‘Hotel Jaguar’ is a collaborative art project by artist Amanda Newall Johansson and curator Sasha Burkhanova, both PhD students at UAL
‘Hotel Jaguar’ will be an immersive, site-specific installations by Amanda Newall consiting of video works, objects, sound pieces and costumes, all curated by Sasha Burkhanova. It will address the emotional and psycho-social wellbeing of the audience at the Exposed Arts Projects gallery in Kensington, London. Participants will be invited to stay at ‘Hotel Jaguar’: to take part in a sleepover in the gallery.
Sasha and Amanda are currently looking other Postgraduate students and alumni to collaborate on the project.
Roles available:
- Participation Coordinator
- Cinematographer
- Sound Recorder
- Performers to act as ‘Hotel Staff’
More about the project:
During Hotel Jaguar sleepovers, participants will be dressed in the costumes designed by Amanda — fully integrating them into the installation. The audiences will experience the immersive environment , similar to those applied in the theatre — yet in a space of a gallery that is not normally used to convey this type of sensations.
Social dreaming is a method of sharing dreams in a collective, developed by W. Gordon Lawrence in 1982. During the dream-sharing event, called a “matrix”, the participants share their real nighttime dreams, images, and associations. These dreams are not interpreted by the matrix conveners; instead, the dream images and associations are allowed to gradually accumulate in the course of the matrix. The main purpose of social dreaming — and Newall’s artwork accordingly — is to provide a forum for sharing the hidden or unspoken thoughts and feelings about the social circumstances of the participants, enabling them to create new perceptions of, and solutions to the world that they share.
Roles available:
1. Participation Coordinator ‘Hotel Jaguar’.
The engagement we expect: 1-2 days per week (from 1 June 2018 onwards)
We are looking for a person to coordinate the recruitment and arrangements for participants for the sleepover/social dreaming matrix’s, hotel staff participants, and audience participants that will wear costumes for the party and other related events at Hotel Jaguar. The intention is to create a day-long seminar series and group of workshops which will draw on related research. The coordinator will be responsible for facilitating seminar and workshop activities and making relevant arrangements also.
2. Cinematographer ‘Hotel Jaguar’.
The engagement we expect: 1-2 days per week (29 June 2018 onwards)
We are looking for a cinematographer to document the ‘Hotel Jaguar’ activities and exposition.
3. Sound Recorder ‘Hotel Jaguar’
The engagement we expect: 1-2 days per week (29 June 2018 onwards)
We are looking for a sound-recorder to document the soundscapes of ‘Hotel Jaguar’ activities – that would be further used in making an audio-catalogue of the project.
4. Volunteers to enact the “Hotel Jaguar” staff
The engagement we expect: 1-2 days per week (29 June 2018 onwards)
You will be given a role, asked to wear a costumes and be active in the space – guiding the visitors and telling them stories. You will bring the Hotel Jaguar to life – by becoming its staff. Your ideas and personalities will be accounted for in configuring your personage.
This project is artist led, so all positions are voluntary.
In return there will be –
o A great opportunity to become a part of a new exciting art organisation, and continue the relations after the project is realised.
o Access to our internal working processes and events.
o A chance to work together with committed and risk-taking art practitioners, who are happy to share their experience and advise.
o Your work will be credited, and a reference will be provided upon your request.
If you like to participate and take any of the aforementioned positions, or if you have questions and suggestions (to which we are always open!) — please get in touch at hello@exposedartsprojects.com
Many thanks!
Sasha & Amanda
Hotel Jaguar is supported by the Postgraduate Community Project Fund