This artist's talk was a first-person account of the excitements and difficulties of developing and sustaining a practice that bridges art-making, art writing, and the rest of life. It traced Black's experiences across a number of recent exhibition projects to consider the inspirations, relationships, and politics that anchor their practice.
Hannah Black's multifaceted practice follows the contour of her education. She trained as a dancer then read English Literature at Cambridge; she went to film school then switched to an MFA in Art Writing at Goldsmiths, London; and in 2014 she completed the Whitney Independent Study Programme, New York. Her literary, critical and artistic interests are diverse, bridging object-making, installation, performance, experimental writing, essayism, editorsip, and activism. This artist's talk will explore the connection between those experiences and interests.
Hannah Black interviewed about her solo exhibition 'The Context' at Chisenhale Gallery (London) in 2017 by Ellen Greig, discussing the show's centrepiece, 20,000 copies of a book of conversations about 'the situation'.
Artist's video work by Hannah Black, commissioned by the public art agency UP Projects in 2016.
A profile of Hannah Black by Jesse Darling, including a short questionnaire about her bakcground, published by Rhizome in 2015.
Hannah Black's review of the group exhibition 'Greif and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America', conceived by Okui Enwezor and staged posthumously at the New Museum (New York) in 2021, for 4 Columns .
Hannah Black interviewed by Larne Abse Gogarty, discussing writing, art, collectivism and revolution, published in the November 2020 issue of Art Monthly magazine.