Agnes Poitevin-Navarre

Agnes Poitevin-Navarre performed a Pecha Kucha [20 slides, 20 seconds each] on the subject of 'Motherland' on Monday 28th July 2008. The venue was a French restaurant in Hammersmith. http://www.chezkristof.co.uk/html/#home
A couple of artists and poets presented their work followed by a Dinner with the Artists.
RSVP Betsy de Lotbiniere betsypalazzo@btinternet.com

'Motherland', a new site-specific installation, was exhibited in Hyde Park, as part of the 'Crystal Palace Reappears' curated by Senaka Weeraman, on Saturday 21st June and Sunday 22nd June 2008. It was also exhibited at Crystal Palace Park, on the beautiful Italian Terraces on Saturday 5th and a rainy Sunday 6th July 2008, as part of the Crystal Palace Park Victorian Weekend.

'Motherland' is an installation of life-size silhouettes relating to Queen Victoria's nine pregnancies, her iconic figure as the Head of the British Empire and England being the Mother Land.

http://www.crystalpalacefoundation.org.uk/Events/

The students from HCC collaborated with Yara El Sherbini and Agnes Poitevin-Navarre on the theme of Mapping Language. An exhibition of their work will be shown at inIVA. Private view Thursday 3rd July, 6-8pm.

The students from Stoke Newington School collaborated with Jeremy Wood and Agnes Poitevin-Navarre and 'Circle of Friends' as well as a series of GPS drawings were shown at inIVA, Education Space, Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA, from Wednesday18th June until Saturday 21st.

http://www.iniva.org/learning/creative_mapping/young_people_s_projects/personal_cartographies

'Colour Coding Julien & Jasper - The Age of Innocence' was exhibited as part of the group show 'From Taboo to Icon' curated by Sophie Saunders and Shervone Neckles in Philadelphia at the Ice Box Project Space from January 11th, 2008 until February 11th.
The private view is on Friday 1st February.

http://www.cranearts.com/ice_box.html

http://www.cranearts.com/

'Colour Coding Julien & Jasper - The Age of Innocence' were shown at the Mapping show in Bury from April to July 2007 and with the commissioned
'Colour Coding Eva - Here & Now' at the 198 Gallery in Herne Hill, London SE24 0JT in November and December 2007.

Also the Hastings maps entitled
'The Knowledge - Land of Achievement, Land of Happiness & Land of Wisdom' were shown at the HMAG, in Hastings in October 2007.
http://www.yesyesy-all.org.uk/

I gave an artist talk at the 198, 'Colour Coding Metisse Identity' in conversation with Paul Goodwin (from Centre for Urban and Community Research Goldsmiths) on Wednesday 14th November, 7.30-8.30pm [ www.198.org.uk]

Update on the London Maps Proust questionnaire/The Knowledge - Land of Achievement & Land of Wisdom

I want to thank all 1000 or so of you who have, so far, contributed to the project.
I am still gathering entries for the maps and will keep you updating on this page.

Spot the artist:
ICA Alien Nation
International Playwright Festival, Warehouse Theatre
Remember Ken Saro-Wiwa at City Hall
Blondel, Pleasance Theatre
Curating the Postcolonial conference RCA at Goethe Institute
inIVA Creative Mapping Project at the Royal Geographical Society
Prevista workshop at the Croydon ClockTower
Mothers of Invention talk at the British Library
Black Urbanism Seminars at City Hall
Richard Hylton's The Nature of the Beast book launch at Conway Hall
Sepake Knitting soiree
Fringe Report networking first monday at the Cellar Bar in Soho
Facebook

Land of Wisdom [ southern detail of the Croydon Map]

The work of Agnes Poitevin-Navarre plays with the concept of self and how it is defined through racial/cultural categorization. In her art practice, she challenges perceptions of cultural, linguistic and racial hybridity.

Agnes uses genograms, maps, blackboards, playing cards, objects in clay, oil paintings, collages and coffee stained drawings, to load these beautiful, functional, educational and recreational artefacts with subversive symbolism.

The beauty and playful nature of her work exists in stark contrast to the deeper political subtext it highlights. The viewer is invited to read and decipher layers of meanings on a conscious and unconscious level. The subject matter: the complexity of human interaction and its geohistorical effects.

The Proust Questionnaire project however signals a point of departure in her art practice. Agnes is using a multivocal rather than a personal source to explore identity issues. One recent contributor said: "You are a reflexion of what you see in others". By randomly gathering contributions from people from all walks of life, all ages, ethnicities, social classes, she is highlighting patterns of collective wisdom.

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