Chloe Thorne

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Chloe Thorne is an Artist and Filmmaker. After graduating from Goldsmiths College, London, in 2011, with a BA in Art Practice she spent several years working on music videos for the likes of Little Simz, Stormzy, Dua Lipa, Hudson Mohawke, to name a few. In 2014 she joined Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival as a Programmer. In 2015 she attended the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, for a Chapter on Animism, interested in the relationship between colonialism and modernism. In 2017 she joined Forensic Architecture as full-time filmmaker and researcher working on the 2018 Turner Prize exhibition The Long Duration of a Split Second as well as Triple-Chaser at the 2019 Whitney Biennial, among others. In 2020 she took a position lecturing, attaining her PGCHE as well as becoming an Advance HE fellow. In 2023 she joined the Performance Studies department at NYU Tisch as an MA candidate, where she also worked as a researcher on the exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration and in 2024 was elected Union Rep for GSOC. She has also worked as a support worker and holds a Care Certificate specialising in work with autistic adults.

Title of Project:

Plotted Bodies: Moving through the fault lines of representation.

Project Description:

Stemming from fairly recent personal experiences this project seeks a more expanded understanding of what violence can be. Feeling that it is too often that one can find themselves surrounded by the slogans and pretence of “good” politics; while clearly still witnessing harm, I claim this disconnect can be in part understood by looking at the insidious economy of representation.  Pulling from the political-theological tradition that runs through the works of Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben, The Radical Black Tradition, most notably Nahum Chandler, David Lloyd and Fred Moten, as well as Disability Studies, this project looks at how practices of historical-political storytelling can offer new modes of aesthetic experience that have the potential to reconnect us to the needs of the larger social field.

Areas of Academic Interest/Research:

Historical-political storytelling, Social Movements, Aesthetics, Art, Experimental Music, Disability Studies, Anti-Colonial Thought, Love.