Nicole Hewitt is a visual artist working in film, video, installation, performance, spoken word and text. She completed her PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2013 with a thesis exploring the relationship between film, narrative, dance, history and political rhetoric. Her work is concerned with memory, micro history and gendered narrative as mediated through technologies of representation and preservation. Since 2017 she has been part of the performance collective Soundspiels working on projects exploring the borders of Europe, the material history of the Atlantic Wall and ideas about landscape and its construction. Hewitt is cofounder of the artist-run collective Studio Pangolin and teaches at The Department of Animation and New Media of The Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb.
Women Minor Speculations
Taking as its starting point the Neolithic figurines found throughout the Danube region from Croatia to the Black Sea through Serbia, Romania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Greece Women Minor Speculations is part road trip, part-time travel and part speculative fiction using fragments of time, archaeological fragments, sound fragments and imaginary audio files trying to weave [...]