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Samantha Sweeting

England

transitstation
berlin 2005
edinburgh 2006

 
Samantha Sweeting - Hungerworks - transitstation berlin 2005
Photo: Cordelia Masthoff
transitstation berlin 2005
 
 
Samantha Sweeting - Hungerworks - transitstation edinburgh 2006
Samantha Sweeting - Hungerworks - transitstation edinburgh 2006 Samantha Sweeting - Hungerworks - transitstation edinburgh 2006 Samantha Sweeting - Hungerworks - transitstation edinburgh 2006
Photos: Jethro Collins
transitstation edinburgh 2006
 
     
Education
2001 - 2004   London College of Printing, London
2003   Parsons School of Design, New York (one month exchange)
2000 - 2001   Camberwell College of Arts, London
     
Qualifications
2004   BA (Hons) Photography First Class
2001   BTEC Art Foundation Diploma Distinction
     
Exhibitions / Performances
2006   transitstation – 2-day group performance event. transitstation, Edinburgh at Ocean Terminal, Leith
2005   Hungerworks: Eating Words II - performance.
Duration: 30 minutes
Hungerworks: Picnic – performance.
Duration: 1 hour
transitstation – 2-day group performance event. transitstation, Berlin
2004   Hungerworks: Apple-bobbing - performance with Adam Philips, Kingston University, Surrey
Duration: 20 minutes
2004   Performer in Quiver by Victorine Müller and Kirsten Reese.
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Duration: 30 minutes (2 days)
2003 - 2005   I sleep for you – performance project repeated 4 times in collaboration with a different person each time.
London, Devon, Berlin
Duration: One year/ person
2004   I sleep for you – installation.
Degree show exhibition. London College of Printing, London.
Duration: 1 week
2004   Dice: 1/36 – public performance with Richard Andersen.
Shoreditch Junction, London.
Duration: 36 minutes
2003   Hungerworks: Eating Words – performance for video.
London
Duration: 25 minutes
2003   9 minute self-portrait in three roles – b/w pinhole photograph in a lightbox outside The Hoxton Boutique in Shoreditch, London.
Duration: 1 month
2003   Jezebelle Project:
Stage 1 – one night stand (a 3 ½ minute time-lapse super 8 film of myself sleeping) shown on a television monitor in Ye Olde Axe, a striptease pub on Hackney Road, London.
Duration: 2 days
Stage 2 – www.jezebelle.org. A virtual peepshow between artist’s website and pornographic site, without text or personal details.
Proposed duration: 1 year/ Actual duration: 5 months
Stage 3 – Jezebelle and the Underworld performance. My partner followed and photographed me as I walked from my home to Ye Olde Axe (while my film was playing) and back again. I gave him a list of rules to adhere to. I wore a wig and provocative clothing. I became Orpheus. The emotional impact that it made on both of us was central to the project.
Duration: One hour
Stage 4 – exhibiting one night stand in Sh!, a female sex shop in Hoxton, London.
Duration: 5 months
2002   Leda and the Egg – interactive multimedia installation.
London College of Printing, London.
Duration: 2 days
2002   On Entering – interactive multimedia installation.
Blue group exhibition. The Millinery Works Gallery, London.
Duration: 1 week
2002   Inside Out – 20 photos and text in an alleyway by my Whitechapel flat, with public interaction and video documentation.
Court Street, London.
Duration: 24 hours (until all the images had disappeared)
2001   In Between – interactive multimedia installation.
Foundation exhibition. Camberwell College, London.
Duration: 1 week
     
 
 
samsweeting@yahoo.co.uk

 
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