Artist Talk & Film Screening with Bobbi Cameron
for the first words of a dreamworld Bobbi Cameron 16mm film installation - 13mins
Inspired by conversations with her grandfather, Cameron’s debut 16mm film, for the first words of a dreamworld (2024), explores the intricate connections between the experiences of dementia and the artist’s Celtic shamanic practice. Through dialogues that traverse time and worlds, Cameron delves into the concept of non-linear communication, using movement and sound to explore what it means to exist in multiple places once.
Originally commissioned for Glasgow International Festival 2024, the film was developed with cinematographer Margaret Salmon, composer Richy Carey, movement artist Aniela Piasecka, and shamanic practitioner Ruth McCauley. Together, they employed deep listening practices, field recordings, and sound experimentation to create a work that celebrates the fluidity of multi-dimensional communication and the potential to connect across different planes of existence.
Biography - Bobbi Cameron
Bobbi Cameron is an artist and energy worker based on the Isle of Seil, off the west coast of Scotland. Cameron works across sound installation, moving image, performance and text as a conduit for her celtic shamanic practice.
In 2024, Cameron’s debut film ‘for the first words of a dreamworld’ was commissioned for Glasgow International Festival as a duo show with Owain Train McGilvary titled ‘Im attended as a portal myself’. For development of this project, she was selected as the 2023/24 artist-in-residence for the Scottish Sculpture Workshop x Counterflows Festival Carers Residency and programmed for the Travelling Gallery x Hospitalfield Group Show 2024 ‘A Bonnie Way’ alongside residency and development support from Hospitalfield, VACMA, CHARTS and Creative Scotland.
Previously, she has held solo exhibitions at CT20, Folkestone (2020) and An Tobar, Isle of Mull (2022). In 2022, Cameron curated and produced the interdisciplinary festival An Tobar Festival: Daughter of Cups in the North, which extended her solo exhibition without time without distance without mind and earned her a nomination for the Scottish Women’s Awards for her contributions to arts and culture. Cameron holds an MFA from Glasgow School of Art (2019).