What does everyone else have that I am missing? DEMONIC HALF-PERSON will chart the recurrence of such questions and themes across Crewe’s life and practice.

Participants are encouraged to think about what recurs in their own lives and practices: gestures, themes, or images that keep coming up, intentionally or not.

Jamie Crewe is a beautiful bronze figure with a polished cocotte’s head. They make artworks with video, text, installation, sculpture, drawing, painting, and more. These works think about constriction: the way people are formed by their cultures, environments and relationships, and the things that herniate from them as a consequence.

Jamie’s solo exhibitions include Ashley at LUX Moving Image, London (2020); Solidarity & Love at Humber Street Gallery, Hull (2020); Love & Solidarity at Grand Union, Birmingham (2020); Pastoral Drama at Tramway, Glasgow (2018) and Female Executioner at Gasworks, London (2017).

In April 2022 Jamie released False Wife, a website and video commissioned by the University of Edinburgh Art Collection and Dr Chloë Kennedy of Edinburgh Law School, which received the EMAF Award for groundbreaking work in media art at the 35th European Media Arts Festival in Osnabrück, Germany. She received the Margaret Tait Award in 2019, a Turner Bursary in 2020, was shortlisted for the Jarman Award in 2022, and was one recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists 2023.

If you’re unable to attend after booking – we ask that you cancel your ticket and free up a space for another participant. If this event is fully booked and you would like to be placed on a waiting list, or you have any other queries, please contact george@openschooleast.org

OSE Public Programme 2023-24

This year’s Associate-led Public Programme, Where Echo Lies, takes us to the edges of our experience, where it is dark, and all is not necessarily clear. Plunging into new depths, the programme thinks through deep time and the unconscious mind. What forms of solace might be found in the night that cannot emerge in the light of day? What might we hear when surrounded by this darkness? Through myth making, spectatorship, performance, and painting, you are invited to look inward and ask how can our experience help us understand what lies beneath the knowable?

You can find more Public Programme events at: openschooleast.org/ose-public-programme-2024

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• The gallery is wheelchair accessible with an outdoor ramp and lift serving both floors.
• Wheelchairs and portable stools are available for visitors. Please contact us ahead of your visit, or speak to a member of staff upon arrival if you would like to use one.
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