LIFE, 2020-2021
Project
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09-05-2020 t/m 31-12-2021
- Locatie: Keileweg 14a, Rotterdam
- LIFE is a living room for 'wearable art': small-scale objects, books and jewelery by artists; and works of art by people who may not consider themselves an artist. LIFE is concerned with the things people make that are often not encountered in professional visual art practice: the useful, everyday, small experiments and tokens of a gift economy among fellow creators.
- www.ashopcalled.life
Old House Noises, 2019
Performance
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28-07-2019
- Locatie: Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag
- Old House Noises: the Sleeper, the Dreamer and the Guard is a performance for a group of voices, with accompanying script / artists' book, developed as part of a residency at Kunsthuis SYB, Friesland, NL. The allegorical narrative, read aloud by the artist, was backed by an improvised vocal 'soundtrack' response by members of the Groningen Vocal Exploration Choir, conducted on this occasion by Annegreet Bos. In 2020-2021, the work develops into a new format with the support of WORM Rotterdam.
- https://ashkilmartin.net/oldhousenoises
KLOPPEN AUB, BEL IS KAPOT (with Bergur Thomas Anderson), 2019
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
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- Locatie: puntWG, Amsterdam
- It's just after harvest time, autumn 1519. Or 2019. It's the aftermath of… what? Strange things are happening in the village. Rumors of plague. This is an exhibition in the form of a riddle, or a riddle in the form of an exhibition, set in a space and time very much like our own. A collaborative project with Bergur Thomas Anderson, and contributions by Lisa Kuglitsch, Gunnar Gunnsteinsson, Hrafnhildur Sigurðardóttir, Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir and Arbeiter. Made possible with the support of AFK.
- https://ashkilmartin.net/kloppenaub
Stonecarver’s Dilemma (with Bergur Thomas Anderson), 2019
Performance
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- Locatie: puntWG, Amsterdam; Mengi, Reykjavik; Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam,
- Stonecarver's Dilemma is a live, choose-your-own-adventure performance work set in Rottbridge, a small town that has become afflicted by the Dancing Plague. As a visiting artisan, you choose whether to navigate the corrupt powers and complete your work, or risk it all to help the townspeople… A collaboration with Bergur Thomas Anderson, Stonecarver's Dilemma has been performed at puntWG, Amsterdam; Megi, Reykjavik; and the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2019.
- https://antennerotterdam.bandcamp.com/album/ash-kilmartin-and-bergur-thomas-anderson-stonecarvers-dilemma-a-shortcut
Extraction, 2019-
Project
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- Extraction is a series of short texts, published irregularly, on engraved plastic. They are an open edition, available by trade for an object of the same weight, of any material, by negotiation with the artist.
Lore-Folk (2019)
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
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- In samenwerking met: Lisa Kuglitsch, Collette Rayner, Johanna Kotlaris and Bergur Thomas Anderson
- Locatie: Projectruimte Attent, Rotterdam
- A collection of solo and collaborative sound works, with listening stations made with Lisa Kuglitsch; and a window-drawing by me and Collette Rayner. Recent audio works are presented on a custom-made stations, with its own 'Companion' (a stuffed coat or hand-sewn cushion); Embellished listening (decorated headphones); and 'Träger' (mp3 player-holding vessel). Vessels were made of papier-mâché; headphones feature temporary sculptures with found objects and resin casts.
- https://ashkilmartin.net/lorefolk
Lore-Folk with RAAR (Rotterdam Art and Radio), 2019
Performance
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20-04-2019
- Locatie: 't O-tje, Rotterdam
- Radio broadcast with Joshua Thies / Rotterdam Art And Radio. Programmed to coincide with the exhibition Lore-Folk - on themes of language communities, translation, and folklore. Guests included Ilke Gers, Joop van der Hor and Johanna Monk on publishing / translating the poems of Rieneke Minderman Grobben; Moosje M Goosen and Niels Bekkema on collective translation projects on Gertrude Stein and AL Snijders; with many more contributions.
- https://mixlr.com/raar/showreel/rotterdam-art-and-radio-44-lore-folk-with-ash-kilmartin
Promise and Demand (with Collette Rayner), 2019
Residenties / uitwisseling
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- Locatie: Yellow Brick, Athens
- 'Promise and Demand' was a short research residency with Collette Rayner at Yellow Brick, Athens. We explored the idea of gossip against the grain of negative connotations. Our conversations culminated in a lino-printing workshop, where participants could choose an existing image-fragment to cut and print, with or without their own embellishments, with each fragment making up a larger image very different from the original design. Supported by CBK Rotterdam and the ECF's STEP travel grant.
Tell Me About (with Johanna Kotlaris), 2018-19
Performance
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- Locatie: Oude Kerk, Charlois; KIOSK, Ghent; and Bologna.cc, Amsterdam,
- A series of improvisational performances, Tell Me About plays with different forms of public speech and displays of intimate knowledge, playing with language and never settling into particular or long-standing roles or dynamics. Each chapter is improvised based on a loose structure and minimal preparation.
- https://ashkilmartin.net/tellmeabout
The Almanack of Breath, 2018
Lezing
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- The Almanack of Breath tells the story of two demons, one of exists in Medieval texts and one who I invented as a contemporary rebuttal to the first, nasty one. Against Tutivillus, also known as the Recording Demon, I write the tale of a nameless creature, an invisible and inaudible allegorical figure of Listening. Against the punitive, eavesdropping and misogynist Tutivillus, she promotes an ethics of listening by collecting and donating different forms of breath to those who need it.
Gaps, 2018
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- Locatie: De Player, Rotterdam
- A fragmented monologue about forgetfulness, fear of memory loss, and grief. Beginning as a story set in a pancake house, it quickly disintegrates into internal arguments about the history of the grapheme 'æ', the name Ash, the disappearance of the letter 'h', and where a bike was parked (and whether it was stolen or lost). With soundtrack or 2 cassette tapes.
- https://ashkilmartin.net/gaps
You, as a paragraph (2018-19)
Performance
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- Locatie: Koffie en Ambacht, Rotterdam; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne,
- A monologue for mediated voice, engaging the ventriloquial tropes of possession, dislocation, and the excessive physicality of (the at times seemingly autonomous and absurd) speaking voice.
- https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/anachronism-effects
Soft Teeth, 2017
Performance
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- Locatie: WORM, Rotterdam; TAC, Eindhoven,
- Soft teeth is a composition for the live, amplified, whispering voice. Performed from the front row of a cinema with the house lights very dim, the text is made to be heard and felt rather than seen. The performing body is not visible, and becomes 'excessive' beyond its function of producing the voice. The speaking protagonist / s hiss forth a meditation on their desire to eat buildings: the kind of hectic, wandering, circular logic that takes over the mind in the dark.
Eiland Bouwen: Dredge the Centrum to Build the Edges! Take a copy!, 2017
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
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- Locatie: Galerie de Kromme Elleboog, Rotterdam
- Eiland Bouwen consists of a large structure built to hold small objects and two small publications. A collection of experiences of the city environment, the work is made almost entirely from offcuts and discarded materials. The sculptures are primarily found objects that have been collected over time. Parts of the sculptures are resin casts from these cast-off objects or hand-molded wax shapes. The publication contains very short stories of Rotterdam as physical and social context.
Public Interiors, 2017
Performance
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- Locatie: WORM Ubik, Rotterdam
- Performance based on observations of the social habits and physical infrastructures of public space in Rotterdam. Spoken in the second person, the text addresses how subject categories shift as a body moves through different parts of the city.
Light sleeper, 2016
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
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- Locatie: ST Paul St Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland
- For Light sleeper, the artist removed all the curtains from her Rotterdam apartment and posted these for installation in the window of the Gallery. For the duration of the exhibition the lighting of window will be switched off only during opening hours, suggesting a different pattern of work and dormancy, in a Northern hemisphere timezone 12 hours behind. Kilmartin's recent works focus on specific items, places, and spatial conventions as a way to think about the qualities of time and work.
- https://stpaulst.aut.ac.nz/all-exhibitions/ash-kilmartin
En ondes, 2014
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
OHN, 2014
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
Erkenningen
Stipendium
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CBK Rotterdam O en O
- 2018
Stipendium
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Arts Grant, Creative New Zealand
- 2017
Prijs
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Maddocks Art Prize, Melbourne
- 2013
Prijs
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Senior Prize for Art History, the University of Auckland
- 2010
