Annie Rapstoff -

CURRENT AND RECENT WORK

"Reading Water" a collaborative contemplative ecology project over a month exploring the interconnections between The Thames, United Kingdom and The Nile, Egypt. Developed by Super Cluster and supported by The British Council, November 2022.

Artist in residence research trip to Zagori, Northern Greece, in association with the The Eco Museum and Oika, October 2022.

Motivational Tools, a performance at Biddy FAB Art Bath, 2022 - A staged performance, involving a set of altruistic affirmative actions created to offer the public a sense of their importance and value in a difficult challenging and competitive world. The piece was performed as part of a touring work entitled Office for The Dissemination of Sympathy (2012), and has been reworked and revitalised for Biddy.

Parliament of Owls online artists research residency, concerning birds, 2022 - Working with Ayatana Biophilium Science School for Artists.

Bird by Bird 2, and An Incomplete Manifesto to you Birds, 2021 - sonic works in two parts, heard on Air Radio, a collaborative radio space created for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), followed by short video on YouTube.

'An Aqueous Collaboration' 2021 -2022, a collaborative project with Philip Lee developed during lock down. Fortnightly, each artist produced an image or video of an action inspired by two words – WATER, and the other word being a verb.
‘An Aqueous Collaboration' was a playful contemplation of water and its possibilities. All work can be seen on Instagram. In addition the work shown as a short film at Sea Change Bicester Festival Oxfordshire.

An online artists residency Ace Proyecto Residency, Argentina and Lacuna Festivals, 2021 - this residency took place during the lock down, and resulted in a collaborative video work with Anna Goodchild and Heidi Bergstrom entitled Littoral Zones: the frontiers between. This work was shown at Lacuna Festivals.

105 Artists Hands book by Cally Trench, 2018 -2022 - I have writing and images in a publication by Cally Trench, please follow this link to Peculiarity Press for more details.

Bird by Bird, at Unprecedented, an online exhibition at OVADA, 2021 - An exhibition of collective work created during and in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. I have four A1 photographs entitled Bird by Bird, the photos are part of an ongoing project of gestures, interventions, text and performance work. You can see the work online from The 1st May, please click here.

HOMEBOOKS at Overlay Studios, 2021 - A series of handmade books made during lock down. I have three books shown alongside artists Clare Carswell, Peta Lloyd and Rhiannon Evans. Thank to CouCou Curations and the support of CREIA::: . 1st - 9th May 11 - 6, at Overlay Studios Spelsbury Rd, Charlbury, Chipping Norton OX7 3LL

Nostos, at A Dangerous Field, Magdalen Road Studios, 16th October - 16th November 20 - Nostos (homecoming), is a collaborative photographic work, working with Vicky Vergou. The work is part of a project concerning how artists use photography to explore or subvert their ‘field’, or to record and research their subject. Due to the pandemic the work was transferred to an online exhibition, the full exhibition will now take place in 2021. Curated and edited by Cally Shadbolt, Catalina Renjifo and Lucas McLaughlin

Visiting Bird at Briefly in Transit, Stephens House & Gardens, London, 2020 - Visiting Bird, was a series of photographs and actions, exploring the grounds of Stephens Gardens in Finchley, through the eyes and experience of a bird. The work is a nod to the 14th century plague doctors mask. Live actions took on the 19th September. The sculpture trail, included 10 artists creating a series of artworks acknowledging and responding to the complexity and simplicity of these transitory times. Curated by Rebekah Dean and supported by The Arts Council England.

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Annie Rapstoff is a cross disciplinary artist, interested in the interrelationship between place and the human experience, often in dialogue with other species. Work may take the form of instructions, performance for the camera and in situ, gestures, interventions, video, stitch and text. Past work has been participatory, collaborative and often process based or ephemeral. Annie questions what we hear, what we feel and what we experience in space, through the body in space.

Her work has been shown in galleries, at conferences, live art events and in public spaces. Recent work, has included responses to the pandemic including a series of works in which she inhabits masks fabricated into bird extensions. In addition, she is investigating urban and rural geology including red sandstone, using the action of mark making, through rubbing and scarifying. These small works explore surface, decay and imperfection in layers, particularly cracks in pavements, continuing an ongoing concern around fragile surfaces and hidden depths.

Annie has developed workshops with children and adults, she has curated and developed live art events and is particularly interested in working in collaboration with other artists and across disciplines, past collaborations can be seen here.

Valuable words: Allowing for uncertainty, play, meandering through words and ideas, listening to what may be beneath the surface, ecologies of experience in relationship with animals, plants, other objects and the land.