United States
Statement
Hannah Jones (b. 1990, US) works with painting, drawing, writing and video. She holds a BA Studio Art from Oberlin College and is based in Detroit, MI. She was a co-producer of the former literary collaboration, Underword, whose works included publications and an experimental performance series. Most recently, she has exhibited work in Detroit at Trinosophes, What Pipeline, Cave, and Round About in Lisbon, Portugal where she was an artist in residence. Her video works incorporate original performances, sets and costumes featuring fictitious characters with interweaving narratives that explore relationships often accompanied by trauma, repression, jealousy and forbidden desire. These vignettes touch on the absurdity of reality, particularly the young, artist’s reality including feelings of desperation and self-compromise in order to support larger goals or beliefs. The characters are often performed in sexually exploitive manners, constituting a double-edged attempt to repossess bodies that do not always feel like their own.
Profile
GlogauAIR resident from 2019-01-05 to 2019-01-05
GlogauAIR Project
The themes I will be working with are; forgotten space, the story telling abilities of objects and structures, the layers of history found in artefacts, the displacement of people and non-living entities. I’m interested in how social inequality and the failures of perpetual economic growth manifest in physical forms over time, and how the body’s lived experience is imprinted on a place even when the body is absent. I’d like to make a series of large oil paintings, which will reference photographs I’ve taken in my surroundings of preserved moments when previous activities seemed to abruptly stop. These images include deserted storefront window displays, empty Laundromats, or those I have found on Craigslist from inside homes, both inhabited and unoccupied. Reminiscent of Sophie Calle’s voyeuristic photographs of hotel rooms, while these images do not include people, I consider them to be portraits rather than landscapes. The scenes I have in mind possess a lonely and minimal quality, yet are simultaneously sensuous. Depending on my findings in and around Berlin I may elaborate on the theme with sculptures which will evolve out of repurposed materials or, “artefacts” found on walks. As writing is an intrinsic part of my practice, I will keep a journal of poetic visual findings and commentary on related texts, such as “The Origins of the Urban Crisis” by Thomas J. Sugrue.
CV Summary
EDUCATION
- Bachelors of Fine Arts, Oberlin College, USA 2013
- Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, France 2011
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES
- 2017
- Eric Schmid is an Idiot, Cave, Detroit, MI
- 2016
- Ever get the feeling we’re not alone in this world?, What Pipeline, Detroit, MI
- Open Studios, Round About, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2015
- Material For Living, Trinosophes, Detroit, MI
- Throat Eye and Knuckle Bone, Frontera Festival, Hyde Park Theater, Austin, TX
- Book of Chapters with Bebe Yama, Masonic Temple, Detroit, MI
- Heritage Works, African World Festival, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
- 2014
- DON’T UNPLUG ME, The Sco, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
- Underword Pt. III, 1480 Gratiot Ave, Detroit, MI
- 2013
- “This is Just to Say,” SEED House, Oberlin, OH
- 2012
- The Halftime Show: Senior-Studio, Fisher Gallery, Oberlin, OH
- Off the Wall, Fisher Gallery, Oberlin, OH
- 2011
- Cut-Up, CIAC, Pont-Aven, France
SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE
- 2016
- Assistant to Charles Ross, Star Axis, Anton Chico, NM
- Mural Artist, Homes and Places of Business, Detroit, MI
- Studio Assistant, Chris Schanck Studios, Hamtramck, MI
- 2015
- Illustrator, Bangla School of Music, Hamtramck, MI
- 2014
- Dancer, Heritage Works, Detroit, MI
- Assistant to Ryan Seng Clothing Design, Royal Oak, MI
- 2013
- Co-chair, Oberlin College Film Co-op, Oberlin, OH
- Exhibition Intern for Corin Hewitt, MOCA, Cleveland, OH
- 2012
- Artist Assistant to Rebecca Cross, The Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH
- Co-Curator and Organizer, Wundercloset: Experimental Microcinema, Oberlin, OH
WORKSHOPS
- 2016
- “Heaven is just a Blue Disguise of Hell” with Joana von Mayer Trindade, Forum Dança, Lisbon, PT
- Butoh with Yuko Kominami, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Porto, PT
- Companhia Limitada with Madalena Victorino and Pedro Salvador, Largo Residencias, Lisbon, PT
- Impro-Wise with Marina Nabais, ACCCA, Lisbon, PT
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Spring 2013: Wilder Voice, Volume 8, Issue 14
- Fall 2012: Plum Creek Review:
