Keynote Speakers

Tracy Hill

Tracy Hill is a visual artist and research associate at Artlab CPS. Through expanded print, installation works and collaborative art projects Hill’s practice explores the historical legacy of post-industrial landscapes, our forgotten understanding, lost relationships and connection to place. Perceptions of mapping, digital navigation connect with a modern obsession for locating, ordering and fragmenting our experiences. 

Combinations of print, installation and hand drawn imagery visualise the possibility of collaboration between disciplinary fields, inviting new perspectives to encounters with liminal landscapes. Disrupted and reimagined Hill’s images require a visual and cognitive attention intrinsic to walking occupying the place where our digital and physical worlds overlap.

Rodrigo Arteaga

Rodrigo Arteaga completed an MFA in Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London in 2018; Bachelor in Fine Arts with a major in Printmaking at Universidad de Chile in 2010 where he also did a Degree in Printmaking in 2012.

His practice moves between installation, sculpture, drawing and sound. His work deals with the complex relationship between nature, culture and representation. His interest in working across different areas of thought has led him to collaborate with specialists in fields such as Microbiology, Bio-Fabrication, Mycology, Natural History, Botany, and Architecture. His work often deals with the complexities between human and non-human relations, unearthing the coded enigmas of our relationship with the environment. 
STATE OF PRINT: STATE POEM (Part 1)

PRINT
IS HERE,
PRINT IS THERE,
PRINT IS COMMON, PRINT IS RARE

PRINT IS DIRTY, PRINT IS CLEAN, PRINT IS SOOTHING, PRINT IS MEAN
PRINT IS CRUDE, PRINT IS COOL, PRINT TO QUESTION, PRINT TO RULE
PRINT TO LISTEN, PRINT TO HEAR, PRINT TO KNOW, PRINT TO FEAR
PRINT FOR LOVE, PRINT FOR HATE, PRINT FOR HOPE, PRINT FOR FATE

PRINTED BORDERS, PRINTED MONEY, PRINT IS HARD, PRINT IS FUNNY
PRINT TO CONQUER, PRINT TO SCHEME, PRINT TO COPY, PRINT TO DREAM
PRINT TO PLAN, PRINT TO EARN, PRINT TO RIDE, PRINT TO LEARN
PRINTED PAPERS, PRINTED TOOLS, PRINTED STATEMENTS, PRINTED RULES

PRINTED MAPS, PRINTED LAWS, PRINTED NEWS, PRINTED SCORES
PRINT TO WONDER, PRINT TO MUSE, PRINT TO READ, PRINT TO CHOOSE
PRINTED ORDERS, PRINTED TRUCKS, PRINTED COMICS, PRINTED BOOKS
PRINT FOR CHURCH, PRINT FOR CROOKS, PRINT FOR MONARCHS, PRINT FOR LOOKS

PRINTED JARGON, PRINTED TRUTH, PRINTED LIBEL, PRINTED PROOF
PRINT IS CROOKED, PRINT IS STRAIGHT, PRINT IS SEVEN, PRINT IS EIGHT
PRINT IS BIG, PRINT IS SMALL, PRINT IS SHORT, PRINT IS TALL
PRINT IS SMOOTH, PRINT IS ROUGH , PRINT IS GENTLE, PRINT IS TOUGH

PRINTED VIEW, PRINTED SCENE, PRINT IS FAT, PRINT IS LEAN
PRINT TO CHARGE, PRINT TO TOIL, PRINT TO ACTION, PRINT TO FOIL
PRINT TO SHOUT, PRINT TO PAY, PRINT TO SANCTION, PRINT TO SAY
PRINT IS SEEN, PRINT IS HEARD, PRINTED SENTENCE, PRINTED WORD

PRINTED BEAUTY, PRINTED FACTS, PRINT PROPOSES, PRINT REACTS
PRINTED LABELS, PRINTED TAGS, PRINTED CIRCUITS, PRINTED BAGS
PRINT IS BLIND, PRINT WITH CARE, PRINT IS BIASED, PRINT IS FAIR
PRINT IS HAPPY, PRINT IS SAD, PRINT IS GOOD, PRINT IS BAD

PRINT IS SOMETHING, PRINT IS NOT, PRINT REMEMBERED, PRINT FORGOT
PRINTED SEX, PRINTED GENES, PRINTED ICONS, PRINTED MEMES
PRINT FOR YES, PRINT FOR NO, PRINT ABOVE, PRINT BELOW
PRINTED POEMS, PRINTED TALES, PRINT IS FICTION, PRINT IS REAL

PRINT TO FOLLOW, PRINT TO LEAD, PRINTED TITLE, PRINTED DEED
PRINT TO SAVOUR, PRINT TO SHOCK, PRINT TO MELLOW, PRINT TO ROCK
PRINT TO HOLD, PRINT TO BIND, PRINT TO LOOSE, PRINT TO FIND
PRINT TO HIDE, PRINT TO SEE, PRINT IS PRICELESS, PRINT IS FREE

PRINTING PROCESS, PRINTING SKILL, PRINTING KNOWLEDGE, PRINT UNTILL
PRINTING FUTURES, PRINT THE PAST, PRINT THE FIRST, PRINT THE LAST
PRINT REJECT, PRINT APPEASE, PRINT FORGIVENESS, PRINT TO EASE
PRINT YOUR THOUGHTS, PRINT YOUR RIGHTS, PRINTED DEPTHS, PRINTED HEIGHTS

PRINT IS ANARCHY, PRINT DISORDER, PRINT IS SYSTEM, PRINT RECORDER
PRINT TO CHALLENGE, PRINT FOR CHANGE, PRINT SPECIFICS, PRINT FOR RANGE
PRINTED LEFT, PRINTED RIGHT, PRINT IS HEAVY, PRINT IS LIGHT
PRINTED CHAOS, PRINTED ORDER, PRINT SEDITION, PRINT MARAUDER

PRINTED IMAGE, PRINTED TYPE, PRINTED PICTURE, PRINTED HYPE
PRINTED PATTERN, PRINTED RHYME, PRINTED POSTER, PRINTED SIGN
PRINTED HAND, PRINTED MARK, PRINT IS LIGHT, PRINT IS DARK
PRINT IS NEW, PRINT IS OLD, PRINT IS HOT, PRINT IS BOLD

PRINT TO WHISPER, PRINT TO YELL, PRINT TO BUILD, PRINT TO FELL
PRINT TO GROW, PRINT TO MAKE, PRINT TO LAYER, PRINT TO FAKE
PRINT IN JUDGEMENT, PRINT CONTROL, PRINTED SECTION, PRINTED WHOLE
PRINT SUCCESS, PRINTED FLOP, PRINT TO START, PRINT TO STOP

PRINT TO SHOW, PRINT TO TELL, PRINT TO ORDER, PRINT TO SELL
PRINT TO KNOW, PRINT TO PLEASE, PRINT TO LIE, PRINT TO TEASE
PRINTED STORIES, PRINTED CHAT, PRINT IS ROUND, PRINT IS FLAT
PRINT TO RISE, PRINT TO FALL, PRINT FOR ONE, PRINT FOR ALL

PRINT IS LOWLY, PRINT IS GREAT,
PRINT IS LEGAL,
PRINT IS
STATE

STATE OF PRINT

The Ministry of SOP invite you to participate in this new phase in the evolution of the State. An event that further explores the notion of contested spaces – and one that seems all the more poignant in the current climate. The State Of Print is a proposition; it is an evolving visual declaration initiated by a collective of artists beguiled and amused at the catastrophe of current social and political thinking and the comedy of established systems of governance.

The artists have therefore elected to cast adrift on a nonsense of their own (print)making—a makeshift non-geographical region built upon a fluid statute of ink and a constitutional raft of recycled cardboard. The intention has been to explore the current state of nations through the proposition that everything that formalises a nation state is printed—currency, maps, laws, passports, governance, news and information, cultures, doctrines and communications and so on… At a time when the current state of nation power globally is inflexible and dogmatic, this project provides a creative and theoretical antidote to the current paradigm.

The State was founded during a residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Monaghan, Ireland, in October 2016 and has since been manifest in a variety of forms and a series of locations. These have included Dundee, Aberdeen, Santander (Impact 10), Barcelona, Norwich, Preston, Cork, Limerick and most recently, presented online at the Impact 11 Conference, Hong Kong. The state has expanded at each manifestation to incorporate an increasing range of artworks and artefacts produced by the initial founders and an incrementally increasing number of contributing artists who have elected to become citizens of the state – and currently number over 100.

These artefacts include not only the documentary material such as photographs, films, recordings, and reviews of the series of performative events/exhibitions but also the artefacts of the state such as printed currency, passports, flags, maps, ceremonial medals newspapers and public information material. Additional items also include cultural artefacts such as the, National Costume, National Anthem and Eurovision entry as well as games and animations based on state myths. This material is currently being reconfigured and accessioned into the State Archives of the State Museum – to be published in the near future.

STATE OF PRINT will be opening the 2022 IMPACT International Printmaking Conference in Bristol with a ‘Twinning Ceremony’, followed by an exhibition/event at the Old Fire Station. The Ministry of SOP invites the IMPACT 12 audience to participate in this new phase in the evolution of the State. An event that further explores the notion of contested spaces – and one that seems all the more poignant in the current climate.

STATE OF PRINT Artists: Paul Liam Harrison, Catherine Hehir, Scott Hudson, Noelle Noonan
Please download the Issuu document here.