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The
artists and product designers involved in Explore Expand
Exchange are: Kuljit 'Kooj' Chuhan / Julie Fu / Sue
Fox / Johnny Magee / Mil Stricevic / public works
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Kuljit
'Kooj' Chuhan is a freelance video and digital media
artist with a particular interest in migrant and black
arts, activism and grass roots production. Chuhan's
work has been screened, exhibited, and published nationally
and internationally including Australia, USA, Argentina,
France and Eastern Europe. Recent work includes ‘Resonance’
installation shown at ISEA 2000 (Paris), ‘From
Punjab To Football’ video for Manchester United
FC (2001), the touring 'Boundless Sky' 3-screen
Asian dance installation (2002), and the 'Terminal
Frontiers' moving image installations for Virtual
Migrants with Keith Piper (2002). Other output includes
published digital media work such as the ‘Meta-Motion’
CD-ROM and articles such as for Variant magazine.
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Julie
Fu is British born Chinese, and works as an artist in
Manchester. Her work explores issues of cultural exchange
and identity, documenting the past and the present experiences
of British /Chinese society. Over the last seven years Julie's
work has generated many different art forms including public
art that has involved her working with different cultural
and community groups. Her work has been exhibited in galleries,
such as Chinese Art Centre, Bluecoat Gallery, Northern Gallery
for Contemporary Art, Mid Pennine Art Gallery, as well as
public artworks around Lancashire libraries, Manchester Plattfield
Park and other community centres.
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public
works
public works are Kathrin Boehm and Andreas Lang. Current projects
include ‘Park Products’, a one-year participatory project
which aims to establish a new circle of exchange in the park surrounding
the Serpentine Gallery in London; and ‘What is a House?’,
a concept and design development for a private new build in the
West Midlands, incorporating the idea of modular extensions over
time and the potential for public art projects.
Amongst
other projects there is‘Match/makers’, the design and
application of a modular extension-kit for exploring and developing
future changes to Lismore Circus, Camden Town, London; and they
have also designed a research and feasibility study for Gasworks
Gallery which examined how the institution is known, perceived and
used by its audiences and how its programs act/interact within a
local context.
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Sue
Fox is an international artist known for her portrayal
of the body in the channel 4 series and book ‘Vile
Bodies’. Other works are included in Peter Greenaway's
‘Flying Over Water’ and Anthony Julius's
‘Transgressions – the offences of art’
publications. Fox spent four years working in Manchester morgues
to produce her underground book 'Post Mortem' in 1997. She
has exhibited extensively in such countries as Australia,
Spain, Germany, Switzerland, France, Canada and Denmark. Fox
likes to tackle thorny subjects that are strange, taboo and
are viscerally related!
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Johnny
Magee has worked with the National Health Service, the
South Yorkshire Police, The Hallé Orchestra and God.
His interest is: ‘institutions’ and how they can
be a labyrinth of information, with lost and hidden people
and places no one ever knew about. He works with photography
and film exploring the documentary tradition, weaving in and
between truth and reality and fiction. Nothing is ever what
it seems!
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Mil
Stricevic is a product designer based in Glasgow. After
spending 10 years as a professional musician he studied at
the Glasgow School of Art and went on to the Royal College
of Art where he explored the potential role of product design
as a shaper of new experiences. Using the arena of public
space as his playground, his products included solar-powered
talking park benches and the 'Silent Disco', where
all the customers are issued with infra-red headphones which
leaves them free to choose to listen and dance or talk. In
a world where the digital and physical are converging, Stricevic
finds himself increasingly drawn to the question of what things
do as opposed to what they look like.
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