CAMP Research Residency

 

Gabrielle Hoad & Megan Calver | Clouded Border work in progress | 2022

I am immensely grateful to have been awarded - with Megan Calver - the latest CAMP Research Residency. It gives us the opportunity to research the lesser-known experimental work of Alec Harley Reeves (1902-1971) as a basis for inventing new ways to tune into hidden signals in the landscape.

Reeves was a brilliant engineer, a pioneer of digital communications and the inventor of a World War II radio navigation system known as Oboe. But he also devised many practical experiments to investigate psychic phenomena. We hope to use these experiments as a cue for making our own actions and sculptural interventions that invite dialogue with the more than human.

We discovered Reeves last year while working at Durlston Country Park in Swanage on our exhibition Clouded Border. The CAMP residency means we can dig deeper into the archives and make contact with people and sites closely associated with Reeves’ legacy.

We will be supported by a Critical Friend, Kate Paxman and will be holding an end of residency sharing event in April, date and venue to be confirmed.

This work is supported by the CAMP Research Residency. CAMP is a member-led support and professional development network for artists, arts producers, curators and arts writers in Devon and Cornwall www.camp-membership.org