Amurmur is a platform celebrating memory, enshrinement and archives. For our first event, through readings and budding projects, a selection of artists share their impassioned ways of engaging with the past. Followed by a screening of a film by Ines Barquet and Ximena Prieto, based on an idea by Alexia Marmara.
Poster: Andrew Ciccone
Doors 7.30pm
Tickets: £5 - £10 - £15 [sliding scale]
Amurmur is a platform celebrating memory, enshrinement and archives. For our first event, through readings and budding projects, a selection of artists share their impassioned ways of engaging with the past, their reflections on remembrance and the echoes that shaped their ideas. This collection of speakers and artists encourages a discussion around alternative ways of working alongside archives, memories and the lasting and endless powers of objects.
Followed by a screening of a film by Ines Barquet and Ximena Prieto, based on an idea by Alexia Marmara.
Ines Barquet
Filmmaker and artist based in Mexico City
Rachelle FranciS
Rachelle Francis is a textile and embroidery artist. The death of her mother Diana (who experienced mental health illness and addiction) and the uncovering of over 1,000 of her artworks motivated Rachelle’s career shift from Chanel couture embroidery design into textile art, social practice and creative health. Her project With & Without Diana is a posthumous collaboration with Diana’s archive. The project is supported by Arts Council England - its first publication, the book Mind to Pen, has been acquired by the Wellcome Collection
Ximena Prieto
Ximena Prieto is a Mexican writer and artist exploring the creation of rituals, inherited memory, and myths through performance, poetry, installation, and film. Her pieces play with merging narratives and have presented in Mexico City, New York, Charlotte, Turin, and London. Celia, Betty Jeanne a collaboration with Jill Publications exploring Prieto’s contrasting relationships with her two grandmothers will be presented this year.
Diana Quandour
Diana Quandour is eloquent with sharp predatory teeth.
Billie M Vigne
Billie M Vigne is an artist and metalsmith based in Margate, Kent. Her work uses world-building and non-linear storytelling to articulate the notion of dwelling as an all-encompassing methodology, nurturing personal mythologies that draw parallels between the bed and the seashore as ‘the First and Last place.’ Through installation, sound, performance, animation and an array of historical, artisanal and folk/vernacular craft techniques Billie’s works communicate the temperamental intricacies of chronic illness, orientating hand-making as a fundamental conduit for memorialising embodied experience in external objects.
Nneka Uzoigwe-Davies
Fine artist based in London
Alexia Marmara
Alexia Marmar a is a writer, researcher, archivist and curator specialising in uncovering and celebrating the unsung. She is the founder and editor of Amurmur, a platform showcasing artists working alongside memory or archives. She is a recipient of The Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Research Grant.