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Fine Art Photography
Glasgow
School of Fine Art

Silke Zapp Sermon

7 Trees

Multi-Channel Video, Sound Design: Otis Jordan, Additional Sounds Dexter Stokes Mellor. Germany, 2020. 23.73 seconds, is the fastest time any known person has run between these 7 trees in Bleckede. 

23.73 Sekunden ist die schnellste Zeit, die je ein Mensch zwischen diesen 7 Baumen in Bleckede gelaufen ist.

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Findings (wip)

360 Video, 2020, Scotland. Trying to find play during self-isolation.

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Reed Thicket

Single Channel Video, 2020, Germany.

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Movement Development

Sketchbook pages, Development through movement and intuitive play, 2020, Bleckede. My method of making is a reaction to the outdoors. When encountering natural formations, they inspire me to use my body as a player, the slanted tree turned into the proscenium arch of a theatre, calling for action beneath.

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Running

Sketchbook page, Bleckede 2020. Development through running, the reeds acted as visual instrument, the sound and the fragility of the plant became the play-element.

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(up)rooted

, Single-channel video from project, A Ludic Journey, 2019, Scotland. Trying to find ground, whilst playing amongst roots.

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Alternative Guide for Walking

Pages from Publication made in Collaboration with Jess Hay, Sofie Keller and Rosie Trevill. 2020, Scotland. A publication documenting a walk between Arrochar and Inveruglas. The work is photographic and written, produced both independently and collaboratively. Landscape has often been seen as a place for conquer, dominance and physical strength, this publication challenges these ideals, reverting the stereotypes and using walking and landscape as a safe space for conversation and free making. Veering away from the path is not just advised but encouraged. Four visual practitioners in collaboration, focusing on the outdoors as a space to discuss identity politics, and community-based making.

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As a Graduating student at the Glasgow School of Art, I would like to state my support for the Pause or Pay campaign. Please read the manifesto here: http://www.pauseorpayuk.org

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Perception of space and the pervasiveness of play go hand in hand within my work, play is my methodology, my navigational tool through spaces, converting them into heterotopic playgrounds. I aim to observe and understand our environment as a player, mapping a playful exploration of it. Changing space into place, creating a familiarity with the surrounding landscapes through motion. And only through these motions can the connection occur. Exploring environments through non-normative actions, following my intuition beyond my instinctual caution. With video being my story-telling device, a method to communicate though sculptural sign language as a creative outlet; devising abstract performances for the camera based on adventurous tendencies, which we all possess within us. My installations aim to create immersive spaces, where viewers are encapsulated and can embark on a ludic journey. In the hope that people leave considering the spaces around them, and ask how can they be re-defined? Playgrounds are all around us, it is only our inhibitions that stop us from noticing them.

Throughout my time at GSA I have been trying to experience the outdoors as a non-normative space for play. During the abrupt end to our studies and the journey through this global crisis, I have been focusing on the body and movement, finding new ways to interact with the environment. In this contemplative state, movement within space has now become peoples only exploration, finding new ways of making, connecting and inhabiting it. Now that all spaces are non-normative, play can be found in any space, both digital and natural.

sermonsilke@gmail.com

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7 Trees

Multi-Channel Video, Sound Design: Otis Jordan, Additional Sounds Dexter Stokes Mellor. Germany, 2020. 23.73 seconds, is the fastest time any known person has run between these 7 trees in Bleckede. 

23.73 Sekunden ist die schnellste Zeit, die je ein Mensch zwischen diesen 7 Baumen in Bleckede gelaufen ist.

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Findings (wip)

360 Video, 2020, Scotland. Trying to find play during self-isolation.

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Reed Thicket

Single Channel Video, 2020, Germany.

This item is for sale, please contact for more information.

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Movement Development

Sketchbook pages, Development through movement and intuitive play, 2020, Bleckede. My method of making is a reaction to the outdoors. When encountering natural formations, they inspire me to use my body as a player, the slanted tree turned into the proscenium arch of a theatre, calling for action beneath.

This item is for sale, please contact for more information.

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Running

Sketchbook page, Bleckede 2020. Development through running, the reeds acted as visual instrument, the sound and the fragility of the plant became the play-element.

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(up)rooted

, Single-channel video from project, A Ludic Journey, 2019, Scotland. Trying to find ground, whilst playing amongst roots.

This item is for sale, please contact for more information.

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Alternative Guide for Walking

Pages from Publication made in Collaboration with Jess Hay, Sofie Keller and Rosie Trevill. 2020, Scotland. A publication documenting a walk between Arrochar and Inveruglas. The work is photographic and written, produced both independently and collaboratively. Landscape has often been seen as a place for conquer, dominance and physical strength, this publication challenges these ideals, reverting the stereotypes and using walking and landscape as a safe space for conversation and free making. Veering away from the path is not just advised but encouraged. Four visual practitioners in collaboration, focusing on the outdoors as a space to discuss identity politics, and community-based making.

This item is for sale, please contact for more information.

View Slideshow

As a Graduating student at the Glasgow School of Art, I would like to state my support for the Pause or Pay campaign. Please read the manifesto here: http://www.pauseorpayuk.org