sorhed is a collaborative artistic practice authored by karl foster and kimberley foster. below is a selection of images taken from the full range of objects we have produced.
kimberley is currently involved in PhD research at Goldsmiths, University of London and karl is currently involved in PhD rseearch at Chelsea College of Arts. UAL. 'after the before' and 'trans-formations' are both parts of the website that focus on the research and therefore are password protected.
CAL (Centre of Arts and Learning Goldsmiths) and CMUK (Climate Museum UK) ecologies in practice research projects 2022/23
A series of objects created to encourage questions around material methods for questioning ecological issues.
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AND- BUT - Centre for Arts and Learning Goldsmiths 2021
https://www.gold.ac.uk/cal/events/
Utterances - sorhed in isolation
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Today we started a new project in isolation. We have used a random number generator to choose pages from John Paul Satre's - Nausea as stimuli. The intention is to respond to the page of text and make intuitively within a maximum of 1 hour. In these peculiar times we wanted to be playful with our surrounding materials, within our home and studio. We play as a way of operating, negotiating and understanding.
We will be uploading these material utterances on a regular basis. The first page number was 242, we produced two short videos and some stills.
If you wish to find out more about how we are framing the idea of 'utterance' you can read about it in the following article we produced with Victoria Mitchell:
Foster, Karl, Foster, Kimberley, Mitchell, V., 2020. “Pears, pistachios, pencils, and punctuation: Performative encounter and the art of conversation.” J. Writ. Creat. Pract. 13, 169–186. https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcp_00002_1
We will be uploading these material utterances on a regular basis. The first page number was 242, we produced two short videos and some stills.
If you wish to find out more about how we are framing the idea of 'utterance' you can read about it in the following article we produced with Victoria Mitchell:
Foster, Karl, Foster, Kimberley, Mitchell, V., 2020. “Pears, pistachios, pencils, and punctuation: Performative encounter and the art of conversation.” J. Writ. Creat. Pract. 13, 169–186. https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcp_00002_1
Utterance 1. Friday 4th April 2020
Utterance 2. Monday 6th April 2020
Responses to page 182
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Utterance 3.. Sunday 12th April 2020
Page 54
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Utterance 34. Friday 17th April 2020
Page 137
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Utterance 5. Monday 27th April 2020
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Other Projects
Physicality of Research symposium Tate Exchange - Tate Modern - June 2017
https://www.tate.org.uk/research/research-centres/tate-research-centre-learning/physicality-research
https://www.tate.org.uk/research/research-centres/tate-research-centre-learning/physicality-research
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PhD Research - Karl Foster 2020
The above video is part of Karl Foster's PhD research project 'Art Pedagogy and The Incomprehensible Head : Making the dialectics of knowing and not knowing visible as a thinking-apparatus for art practice.' A molehill cast, as a thinking form for 'eruptive disruption'. It was cast into the sea and floated and cast onto the floor of the 'Morgue' at Chelsea College of the Arts. The molehill sits in the forces of physical bias, a steep incline in the floor originally created to aid the process of washing formaldehyde from corpses used in the medical training of military personnel. The physical forces of 'bias' are made visible from opposing perspectives.
Gallery Research - 'Lines of Sight', Exhibition about the 'Rings of Saturn' by W.G. Sebald.
Castle Museum, Norwich, 2019 -2020.
'Red Herring' 2019
The above video is of an image of a spoon cut out from a colour print. The paper spoon catches the flow of air from the air conditioning system coming up through the floor of the gallery. In the 'Rings of Saturn', Sebald writes Thomas Browne's prose :
'It is true that, because of the immense weight of the impediments he is carrying, Browne's writing can be held back by the force of gravitation, but when he does succeed in rising higher and higher through circles of spiralling prose, borne aloft like a glider on warm currents of air, even today the reader is overcome by a sense of levitation'. (Sebald, 2002, p.18)
The spoon acknowledges the air current, its tail flickers to life. Further into the 'Rings of Saturn', Sebald shows us an image of a 'Red Herring', that is not a red herring. It is a red herring.
W.G. Sebald (2002) The Rings of Saturn. (2nd edn.). Vintage Books : London
'It is true that, because of the immense weight of the impediments he is carrying, Browne's writing can be held back by the force of gravitation, but when he does succeed in rising higher and higher through circles of spiralling prose, borne aloft like a glider on warm currents of air, even today the reader is overcome by a sense of levitation'. (Sebald, 2002, p.18)
The spoon acknowledges the air current, its tail flickers to life. Further into the 'Rings of Saturn', Sebald shows us an image of a 'Red Herring', that is not a red herring. It is a red herring.
W.G. Sebald (2002) The Rings of Saturn. (2nd edn.). Vintage Books : London
Title: 'un-think' (2015) - materials: frying pan, steel tray, wind-up record player mechanism, formica, buttons
Title: 'Foil', (2017) 64 squares of kitchen foil (each approximately 30cm x 30cm. Running time 7 minutes.
Title: 'Print 34/57' (2017) Photographic print (29.7 cm x 29.7 cm) of compressed foil sheet (30cm x 30cm)
Title: 'Paper' (2017) 57 photographic prints (29.7cm x 29.7cm) of 57 foil balls made from 64 sheets of (30cm x 30cm) kitchen foil.
Title: 'Paper Foil' (2017) 57 photographic prints (29.7cm x 29.7cm) of 57 foil balls made from 64 sheets of (30cm x 30cm) kitchen foil.
