Woven Network Nordics
GRief Cartographies
The pan-Nordic ‘Woven Network Nordics’ was a 9-month digital residency led by Intercult, Stockholm, Sweden, in collaboration with Artists across Norway and Denmark, to foreground women’s experience as central to the COVID-19 pandemic, and propose new ways to disseminate artistic, technological, and socially engaged practices, across networked/ remote audiences.
Artistic outcomes included public/ digital presentations, conversations, partner visits, and live-streamed Artist ‘Woven Sessions’, culminating in a physical, multi-channel video installation at Studio 44, Stockholm, September 2021, and a digital, online exhibition in December 2021.
Artistic outcomes included public/ digital presentations, conversations, partner visits, and live-streamed Artist ‘Woven Sessions’, culminating in a physical, multi-channel video installation at Studio 44, Stockholm, September 2021, and a digital, online exhibition in December 2021.
Grief Cartographies, (Trailer), Single Channel Video, 1 minute 50 Seconds, HD, Colour
Performed, Directed and Filmed by Emma Hirsk, 2021.
Performed, Directed and Filmed by Emma Hirsk, 2021.
Grief Cartographies
The Grief Cartographies project, considers the acute intimacies of both private and collective loss, trauma and grief, irrevocably shaped by covid pandemic conditions.
As an artist-researcher from Northern Ireland, based in Sweden, this project is borne from the deeply private loss of my mother, and beloved friend during the Covid pandemic and is contextualised against the backdrop of restrictions across travel, borders, contact, care, family, illness and death.
The themes of this residency arose from the acute need to document, trace and somehow mark the entangled moments of mothering, life, fear, hope, love, distance, panic, care, travel, death, emptiness and grief.
Incorporating the series ‘Objects for my Mother’ this residency research, maps a path of grief cloven by time, touch, distance, identities, memories, geographies, and covid restrictions, and presents photographs, films, drawings/writings, maps, and socio-spatial sculptural practices as a way through grief, and to somehow keep a connection to, and remembrance of my mother.
The Grief Cartographies project, considers the acute intimacies of both private and collective loss, trauma and grief, irrevocably shaped by covid pandemic conditions.
As an artist-researcher from Northern Ireland, based in Sweden, this project is borne from the deeply private loss of my mother, and beloved friend during the Covid pandemic and is contextualised against the backdrop of restrictions across travel, borders, contact, care, family, illness and death.
The themes of this residency arose from the acute need to document, trace and somehow mark the entangled moments of mothering, life, fear, hope, love, distance, panic, care, travel, death, emptiness and grief.
Incorporating the series ‘Objects for my Mother’ this residency research, maps a path of grief cloven by time, touch, distance, identities, memories, geographies, and covid restrictions, and presents photographs, films, drawings/writings, maps, and socio-spatial sculptural practices as a way through grief, and to somehow keep a connection to, and remembrance of my mother.
Grief Cartographies (I-IV), Photographic Mapping of Death/Loss/Time, February to April, 2021.