A Snapshot of Southend as a Cultural Environment for Womxn
Ruth Jones founded the Agency of Visible Women in 2018. Initially intended as a play on words for an exhibition, The Agency's positive impact on its members in its capacity as an artist network resutlted in mine and Ruth's determination to develop it into an actual institution.
As part of our desire to expand the Agency beyond its initial stages as a collaborative, exhibiting group of womxn artists, we applied to a-n to conduct research in our home town with the womxn and femmes we know and those we had not yet met. This took place over the summer and autumn of 2019.
The resulting publication is "A Snapshot of Southend as a Cultural Environment for Womxn Artists", a risographed artists edition of 50, published by The Old Waterworks (TOW). This is presented as a boxed set of 52 cards, with an A4 folded risographed explanatory sheet, card fold, and printed sleeve cover. It is also available as a digital document.
Publication launch has been postponed during the coronavirus outbreak, but we hope to make the (free) digital version available shortly. Meanwhile the words of the womxn who contributed to the the publication have more resonance than ever:
"Collaboration over Competition"
"Community over Institution."
March 2020
As part of our desire to expand the Agency beyond its initial stages as a collaborative, exhibiting group of womxn artists, we applied to a-n to conduct research in our home town with the womxn and femmes we know and those we had not yet met. This took place over the summer and autumn of 2019.
The resulting publication is "A Snapshot of Southend as a Cultural Environment for Womxn Artists", a risographed artists edition of 50, published by The Old Waterworks (TOW). This is presented as a boxed set of 52 cards, with an A4 folded risographed explanatory sheet, card fold, and printed sleeve cover. It is also available as a digital document.
Publication launch has been postponed during the coronavirus outbreak, but we hope to make the (free) digital version available shortly. Meanwhile the words of the womxn who contributed to the the publication have more resonance than ever:
"Collaboration over Competition"
"Community over Institution."
March 2020
