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Sophie Mak-Schram
Artes Mundi 10 JournalTowards a Myth of Walking Backwards
Rushdi Anwar, Installation view at National Museum Cardiff, Artes Mundi 10, 2023-24. Photography: Stuart Whipps
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“Many things happen concurrently,” begins the fourth text in our series of original texts commissioned alongside Artes Mundi 10. Sophie Mak-Schram, a primarily Cardiff-based artist and researcher who lives and works peripatetically, draws on queer theorist Elizabeth Freeman’s notion of “temporal drag” and past encounters with the work of AM10 artists to anchor a polyvocal contemplation on how systems of recirculation produce our embodied, sited encounters with artworks. Encompassing reflections on subjects as diverse as Nguyễn Trinh Thi’s installation at documenta fifteen and the Zapatistas’ pandemic-era “reverse invasion” Journey for Life through Europe, the essay seeks to “talk honestly of how things get to where they are, and what epistemologies […] looking sustains.”
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Sophie Mak-Schram
Sophie Mak-Schram cares about how a diverse ‘we’ (comes to) know and what forms knowledges take. She works with others, both as method and as form. Spanning experiential education, inclusion work, collective practices and artistic research, Sophie convenes, writes, reads, makes objects to learn with or listen to, and performs. @makschramRead more
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