SAMANTHA JONES . INFO

International Artist, Curator, Researcher and Writer based in Liverpool, UK. Samantha combines her artistic, curatorial and research practice to reveal, unpack and re-define the bio political nexus of the personal, the public, the body; within the physical environment and networked society that is both simultaniously local and global. With the aim of complexifying the notion of public/private space to unlock the operations that construct the public sphere.

News - Samantha has recently completed ‘Call and Response’ a Cape Farewell Short Course commission. Inhabiting Hilbre Island between tides, Samantha, working with members of local choirs and Stef Conner a specialist in historic music composition utilized the human voice and environmental acoustics to trace the geographic, psychological and historical territory of the Island.

News - Graceless Opus: Apartment 132 performance 28th April 2102 -A original 5 minute re-interpretation of Beethoven's Opus 132 performed by Alex Germaine, Chiz Turnross, Cloe Mullet, Jacques Malchance, and Rienhard Fuch brought together for the fist time to collaborate with Samantha to develop the new compositon and performance for the Low Lives World Wide Performance Festival. With support of SoundNetwork and Sound Agents.

News -Artsit and Curator Samantha Jones is hosting a worldwide networked performance on the 28th April 2012. The performance is being streamed and can be watched from the Low Lives Festival and is a 5 minute interpretation of Beethoven's Opus 132 by experimental musicians who will be collaborating for the first time. The performers are Alex Germaine, Chiz Turnross, Cloe Mullet, Jacques Malchance, and Rienhard Fuch.

Title> Graceless Opus: Apartment 132 - Drawing from the 5 movements of the Beethoven Opus 132 String Quartet No. 15 in A minor , the live performance of Graceless Opus: Apartment 132 will bring together classical and experimental musicians, performers and 5 one minute compositional structures, to create, critique and complexify the live physical and networked transmission of truncated sound bite dialogues between 'high' and' low' culture, between 'private' and 'public' spaces, between ‘culture’ and ‘economic’ drivers.

News -Samantha has been invited to take part in Vessel International Curatorial Workshop (13-17 June, 2012). The workshop benefits from the participation of the vessel Scientific Committee, composed of Charles Esche, Ilaria Gianni, Cecilia Guida, Denis Isaia, Viktor Misiano, Marco Petroni, Roberto Pinto, along with vessel curators Viviana Checchia and Anna Santomauro and other art system protagonists. Fifteen curators from around the world have been offered the opportunity to work with these curators focusing on the heritage and practice of institutional criticism. Samantha has also been invited to take part in the three day event (12-14 June, 2012) organized by vessel that is part of the Giant Step symposia.

News - Upcoming Cape Farewell expedition along the River Mersey as part of the surragate art school 'SHORTCOURSE/UK'. An urban expedition bringing artists and art students into dialogue with scientists and leading scientific research culminating in a Cape Farewell exhibtion in Liverpool, UK.

News Presenting the paper 'The creation of a new local' at The 7th International Conference on the Arts in Society .

News - Curator Professor Paul O' Neil joined Samantha and Jeanne van Heeswijk for an in the field discussion in Anfield.

News Samantha is currently developing a series of 5 minute opus and operas. Working with classical and underground musicians , performers and compositional structures, in the creation and critique of live physical and networked transmission of truncated sound bite dialogues between 'high' and' low' culture, between 'private' and 'public' spaces.

News -Hospitable Discords hosts AllArtNow visit to Liverpool. Directors and curators from TATE Liverpool, FACT (Foundation for Arts and Creative Technology), Liverpool Biennial, Bluecoat Gallery, METAL and Royal Standard will be meeting wth AllArtNow to develop projects and networks between Liverpool and Damascus.

News - Through ‘Moblie Art School Athens‘ Samantha will host a critically timed discourse between Syrian and Greek artists and curators within the multi-nodal counter-public sphere of three temporary art schools; AllArtNow ‘Studio 1′ Damascus, Liverpool School of Art and Design’s ‘Mobile Art School Athens’ and Athens Biennial ‘Public Art School’.

News - Deliver and curate a virtual pedagogy through ‘Hospitable Discords’, a response to sanctions going beyond economic and political, to western educational institutions resistance to sanction the physical participation of educationalist/artist/researchers to undertake residencies in areas of conflict. ‘Hospitable Discords’ through collaboration with AllArtNow and the temporary art school 'Studio 1' will develop and deliver alternative platforms for artistic pedagogy through the negotiation of virtual and temporary counter-public spheres.

News - Samantha is embeded researcher on the Liverpool Biennials 2Up2Down project, led by the 2011 Leonore Annenberg prize for Art and Social Change winner Jeanne van Heeswijk. This project works alongside young people in the Anfield area to design and build a housing unit, which will be set up as a self-build/collective. Creating a viable alternative to the regeneration process, engaging with what Jeanne calls 'the battlefield of our time' - the right to live well.

News - Curator of mediation for the Liverpool's International Biennial Festival 2010.

Hosting embeded mediation training and new commissions for artists and performers to explore new forms of mediating an international festival to local and international audiences.

News - Samantha has been awarded a PHD scholarship at Liverpool John Moores University, a unique collaboration with the Liverpool Biennial, researching the bio political nexus of as artist/actor within urban regeneration, wellbeing, public art curation and public engagement.

News - Supported by the British Council to take part in the Shatana 08 international artist workshop in Jordan. Shatana 08 was hosted by MAKAN as part of the Triangle Arts Trust network. Visit Above us only sky on flickr to view images of the outcome to this workshop, which was exhibited in Shatana village

Imagine there's no heaven

It's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people

Living for today

Imagine there's no Country

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace

Lyrics by John Lennon - Born Liverpool, UK
Liverpool born sound artist Sam Jones used GPS to plot the geographic location of Shatana. The village yielded an unexpectedly high number of satellites in the sky above it. To highlight this, with the aim of drawing into question why there would be so many satellites above such an unknown village, Sam located a number of exact geographic positions where she had field recorded. Local crafts people cut these positions out of aluminium and they were placed back in the village, to deflect and disrupt the satellites' signals. The audio recordings where then placed in a local house, unobserved by the satellites roaming above.

News - Samantha has been commsission by FACT (Foundation for Arts and Creative Technology) to collaborate with patients and Staff at Alder Hey Children's Hospital's Oncology ward to research and develop a interactive sound project to be installed within the Hospital as part of the Sonic Streams programme.

News - Samantha is currently leading and curating the Sonic Streams programme. Sonic Streams is a creative collaboration between FACT (Foundation for Arts and Creative Technology) and Alder Hey Children's Hospital exploring the effects of sound on the human body. Bafta award winning sound recordist Chris Watson and LA based New Media artist Josh Nimoy have been commisioned to collaborate with patients and Staff at Alder Hey to develop innovative sound based pieces for use within the hospital.