DI CLAY

England

"My work is driven by moral and emotional concerns, some strands of which include the interpersonal, community and the family, as well as wider social and political issues. The aesthetic arises through giving expression to those concerns - not the other way round.
I am interested in creating opportunities for work to be created through collaboration with and the participation of others. Ongoing projects include street interventions and forging links with people in different parts of the world who are not necessarily directly involved in art practices."

Conflict
Live Performance, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005

In the last two years, Di Clay has worked in Israel, Poland and Tanzania as well as in Britain, making street interventions, performances and video installations. She is the director and co-founding artist of Matrix Art Projects, Carlisle, working on international and regional initiatives. Her work is informed by a long history of engagement in experimental arts. In the mid 1960s she set-up and ran an experimental fashion design company, moving on to work at the London New Arts Laboratory where she researched into the use of computer technology in performance arts. She was a founder member of the Institute for Research into Art and Technology, co-curated 'Cybernetic Theatre' and collaborated in the seminal 'Cybernetic Serendipity' at the ICA, London. In the 70s she was involved in feminist initiatives and in the 80s formed a dance group before going on to focus on fine art.