A Multispecies Red-Light District for Amsterdam: A Propositional Image

Tina O'Connell is an Irish artist based in London. Following a masters in fine art, Chelsea College of Art, London, Les Beaux Art de Marseilles, France, and as recipient of the Henry Moore Fellowship in Sculpture, she developed works that examined the nature of permanence, stability, and materials associated with public sculpture, before working with a range of nonsculptural materials, from bitumen to light. Her investigations and material inquiry remain grounded in key themes of deconstruction, temporal decay, and, of late, anthropogenic noise. She cocurated Perfect Nature in Amstelpark (2022), which linked with the residency at Nieuw en Meer / Zone2source in Amsterdam with Neal White. Their findings were first presented as part of The Soil Assemblies (Kochi Biennale, India, 2023) as part of a wider project that explores the long terms impact of anthropogenic noise (human pollution) through media including film, sculpture, and performance based investigations. She is currently an associate professor in art at the University of Reading.

Neal White is an artist whose experiments, fieldwork, and practice use a range of digital/traditional visual media. In his work with performance, digital installation, and imaging, he has explored subjects ranging from self-experimentation to secrecy, creating epistemic things and experimental institutions, shaped by conceptual inquiries that explore our contemporary relationship to converging landscapes of nature, science, and technology. White has an international exhibition record, including solo and collaborative projects at Amstelpark, Amsterdam, Venice Biennale of Architecture, Kunsthalle Trondheim, Royal College of Art, Portikus, Frankfurt, and Henry Moore Institute, amongst others. He works closely with artist Tina O'Connell and Office of Experiments and is currently professor of art / science at University of Westminster, where he is also a director of CREAM (cream.ac.uk). He cocurates with the international collective, The Soil Assembly, featured recently at Kochi Muziris Biennale, 2023 (soilassembly.net).