Jenna Collins
Selected activity (scroll down for CV)
The Ballards and Damp and Buttery ( 2024)
Video, 02:30
‘The Ballards and Damp and Buttery’ (02:30, 2024) folds three small sections of ‘Victory Monument to the Vanquishing of the Artists by the Engineers’ (included in ‘Wait With Your Friends and Do Your Best to Stay There’) into some of the material that shaped it, namely, sub broadcast recordings of lectures and discussions produced by the engineering departments of significant organisations and institutions. Built of text, wildly unstable and utterly unbuildable in any traditional sense, ‘Victory Monument to the Vanquishing of the Artists by the Engineers’ prematurely announces and undermines the win.‘The Ballards and Damp and Buttery’ (02:30, 2024) folds three small sections of ‘Victory Monument to the Vanquishing of the Artists by the Engineers’ (included in ‘Wait With Your Friends and Do Your Best to Stay There’) into some of the material that shaped it, namely, sub broadcast recordings of lectures and discussions produced by the engineering departments of significant organisations and institutions. Built of text, wildly unstable and utterly unbuildable in any traditional sense, ‘Victory Monument to the Vanquishing of the Artists by the Engineers’ prematurely announces and undermines the win.
Wait With Your Friends and Do Your Best to Stay There (2024)
Format: PaperbackISBN 978-1-7392596-9-3
Featuring, ‘Victory Monument to the Vanquishing of the Artists by the Engineers’, text version.
- Published by JOAN PUBLISHING
Victory Monument to the Vanquishing of the Artists by the Engineers (2023)
Built of text, wildly unstable and utterly unbuildable in any traditional sense) prematurely announces a victory.
Radio version:
Commissioned by @ooo_radio
Street and exhibition broadcast
- Forumbox Gallery, Helsinki, Finland. 10 - 12/11/23
Performance version
Invited by The Trajectory of a Baseball: Maureen de Jager / Jenna Collins / Christian Newby
-Quadrangle Studio, London, 6 March, 2023
One, 2, 3 (2021)
Format: PaperbackISBN 978-1-9993276-2-0
Exploiting forms that traditionally get burnt up in the production of the moving image, Jenna Collins' One, 2, 3 moves through sequences of writing that dramatize the small but necessary acts of theft and invention that shape a story in its telling. In this case, one that navigates the legacy of a dead female writer and the task of being a living artist.
One, 2, 3 is a splendid feast made from the broken bits at the bottom of the bag. Bitingly funny, with a peculiar slippy charm that lodges its subversive truths about making art deep in the bones.
- Kate Feld
In Jenna Collins’ One, 2, 3 an inexplicable locating occurs. We are led into rooms, views, situations and scenarios with no real notion of how we came to be wherever we are but at the same time finding ourselves as the unwitting witness to certain meticulousnesses, certain claustrophobic, often absurd, unbalancings, events, processes. The possibility appears to be offered of dipping one’s fingers into the pockets of the text and running off like a thief and indeed the placing of incidences, sometimes faintly mirroring, sometimes set inside - or resting obliquely against - the other, does leave the reader free from consecutive narrative but at the same time, oddly trapped even implicated in what unfolds and what doesn’t.
- Paul Becker
- Launch event, ICA bookshop, 11th July 2022.
Published by JOAN PUBLISHING
Capacity does not explain but cultivates a September garden (2022)
Newsprint edition
- Whitstable Biennale
September Garden: The Plots (2021)
Digital jounal article
+ KOKO in Dialogue: Jenna Collins (Kingston University) in conversation with Nils Röller (ZHdK)
-KOKO Journal
Placement does not explain, but cultivates a September garden (2020)
Online commision (video/text)
-Camden Art Centre ‘Public Knowledge’ programme, 07/09/2020 - 29/11/2020
Internal Dissolve (2020)
Video 05:21-Commissioned by the Stanley Picker Public Lectures and Events series at Kingston School of Art
Only Three Actors (2020)
Text (extract below)‘You mean an ‘internal dissolve’?
The ship would already be far away, sailing toward the high seas, an imperceptible point on the blue.
Then it would probably fade…
Remember that it would be filmed in real life, this scene: ‘stolen’ in cinematographic jargon. So, extras are not necessary, only the three actors and the image of a ship, far away, small, fading into the liquid ground, dissolving into the sea, being ingested by it, or passing so far away that vision reaches its limit, folds in on itself, is forced to improvise. This bright, open image is inhaled with the
instruction, with its own ‘internal dissolve’. But which internal?
The lungs? Who doesn’t breathe deeply when facing the sea…’
- Paul Becker
-Contribution to: The Kink in the Arc, Paul Becker
t h e H O L D (2019)
- Stanley Picker Gallery, London.
Exhibtied 26 September - 14 December
-Machine Mountain (audio component by John Hughes, Volker Eichelmann and Jenna Collins)
Broadcast 2020 on https://radiophrenia.scot
Photography Ellie Laycock
We Are the Road (2019)
Practice PhDAHRC scholarship (TECHNE)
Supervisors: Volker Eichelmann and Dr Roman Vasseur
Examiners: Stephen Sutcliffe and Fran LLoyd
Abstract:
We.Are.Cut.Up (2019)
We.Are.Cut.Up. expands on central preoccupations around cut-up, fragmentation and modes of collective re-composition and re-assemblage. We.Are.Cut.Up. consists of a soundscape and a series of posters, both specifically conceived for the DeKalb Gallery at Pratt Institute, New York.
- Audio component broadcast TACO Art Licks Weekend Radio RTM.FM
- Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, USA
We Are the Road (2018)
Video, 10:15
(01:55 extract of 10:15) In 1987, Stewart Brand wrote an evangelical account of the MIT Media Lab in which he asserted, ‘If you are not part of the steamroller, you are part of the road’. In this brutal formulation, the producers of technologies are active and the consumers, passive.
'We Are the Road' considers the position of the viewer and occupies the space of ‘the road’. It takes the activity of the viewer at the moment of viewing seriously, seeking to voice, thicken, complicate and formally double the encounter, refuting the notion that anything about this activity is passive.
- London International Film Festival BFI, London (2018)
- Videographic Entanglements conference, University of Huddersfield (2023)
- Screening and commissioned text, Authoring Agents by Donald Butler, LUX Scotland (2019)
- Casa Victor Hugo, Havana, Cuba. October (2017)
- Gotland Art Museum, Visby, Sweden (2017)
Internal Dissolve (2018)
Newsprint publication60 cm x 30cm
Newsprint publication that proposes making writing under the influence of the moving image by expanding upon an extract from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s screenplay, St Paul (1977), which did not secure funding to become a film.
‘What would it be to dissolve internally, or to fade? Like a night of serious drinking I imagine, but I know this is Marseille and a population of fictional sailors -unpaid extras sharing cigarettes -are pressing in.’
- Dublin Art Book Fair at Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2018)
- Aquired by The National Irish Visual Arts Library as part of the Broken Diorama collection (2018)
Ronald and the Nomoli (2018)
Performance with Alice RekabScript v.1 (extract)
(In the gallery space, a light change from general exhibition setting to darkness except for the screens)
MUSIC begins to play loudly.
(Spotlight on RONALD and spotlight on THE CRAB as the dialogue, a bad natured interview, begins)
MUSIC begins to play loudly.
(Spotlight on RONALD and spotlight on THE CRAB as the dialogue, a bad natured interview, begins)
RONALD: So I notice that you are here with a crab, I think it’s a crab, I hope you will allow me to continue with my line of questioning even if I have misidentified the subject, it’s irrelevant to me. One thing can stand for another in a fairly imprecise way as long as you can be precise about the connection. So, perhaps I am taking a liberty by turning the crab thing into an algae thing, but that it crawls out of the water is the important thing, crawling out of the water and being in the sun...
- Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland (2019)
- The Stanley Picker Gallery, London (2018)
- Five Years Gallery, London (2018)
Studio (2017)
Newsprint collage group(5 x 40cm x 50cm)
Series of collages of processed photographic images in newsprint form, developed following a residency on Gotland, Sweden, engaging with it’s film industry infrastructue.
- Exhibited Gotland KunstMuseum, Sweden
- Exhibited Casa Victor Hugo, Cuba
- Exhibited, FIVE YEARS gallery, London
Two External Light Sources at the Same Time (2018)
Exhibition (with Alice Rekab)Works included:
Ronald (2017) Airdrying clay bust
Studio (2017) Newspring group
People Test Cameras (2018) Video
- Five Years Gallery, London (2018)
The Grand Alliance (2016)
The Grand Alliance is named after the consortium of American companies brought together in 1993 for the purpose of developing an HDTV standard, a process as personal, political and commercial, as it was technological or aesthetic. The project responds to the libidinal, comedic and delusional impulses present in the archival material, thinking about what we attach to the promise of ever better images and how we imagine the process by which they are arrived at.
Throughout April, Jenna Collins undertook a residency within the online and physical space of Quick Millions, producing an unreliable history of HDTV in the form of a screenplay and associated material.
-Exhibited, Quick Millions, London (2016)
Someone Who Isn’t Me (2015)
Video, 09:20‘Narratives mined from online drug user support forums, where codified anonymising practices create an uncanny duality of simultaneous intimacy and disavowal.'
-Benjamin Cook, LUX
- London International Film Festival, Experimenta strand, (2015)
- Art Bermondsey Project Space, London (2016)
- Akbank Short Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey (2016)
- Intimate Space, St Petersburg, Russia (2016)
- Transart Institute Research, Berlin, Germany (2017)
Polygraph (2015)
‘This workspace, pieces of equipment, cables, and the production of a wave image on screen strikes me, as I am occupied with making the music, as reminiscent of the set-up of a polygraph examination. It was also reminiscent of the scenario of the captain’s deck on a ship. I am the captain, my tools around me –my monitors and my controls. I am imagining workspaces, and further workspaces come to mind, those in School Is a Factory, 1978-80 by Allan Sekula, particularly the image of the computer programmer whom Sekula describes in the text element of the artwork as 'solemn'. He looks at the camera flatly as he stands sandwiched behind a shelf of huge, open binders and in front of wardrobe-sized computing machines. ‘
- BBC Radio 3 Late Junction, guest hosted by Hannah Catherine Jones (2018)
- Radiophrenia Highlights for Radio Space Borealis in Bergen, Norway (2018)
- Radiophrenia, CCA, Glasgow (2017)
- Radio Quantica, Lisbon, Portugal (2017)
CV
ACTIVITY
2023
Victory Monument to the Vanquishing of the Artists by the Engineers (radio version)
Selected by open submission for @ooo_radio and played live into the exhibition by @prevettjames
Forumbox Gallery, Helsinki, Finland. Saturday 10.11 and Sunday 12.11 at 14:00.
Victory monument to the vanquishing of the artists by the engineers (performance)
THE TRAJECTORY OF A BASEBALL - Maureen de Jager / Jenna Collins / Christian Newby
Quadrangle Studio, London, 6 March, 2023
2022
One, 2, 3 by Jenna Collins. Published by Joan, 2021. Launch event, ICA bookshop, 11th July 2022.
Capacity does not explain but cultivates a September garden (We Are Publication)
Whitstable Biennale, 2022
2021
September Garden: The Plots (We Are Publication) KOKO (online journal)
2020
Machine Mountain (We Are Publication) 13 November 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 PM
Acts, Stanley Picker Public Lecture Series website commssion. pickerpubliclectures.com
Placement does not explain, but cultivates a September garden. We Are Publication, Public Knowledge, Camden Arts Centre, London
The Kink in the Arc, contribution to a collective novel by Paul Becker
2019
We Are Publication, THE H O L D (sept 25th - Dec 14th) Stanley Picker Gallery, London
TACO Art Licks Weekend Radio RTM.FM (17th October - 20th October 2019), broadcasting We. Are. Cut. Up
We Are the Road, screened in discussion at SUPERLUX Kimberley O’Neill: Technologies Of The Self. The Anatomy Rooms, Aberdeen
Commissioned text, Authoring Agents by Donald Butler at Lux Scotland
Two External Light Sources, 2018 Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
We.Are.Cut.Up.with We Are Publication.Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
2018
Broken Dioramas curated by Alice Rekab & Alison Ballance. Dublin Art Book Fair and Dublin Digital Radio, Dublin
London International Film Festival BFI, London
BBC Radio 3 Late Junction, guest hosted by Hannah Catherine Jones
Ronald and the Nomoli, with Alice Rekab, The Stanley Picker Gallery, London
Cafe OTO, Anne-James Chaton / Andy Moor (duo) + Jenna Collins, London
Notes on a Carpet with We Are Publication. Live stream from Five Years London
Two External Light Sources at the Same Time, Jenna Collins and Alice Rekab, Five Years, London
Radiophrenia Highlights for Radio Space Borealis in Bergen, Norway
2017
Radiophrenia 2017, CCA, Glasgow. 9th November 2017 @ 9:00 am - 9:30 am. www.radiophrenia.scot
Broken Dioramas: A Broadcast Exhibition. Curated by Alice Rekab & Alison Ballance, invitation by Diana Pollicarpo. Radio Quantica, Lisbon, Portugal. 18/10/17 at 12 - 2 PM GMT www.mixcloud.com/quanticaonline
TLC group exhibition with Choterina Freer (UK), Sonia Hedstrand (SE), Anna Kinbom (SE) and Rut Karin Zettergren (SE) at Casa Victor Hugo, Havana, Cuba. October.
Erinyes Furies collaborative text, published by SALT magazine+ live performance at The Furies issue launch, Deptford X,1st March 7-9pm, 9 Brookmill Road, London SE8 4HL
Bermondsey Shorts screening 'Someone Who Isn't Me'. between 12-2 and 4-6pm until Sat 4 Feb, curated by Michaela Freeman, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London
Apologies in Advance #2I K L E C T I K, SE1 7LG, London. Performances by Luciano Maggiore, Sandra Kazlauskaite, Yoni Silver and Jenna Collins. 28/1/17, 3pm - 6pm, £5 on the door
TLC group exhibition with Choterina Freer (UK), Sonia Hedstrand (SE), Anna Kinbom (SE) and Rut Karin Zettergren (SE) at the Gotland Art Museum, Visby, Sweden. 18/2/17 - 23/4/17
Erinyes performance with SALT magazine invited by the Altai Collective, RCA, 27/1/17 and at SALT magazine.
2016
Collaborative text with Erinyes, SALT magazine, The Furies issue.
Erinyes PLAYLIST 3 + Live performance. 1st October, 6-9pm. Part of Deptford X Fringe.
Radiophrenia Shorts 11. radiophrenia.scot, CCA Glasgow
The Grand Alliance, Solo presentation, Quick Millions, London
Erinyes playlist 2, MANPOWER International Arts Festival, Lisbon, Portugal. June.
TLC workshop and symposium, Presentation and residency, Malongen/ Nordic Art Association, Stockholm, Sweden. June.
The Legacy, with 0s+1s. Fårö, Sweden. Residencies at the Baltic Arts Centre, Gotland, The Bergman Estateon Fårö, Sweden. Supported by Kultubryggan
Akbank Short Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
2015
Official selection, BFI 59th London Film Festival, Mediums and Messages programme selected by Benjamin Cook. 17/10/15 13:00 BFI Southbank, NFT3. London
Extractors, Tidemill Studios, Deptford, London
Relative Distance, screening at Intimate Space with 0s+1s, December. St Petersburg, Russia
Plague of Diagrams, performance with Rachel Cattle 20 Aug 2015 – 23 Aug 2015 ICA, London
Super Woofer, ErinyesPlaylist Two (soundcloud) Aug 2015, X Marks the Bökship at Matt’s Gallery, London
Transart Institute Research presented by Katy Macleod. July 2015, Berlin, Germany
Residency at the BAC- Baltic Art Center with 0s+1s collective. Visby, Sweden
Distant Relations. Screening at Go/c/art Gallery, Visby, Sweden. Torsdagen den 18/6 kl 18-20.30
Modulations commission for Resonance 104.4 FM The Arts and Culture Unit, We Are Publication collaboration Radiophrenia. Broadcast 87.9fm, 13th – 19th April, 2015.CCA, Glasgow
We Are Publication, ICA screening, London
Reading Records, with Rachel Cattle and Volker Eichelmann Five Years Gallery, London
2014
We Are Publication, Stanley Picker Salon 02. London
Demolition Tape 8. Video and performance collaboration with Paul Carr. Modern Art Oxford, UK
Helicotrema recorded audio festival 17-20th September 2014. Milan, Italy
Golden Dust Balls. Extractor Space, Residency. Deptford, London
NOTES ON A TEAM BUILDING EXERCISE. Publication launch. X Marks the Bökship, London
Sound Works by Women Artists- Listening Seminar 4. Curated by Diana Policarpo. Goldsmiths, London
Catalyst Arts' Annual Student & Recent Graduate Show. Belfast, Northern Ireland
Sound Introversion Radio. 2014 Adelaide Festival, Australia
2013
Zeros + Ones, screening. Arbeit Gallery, London
The Tribute, performance with Paul Carr. Camden Arts Centre, London
SALT magazine Issue 4, publication. London
The Pool, degree exhibition. Goldsmtihs, London
Sound Art Show, broadcast. BCB Radio 106.6FM, Bradford
Marmite Prize, screening. The Gallery, Plymouth College of Art
The Independent on Sunday Magazine, publication
2012
Pit Theatre, residency. The Barbican, London
V22 Summer Club, radio webcast. London
Latitude Festival, screening. Selected by Louise Colbourne. Suffolk
Sneak Preview, solo screening. Curated by Angharad Davies. London
Peaches and Cream, exhibition. Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2011
Hackney Film Festival + LUX experimental film performance with Mark peter Wright, Cafe Oto London
The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent. Collaboration with Anna Pickering. LUX Critical Forum, London
Flatpack Festival, screening. Ikon Eastside, Birmingham
OUTPOST Film Open, UK screening tour. Selected by Benjamin Cook: Rhumaba, Edinburgh, E:vent Gallery, London, Grand Union, Birmingham, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, OUTPOST, Norwich
Pre-2011
Patricide Magazine, publication. UK distribution
The Carr Radio contributions, London
RePurposes, exhibition. Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries, Virginia, USA
Police and Thieves, exhibition. The Old Police Station, Deptford, London.
Gleaners residency and commission. Abandon Normal Devices and the North West Film Archive: The Kings Arms, Salford, The Cornerhouse, Manchester, Lanternhouse, Ulverston, The Cooperative, Liverpool, New Continental, Preston, London Short Film Festival
Spring Green, commission and exhibition. The Architecture Centre, Bristol
Storm, screening. The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
X-ray at The Perseverance, screening. Hackney, London
Common Ground, screening. Norwich
4dayslong, exhibition. The Centre for Recent Drawing, London
Practical Truths, exhibition. Castflefield Gallery, Manchester
Noisy Image, performance. Work In Progress, Café Oto, London
Plagiarise, exhibition. Bussey Building, Peckham, London.
Kisss, Castlfield Gallery, Manchester
The Biggest and the Best, exhibition. Bussey Building, Peckham, London
Looters Make Their Way, exhibition. Surgery Gallery, London
I Love Peckham. Residency. Peckham Festival, London
Projet Est-Ouest. Espace 72, exhibtion. Curated by Claude Degueldre. Verviers, Belgium
Turnstile/Single Use, exhibition. Interval, The Holden Gallery, Manchester
Meme Pool, exhibition. Interval, Victoria Baths, Manchester
tank.tv, web screening, London.
Settling In, exhibition. Western Street, Manchester.
The Working World, exhibition. The Surface Gallery, Nottingham
Jeneregardrien, web screening. Architecture Week, Manchester
Sense & Stupidity, solo exhibition. Bankley Studio Gallery, Manchester
Beginning, Middle, End, exhibition. G39, Cardiff
Halloween. ICA, London
Cinema Vortex. Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach, USA
WORM @ Zaal de Unie, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Antimatter. Rogue Art Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Northern Territories Centre for Contemporary Art Darwin, Australia
WRO Center for Media Art, Wroclaw, Poland
GAGE Festival, Hull Time Based Arts, Hull
Kinokaze. Cinema REX, Belgrade, Serbia
Zeitgeist Multidisciplinary Arts Centre, New Orleans, USA
Microcinema International. Houston, USA
Therm03. The Lowry, Salford.
Sheffield International Documentary Festival, Sheffield
LECTURING/TEACHING
Currently 0.4 Contmeporary Art, University of Huddersfield
BA Fine Art, Kingston School of Art
MFA Fine Art, Kingston School of Art
MA Art and Space, Kingston School of Art
MA Architecture, Manchester School of Architecture
BA Fine Art, University of Central Lancashire
MA Fine Art, University of Central Lancashire
MA Experiemntal FIlm, University of Central Lancashire
BA Interactive Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University
BA Contemporary Film and Video, Manchester Metropolitan University
EDUCATION
PhD Fine Art (AHRC). Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston University.
MFA Fine Art. Goldsmiths College.
MA Drawing with distinction. Camberwell College of Art.