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This series uses as their starting point art objects which Gesa Stedman inherited from her British-Canadian grandfather, who worked for the British government in a quasi-diplomatic capacity. The provenance of these objects made by indigenous artists from Canada and China is unknown, and have left Gesa Stedman with a set of questions. The objects may…

Based on a research project entitled “Happy in Berlin? English Authors in the City, the 1920s and Beyond”, Gesa Stedman has begun a series of zines focusing on British women writers in Berlin. Quotations from letters, diaries, or memoirs from these early-20th-century writers provide the textual basis, and original black and white drawings by Gesa…

Inspired by a poetry workshop conducted by poets and academics which focused among other texts on Eugen Gomringer’s poem “Schweigen”, Gesa Stedman has produced a version of the poem transposed into Morse, and an accompanying piece entitled “Lärm” (“Noise”). Both will be shown at the pop-up exhibition Silence/Stille/Schweigen which includes art from Humboldt-Universität’s art collection…

Gesa Stedman coordinated this exchange project with artists and art students from Berlin and Oxford and produced cut-outs, clay panels, and a series of Morse collages based on the Sudan Archaeological Collection at HU. The works were shown at an exhibition at Lichthof Ost at HU Berlin, and a public panel debate, and a school…