HO.RR: Holly O'Brien
& Rachael Ryder

 

HO.RR (Holly O’Brien & Rachael Ryder)

Residency period: June – August 2022

HO.RR (est 2021) is the collaborative practice of curators Holly O’Brien and Rachael Ryder, based in Glasgow. HO.RR seeks to bring engaging and accessible moving image initiatives to communities in Glasgow. These moving image initiatives take form in screening events, film workshops, performance-based workshops, community-led engagement, and panel talks. 

Their residency at Studio Pavilion aims to be a critical space to develop a future programme and to carry out HO.RR’s collaborative, community-embedded practice on a public-facing stage. The residency will be a hub of research and activity, encompassing three main elements:

  1. Research Lab: the SHEDS working space as a place of collective research, conversation and communal working. They will construct a visual research map for their four chosen constituencies, tracking their evolving programme of films and research into participatory methods.
  2. Test Site: a series of experimental engagement events for target groups within the public, visiting audiences, and peer practitioners, playing with various modes of display and interaction for critical feedback.
  3. Pop-up Screening: a short screening programme as a final event, presenting their research in a film produced on the site.

Please check our events page for upcoming events as part of their residency.

Holly Rose O’Brien is freelance curator and researcher based in Glasgow. With a background in literature, her practice focuses on alternative modes of storytelling, artists’ writing practice, the potential of language, and fiction as a vehicle for uncovering buried histories and archives. Her research explores archives, ephemeral public art and lens-based media as tools for a sustainable socially engaged practice. O’Brien is part of the curatorial duo HO.RR and is a committee member for Strange Field in Glasgow. In 2021, she graduated with a MLitt (Distinction) in Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) at Glasgow School of Art, and later that year attended the Interdisciplinary Residency at Hospitalfield. Her independent curatorial projects include a thing that remembers itself (2021), To a Passer-by (2020) and research project, Due Chiacchiere (ongoing). She has also worked as a freelance curator for Tramway TV co-curated a two-part showcase of work from Glasgow School of Art graduates and The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery.

Rachael Ryder (b.1994) is a visual artist and curator from Dublin. Her practice is socially-engaged, specifically centring around community engagement via lens-based media. Her research explores how lived experiences: specifically class, culture, and heritage, can be examined as a methodological approach to community initiatives. She holds an MLitt in Curatorial Practice (distinction), 2021, and a BFA in Fine Art Sculpture (1:1), 2016. Recent curatorial projects include Would You Like to Get to Know me? (2021) Glasgow, and The Tradeston Project (2020). Her film Gestures will be screened as part of the online exhibition for the Glasgow Open Doors Festival 2022.