Passages : Andrea G Artz

Video screenings:

Session One 13 September 2025 Saturday 4:30pm (+ artist’s talk)
Session Two 13 September Saturday 6:30pm (+ artist’s talk)
Session Three 14 September Sunday 3:30 pm
Session Four 14 September Sunday 5pm

£8 for sessions with artist’s talk and £5 for other sessions | 8 places only per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets


Running Time : 30 minutes approximately

This is an exhibition of a series of video work by Andrea G. Artz that were created during the period of 2020 to 2025.

For the artist’s talk, Andrea will speak about the progression of her artistic practice — from analogue works to immersive digital scenarios. She will share insights into her inspirations, working processes, and methodologies, concluding with a presentation of selected analogue pieces that laid the groundwork for her digital explorations.

The screenings will be showing the following pieces and more…

Video Still from The Forest of Query, video, virtual reality experience, 2020

The Forest of Query (2020)
HD Video with sound. Duration : 5 min 28 sec. Sound design and composition by Hutch Demouilpied. This piece of work was developed for a solo exhibition at the Foyer, School of Design, University of Leeds and with the help of an Arts Council England DYCP grant. 

Visitors embark on a journey through a beautiful yet apocalyptic winter forest, home to creatures that are part human, part beast, and part mythological, transcending any specific race or gender. The Forest of Query is a timeless setting that could exist in either the past or future, emerged after a period of climate change or a nuclear disaster. This narrative was developed in collaboration with writer Veronica B., while the visuals draw inspiration from Caspar David Friedrich’s romantic and surreal landscape paintings, as well as an artist residency in a remote studio within the dark winter forest at the MacDowell Colony of the Arts in Peterborough, NH.

Why is Improvising Important : Caroline Kraabel [Upcoming]

Session One Friday 19 December 2025 6:00pm
Session Two Saturday 20 December 2025 4:30pm

£8 | 8 places only per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets

Lecture with demonstrations. Duration : approximately one hour

Photo by Tom Ward

“What we know is constrained by interpretive frameworks, which, of course, limit our thinking: what we can know will be determined by the kinds of questions we learn to ask.”

Michelle Z. Rosaldo[1]

Improvising is something we all do in life, to a greater or lesser extent, and also in art and music… but wittingly or not we may fall into unhelpful or limiting patterns in our improvising – what are they and how could we avoid them?

Some creators adopt improvisation as one strategy among many; for others it becomes the primary focus of their practice. What is the relationship between improvisation and control? Which comes first, awareness or improvisation?

What does it mean to give oneself over completely to improvisation? Is it even possible to do so? What does it require  of us, and where does it get us? How may we use it to extend our selves and break open our assumptions around what we think we know about art, about our own identities and those of others, and about how we relate to each other?

If we don’t continually attempt this, what happens to our improvising?

This talk draws on Kraabel’s work-in-progress, ‘If it works, stop. If it doesn’t work, do it again’, a long text on improvisation.