Rhiannon Jones

United Kingdom °1981
research interests: artistic research, dialogue, socially engaged art, conversations, practice as research, performance, Visual and Performing Arts
affiliation: University of Derby, Primary Studios (Nottingham)
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Rhiannon Jones is an arts practitioner and resident artist at Primary Studios, Nottingham, UK. She is currently a Post Doctoral Researcher for the Digital and Material Artistic Research Centre (DMARC), College of Arts at the University of Derby. She co-founded InDialogue (2012 - present) an International biannual symposium for artists, researchers and Industry, exploring the use of dialogue through practice. She has a PhD by practice from Nottingham Trent University (2016). In which her research looked at conversation through a body of practice that looks at the performative and tactile nature of The Artistry of Conversation. Currently, Rhiannon’s research is focused on the artistic and spacial curatation of conversation and the design and usages of dialogue within the arts. 

 

Her research continues to focus on socially engaged practices and methods of documentation as practice.  She often works closely with both Industry and Academia to generate spaces for conversation between HE and Creative Cultural Organisations.  Her research process is always collaborative and typically the work manifests in the form of exhibitions, published texts and symposia operating both Nationally and Internationally. 

 

 She is a working group member of the International Contemporary Art Working Group Cumulus (2012-present). Until very recently Rhiannon was General Manager of Third Angel Theatre Company (ACE portfolio), and Associate Lecturer at NTU in the school of Art and Design. She is a freelance mentor to arts industry professionals and new and emerging artists.  

 

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  • The Drawing Board #6 (last edited: 2018) author(s): Rhiannon Jones This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Traci Kelly and Rhiannon Jones Writing as object. Writing as materiality. Writing through the body. Writing the subject into being. A laboured breath, a subversive gesture, a consideration of materiality and difference are the urgent concerns of Traci Kelly and Rhiannon Jones as they write through the body. Resisting narrative and authorship they seek the preform and fractured modes of writing that adhere to a multivalent feminine. This entry is offered as a sharing of some of the documentation gathered from an emerging body of work-in-progress. There have been encounters with other artists and researchers during the two-month residency, including Terry Shave, who made Kick and Kiss in response to witnessing the collaboration. The artists have utilised this collaboration to destabilise language and expose its underlying structures. This project offers a feminine approach to writing, which often has a male primacy. The artists are interested in preform, sounds that do not yet make words and the performative quality of the body as both a written language and as a site of inscription. The installation of their residency documentation explores place and plays with the shifting roles of the readerly and the writerly, whether through body or physical spaces the work inhabits. The Drawing Board The Drawing Board is a space for handwritten performances that aims to turn a corridor into a destination and to return the walls of an old school building in Nottingham to their former use as a place of display. Curated by Michael Pinchbeck, The Drawing Board explores how we write, how we perform writing and how writing performs. All rights Kelly and Jones 2018
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