Carmen Jose

Solo exhibition and presentations connected to the project and publication "I don´t know how to draw a tree"

Performing live visuals on an old projector while reading poems accompanied with impro music by Mitsitron and Stephen Kerr connected to the project and publication "I don´t know how to draw a tree"

Performing live visuals on an old projector while reading poems accompanied with impro music connected to the project and publication "I don´t know how to draw a tree"

PAF (=PerformingArtsForum) is a place for professional and not-yet professional practitioners and activists in the field of performing arts, visual art, literature, music, new media and internet, theory and cultural production, and scientists who seek to research and determine their own conditions of work. PAF is for people who can motorize their own artistic production and knowledge production not only responding to the opportunities given by the institutional market.

The fresh myth that is created by Merve Kılıçer and Ulufer Çelik's performance becomes the space for an experience to be transferred, remembered and processed in different times. The performance consists of poetry reading with live, sampled sounds, accompanied by improvised projection of drawings by Carmen Jose

Lemon House was a res(t)idency during documenta fifteen in Kassel initiated by Carmen José and Bobby Sayers, run by Carmen at Haus Berneburg in Kassel.
It hosted and was part of the lumbung Kiosk network through the city. The space hosts exhibitions, gatherings, workshops, performances and readings.

Lecturer and researcher for the departments of social practice and illustration

Growing Space is a cultural and social place for the Wielewaal, or and for neighbors and artists, to come together (especially) in the corona time. The exhibitions organized there can be visited from outside through the wooden platform where people can stay at a safe distance from each other. Every week there is one exhibition and an activity that brings the neighbors into conversation with the participating artists. This project was initiated by Carmen José and Kamiel Verschuren (NAC).

We are a collective of six artists based in Zuidwijk with an interest in the process of gardening as growing and nurturing with a focus on local and collective knowledge. We have been exploring and conducting field research together throughout 2020 in the form of walks, organizing workshops, cooking and creating children's activity packs for the Corona period for children at the De Toermalijn School.

Chander Haat White Cubes project is an instant creation to emphasize that we, who bind as a community of art practitioners need to connect our art with our masses. They planned around 30 artifacts, to be executed on site, across an entire rural landscape in Baghpota; where they originally initiated their collective practice 30 years ago. In the project I was invited to develop one of the white cubes, which ended up being an AIR Gallery of self-made kites with recycled plastic and drawings.

Under The Mango Tree is a self-organized gathering of unlearning, co-curated by Sepake Angiama, Sanchayan Ghosh, Tara Lasrado. I was invited as a contributor to share my research Lines of Movement, on exercising collective visual criticality. The aim of this research is to explore movement practices that use methods of embodiment to reflect and connect with the action of drawing to develop tools to promote critical thinking and in between spaces for questioning.

We draw lines that move from our heads over our bodies to our hands and finally onto the paper. We train head and hand, but how can we train the whole body for unlearning drawing? A research on exercising collective visual criticality. Questioning as an action of change, or transformation. Bringing together a set of various movement exercises to establish critical reflection on visualization processes through the act of drawing.