Polly Gould
Gould works with drawing, sound, video, photography, and performance. She combines drawing and writing in installation works that examine the narrative urge in our lives; the things we say to each other, the way we end up quoting favorite books, living our lives like scenes from films, or finding the words of a popular song to do our talking for us. She explores the ‘writing oneself backwards’ of autobiography and the work of memory. Her work is concerned with our relationships as speaking subjects exploring questions of voice, power and desire, and presented in a live form as performance lectures or performance video works.
Gould’s recent work has been particularly concerned with the spatialisation of memory, landscape and mourning. She has given papers at conferences which combine visual and performative elements with theoretical themes. Conferences in 2007 include Death, Dying and Disposal 8 in Bath, Death and Beyond, ASCA Amsterdam and Telling Stories: Objects and Narratives at Loughborough University. She is currently working on a conference paper for Arctic Discourses,Tromso, Norway, February 2008.
Forthcoming shows and performances include new installation work Peninsular opening March 1st - 20th June 2008 and a performance of Libraries and Landscape April 19th 2008 at ICIA Bath.
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She contributed a short story to a collection of fiction by contemporary visual artists in Britain, The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B., edited by Jeremy Akerman and Eileen Daly. The book was published by Serpent’s Tail in December 2006 and includes contributions from David Burrows, Jake Chapman, Brighid Lowe and Jon Thompson. Artists read extracts from their contributions at an evening event at the Tate Britain on December 1st 2006. Gould hosted a reading with Brighid Lowe and Mikey Cuddihy at WAI festival in Kendal, on May 5th 2007.
