Freshers

Artist Book published by the Everyday Press, ISBN 978-1-912458-06-6

Freshers is the first project of Sigune Hamann’s residency working with perception and attention in Experimental Psychology, Oxford University in collaboration with neuroscientist Prof Kia Nobre and her students. Sigune Hamann explores how experimental treatment, physical handling and viewing of images test and shift perception of ourselves relating to others. In Freshers Hamann splits images and assembles them into interchanging narratives. The project continued in workshops with a photo-based record of students meeting, one to one, on their first college day at Oxford University, Waseda University, Tokyo and Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London between 2016-18.

Freshers exists both as an artist book and as a wall installation of 100 photographs recently showing in the solo exhibition Did you spot the Gorilla at the Barn Gallery, St John’s Oxford.

Fresher photographs have been exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, the Barn Gallery Oxford, the GLA gallery in Ritsumeikan University Kyoto Ibaraki and in semi-permanent installations both at Ratcliffe House and Anna Watts Modular Building, Oxford University.

The Teaching and Learning project Shared Language is closely linked to Freshers, applying methods of juxtaposition and one to one meetings. See Teaching and Learning Conference Camberwell College of Arts 2018. Shared Language is an experiment in teaching and learning at the meeting point of art, design and neuroscience by Sigune Hamann and Jonathan Kearney, Camberwell College of Arts, in collaboration with neuroscientists at Oxford University.

Book Launch and signing, The Photographers Gallery, Thursday 14 March 2019.

• http://www.theeverydaypress.net
• https://www.antennebooks.com
• https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/53...
• http://sharedlanguage.co.uk
• http://www.sigune.co.uk/selected-works/d...