Nick Jordan (artist)

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); Kunstmuseum (Bonn); Musée du quai Branly (Paris); Whitstable Biennale; BFI London Film Festival; Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival; Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF); 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.

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

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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