Whatever it does, it's doing it now: Artist Sigune Hamann in conversation with Kia Nobre
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
4:00 - 5:15 pm
100 College Street
Floor 11, Workshop 1116
The Wu Tsai Institute presents the 2025 Artist-in-Residence, Sigune Hamann.
In conversation with Kia Nobre, Hamann will discuss her research studio practice, photographic film-strips, and the work she is undertaking while in residence at the Wu Tsai Institute. Examples of Hamann's current works will be on display, and the audience will have ample opportunity to engage directly with the artist.
Learn more about Hamann and her residency at the Institute below, and join us on March 18 for an engaging discussion and light refreshments at 100 College Street. No RSVP is necessary. Please email the Institute with questions.
About the Artist
London-based artist Sigune Hamann works with experimental photography and sound, archive research, and interdisciplinary collaboration. In her ongoing practice of taking film strips, Hamann uses a photographic camera like a movie camera-exposing a whole 35mm film in one continuous rewinding movement while turning around, producing a panoramic image from a 360-degree perspective. The work negotiates the relationship between photography (image) and time-space correlations, focusing on interpersonal and collective experience. In her current projects (Hannah Höchs' House and Kurt Schwitters' Merzbarn in Progress), Hamann mediates radical modernist positions in the medium of collage. She is a Reader in Art and Media Practice at the University of the Arts London and has an ongoing collaboration with Kia Nobre.
About the Residency
As Artist-in-Residence at the Wu Tsai Institute, Sigune Hamann will develop a series of photographic studies. Through exchanges with scientists, staff, and students, she will explore the dynamics of image perception and address and disrupt conventions of using images as 'pre-formatted' pictorial representations. The artist will mount temporary photographic interventions in the collective environments at the Wu Tsai Institute, thereby creating productive tensions between pictorial and everyday space. The studies will function as co-montages with scientific experiments and thinking to stimulate interdisciplinary inquiry.
Hamann is in residence for the Spring 2025 semester, and can be reached via email.