Meghan Clarke

A two week residency during which I will develop a new performance work - Between Was And Am. The performance will layer together the rhythm of textile work with field recordings, piano compositions and poetry into a sonic landscape that allows us to temporarily occupy a form of 'home' that no longer exists.

Plaited through Shimmer's exhibitions in 2024 are events curated by artist Meghan Clarke as part of our Sunday Morning with… event program. With participation from Ceola Tunstall-Behrens, Feminist Handwerk Party, Bronwen Jones and Dasha Golova.

A nomadic exhibition initiated by Reading Room Rotterdam and De Ijskast. I contributed three small hanging sculptures assembled from a collection of found materials, gathered from the thrum of daily life. They are part of a larger composition of work that is trawling for landscapes of lost words and seeking to release them.

A group exhibition together with Bruno Baietto, Shun Chih Chang, Chongjin Chen, Qiaochu Guo & Jing He. In the context of this group exhibition responding to the theme of labour, I presented This Work of Body / This Body of Work along with a new tapestry Money Strings. During the opening I performed A Dialogue of Knots - a spoken word narrative that details the transformation of a discarded curtain into over 100,000 knots.

De Snoepwinkel is a candy shop of design critiques: visitors are invited to smell, lick, suck, shew, munch and enjoy the surges of dopamine as the critiques swim through their digestive tracts and seep into their subconsciousness. For this group exhibition I created 'A Container Thinged and a Thing Contained' - ten sweets individually wrapped within handmade netted bags. Visitors were invited to exchange something from their pocket for a piece of the work.

Staging Stasis was a radio residency established by Radio Stasis, culminating in an evening of live performances and a radio broadcast at WORM. During this event I performed a collaborative work with Kirsten Spruit that was developed during our residency together. Inspired by A Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin, the sound of my stitching was collected in a digital bag (audio sampler) and slowly released by Kirsten back to the audience.

Sounding fascinations and research from their artistic practices, I Don't Perform For Time, Time Performs For Me, is a monthly show with Meghan & Ceola, two artists with an attention to time.

Created in collaboration with Flora Lechner. By taking the embroidery hoop and its contents as the starting point, and blowing them up to a monumental scale, the tools and labor of this traditionally timid and hidden activity become unashamedly visible. The work was presented in the streets of Rotterdam, in a performance that was part parade and part protest.

Collaborative residency with Kirsten Spruit. Staging Stasis was a residency program established by Radio Stasis, an experimental radio collective that operated between April 2021 - December 2022. Working through the medium of radio, the residency offered creatives based in Rotterdam the possibility to experiment and collaborate, while growing their local networks and engaging with the art community in The Netherlands.

Group exhibition together with Flora Lechner, Teresa Fernandez-Pello and Delphine Lejeune. Within the context of this group exhibition, Flora Lechner and I presented our collaborative work 'Big Hoop'.

An unfolding exhibition of 60 Design Academy Eindhoven graduating students. In response to the news that the exhibition could not open due to COVID-19 restrictions, the site was transformed into a set for the production of new work that could be shared via an online public program.

A performance in collaboration with Helen Milne. A red and white gingham textile sampler acts as the mediator for a dialogue between the performers as they consider the histories, values ​​and knowledges held in cloth.