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history
Susan Kelly is an artist and researcher who develops performances and interventions that look at the relationship between practice, movement and space. From 1998- 2001, Kelly lived and worked in New York, where she developed an archival project called ‘Supposing a State’ in the Lower East Side as part of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Programme. She also took part in the World Trade Centre’s 91st floor studio residency and the Sixteen Beaver Street Collective. Kelly’s work has been included in exhibitions at Art in General and the Kent-Gallery New York, The Brewster Project, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s World Views exhibition at the City Museum of Skopje, Macedonia and the Lenin Museum, Tampere Finland. She is currently working towards a PhD at Goldsmith’s College in London. UK.
project
Beside her writings for the Amorph catalogue Kelly will execute a piece titled »LOBBY«. A tent will attach itself onto the embassies of each micro-state at different times. It will operate as a kind of ante-chamber or lobby (a place to lobby as well as an entry way) to the state authorities. The tent will operate as a space of questioning, of negotiation, where intimate one-on-one meetings with micro-state officials can be held. It will be a place to make petitions for your particular interests and needs.
Inside will be one small table and two chairs and a large notebook with pens. I will initially prepare a series of petitions for each state and request meetings with various characters and officials. I will offer to petition on other people’s behalf and open the lobby up to whoever else would like to use it.
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