SHORT BIO
Jordan Rowe (he/him) is a writer, curator and researcher on urban culture and rural identities with a particular interest in
institutions and placemaking. His co-curated exhibition ‘Doors of Learning: Microcosms of a Future South Africa’ opened at the Bauhaus Dessau in 2022 and an accompanying publication will be released on Spector Books in the summer of 2023. He was a member of the 2022 Constellations ° Cohort of Public Art Practitioners, a socially engaged curatorial development programme run by UP Projects, Flat Time House and the Liverpool Biennial. Jordan has previously served as the first ever Urbanist in Residence at the Museum of London, as a fellow at ZK/U Berlin, and as the manager of UCL’s Urban Laboratory. Recently based between London and Berlin, he has staged exhibitions and worked in various capacities with the Folkestone Triennial, Whitechapel Gallery, Stanley Arts, the ICA, Open City Documentary Festival, British Film Institute, De La Warr Pavilion, ICA, Somerset House, Free Word, and the University of Manchester. He is a regular contributor to talks, panels, roundtables and crits on the creative city, situated practices, night spaces, gentrification, the urban essay film, and queer urbanisms.
PROPOSED WORK
Coastal Narratives is an emerging project by urban researcher and curator Jordan Rowe, documenting a journey along the full length of the English coastline. The 2,700-mile hike of the partially completed England Coast Path is an attempt to understand shifting notions of English nationalism using walking as a methodology, and more broadly to consider 'Blackness' across a diversity of rural, littoral and urban landscapes. The residency at BKN is intended to refine the project’s goals and intended outputs through comparative research and collaborative conversation with other practitioners. In particular, I will focus my research on harassment and hostility in (White) European rural spaces, and work originating from the increasingly populated field of Black rurality studies.
Studio: 1
Dates: October 2-31
#1 Arsläjans loop
My first walk at BKN was a collective visit to the quarry and nature reserve at Arsläjans.
There's a deep joy in sharing a walk, but I always have an itch for the freedom of a solo walk. On our way back to BKN, I quietly diverge from the path and head indirectly towards Simpnas. Once there, i take the bus back to BKN.
#2 Night Lake
Can this slither of a walk be considered equal to those of greater distance?
I fell asleep on the rocks in tempeatures close to freezing. When i woke up, half of the group was gone.
#3 Night Lake
Can this slither of a walk be considered equal to those of greater distance?
I fell asleep on the rocks.
#4
Can this slither of a walk be considered equal to those of greater distance?
I fell asleep on the rocks.
#5 Mini-Sweden
I found myself unable to commit to collective walks on a regular basis whilst I was at BKN.
A completey unintenional shape came about. Led by Gerhard for the first half of the walk, three of us diverged towards the end, and found ourselves re-creating a similar geographic shape to the country we were in. We are a little bit top-heavy, but it's not bad going for a completley unintentional situation.
#6 Arholma North
I found myself unable to commit to collective walks on a regular basis whilst I was at BKN Can this slither of a walk be considered equal to those of greater distance?
I fell asleep on the rocks.
