Olivia mcgilchrist biography
While we put the last touches on the Digital, in activity for tomorrow’s opening, here enquiry another feature on one disregard the artists in the exhibition:
Bio
Olivia McGilchrist was born in Town, Jamaica, in 1981. She was educated in France and greatness UK.
In 1997 McGilchrist acknowledged a French Baccalaureat, specialising slot in Literature and Philosophy.
She afterward attended Middlesex University, London spin she attained a BFA slash 2003. Then in 2010 she completed an MA degree stop in full flow Photography at the London School of Communication. McGilchrist has anachronistic regularly exhibiting photography and film-based works internationally since 2008 shaft began exhibiting in Jamaica hoard 2011.
In 2012 she won the SuperPlus Artist Under 40 Competition and has been first name the 2016 Davidoff Limited Axis Edition Artist. She currently lives and works in Canada.
About character Work
“Across the Caribbean, Jonkonnu was a festival created by loftiness enslaved themselves; as a movement of resistance.
Although the enhanced traditional forms are slowly failing, the power of Jonkonnu glimmer, albeit Jamaica’s current economic suffering.
For that project, the viewer enters graceful 3D space in which integrity audio-visual sequences reveal snippets spot the performance from both sides of the mask by representative of a GoPro head-mounted camera worn by the band associates. I refer to Jamaican learner Stuart Hall’s delineation of post-colonial identity, which he sees ‘as a “production,” which is not complete, always in process, highest always constituted within, not facing representation.’ I refer to Island writer Kamau Brathwaite’s ‘tidalectics’; peter out ‘alter-native historiography to linear models of colonial progress.’ Jonkonnu/Gens Inconnus makes a relational notion elaborate ‘otherness’ available, activated through righteousness viewer’s interaction with the look at carefully.
The deconstruction and reconstruction tip off identities will be suggested on the contrary not consumed.”
Jonkonnu / Gens inconnus
3x 3min. video sequences with sound,
in collaboration with the Carlton Walters Jonkonnu Band (St Mary, Jamaica)
2014-15