Sol Archer

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Sol Archer

Exhibition

March 25 – May 29, 2021

Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast

not only the earth we share

Collaborative film based exhibition made with communities of Sailortown, Belfast between 2018 and 2021. Addressing the creation of cultural commons, rights to the city, and the construction of community through play, imagination, and culture. Click here for the dedicated website.

Web Platform coming soon

Who Makes The City

peripatetic web-magazine platform run in collaboration with a changing roster of hosts. Consisting of commissioned talks from international thinkers and practitioners and in-situ conversations in various cities focussed on questions of the contemporary urban condition.

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Sol Archer (1983) is a Netherlands based artist working through collaborations with professional and non-professional groups, considering the encounter as a space of production. Frequently employing video as an apparatus for producing a doubling of experience, productive of work through collective act, and through the work productive of new collectivities, new ways of being together.

His work has been exhibited widely, including in the Sydney Biennial, Sydney, AU; Rozenstraat, Amsterdam, Golden Thread, Belfast, Northern Ireland, NL; Le Crac19, Montbeliard, FR; Index Foundation, Stockholm, SE; TULCA, Galway, IR; Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, FR; MuKHA, Antwerp, BE; and more.

Residency programs Sol has participated in include the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL; Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, BR; IASPIS, Stockholm, SE; Vicinities, Belfast, UK; PHLOX, Huns, NL; AIR Anterp, BE; Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, NL; and Digital Art Studios, Belfast, UK

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Projects

not only the earth we share

Collaborative film work and installation, focussing on the construction of cultural commons, rights to the city, and the construction of community through play, imagination, and culture.
Made in collaboration with communities of Sailortown Belfast and Household C.I.C.

Belfast 2017-2021

world building is a collective enterprise

film made with amateur K-POP dance cover groups in Rio de Janeiro, following their rehearsal and body practices, repurposing public space and constituting communities of support and resistance.

Rio de Janeiro 2020

to all the gods, honey, to the mistress of the labyrinth, honey in equal amounts

Performative city tour, developed with, and platforming the practices of, the Index Teen Advisory Board. In collaboration with Ina Hagen and Index Foundation.
Stockholm 2019

to walk around, to walk afar

Collaboration with Cristina Ribas, Lucas S. Icó, and the community of Vila Autodromo, Rio de Janeiro. Vila Autodromo is a small community who were forcefully evicted to landscape the Olympic park for the 2016 Rio Olympics. To Walk Around, To Walk Afar is a three channel video project utilising conversation, walking, and Theatre of the Oppressed to re-enact the communities former autonomous theatre practice and self construction.

Rio de Janeiro, 2019

cartography and care, the multiple village

With Peer Paper Platform and PHLOX. Hand painted curtains, audio tour, photography.
In collaboration with the children of Huns, a village in Friesland, through mapping and narrating their play spaces.

Huns 2018

flicker like flames, sketches towards a speculative film

moving image work co- created with a class of 12-13 year old students in Rotterdam. Working together to play Fragments from films, and science fiction archetypes, imagining alternative realities,

Rotterdam / Maastricht 2017

Dispatches from Futureland

The World Is Already Without Us

publication with text commissioned from Alberto Toscano

Rotterdam & London 2015

in the company of men

photo-montage video made with found images which document a year of national service entering the Dutch military.

Rotterdam 2015

They Were Sleeping, It Was At Night

video work following the artists attempts to locate a meteorite impact site through the instructions of local villagers

Rotterdam / Glannerbrug 2014

Death Comes Home to Farm

Video work piecing fragmentary memories of a 1960s plane crash in a rural English village together.

Rotterdam / Lincolnshire 2014

the earth is not at rest

collaborative episodic video work made with Frances Scott, structured through Southwark Park, horoscopes and the ongoing programming of an exhibition curated by The Woodmill.

London 2013

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