Creative Talk: Melanie Manchot

This event is part of our Creative Talks series that feature practitioners/makers/artists who work in a variety of disciplines, media and forms across the creative arts, including: the visual arts, design, performance, craft-work, creative writing and more. The series aims to address questions about the nature of ‘creativity’ and ‘practice as research’, featuring speakers who will share their work, the processes they use, their influences, and their own experiences of professional practice. Sessions will reflect the disciplinary range of speakers and may feature presentations, performances, workshops etc. The aim is to create an open, multi-disciplinary space in which to introduce audiences (students and the public alike) to a wide range of creative practices that inspire new ideas about how to make new work.

For this Creative Talk we welcome Melanie Malchot whose performance-to-camera, reconstruction and participation as well as location-based research are recurring methodologies. Photographic series and moving image works – both single screen and multi-channel installations – operate on the cross section of documentary, staged events and narration to investigate how fact, fiction and observation offer strategies for speaking about our shifting place in an increasingly mediated world. Manchot has recently completed her first feature film, STEPHEN, commissioned by Liverpool Biennial. The film will premiere at Sheffield DocFest in June and is shown at the biennial as a multi-channel installation. She has also produced a new video commission for Urbane Künste Ruhr in Germany, where it is currently exhibited alongside a solo museum show.

Her work is held in many public collections and was recently presented in a major survey show at museum MAC/VAL, Paris. Manchot is represented by Parafin, London and Galerie m, Bochum.

Chair: Dr Allister Gall, Lecturer BA Filmmaking, University of Plymouth

Image credit: Melanie Manchot & STEPHEN Film Ltd

Host or Publisher The Arts Institute