Rosie Hermon
Online networked practices and the Triangle Network
Summary
A collaborative PhD with the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University, Royal College of Art and Gasworks/Triangle Network.
Triangle Network is a global network of artists and visual arts organisations that support professional development and cultural exchange amongst artists, curators and other arts professionals throughout the world.
Whilst discarding the notion that identities are fixed and unchanging, research into the Triangle Network means exploring processes of identification with the Network and how these can form the basis of online networked practices that build solidarities across it. In understanding the world as pluriversally constructed, these processes of identification must also recognise and embrace difference, which is a challenge in online environments that are primarily structured around repetitions of sameness. Pluriversality also challenges the structure of networks, emphasizing the inability to “capture” or represent networks at a time when they have become both less visible and also increasingly complex, overtaken by the entangled relationalities of multiversal thinking. This context raises questions about how the Triangle Network is structured, represented and engaged with both on and offline, and how other network imaginaries might inform alternative practices of the network and of solidarity.
Additional info
A practice-led project employing research methods developed from the expanded field of curating, focusing on discursive forms of curatorial practice that experiment with different forms of public address and congregation. This practice-led approach is also aligned with the necessity of performing networks, in part as an acknowledgement of how network structures evade capture and representation. The approach also acknowledges the emergence of pluriversal thinking through the discourse of decoloniality, and its emphasis on action and process.
Triangle Network Meetings
Still from presentation of Zero Waste: Food Art project by Britto Arts Trust, Bangladesh, 2020
Triangle Network Meetings are a new, internal online forum for sharing and discussion instigated as part of the research project. They bring together interested Triangle Network partner organisations around specific themes or projects, which to date have included sharing artist-led responses to the pandemic, new building projects, patrons programmes, an arts and food project and museum partnerships.
Triangle: Artist Encounters
Triangle: Artist Encounters, Sarah Duffy: Part Two Vantage Points, 2020
Commissioned by Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia and working in collaboration with artist Ivan Tovar, Sarah and Ivan reflected on their international residency experiences through producing a film in two parts. This brought together their own filmed documentation collected during international residencies, alongside found footage. This was shared as part of the Artist Encounters project on the Triangle Network instagram channel.
Triangle: Artist Encounters sought to create a context and framework for making the Triangle Network
more visible by bringing to light the process and value of international exchange for artists across Triangle within an online environment, specifically, through the Triangle Network and partner organisation social media channels.
Artist Encounters invited international artists in residence and international workshop participants to share a particular encounter they had with an artist, arts professionals or other person that took place during an international residency or workshop, leading to a shift or development in practice: of ideas and/or methods. It also invited local artists to share an encounter they had with a visiting international artist. Participating artists and organisations were Kimathi Mafafo and Rocky G. Mafafo (Greatmore Studios), Winnie Yoe and Céline Lastennet (Triangle NYC), Rodrigo Hernández (Pivô Arte e Pesquisa), Sarah Duffy and Ivan Tovar (Lugar a Dudas).
