‘TwitAir’ (2015)

‘TwitAir’ (2015) was a participatory artwork created during a residency and research project about collaboration and international exchanges. Exhibition visitors to Galerie Herold in Germany were invited to send an analogue ‘tweet’ to a person of their choice, anywhere in the world. They were asked to write a message with a maximum of 140 characters and use hashtags to prefix key words. Before sending the physical ‘tweets’ in the mail, Lucy calculated the trending words each day and posted them on a board in the gallery to replicate Twitter’s daily ‘trends’ chart. The most used word over the duration of the project was #Liebe (love). ‘TwitAir’ was repeated at OVADA in Oxford during the second part of the artistic exchange. The project was documented using a dedicated Twitter account (@TwitAir_Mail).

SENDER/EMPFÄNGER was an international residency and exchange programme between six Oxford-based and eight artists from Bremen, Germany. For the first part of the Arts Council funded project, the UK artists exhibited new work made on their rail journey to Germany and during their time in the city of Bremen. Their work evolved during a 4 day exhibition, SENDER/RECEIVER at Galerie Herold and included both individual and group work exploring themes of travel, journeys and exchanges. The artists from Bremen later visited Oxford at the end of August 2015 to make and exhibit work at OVADA warehouse during a 10 day residency for the exhibition, SENDER/EMPFÄNGER. The project focused on collaborative practice and skills-sharing between practitioners from the two artist-led spaces and also visitors to the exhibitions. The artists were onsite for the duration of the exhibitions to discuss their work, individual practices and experiences of international residencies.

Residency artists: Marion Bösen, Harm Coordes, Jan Crombie, Johannes Ellmer, Fabian Klemm, Janis E. Müller, Roger Perkins, Lucy Phillips, Jonathon Place, Matthias Ruthenberg, Kay Sentance, Anna Schilling and Susanne Katharina Willand and Hannah Wilmshurst.  

Supported by Arts Council England.