Projects

 

2014 'Cube - A Hybrid Gift Package/Crate'

Public Art​ 

Hull and East Riding -Yorkshire UK

Swerving East 

 

Multiple sculpture trail design and concept. Research, design concept, models and touring exhibition.

The concept developed was a hybrid cube; a design mix of gift packaging and wooden packing crates. These crates were used across 1000’s of years of trade through the Humber, Hull Port, the river Hull and the coast of East Riding. Bringing curious cargoes, both essential and desirable, gift cubes will give the viewer and the 70 other public and artist creators the same sense of curiosity and excitement. 

 

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2010-Ongoing  ‘Recall’ Film architectural projections with microscopic art works, sound and film, Lottery funded through Arts Council England. Patron funded Point Source 

 

A 45-minute film of object memories with the object fragments revealing a wider story of location, place and time. The investigation unpicks the objectʼs story and journey from the past to present with information collected from the historian and contributor when the fragment is taken.  “Each sample has an inherent memory that my ʻstolenʼ fragment contains. This memory is still contained in its physical structure and worn influences of time. Those fragments, touched by the original owner, have absorbed their own story ready to be released through these processes” - Seran Kubisa.

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2011 Treasure Island Project Designs for seafront landscapes and gardens CABE bid 

 

2010 ‘Mystères des Mémoires’ Winning Laureate Commission

 

Cave Installation with sound and fragment village forensic investigation, Mid-Pyrenees, France. Installation materials: wood, beams, florescent lighting, LED’s, UV, lenses, gold & silver leaf, Perspex, pigments, glitter, rice, paint and transparent household materials.

 

2007-2011 ʻTreasure Island: A Forensic Investigation of a Cityʼ Arts Council and SEEDA Arts + Development and Final Award for Innovation. Public art

 

This investigation and public art project led to large-scale projection work, the film 'Recall', exhibitions, installations and designs for the public realm. It involved 250 people, 12 organisations and 6 historians. A social dissection of a city through five years of investigations and 160 microscopic artworks created through the use of fine art approaches combined with new technology. This consititutes one of the largest innovative archives in the U.K. The investigated artefacts range from 1545 to 20th Century. 204 artefacts were catalogued and fragments collected. The aged fragment is scientifically analysed for fluorescence a discovery Kubisa made working with science in her Leverhulme Trust residency revealing physical worn influences as it fluoresces excited by the laser beam. This allows resonances of the past to seep into the analysis and creative process. 200 archives can be viewed on www.cityforensics.comwith interactive ‘collecting memories pages’. 

 

Partners: Portsmouth City Council. Development Award - £10,000 and Final Award - £50,000; Project Patron - £25.000; Historians - support in kind.

 

2008 The installation ‘Sacred Eight’ with ‘Collecting memories’ at Portsmouth Cathedral

 

Installation of 8 human scale steel tombs set in the Cathedral's architecture. A site specific respose from the artworks and archives of ‘Treasure Island: A Forensic Investigation of a City’. Perspex, gels, gold & silver leaf and innovative materials of household items, crystals, rice on steel light box systems. materials: florescent lighting, LED’s, UV, lenses, Perspex, pigments, glitter, rice and paint. The microscopic artworks were projected onto the interior architecture. 

 

‘Collecting memories’ used steel box systems with colour gels and salt allowing you to draw directly with the salt crystals. Salt used as it is a component of chemicals in the brain which allows memory function.

 

Voted for best exhibition 2008 in the southern England by the public. Funded by Portsmouth City Council. 

 

2001-2002 Leverhulme Trust Residency Award. School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton Neuroscience.

 

Observing regular presentations, internal research meetings and methodoloy of science technology.  Experimentaion with the confocal laser microscope to explore samples of differing ages revealing structures of objects from an normally inaccesible world. Discovery of florescence present in aged samples which is excited by the laser beam of the microscope producing a high data stunning image. This led directly to the use of this technology in the development of new work in the public realm (see: 'Treasure Island'). The investigations into neuroscience influenced new work in technology, paintings, light sculptures and installations. Art and science workshops were delivered in London and the South influencing new educational strategies. *The Times and The Times Education features.

 

1996 Southern Arts Award - ‘Oscillations’- Quay Arts Centre

 

A performance collaboration with writer/poet- Harriet Kline, dancer/choreographer- Eckhard Thiemann and musician - Henley Smith reinterpreting Kubisa’s solo exhibition ‘Champagne supernova’.