In Autumn 2024, we welcome Curator and Senior Lecturer at Chelsea College of Arts Amanprit Sandhu to a 4-month residency. Sandhu will use this time to research as well as to present work by award-winning composer and artist Raven Chacon at Chelsea Space. This will be on display for the first time in the UK.
Residency duration: 12 September - 13 December 2024
Amanprit Sandhu is a curator and educator based in London. She specialises in innovative exhibition and curatorial practices, with a focus on collaboration, and expanding access to the arts and arts education.
Recent work includes co-curating the 2021 Borås Art Biennial in Borås, Sweden and organising the inaugural Brent Biennial in Brent, London in 2020. She was the co-founder of the curatorial collective DAM Projects (2014 - 2020). The work supported underexposed artists, art scenes, discourses, and socio-political debates in the UK and internationally.
Residency duration: 1 December - 7 December 2024
Background Music, Raven Chacon's first solo presentation in the UK, is curated by Amanprit Sandhu as part of her curatorial residency at Chelsea Space titled Overtures, Soundings, Ruptures. The residency focuses on Chacon’s work, and in particular the lexicon of his instructional and graphic scores as invitations for community building and knowledge production. More broadly Sandhu will explore the work of contemporary artists and thinkers that are proposing more than human understandings of sovereignty. The residency also involves experimenting and thinking through the way in which performance-based practices are presented. And in the context of Chelsea College of Arts, exploring the potential and politics of noise in pedagogical spaces.
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and installation artist born at Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. A recording artist over the span of 22 years, Chacon has appeared on over 80 releases on national and international labels.
He has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Whitney Biennial, Borealis Festival, SITE Santa Fe, The Kennedy Center, and more. As an educator, Chacon is the senior composer mentor for the Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP)
As an educator, Chacon is the senior composer mentor for the Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP). In 2022, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his composition Voiceless Mass. In 2023, he also was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship.
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