Interview with curator Huma Kabakci about Translocal Cooperation exhibition, that has been closed since the lockdown, about the work made during my residency past fall in Athens.
Essay by Hang Ling, one of the curators of For the time being, a performance commision for Snapchat platform, for which I made work last year reflects on the issues surrounding the place of art within online platofrms.
networkcultures.org/blog/publication/video-vortex-reader-iii-inside-the-youtube-decade
“Tamara Kametani’s what will be? broadcast clips extracted from the daily news.
The clips were superimposed with filters and digital stickers to encourage ironic
interpretations of what was happening in the real-life. For example, a photo of Kim
Jong-un was overlaid with a cute baby filter, for which the artist also chose a digital
photo frame decorated with cute bears, and a line said, ‘It’s a BOY’. On this post,
Kametani wrote the following headline: ‘North Korea fires 2 missiles’. The effect
of such subjective, witty social criticism was strikingly distinct from the solemn,
authoritative voice of news publicaitons like Politico. Aside from international
politics, Kametani also ridiculed surveillance technology. Posting a surveillance
camera shot of a flying pigeon, she wrote: ‘Pigeon flying over the speed limit in
30km/h zone in Germany is flashed by a speed camera’. Through evocative visual
and textural connotations to news, the artist seemingly brought the role of the
artist as a social critic into the social media context. Social media photo-editing
appeared to provide a chance for Kametani to construct a simulacrum wherein
live happenings are mirrored and layered with emotions, mockeries and biases.
No intention can be found in those works to tilt those subjective expressions into
authoritative representations.”
I’m very excited to be working on a commision for (In)security- a collaboration between academics from the University of Birgmingham, 5 artists and Eastside Projects. The project seeks to encourage critical conversations about counter-terrorism measures by exposing and challenging prevailing assumptions about what – if anything – can make us feel more secure in urban spaces.
Interview in Slovak with Debora Pastirčáková in 3/4 Magazine about my practice, but also about the lockdown, Google and the desire to feel safe.
I am pleased to announce that I will be showing an online-only version of The sea stayed calm for 180 miles as part of an online show curated by Off Site Project- screensaver watching you
Thur 16 April- Sun 19 July
offsiteproject.org/screensaverwatchingyou
I am pleased to announce that I am the current Google Maps Residency artist at Off Site Project.
During my 3 months online residency that has accidentally coincided with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, I will be looking at the measures implemented worldwide in order to curb the spread of the virus, that are questionable from the privacy standpoint. It will serve as a starting point in being able to better understand how and what type of data is being collected and what this might mean for us as a society moving forward once we emerge from this crisis.
More details about the project and a call to participation can be found here.
Join me for the opening of TransLocal Cooperation, an exhibition of new works created during a residency in Athens at Furtherfield
13 March- 19 April
Thur-Sun, 12:00-18:00
Finsbury Park, London
I have been selected for Connect for Creativity- Art and Technology aritist residency organized by the British Council in collaboration with Bios Athens taking place between October and November 2019 in Athens, Greece.
Swayze effect presents the works produced by artists Hazel Brill, James Irwin and Tamara Kametani as a result of Agorama’s Artistic Residencies & Exhibitions Programme.
Platform Southwark
1 Joan St, South Bank, London SE1 8BS
12 Sep—21 Sep 2019
Thurs—Sun 11am-6pm
PV Sep 12 7-9pm
Pleased to be showing one of my works Half a mile form Lampedusa in this group show this summer
13 June- 13 July 2019
P 21 Gallery
21-17 Chalton St
NW1 1JD London
I will be running the first in a series of events with a project WALLS 2.0: Augmenting Border Reality on June 4th at Elephant West. Join me for this free event that explores the issue surrounding the freedom of movement and forced separation with the aid of Augmented Reality.
June 4, 2019
6-9pm
Elephant West
62 Wood Lane, W12 7RH
Really pleased to be showing a newly commisioned work with artist collective RAGE at CFCCA this summer.
24 May- 21 July
PV 23 May
Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art
Market Buildings, Thomas Street
Manchester, M4 1EU
http://cfcca.org.uk/exhibition/RAGE-collective/
I will be taking part in an exhibition curated by Curating Contemporray Art Studenst at the RCA in collaboration with The Photographers Gallery taking place exlusively on Snapchat.
8-12 May
Posting twice daily between 8-9am and 7-8pm
@timebeinglive
Stoked to recieve the news that my project Augmenting Border Reality has recieved funding from the Arts Council of England. More details about to project announced soon.
Excited to be showing TOTAL SECURITY LIFE at Centrala, Birmingham and Studio 44, Stockholm as part of Digital Diaspora show!
I’ll be speaking about my recent work on Saturday Oct 6th at Open Forum as part of Brighton Photo Biennial
https://photoworks.org.uk/open-forums/
The sea stayed calm for 180 miles is featured as one of the projects related to this year’s Biennial themes: A New Europe
My work "Jungle 2013-2016" is included in the new issue of isthisit?
My residency at Florence Trust is coming to a close. I will be showing new work made over the period of this year-long residency at the summer show opening on June 28th.
Source: http://florencetrust.org
Triennial of Photography Hamburg opens next week in Hamburg. I am excited to be included in the [ENTER] exhibition curated by Emma Bowkett & Krzysztof Candrowicz.