This edition of The Conch brings together presentations by artists Aoibheann Greenan, Raheel Khan, Aniela Piasecka.

Aniela Piasecka will test a performance in development that frames space, light and movement in relation to audiences.

Aoibheann Greenan is developing their research into the seduction of the digital and how this connects to art making for a new commission using movement-responsive digital images.

Raheel Khan presents texts that explore language, listening and loss as he works towards a new commission working with sound.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Aoibheann Greenan is an Irish artist and resident of Somerset House Studios, London, whose work spans moving image, performance, installation, sculpture, costume and drawing. Her elaborate stagings pull at the seams of our commodified experiences to imagine alternate forms of connection. Aoibheann’s work has been presented at Tate Modern, Raven Row, The KW Institute, IMMA, Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar Gallery, EVA International, New Contemporaries and Film London’s Selected Program. She is a co-founder of artist collective East London Cable, and the founder of Rodeo Oracle, a coaching & mentoring platform for artists and creatives.

Raheel Khan (b.1992, Nottingham, UK) is an artist and musician exploring the space between sound, installation and performance. Originally a student of Economics, Khan’s practice archives fleeting moments in time that would otherwise get lost, stolen or removed. Khan finds and redefines language using the tools of the past to refer to the present. His presentations observe the tension between secular & non-secular spaces and their effects on transnationalism, cultural infrastructure & future policy. Khan often abstracts this through a framework he describes as: machine, devotion and the acoustic.

Selected exhibitions include Lisson Gallery & The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London (2024) Longsight Community Art Space, Manchester (2024), Deptford X, London (2023) Ovada Gallery, Oxford (2023), Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (2022), Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh (2022), FACT, Liverpool (2021). Selected performances and talks have taken place at Cromwell Place, London (2024), Ormside Projects, London (2024), University of Bergen, Norway (2024) Studio/Chaple (2024) Audiograft Festival, Oxford (2023), Attenborough Centre for Contemporary Art, Brighton (2023), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022), Tramway Gallery, Glasgow (2021), Manchester International Festival, Manchester (2021). Khan was recently awarded the Almacantar studio residency & bursary for his MFA degree show at Goldsmiths in 2024, as well as the Lisson Gallery and Aziz Foundation scholarships to start his MFA in 2022.

Aniela Piasecka works with choreography, text, film, and installation. They have presented work in visual art contexts (CAPC Bordeaux, Bergen Kunsthall, CCA) and performance contexts (Dansehallerne Close Encounters, Dance International Glasgow, Merchant City Festival).

They tend to favour collective creation and participation, working as part of performance collaboration STASIS, as one half of the duo Proudfoot & Piasecka, and with other artists such as Myriam Lefkowitz, Leonie Rae Gasson, Aby Watson and Ailie Ormston. Using the notion of psychogeography as a point of departure, works often delve into the relationality between bodies and the space/s they occupy engaging with crip queer feminist theory.