Social Mobility and Beyond Language (MELANIE JACKSON‪)‬ ART FICTIONS

Guest artist MELANIE JACKSON joins artist JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her art practice via 'Corey Fah Does Social Mobility' by Isabel Waidner. Published in 2023 by Hamish Hamilton, part of Penguin Random House, the novel explores binaries, boundaries and borders, freeing us to imagine other ways of being within the context of award winning social mobility, cyclical history, and watching reality TV. 
MELANIE and Jillian's discussion encompasses shame, humility, apology, gratitude, wormholes, reconfigured animations, cultural disruption, synthetic biology, persistent amnesia, complicated truths, brutalist architecture, unsustained caretaking, industrial metaphysics, winged penises, synthetic biology, false blaming, clashing ideologies, idealistic social housing, nano scale engineering, vulvas on horseback, ridiculing the middle class, colonialisation of language, pig fat in ice cream, what art can do as an experience, and the way histories and future technologies bounce off one another.         
MELANIE JACKSON
@melanie.jjj
melaniejackson.net
'Rouge Flambé'   
'Deeper in the Pyramid | Share of Throat'
'Spekyng Rybawdy'
'The Urpflanze'
ARTISTS + CURATORS + ACADEMICS
Esther Leslie
Ezra Lloyd Jackson
Kirsten Cooke
Nicole Eisenman 'Bambi Gregor' 1993
Olukemi Lijadu
Pelumi Odubanjo
BOOKS + MAGAZINES + WRITERS
Brian Massumi 'What Animals Teach Us About Politics' 2014
Charles Darwin 'On the Origin of the Species' 1859
Eileen Myles 'Afterglow: A Dog Memoir' 2017
Franz Kafka 'The Metamorphosis' 1915
'Frieze' magazine
Goethe 'Die Urplanze' ('The Metamorphosis of Plants') 1829
Isabel Waidner ' Sterling Karat Gold' 2021
Jo Orton
John Lahr 'Prick Up Your Ears' 1978 (film 2007)
EXHIBITIONS + INSTITUTIONS
Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Banner Repeater, London
Block 336, London 'Spekyng Rybawdy' 2022
Grand Union, Birmingham
Matt's Gallery, London 'Mattflix'
Max Mara Prize
Jerwood Drawing Prize
San Mei Gallery, London 'Rouge Flambè' 2023
Wellcome Collection, London 'Living with Buildings' 2018-2019
Wellcome Collection, London 'Milk' 2023
Whitechapel Gallery, London
FILM + TELEVISION
'The Nasty Girl' 1990
'Top Boy' 2011-2023