SATURDAY CRIT
Museum of Internet, Tasneem Lohani, Magdalena Zoledz
Discussion panel based on 3 artworks

7 DEC 2020
Walthamstow, London

On the 7th of December, we staged a Saturday Crit and invited a few artists to show their artworks. Our goal was to controvert the idea of the crit, that is part of the training at Art Academy in the UK. We decided to organise a birthday party during which artists and the audience could feel more free and relaxed to discuss art away from academic structures.

The crit is a model of learning whereby artists present their work to a group in order to gain feedback on how that work is being 'read' and ways that they might develop it further. They are a part of almost every art course at further and higher level education throughout the UK (Rowles Sarah, “Art Crits: 20 Questions: a Pocket Guide: Featuring Interviews with UK Fine Art Staff on the Topic of the Art Crit”, 2013).

Museum of Internet (www, @) from 2012 to early 2019, Museum of Internet archived images that "make the internet awesome" on its Facebook page as curated content and on its website as user-uploaded content.

Tasneem Lohani (www, @) is an artist works with human interaction online such as text, voice, images, videos and GIFs. These mediums are capitalized by 'free' phone apps that promise us instantaneous responses feeding us the idea of a globally connected superfast utopia. The point we are at right now, seemingly online and available 24/7, raises questions of control, surveillance and decline in real-life human interactivity that is seriously affecting the Mental health of many. She works with the same mediums of voice recording, photography, video and GIF-making to understand their influence on the everyday human interaction online. She also makes ink and watercolour paintings and drawings on paper employing meditative mark-making. Exploring the psyche that is affected by the various obsessions of the post-internet world.

Magdalena Zoledz (www, @) born in 1989 in Poland is a post-photographer and PhD student at University of Arts in Poznan (PL) researching mainly the concept of post-photography. She works with text, photography, video and object. She experiments with the idea of the evolution of digital images often referring to posthumanism. Between 2018-2019 she was a visiting research PhD student at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Member of 280A (280a.org) and co-founder of ONE Project.