I’ll be spending some focussed time in the beautiful hills of Norway where I’ll be continuing some work on textile pieces. These pieces are building towards a summer performance and an autumn exhibition… more on those later. Most likely other works will emerge inspired by the location and a different type of studio space. The early summer light and the peaceful surrounds are calling.
Sorbet 2024: Muslin, glass, glow-in-the-dark thread
My writing about Xenograftie (Artificial Sorrow) 2013 contributes a chapter in this book.
The book is full of diverse and interesting contributions and the editors Gianna Bouchard and Alex Mermikides have done an amazing job bringing it all together.
The text centres upon a 45-minute site-specific performance ‘Xenograftie (Artificial Sorrow)’ which took place at the leprosy museum in Bergen, Norway in 2013. The performance creates a lens to view how bodies pressurised by sickness are further stripped of autonomy when medically claimed as automatic research donors. It explores central characters and subject positions in the 19th century that were pivotal in the understanding and treatment of leprosy. These subjectivities are creatively interwoven with my own experience at a young age of medical institutions. It brings into focus how medical procedures sometimes run ahead of ethics with both noble and base intentions to end suffering and win accolade. At the core of the text lies the potential for historical medical trauma to transition into a culturally significant event. In a knotty relationship with following beneficiaries of medical advancement, it raises to the surface the troubled experiences of usurped bodies and collateral damage that underpins their gain.
In additon, I’ve attempted to bring information about previously published texts into one place.
Opening at Galerie Gedok on Wed 20th September at 19:00 and running until 30th September
Wed - Fri 16:00 - 19:00, Sat 13:00 - 16:00
Opening night durational performance Force Nature, a collaboration between myself and Elle Short, where a Lichtenberg Figure will be etched into skin.
Carving the Landscape is an expanded printmaking exhibition including video and sound works.
Artists: Christian Eickhoff (DE); Traci Kelly (UK/DE); Kjellaug Hatlen Lunde (NO); Rita Marhaug (NO); Julia Wenz-Delaminsky (DE).
Group show at Oberwelt Stuttgart Reinsburgstraße 93, 70197 Stuttgart
Opening Friday 15th September at 19:00 and running till the 30 September
I’ll be exhibiting You May Not Be Here
You May Not Be Here 2019
Polystyrene core, sequins, dress-making pins, time.
Studio 3000 consisting of artists Traci Kelly, Julia Wenz-Delaminsky and Christian Eickhoff (Germany) will be in residence at Kunstvarteret, Lofoten, within the arctic circle. They will be working alongside Norwegian printmakers Rita Marhaug and Kjellaug Hatlen Lunde, taking part in Trykk i Santid - a live art production event on the theme of carbon taking place on summer solstice, 21. Juni, 16:57, 2023. In addition they will spend time on their joint project Carving the Landscape, embracing an expanded field of print making with a public sharing 02. Juli, 19.00, 2023
LCB in Leicester, UK, on Monday Feb 20.
Excited to announce that the archives of hancock & kelly and Traci Kelly have been acquired by De Montfort University (UK).
The archives will be housed at the Special Collections Department, and form part of the research and study at the Institute of Drama, Dance & Performance Studies.
The acquisition will be launched with an array of newly commissioned works in response to the archives by a collective of DMU graduates, undergrad and postgrad students, as part of the event ‘flesh-breath-bone: encounters with the archives of Traci Kelly and hancock & kelly’ at LCB in Leicester, UK, on Monday Feb 20.
This event is part of a wider project, funded by De Montfort University, focused on Creatively Innovating the Archive, co-ordinated by Alissa Clarke , Harriet Curtis, Elinor Parsons, and 'Funmi Adewole.
hancock & kelly ‘An Extraordinary Rendition’. Photo credit : Rachel Parry
18th January 2023: Artist talk and workshop for MFA Performance students at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart.
Exploring body remnants, bodily productions and touch across species.
Invited pedagogue by Liz Rosenfeld as part of their seminar Edging the Self
Coming up in a little while..3pm CET (UTC+1) on the 14th with choreographer/artist Benji Sunarjo
Performance gestures from my home... welcome
TOGETHER ELSEWHERE
Online – Performance Event
Traci Kelly und Benjamin Sunarjo
Mittwoch 14. Dezember von 15 bis 15.30h
Link: https://mediathek.hgk.fhnw.ch/event/togetherElsewhere
TOGETHER ELSEWHERE ist eine neue monatliche Performance-Reihe, die von PAB - Performance Art Bergen und PANCH - Performance Art Network Switzerland organisiert und von der Mediathek der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst (FHNW), Basel, online live gestreamt wird.
TOGETHER ELSEWHERE ist ein Performance-Kunstprojekt, bei dem zwei Künstler*innen, einerseits von PAB, andererseits von PANCH, zur gleichen Zeit mit den gleichen Materialien und in einem ähnlichen Raum, aber an unterschiedlichen Orten, auftreten. Weitere Informationen siehe: together elsewhere
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TOGETHER ELSEWHERE
Online – Performance Event
Traci Kelly and Benjamin Sunarjo
Wednesday December 14, 2022 from 15h to 15.30h
Link: https://mediathek.hgk.fhnw.ch/event/togetherElsewhere
TOGETHER ELSEWHERE is a new monthly performance series organized by PAB - Performance Art Bergen and PANCH - Performance Art Network Switzerland for online live streaming by Mediathek of the Academy of Art and Design (FHNW), Basel.
TOGETHER ELSEWHERE is a performance art project which two artists, one from PAB and one from PANCH, perform at the same time with the same materials and the same type of space but in their different locations. More informations see: together elsewhere
