James Prevett föddes i Cambridge, England och bor för närvarande i Helsingfors. Han skapar ting att samlas omkring – föremål, evenemang, texter, video, ofta kombinerade ihop som skulpturer, och är intresserad av skulptur som ett sätt att utforska gränserna för medvetande och kroppar, både personliga som kollektiva.
\nHans två intersektionella metoder av konstnärlig praktik, studiobaserat skapande och social praktik, utforskar båda skulptur och dess sociala relationer. James arbetar ofta med andra människor som ett sätt att undersöka detta och föra in alternativa röster i verken.
\nHan har ställt ut vitt och brett, inkluderande i Storbritannien, Finland, Thailand, USA, Österrike och Brasilien, och han var del i en arbetsgrupp som representerade Storbritannien vid arkitekturbiennalen i Venedig år 2006. Hans verk finns i Kiasmas-, Finlands Nationalgalleris samlingar och åtskilliga privata samlingar. James är lektor i skulptur vid Konstuniversitet Uniarts i Helsingfors. År 2021 tilldelades han det inledande Linnamopriset av Olga och Vilho Linnamos stiftelse för ett engagerat undersökande vilken demonstrerats i den konstnärliga praktiken.
\n\n","en":"An exhibition of works that artist James Prevett has made together with other people.
\nTogether With is part of the Linnamo Prize awarded to Prevett in 2021 for his committed and open-minded artistic practice. Together With includes live radio broadcasts from the gallery and beyond, events, workshops, and documentation of works made over the past 8 years.
\nJames Prevett has two intersecting methods of artistic practice: studio-based making and a social practice. Both revolve around sculpture and its social relations. Prevett often works with other people to explore these and bring an open-ended and poly-vocal approach to art making. The artwork is less finished product and more a catalyst to gather people together to seek unforeseen possibilities. When we make things together, we collectivise our voice and challenge accepted understandings of art and creativity.
\nTogether with focuses on the social side of James’ practice, showing works made together with other people. It features new works such as OOO(Out of Office) Radio (made with Samantha Lippett and Timo Vaittinen) and Organic Sound Society (with Maarit Mustonen and Stina Saari) as well as older works such as Isolation Sculptures made with his daughter Lempi during COVID lockdown. OOO Radio is a mobile community radio focussing on experimental sound, art and radio that broadcasts from a bike trailer. OOO Radio is central to the exhibition broadcasting live events, works by other artists, recordings and open slots for anybody to contribute and make radio. Organic Sound Society is a loose collective for people with no musical training who want to make sound together. People can join jamming sessions or simply play the homemade instruments in the exhibition. There are workshops throughout the exhibition that people can join. Transitional Modelling is a guided modelling workshop making double headed portraits out of clay. Helsinki Monument is a workshop to collectively make a new nomadic public monument that will go on to tour private homes in Helsinki. The exhibition also shows documentation of other works such as the ongoing Patsastellaan: Parties for Public Sculpture series, where James invites other artists to work with him to make a new work beginning from an existing public sculpture.
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