Lucy Cordes Engelman

artistic research - audiovisual - ecology - experimental - film - gender - installation - literary - nature - social - video

I make films and videos, considering 'the cinema' as a space of sensorial ritual and potential communion, but also possible rupture. I have a background in theater / performance and script writing. Currently I'm playing primarily with analog film, digital phone footage, archival records, and fictional writing, enmeshing the 'precious' material of film with the endless digital realm. At times, these multivocal worlds expand beyond the screen and if so they may have a performative element. Often I collaborate with fellow artists, poets, and musicians. I am currently asking questions about fluid fragmentary narratives as escape routes from existing infrastructure. I'm also thinking about ritual as a method of re-enchantment with all that (we) have been violently separated from. I am looking to the tides of the ocean, the flows of converging deltas, both tonic and toxic, as potential guides for other ways of sensing - both theoretically but also materially.

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    • And the Juice Will Flow Upwards - SAPLAB

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-07-2020 t/m 31-07-2020
    • In collaboration with: Anne Marie Sampaio, Paz Ortuzar
    • Location: RAAT // AAIR ANTWERP, Antwerp
    • A monthlong solo show of our collective SAPLAB, of our research on medieval mysticism, the Beguines, and divine, queer love.
    • https://saplab.hotglue.me/

    Visions in the Nunnery

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 19-11-2020 t/m 19-12-2020
    • In collaboration with: Benedict Drew curating for Bow Arts
    • Location: Bow Arts, London
    • Visions is Bow Arts' renowned biennial exhibition of moving image, digital and performance art, and this year presents work from 15 countries selected from a worldwide open call. Drew has curated a show of immersive, energetic works of sound and vision are surreal and probing, often commenting on current political and environmental issues.
    • https://bowarts.org/nunnery/visions-p3-benedict-drew-2020

    (UN) SEEN at the Gallery

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 19-09-2020 t/m 18-10-2020
    • In collaboration with: Güler Ates, Miguel Milló, and Siyue Pan
    • Location: Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam
    • In lieu of the canceled photography show, UNSEEN, Marian Cramer Projects presents this group show of photography.
    • https://www.mariancramer.com/exhibitions/unseen/

    I was mostly delighted, but also yes, a little bit afraid

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-02-2019 t/m 28-02-2019
    • In collaboration with: Group Show
    • Location: Quartair, The Hague
    • A collaborative work by 27 artists consisting of a dinner and choral performance, films, and a solo dance.
    • https://www.quartair.nl/

    The Ongoing Conversation # 5.3

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-06-2018 t/m 14-06-2018
    • In collaboration with: Angel Orellana, Arthur Cordier, Daisy Madden-Wells, Helena Sanders, Katrina Niebergal, Matthew Lanning, Mel Chan
    • Location: 1646, The Hague
    • For the Ongoing Conversation #5, during a period of two and a half months, the team of 1646 conducted several studio visits with each student to guide the development of new work for this collaborative project. Throughout this process of conversations, the final form for the project is developed, considering the diversity of unrelated practices together.
    • https://1646.nl/projects/the-ongoing-conversation-5

    Better as a Chorus

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-07-2019 t/m 27-07-2019
    • In collaboration with: Angel Orellana, Arthur Cordier, Daisy Madden-Wells, Helena Sanders, Katrina Niebergal, Matthew Lanning, Mel Chan
    • Location: KABK, The Hague
    • Group show curated by SHIMMER, Rotterdam.

    phaino

    Other

    Roffa Film Club SHORT MOVIES

    Other

    • 29-09-2020 t/m 29-09-2020
    • In collaboration with: Roffa Film Club
    • Location: WORM, Rotterdam
    • A screening series of work by local filmmakers.
    • http://www.roffafilmclub.nl/

    Video tapes # 2

    Other

    Anomia 4 - Film Festival

    Other

    Arteventura

    Residencies / exchange

    • 11-09-2021 t/m 25-09-2021
    • In collaboration with: Daniel Mullen (artist)
    • Location: Arteventura Residency, Aracena
    • An art residency coming in 2021 I will attend.
    • https://arteventura.eu/

    Center Pompadour Feminist Center

    Residencies / exchange

    Free Columbia

    Residencies / exchange

    • 01-10-2015 t/m 31-03-2016
    • In collaboration with: Asya Dubrovina
    • Location: Free Columbia, Philmont, New York
    • An artist residency I attended.
    • https://www.freecolumbia.org/

    OSTRAL BIENNALE 2, Flowing Connections

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-07-2021 t/m 03-10-2021
    • In collaboration with: Ostral Biennale
    • Location: Center for Contemporary Art, Dresden
    • Connecting four cities with a close relationship to water and building bridges between two ECOC cities among them – Dresden in Germany by the river Elbe, Budapest in Hungary by the river Danube, Rijeka (ECOC 2020) in Croatia on the coast of the Adriatic, and Kaunas (ECOC 2022) in Lithuania by the Nemunas and Neris rivers –, the project Flowing Connections (FLOC) explores the artistic, ecological and cultural questions of waterside living, the rivers and seas that nourish and threaten our cities in e
    • https://flowingconnections.eu/

    VAPORIA

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-04-2021 t/m 01-06-2021
    • In collaboration with: With Visualcontainer TV
    • Location: online, online
    • How to mend the distance, how to nurture practices, thoughts, desires and caring with…? This digital exhibition is the cause and effect of maintaining contact between a group of artists. We have developed strategies of telepresence, telesharing, television, and teleexhibition. The works were created during a digital relational process that began in October 2020. Our blog collects the input and leftovers we carried both individually and together to create connections and reflections.
    • https://www.visualcontainer.tv/

    Baer Art Center Residency

    Residencies / exchange

    • 07-06-2021 t/m 20-06-2021
    • In collaboration with: Baer
    • Location: Baer Art Center, Hofsos
    • The art center's objective is to bring together talented individuals from all over the world in order to create a dynamic visual conversation between them, share with them the natural environment and dramatic setting of Baer, ​​and to leave a deep influence of Icelandic nature.
    • https://www.baer.is/

    Alchemy Film Festival

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-04-2021 t/m 07-04-2021
    • In collaboration with: Alchemy Film and Arts
    • Location: online, Harwick
    • Alchemy Film & Arts is a cultural organization invested in experimental film as a means of generating discussion, strengthening community, and stimulating creative thought.
    • https://alchemyfilmandarts.org.uk/about-alchemy-film-arts/

    UNSEEN Amsterdam Photo Fair

    Exhibition / presentation

    "And it appears to us in the dew between the thorns..."

    Performance

    • 25-07-2021 t/m 25-07-2021
    • In collaboration with: Kunsthal Extra City
    • Location: AAIR Antwerp , Antwerp
    • The performance "And it appears to us in the dew between the thorns" is based on a written score that will be shared in loose ritual form on the afternoon of July 25th. The piece will include live reading, objects, and elements of choreographed and improvised movement. Copies of the score will be given to the visitors in order to follow and join the live reading. This piece is part of our study of the Beguines -- women, gender variant, and queer medieval mystics', writings and lives.
    • https://extracitykunsthal.org/

    Earth Remembered Me (Love Lies Bleeding)

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 21-11-2021 t/m 21-12-2021
    • Location: The Pole, Rotterdam
    • A solo show sharing my video and sculpture work based on research from the Dolmens in Drenthe.
    • https://thepole.nl/FLYING-NO-12

    With Permission From the Officer

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 29-10-2021 t/m 31-10-2021
    • In collaboration with: Zhixin Liao
    • Location: Punt WG, Amsterdam
    • A group exhibition with Zhixin Liao. After cycling and recording the unique landscapes he has asked a group of friends and artists to help copy them, for this task he has been able to produce letters from them that affirm their active contribution to the Dutch art scene. This exhibition is supported by the Mondriaan Fund.
    • https://puntwg.nl/en/with-permission-from-the-officer

    TENT Cinema Online

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 07-01-2022 t/m 23-01-2022
    • In collaboration with: TENT Rotterdam
    • Location: TENT Rotterdam, Rotterdam
    • Leading up to IFFR 2022, we are happy to present 19 video works for 19 days made by Rotterdam-based artists.
    • https://www.tentrotterdam.nl/

    Wassaic Project

    Residencies / exchange

    From the Sea to the Clouds to the Soil (screening)

    Other

    • 07-10-2022 t/m 07-10-2022
    • In collaboration with: STROOM and Museum Night The Hague
    • Location: STROOM, The Hague
    • From the Sea to the Clouds to the Soil presents unexpected perspectives to make us (more) aware of the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature. The group exhibition at Stroom focuses on 'kinship', the ultimate feeling of connection between all forms of life. It brings together contemporary artists who investigate this close relationship with the natural environment. The (re)discovery of this ecological connection is becoming increasingly urgent; take, for example, the existential pressu
    • https://www.stroom.nl/activiteiten/tentoonstelling.php?t_id=4902805

    Frans Masereel Center Artist Residency

    Residencies / exchange

    The Arctic Circle Residency

    Residencies / exchange

    • 16-10-2022 t/m 02-11-2022
    • In collaboration with: The Arctic Circle Residency
    • Location: sailing on a ship around Svalbard, Norway, Longyearbyen
    • two weeks gathering material in the Arctic on a sailing ship with 20 other artists.
    • https://thearcticcircle.org/participants/

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Makers counter - Dream and Deed

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • CBK-PPR

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • RAAT/AAIR Antwerp

    • 2020
      Scholarship

    • Masters Artistic Research KABK, The Hague - Department Award

    • 2019
      Scholarship

      Scholarship

      Publication

    • Matters of Feminist Practice II

    • 2022
    • Literary Journal
    • Belladonna-Belladonna
      Publication

    • From Skype to Landline

    • 2021
    • Literary Journal
    • TYPP - Saint Luke - Antwerp