Hi there,
The beginning of 2026 has been kind, with a few updates to share. I’m trialling this ‘quarterly reporting’ of my practice, in the hope it helps me keep momentum and scratches that itch of a regular newsletter. I will send this out in a little mailing list in case thats your bag, sign up here so they arrive in your inbox.
Back in March I met with Nina Davies, Rebecca Edwards and Niamh Schmidkte at TACO! to record an episode of the Future Artefacts radio show. I was their fourth guest in the mini series ‘as a chorus‘ where we spoke about bells, shared some interview snippets with my parents and put a spotlight on the world of change ringing. Learn more about the project so far here. Thank you to the wonderful team for having me on the show!
Last summer I was a selected participant for the Genshagen Summer Academy, a four-day residency that gathered 19 young professionals from France, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and several Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia) with a professional background in the fields of civic and history education, culture and arts education, remembrance work, memory culture or in artistic practice. Organised in partnership with the German Federal Agency for Civic Education, we attended workshops and lectures on connections between nature, art and memory, and project examples from various European countries. A publication of the academy is now available to view online here.
By the Means at Hand by Vlatka Horvat is in it’s final week at Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb. If you’re in the area be sure to check it out before it closes on 21st June. I was lucky enough to be an invited artist for the project, someone living “as a foreigner” in a different country, to make and send to a small artwork which in some way reflected on the experience of migration, of being a foreigner, of living in diaspora. Artworks traveled to Venice through informal transport networks such as friend’s bags or even strangers. Visit the exhibition and learn more about the project.
Courtesy Vlatka Horvat: By the Means at Hand – Croatian Pavilion at the 60th Venice
Biennale
Something from the archive…
Back at the end of 2024 I attended the book launch of ‘Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City’ by Rafael Schacter in Berlin at Pro qm. The chapter ‘Visibility and Invisibility ‘ gives mention to the Dazzle Club and includes an image from a dazzle walk in London. Its great to see our project in the book amongst so many interesting projects – you can get a copy at MIT Press or an independent bookshop. Learn more about the Dazzle Club.
Something I recommend…
When I was visiting London I saw Mary Ocher play at Servants Jazz Quarters – solid recommend with a really interesting article published in The Guardian about her practice and career was published on the same day!
Thats all for now, thanks for reading,
Emily
Emily Roderick 