Sarah Walden is an experimental media artist examining the situated knowledges of neurodivergence through the lens of post-structuralist and feminist theory.
Sarah's practice encompasses the performance of neurodivergence, the form and function of glitch art, and the materiality of analogue and digital film in an experimental context, along with narrative and sensuous engagement with the radically 'other'.
biography
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Midlands3Cities AHRC Doctoral researcher at Birmingham School of Art (2016-21)
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Former member of Vivid Projects' Black Hole Club (2015-18)
exhibitions/performances (group)
04/19 - "Lost (In 8 Very Experimental Millimetres)" (film, 2m30s), Moving Image Open Call, CheapCheap Gallery, Birmingham
12/18 - "In Which I Contemplate Drowning" (360 film, 9m), Black Hole Club, Vivid Projects, Birmingham
07/18 - "Be (with) Me" (360 film, 6m), Another Dimension, Vivid Projects, Birmingham
06/18 - "Silent Scream" (multichannel video, 55m), Her Horror, Vivid Projects, Birmingham
06/18 - "Frankenfilm" (live performance and film, 40m), Her Horror, Vivid Projects, Birmingham
04/18 - Durational performance, 2hr30m, "We Don't Talk Anymore 2" with Dan Auluk, Stryx Gallery, Birmingham
03/18 - "Bodies of Pleated Matter" (multichannel video, 16m), New Art West Midlands 2018, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
12/17 - "First I'll Stop, Then I'll Start" (sound recording, 5m), Forward, Vivid Projects, Birmingham
09/17 - "It Wasn't Like This When I Was Young" (video, 1m), Black Hole Club, Sluice Biennial, London
07/17 - "3D(on't)" (stereoscoped video, 7m), Forward, Black Hole Club, Birmingham
03/17 - "Bodies of Pleated Matter" (single channel video, 16m), Black Hole Club, Birmingham
12/16 - Live-coded video 16m, video wall, Algorave, Vivid Projects, Birmingham
08/16 - "Dys ease" (video, 10m), Future Broth, Vivid Projects, Birmingham
03/16 - "Ariel", photographic installation (with Ollie MacDonald-Brown), Black Hole Club, Vivid Projects, Birmingham
02/16 - "TRIad", AV Silk Road, BYOB performance with Ollie MacDonald-Brown, Vivid Projects, Birmingham
12/15 - "Basement Type Barn", tART, Vivid Projects, Birmingham (with Ollie MacDonald-Brown)
12/15 - Tabula Rasa, performance (with Plume Artist Collective and Ollie MacDonald-Brown), Boxxed, Birmingham
10/15 - BOM Halloween party, VJ performance (with Ollie MacDonald-Brown and Simon Peet), Cherry Reds, Birmingham (for Birmingham Open Media, 8bit Lounge)
10/15 - Live+Loud, Selfridges, Birmingham (exhibition of MA show piece)
09/15 - "Bodies of Pleated Matter", A Line Drawn from the Eye to the Summit, Birmingham School of Art MA Show
08/15 - "Unwieldy Film Monster", I Am A Strange Loop, performance (with Ollie MacDonald-Brown), Vivid Projects
06/15 - MA Art Raffle Fundraiser, VJ performance (with Ollie MacDonald-Brown), Birmingham School of Art
04/15 - "Blink" (video, 7m), Meet the Black Hole Club, Vivid Projects (installation of degree show work)
10/14 - "Blink" (video, 7m), Changing The Sight Line, FAM Art Collective, Unit 2 Minerva Works, Birmingham (installation of degree show work)
06/14 - "Blink" (video, 7m), Degree Show, Birmingham School of Art
residencies, workshops, talks and curation
06/19 - 'Slicing and Dicing the Cultural/Visual/Linguistic/Material/Neurological: the Performativity of (Glitched) 360 Video' - Paper - Centre for Digital Cultures, Birmingham University
05/19 - Play/Pause: Immersion/Dissonance Conference - Demonstration of 360 Film work at conference - Birmingham University
05/19 - 'Neurodivergent Twitter' - Paper - Digital Cultures Research Network Conference, Nottingham University
02/19 - 'Positioning Oneself as a Researcher' - Talk - ADM PG Cert Course, Birmingham City University
01/19 - 'So you want to see my insides, do you? Don’t say I didn’t warn you…' - Talk - PGR Studio Inside Out Research Festival, Birmingham City University
11/18 - Experimental Film Workshop - Worcester University
10/18 - 'Slicing and Dicing the Cultural/Visual/Linguistic/Material/Neurological: the Performativity of (Glitched) 360 Video’ - Paper - BCMCR Screen Cultures Research Cluster, Birmingham City University
06/18 - 'Performing Neurodivergence' - live experimental filmmaking workshops at BCU School of Art Takeover, and presentation and screening at Researcher Dialogue(s) - School of Art/PGR Studio, Birmingham City University
05/18 - Presentation of 'Be (with) me' (360 video on headset) - Midlands3Cities Research Festival
03/18 - Dys/function Workshop - Arts & Science Festival, Birmingham University
07/17 - Dirty Video Mixer Workshop - Superseded, Vivid Projects
05/17 - Digital Storytelling research presentation - Midlands3Cities Research Festival
03/17 - Synse/Non Synse Workshop - Arts & Science Festival, Birmingham University
09/16 - 'Look At The Pictures: Pop-Up Polaroids' - photography workshop event - Vivid Projects, Birmingham (with Siân Macfarlane and Oliver McCall)
06/16 - 'Insights into Collaborative Practice' - publication launch and artists' talk - Artists on the Edge, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
05/16 - 'Psychic Antisthesia' - experimental film workshop development - Vivid Projects, Birmingham (with John Bradburn and Ollie MacDonald-Brown)
04/16 - 'Crit Club: Ariel' - artists' talk - Black Hole Club, Birmingham
10/15 - 'Exquisite Methods' - CFAR pop-up research seminar - curation, Live + Loud, Selfridges, Birmingham
10/15 - 'The Big Draw (Moving Pictures) - workshop - Middleton Cheney (with Ollie MacDonald-Brown)
09/15 - Dirty Video Mixer workshop, Vivid Projects, Birmingham (with Ollie MacDonald-Brown)
07/15 - 'On Film' - residency - Artefact/P Cafe, Stirchley (with Ollie MacDonald-Brown)
awards
2016-21 Midlands3Cities AHRC Doctoral Studentship Award
2015 Ikon Gallery Art Prize
2015 Gertrude Aston Bowater Bequest Award for Excellence (first prize)
2014 Recipient of the Gertrude Aston Bowater Bequest for Arts Based Masters study at Birmingham City University
writing
Artists On The Edge (2016). Insights Into Collaborative Practice. Birmingham: Article Press. 32-35.
education
2015 Birmingham City University MA Fine Art
2014 Birmingham City University BA (Hons) Fine Art