Loren Hansi Gordon is a writer, art curator and designer fascinated by things that connect us, as humans. She is Storytelling & Strategic Comms Consultant at FutureGov, a change agency, on a mission to build 21st-century public sector organisations that are catalysts for change in the internet and climate era.
Hansi’s upcoming exhibition Laced: an exploration of love, labour and liberty will open at New Art Exchange, Nottingham in Autumn 2021. Between 2016-20 Hansi founded and ran Future Assembly, a platform for artists’ development and experimentation that includes a residency, commissioning and exhibitions. Her other recent projects and collaborations include: (Interim) Programme and Digital Content Manager at the Stuart Hall Foundation (2019); co-curating UNTITLED: art on the conditions of our time, New Art Exchange (2017- touring); curating Concerning Symmetry selected artists’ moving image from the Emile Stipp Collection (2016); producing Promised Land, Culture+Conflict (2016), and publishing her first book 9 Weeks with Stevenson (2016).
You can read her personal blog on happiness, friendship and connection in a digital age over on Medium.
Images: Works from Karl Ohiri's commission Equation for Humanity, 2020. Digital Black & White Fiber-Based Gloss Prints, each 12 x 16 in. © and courtesy the artist. Commissioned by Autograph for Care | Contagion | Community – Self & Other: 1) = [detail], 2020. 2) US, 2020.
Other images on page: 3) Courtesy Loren Hansi Gordon
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