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SHIFT: India Harvey
00:00/06:51
SHIFT: India Harvey
00:00/06:51
00:00/06:51

SHIFT: India Harvey

Artist and researcher India Harvey explores how notions such as play can challenge perceptual and sensory hierarchies, opening up different ways of engaging with the world.

India Harvey is an artist and researcher whose work explores the possibilities of having multiple, distinct and complex relationships with the textures of our lived environments, how these relationships express themselves, and how we may be able to relate to others through shared exposure to unusual materiality, and what sensory experience can teach us.

In this film, India explores their practice and key interests, such as concepts of naughtiness, what happens in the margins of play, invisible child cultures, inclusion and access, and challenging systems and sensory hierarchies.

India’s work seeks to create spaces that enrich perceptual, cognitive and multi-sensory experiences of art by granting participants permission to interpret and understand on their own terms. 
 

About the artist

India often collaborates with others, working in interdisciplinary and cross-generational contexts. India’s previous work includes collaborations and commissions with artists and cultural centres such as the South London Gallery, Tate Modern, Camden Art Centre, Focal Point Gallery, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, MKAC, and Sadler’s Wells; and Squish Space, co-created with Lisa Marie Bengtsson at the Barbican Centre.

More info on India’s work can be found at www.dontcomplain.co.uk 

About the film

This film is part of SHIFT, Freelands Foundation’s quarterly series of short films spotlighting varied practices, approaches and philosophies within art education. 

Captions and editing: Sixbetween.

All audiovisual material and research is courtesy of the artist.

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