Notes Part I,II & III, Spike Island. Installation view. Photo: Joe Maxwell
About
At the core of my practice I am interested in the desire to systematise and logisticise the natural world and how integrated systems of capital have instilled a complex form of social control over populations in both the physical and virtual sphere.
In the work I interrogate theories of control and I explore how art can intervene and highlight the alternatives including examining methods of intervention and methods of escape. The films are made up of found video footage which is reprocessed, re-filmed and effected in an attempt to move away from the high definition and the hyper-real.
In the work I take on various identities as alter egos and anonymous collectives and I play an ever changing authorial role. The resulting films act as calls to action from a parallel time, voicing the plans of various anonymous collectives who propose ideas for new ways of living, new visions of self-sufficiency and new methods of escape all underpinned by an interrogation of contemporary systems of control and the belief systems that they represent.
Biography
Charlie Tweed is an artist and curator based in London. He graduated from Goldsmiths MFA Art Practice in 2008, was selected for dragged down into lowercase (Sommerakademie) at the Zentrum Paul Klee in 2008, was the winner of the Galerie Klatovy Klenova prize at the Start Point European Academy Awards 2008, the winner of the ECO 09 prize in 2009 and selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2007.
In 2010 he had solo shows at Spike Island, Bristol and Animate Projects, London and was selected for the 2010/2011 residency programme at Grizedale Arts. In 2011 he had a solo show at Alma Enterprises, London, was selected for The Box Season 5 at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales and selected for Emergency 5 at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth where his work Archimeters was selected as the winning work – the prize is a solo show at Aspex in 2013.
He received a AHRC PHD Studentship from Kingston University in 2011 where he is currently a PHD Researcher.
Curating - From 1999 – 2004 he was the co-founder of art collective LAND who then set up Alma Enterprises Gallery where he was Co-Director from 2004 – 2011 (based at 1 Vyner Street, Bethnal Green and 38 Glasshill Street, Southwark). At Alma he co-curated shows and talks by artists including: Brian Catling, Katie Cuddon, Suzanne Treister, Richard Grayson, Rod Dickinson, Jennet Thomas, Paul Tarrago, Roisin Byrne, Neil Hedger, Alex Baggaley, Hayley Newman, Kim Noble, Jem Finer, Thomas Altheimer and others. From 2012 he will be the Co-Curator of a new art residency programme and educational organisation.
Read an article on the Notes series by Spike Island curator Marie-Anne McQuay for Animate Projects
Watch the entire Notes series online at Animate Projects