Nick Jordan (artist)

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Nick Jordan
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Nick Jordan at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2017
Born (1967-07-28) 28 July 1967 (age 54)
Chigwell, Essex, England
NationalityBritish
Education
OccupationArtist
Websitenickjordan.info

Nick Jordan is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker based in Manchester, UK.[1] Jordan's work has been shown widely at international exhibitions and film festivals, including Innsbruck International Biennale (Austria); ICA (London); ; Musée du quai Branly (Paris); Whitstable Biennale; BFI London Film Festival; Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival; ; Portland International Film Festival; Haus der Kulturen (Berlin); State Darwin Museum (Moscow); Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival; São Paulo International Short Film Festival (Brazil); Kassel Dokfest (Germany); Documenta (Madrid).[2] Nick Jordan also works in a collaborative practice with fellow artist Jacob Cartwright, see Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan.

The artist's practice is cross-disciplinary, encompassing film, drawing, painting, photography, objects, publications and collaboration, and often explores the relationship between the natural world and social or cultural histories.[3]

Nick Jordan is the co-director of Between Two Rivers (2012)[4] – a feature-length documentary about the town of Cairo, Illinois. The film was awarded Best Film at Big Muddy Film Festival (2012) and River's Edge International Film Festival (2012)[5]

In 2017, Nick Jordan co-directed a mid-length feature documentary, Intentional Community, made in collaboration with artist Clara Casian. The film is a portrait of Braziers Park School of Integrative Social Research.

The artist's publications include Alien Invaders, published by Book Works, which takes the form of a guidebook to non-native species found in Britain, and the effects on native wildlife.[6]

Other publications include Some Mild Peril[7] (Castlefield Gallery, 2004);The Audubon Trilogy (Dedecus, 2010), a chapbook and series of short films drawn from the writings of 19th-century artist and frontiersman John James Audubon, following his escapades along the Ohio river and Mississippi river;[8] and Heaven, Hell and Other Places, a documentary on Emanuel Swedenborg, commissioned by The Swedenborg Society.[9]

Artist residences & commissioned projects include Headlands Center for the Arts, (San Francisco, USA); Thackray Museum of Medicine (UK); Arts & Heritage (UK); The National Trust (UK); The Manchester Museum, (UK); Book Works (London); LOCWS Art Across the City (Swansea); ICA (London); Art Gene (UK); British Society of Aesthetics (UK).

Filmography[]

(C&J = Cartwright & Jordan)

  • The Language of Hands, 2021
  • Rare Frequencies, 2020
  • Welcome to Metropolis, 2020 (C&J)
  • Natural Hosts, 2020
  • Wurstundgritzmitbrutti, 2020
  • Concrete Forms of Resistance, 2019
  • Kobbwebjar, 2018
  • Stratum, 2018 (C&J)
  • STRATA, 2018 (C&J)
  • Intentional Community: The Art of Living & the Science of Life, 2017 (co-director Clara Casian)
  • Thought Broadcasting, 2017
  • MERZMONGO, 2016
  • Last Acre, 2016 (C&J)
  • The Atom Station, 2015
  • The Emotions of Others, 2015 (C&J)
  • Off the Trail, 2015 (C&J)
  • Headlands Lookout, 2014 (C&J)
  • The Rising, 2014
  • Nature House Inc., 2013
  • Between Two Rivers, 2012 (C&J)
  • American Water, 2011 (C&J)
  • Monument to Swedenborg, 2010 (C&J)
  • Heaven, Hell and Other Places, 2010 (C&J)
  • Confluence, 2010 (C&J)
  • How the air feels to the birds, 2009
  • The Reapers, 2009 (C&J)
  • Cairo, 2009 (C&J)
  • West Point, 2008 (C&J)
  • New Madrid, 2008 (C&J)
  • How The Cutter Works, 2008
  • Eight Themes for the Golden Record, 2008 (C&J)
  • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown), 2007
  • Descriptions & Sketches of Some Remarkable Oaks, 2007 (C&J)
  • Let the user speak next, 2006
  • Prequel, 2006
  • William Carlos Williams, 2005
  • Edgar, 2005 (C&J)
  • Havanazephyr, 2005
  • Grubber, 2004 (C&J)
  • 12 Dogs, 2004
  • Notes on the Cinematograph, 2004
  • Highwater Everywhere Part 2, 2003
  • Fury, 2003
  • Hank Williams Setting The Woods On Fire, 2003
  • Another Road Movie, 2003
  • A Road Movie, 2003
  • Roused By My Epilepsy, 2003
  • Transistor Man, 2003

Notes[]

  1. ^ "Alien Invaders Brought To Book", Towle, Nick. South Manchester Reporter, 21 September 2006
  2. ^ "Film Material Soup"
  3. ^ "Strange and Wonderful" Sandhu, Sukhdev. New Statesman, 18 December 2006.
  4. ^ "Between Two Rivers". Retrieved 13 January 2012.
  5. ^ "Filmakers Library". Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  6. ^ "Alien Invaders review" The Guardian, Clee, Nicholas. 9 September 2006.
  7. ^ "Some Mild Peril"
  8. ^ "The Audubon Trilogy: Fugitive Narratives and the Drama of the Natural World" Jones, T.J, Carbondale Nightlife, July 2010
  9. ^ "Heaven, Hell and Other Places" Swedenborg Society.

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