Jordan Rowe

Germany, United Kingdom (residence), United Kingdom (citizenship)
research interests: museums, walking, identity, nationalism, urban space, rural futurism, blackness
en

Jordan (he/him) is a writer, curator and researcher on urban culture and rural identities with a particular interest in institutions and placemaking. His co-curated exhibition ‘Doors of Learning: Microcosms of a Future South Africa’ opened at the Bauhaus Dessau in 2022 and an accompanying publication will be released on Spector Books in the summer of 2023. He was a member of the 2022 Constellations ° Cohort of Public Art Practitioners, a socially engaged curatorial development programme run by UP Projects, Flat Time House and the Liverpool Biennial. Jordan has previously served as the first ever Urbanist in Residence at the Museum of London, as a fellow at ZK/U Berlin, and as the manager of UCL’s Urban Laboratory. Recently based between London and Berlin, he has staged exhibitions and worked in various capacities with the Folkestone Triennial, Whitechapel Gallery, Stanley Arts, the ICA, Open City Documentary Festival, British Film Institute, De La Warr Pavilion, ICA, Somerset House, Free Word, and the University of Manchester. He is a regular contributor to talks, panels, roundtables and crits on the creative city, situated practices, night spaces, gentrification, the urban essay film, and queer urbanisms.

research

research expositions (collaborated)

  • Walking As Practice WAP23 (last edited: 2024) author(s): WAP This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    WALKING AS PRACTICE WAP23 was a process-based residency during September-November 2023, where artists using walking as a method delved into each others’ knowledges and things they encountered together at BKN, the Northern Stockholm Archipelago in Sweden. Fieldworks, share sessions and seminars were created jointly to locate and entangle structures, narratives and themes for walking. The residency formed a transformative, dynamic space for art that engaged with life and nature towards critical and poetic explorations, influenced by the immediate surroundings: the forest, lakes, sea and people living in the rural area. Processing how walking is interlocked in our artistic practices, this exposition represents a gathering of texts, visuals and audio from the walking art residency. The selected artists contributed with interdisciplinary practices, primarily drawing, photography, video, performance and dance. They worked both individually, in spontaneous constellations and in group sessions. The dissemination of the program took place in share sessions upon arrival of new artists - including dinners, open studios, walks, workshops etc. In addition, as the program unfolded, each artist developed their own exposition.
     open exposition comments (0)