13/08/10CPS and Fay Nicolson in Manifesta8
"Mass media" is the field work where curatorial collective taking part in Manifesta 8, Chambers of Public Secrets (CPS), run their activity: Mass Media as new reality's agents creators, their relation with other researching fields, as History or Art and their communication with real facts.
Included in its program, CPS, has invited british artist Fay Nicolson for coordinating a project with local newspaper La Verdad. Nicolson is an artist, writer and educator, who has been related to visual and written press. With this project she studies boundaries between art and press production, from a material point of view and in a cultural sense, as well as the different ways narrative and documentation built ideas. For her project Fay Nicolson is going to work with six european professionals from different work fields, not artistic.
British artist wants to obtain through her work new forms of approaching Murcia and its cultural landscape and also open new communication, representation and analysis ways, in contexts related to mass media and art. These pages will be published in local newspaper La Verdad.
Fay Nicolson has already started to work with her first collaborator, Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares, a typographer, geographer and designer from Libanon living in Holand. As the director, Huda works on researchs related with arabic typography at Khatt Foundation, and is interested in the cartography and the arabic past of the Region of Murcia. Both, Fay and Huda, have had their first meetings with medievalists from Murcia, as María Martínez Martínez, Medieval History professor at University of Murcia and author of several publications in collaboration with Antonio Parra Pujante, also from Murcia University.
Fay Nicolson and Huda are visiting Region of Murcia these days, the cities of Murcia and Cartagena to find the traces of the arabic past that still survive in both cities, for creating the first of the different parts composing the final project, which will be presented at European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Manifesta 8, in Murcia.
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