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Hermione Spriggs

Hermione Spriggs

香港六合彩中特网 Email:听h.spriggs@ucl.ac.uk
Websites:听,听
Year of start: 2018
Supervisors:听Martin Holbraad听and David Burrows (Slade School of Fine Art)
Fieldsite: London/ Canada

PhD Research

Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps

Animal traps are perspectivist technologies, capable of interfacing between worlds or jurisdictions. Like the Guyana spring trap that 鈥渢urns fish into fruit鈥� (Gell 1996), traps mobilise subjects across ontological registers and elicit extraordinary effects from unpromising materials. This research asks how hunters render something out of nothing and presence out of absence, creating value and mobility from scant resources.

The journey begins with a fictional exhibition described by Alfred Gell in his 1996 essay 鈥淰ogel鈥檚 Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps鈥�, and an ethnography of animal trapping techniques both in London and in Northern Manitoba. Treating traps as sites in which a range of often contradictory perspectival relations come into focus 鈥� hunter and prey, human and non-human, society and nature, economy and environment 鈥� this ethnography zooms out to situate the nexus of the trap in a broader mesh of natural, social, economic and political relations, and zooms in to consider the multi-sensory aesthetics of trapping as a form of 鈥渁rt practice鈥� geared towards beyond-human thought and perception.

In cross-cutting between beyond-human anthropology and practices of making, a new space opens up for the production of 鈥渋mpossible鈥� art forms that conflate different perspectival systems and find ingenious ways to transform their current situation into a new one.

Research interests

Hermione Spriggs is an artist, researcher and exhibition-maker exploring practical methods for perspective-exchange. Her collaborative project the Anthropology of Other Animals (鈥淎oOA鈥�) doggedly attempts to elicit extraordinary effects from unpromising materials and explores the hidden links between 鈥渃raft鈥� and 鈥渂eing crafty鈥�. Born in Yorkshire, Spriggs holds an MFA in visual art from UC San Diego and is a member of the Social Morphologies Research Unit and the 香港六合彩中特网 Multimedia Anthropology Lab. She is currently undertaking practice-based PhD research at 香港六合彩中特网 based between the Department of Anthropology and Slade School of Art, and is curator and contributing editor for the exhibition and publication project "Five Heads: Art, Anthropology and Mongol Futurism" (香港六合彩中特网 Department of Anthropology/ Sternberg Press).

Publications

  • Spriggs, H 鈥楧rawing into Being the trap as a diagram for practical exchange between art and anthropology鈥� (Dec 2019) Journal of Material Culture, Special Issue 鈥楾raps and Trapping鈥�, 24(4), Corsin Jimenez, Nahum-Claudel & Willerslev (Eds)听
  • Spriggs, H (Ed.), 鈥楩ive Heads (Tavan Tolgoi): Art, Anthropology and Mongol Futurism,鈥� Sternberg Press, 2018听
  • Spriggs, H (2016) 鈥楿URGA (irregular loop), Drawing figure-ground reversals in art and anthropology鈥�, Journal of Material Culture, Vol 21:4, pp 405-428
  • Spriggs, H (Contributing editor, 2013) 鈥楢 New Methodology for an Anthropology of Things鈥�, The Fox Vol IV听
  • Spriggs, H & Barton, G (2013) 鈥楢rchitecture and Trapping鈥�, 30:60:90: A Journal of Emergent Architecture and Design, David Hayes (Ed.), Princeton University Press

Presentations, Conferences & Exhibitions

2019

  • Air Matters, Waterman's Art Centre, London (10th Oct 2019 鈥� 4th Jan 2020)
  • All the rain Promises and More... exhibition & catalogue text, Arusha, Edinburgh (opening 25th July 2019)
  • The First Limonum Symposium, an ESTAR(SER) gathering, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France (July 8-13)
  • The use路ful路less路ness of the Experiment, Colleex EASA Network Second Workshop, 4-6 July, Cieszyn, Poland
  • Morphologies of Invisible Agents. Space Studios, London (26th April 鈥� 18th May)
  • Multimedia Anthropology Now, online exhibition and panel discussion, 香港六合彩中特网 Department of Anthropology (ongoing)

2018

  • International Symposium on Practices of Attention, 33rd Bienal de S茫o Paulo, Brazil
  • ASA conference 鈥�18: Sociality, matter, and the imagination: re-creating Anthropology, Oxford University
  • Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi): Art, Anthropology and Mongol Futurism, greengrassi & Corvi-Mora (Curator)
  • New Subjectivities in Mongolian Futures, panel conversation and publication launch, Arts Catalyst, London
  • Art House Jersey, 鈥楨ncounters鈥� residency, organised by Helena Hunter as part of DIY 2018
  • East Side Projects, Expanded Studio Residency with Laura Cooper
  • Stories in the Making, Royal Anthropological Institute, exhibition, SOAS/ British Museum, London
  • Art Materiality and Representation, Royal Anthropological Institute conference British Museum, London

2017

  • Visual Research Network 鈥楥reative Image,鈥� Granada Institute, Manchester听听
  • Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland. Third House, AoOA exhibition with Laura Cooper & Heini Neiminen
  • Inhabiting the Woods: new research and creative practice in the Caledonian pinewoods, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
  • In Other Tongues, 鈥楿nderwood鈥� performance/ workshop for Dartington College creative summit, Devon

2016

  • Traps: Technological mediations of human-animal encounter, CRASSH conference, Cambridge University
  • audibleVISIONS conference, Goldsmiths University dept of Music + Audiovisual research unit, London
  • The Viscous Shape, Skaftfell Center for Visual Art with The George Walker Geology Genter Breiddalsvik, Iceland
  • Museum of Jurassic Technology, ESTAR(SER) exhibition & symposium, Los Angeles
  • The Showroom, 鈥楧IY Decoy鈥� workshops and performance as part of Communal Knowledge, London
  • Closer to The Veg, installation and performance lecture at Fitzroy Park Allotments, London
  • Itasca, Bindery Projects, St Paul MN听

2015

  • Global Committee, 鈥楧ust鈥�, exhibition + durational performance, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
  • TIME BODY SPACE OBJECTS 4, 鈥楾hey were sunbeams鈥︹�� public performance for Island Arts Initiative, Boston, MA
  • 鈥楩luid States 鈥� Performances of Unknowing', Museum of Contemporary Art, Panama City
  • 鈥楽an Diego Keeps Her Promise: Balboa Park at 100鈥�, San Diego Art Institute, CA
  • The Thing Is All Around Itself, Official Selection, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York UK
  • Walking, Talking and Social Practice, Mildred鈥檚 Lane, Narrowsburg, PA

2014

  • Those That At Close Range Resemble Islands, Art|Sci Gallery, 香港六合彩中特网A Nanosystems institute, Los Angeles CA
  • The Thing Is All Around Itself, Hermione Spriggs Graduate Thesis Show, UC San Diego, CA (solo)
  • BOX HAS SIX SIDES, Bizkaia Aretoa. Sala Chillida Aretoa, Bilbao, Spain
  • Land Art Mongolia Third International Biennial, National Museum of Art, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  • Collective Affinities, MFA Graduate Exhibition, University Art Gallery UC San Diego, CA
  • Those That From A Distance Look Like Flies, Performance Lecture for the Lorquin Entomological Society, Bioquip, LA

Teaching Experience

  • Slade School of Fine Art, Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PGTA) for Drawing Methodologies (2019-20)
  • The Showroom, London, 鈥楧IY Decoy鈥� workshops as part of Communal Knowledge public program (2016-17)听
  • Mildred鈥檚 Lane, Pennsylvania 鈥榃alking, Talking and Social Practice鈥�, artist talk and hypnosis workshop (2015)
  • UC San Diego, Sixth College Writing Program, Teaching Assistant with Professor Teddy Cruz (2014)
  • UC San Diego Centre for Humanities research group 鈥楽omething from Nothing: Fearless Speculations in Art, Science and Activism鈥�, syllabus creation for the Sixth College Culture, Art and Technology program (2012鈥�2013)
  • UC San Diego Department of Art History, Teaching Assistant (2012)
  • UC San Diego Department of Visual Arts, Teaching Assistant (2011-12)

Education History

  • PhD in Anthropology and Art Practice (香港六合彩中特网 Anthropology/ Slade School of Art), Sept 2018 鈥�
  • MFA in Visual Arts, University of California San Diego, 2014
  • BSc Anthropology, University College London, 2010

Honours, Awards & Funding

  • Richard Schlagman Art Book Award, nomination and longlist, Five Heads (H Spriggs, Ed), 2019
  • LAHP / AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, PhD funding award (Sept 2018 - 2022)
  • 香港六合彩中特网 Graduate Research Scholarship for Cross-disciplinary Training (Sept 2019 - 2020)
  • Arts Council England International Development Fund Grant, 鈥楾he Viscous Shape鈥�, (Awarded Feb 2016)
  • UCIRA Major Grant, 鈥楳alaise, a Trap for Atlantis鈥�, University California Institute for Research in the Arts (Awarded May 2013)
  • Russell Foundation Grant, 鈥楳alaise, a Trap for Atlantis鈥�,听 (Awarded February 2013)
  • UCIRA Planning and Implementation grant 鈥楽lab City Generative Fieldwork鈥�, University of California ( 2012)
  • UCSD International Fellowship, visual arts MFA (2011-2014)
  • Daryll Forde prize, 香港六合彩中特网 Anthropology Department (2010)