Calling
Calling was a 2005 residency programme for three digital artists of African heritage run jointly by Watershed and Kuumba.
Calling was a year-long digital residency programme which started in May 2004 for three artists of African heritage living in the South West, giving them the opportunity to explore the application of digital media to their practice. The awarded artists were Jenny Davis, Gloria Ojulari Sule and Dalila Hamdoun.
The residency resulted in a touring exhibition and you can view online versions of their work, read the artists' notes, and contributed essays from curators, artists and critics including Eddie Chambers, Keith Piper, and Sorious Samura. These essays look at the many different issues thrown up by a project that aims to develop the work of Black artists in digital media.
Threads, by Jenny Davis, was a visual tapestry of story, poetry and music – eight short films which touch on her relationship with her mother and her teenage daughter. The version online is a digitised record of the work that was exhibited around the South West.
Gloria Ojulari Sule’s The Pixelated Shelf is a digital shelf of images – fragmented pieces of paintings and some video full of little jokes and puns about multi-media.
Triptych: Veiled Women by Dalila Hamdoun explores the possibilities of the portrayal of veiled women in Western media. It is a short film with three panels featuring different women with a soundtrack of their interwoven voices edited to sound like they are in dialogue with one another.
Calling was a residency programme funded by the Arts Council run by Watershed and Kuumba – a Bristol-based Black arts centre.
Ended in June 2006