presented in conjunction with suek-artist
8:30pm 27th March 2010
The BAck doOR @ suek-artist
entry off back lane
658 Plenty Road, Preston
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
catch the 86 tram to stop 52
A programme of artists' moving image from the UK curated by Steven Ball.
This collection of recent works by London-based artists describes the complexity and contingency of contemporary cultural infrastructure and urban life. Charting a course from systems of the micro-subjective, through mediated experience and fabulous storytelling, to an elaboration of the evolution of life and its artificial structures, they mobilise the languages of business, the media, science and philosophy, and experiment with forms of performance through action, transcription, narration and song.
Complex Financial Instruments Claire Hope (2008, 8 mins)
Elephant Riccardo Iacono (2007, 7:30 mins)
Complex Financial Instruments (Part 2) Claire Hope (2008, 8 mins)
Sound Wars Erica Scourti (
2009, 4 mins)
Burrow
Me/Pig Laure Prouvost (2009, 13 mins)
Reality
Life Erica Scourti
(2009, 8:30 mins)
Between
Clock and Bed Rastko Novakovic (2007, 20 mins)
Product Recall Philip Sanderson (2008, 3:12 mins)
Faith
in Infrastructure Hilary Koob-Sassen/The Errorists (2009, 30 mins)
Complex Financial Instruments (Part 1)
2008, 8 mins
Claire Hope
Complex Financial Instruments raises questions about
power, systems of belief and contemporary subjectivity. Footage
of the progressive conversion of old farm buildings is inter-cut
with images of corporate new builds, archaeological remains, degraded
sites and natural land. On the soundtrack we hear a business meeting
debate about the realisation of a fantasy landmark building project.
The visual material shifts between stills and self-consciously
edited video, which becomes problematically intertwined with an
increasingly absurd conversation.
http://www.clairehope.co.uk
Elephant
2007, 7:30 mins
Riccardo Iacono
Elephant is a kind of psychogeographical adventure made
by throwing objects in urban space, exploring disorientating gyrations
of eye and camera movement, the complexities of optical, physical
and social engagement, and the sculptural, rhythmic interplay
of sound and light. The video was shot in the market place at
South London's famous Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre and
was produced during an Animate residency at London College of
Communication.
http://www.riccardoiacono.co.uk
Complex Financial Instruments (Part 2)
2008, 7 mins (performance documentation)
Claire Hope
During the exhibition of Complex Financial Instruments at Way East Project Space, London Part One (above) was screened in the basement, while the same video footage was shown in the front room, looped on a monitor alongside an unannounced live performance. The performance extends the first part of the video taking the form of an informal post-meeting chat between two male actors conducted at a conversational level. It was performed in the space continuously over two hours on 22 and 31 May 2008.
Sound Wars
2009, 4 mins
Erica Scourti
Subtitles for the hard of hearing were transcribed from 12 war
movies and then read by a radio broadcaster in the style of a
news bulletin. Defeating its original purpose, the particular
resonance of the spoken text flattens into generic description.
http://www.ericascourti.com
Burrow
Me/Pig
2009, 13 mins
Laure Prouvost
We are invited into the story of the inhabitant of an underground
lair, an earthy burrow. He tells his fantastic story using conflicting
dialogue, he disturbs the meaning of spoken words, subtitles and
images. Laure Prouvost attempts to create a bond between narrator
and viewer in an imaginative parallel universe that is an energetically
skewed dream of the everyday.
http://www.laureprouvost.com
Reality
Life
2009, 8:30 mins
Erica Scourti
Teenage girls were recruited from all over England though beonscreen.com,
which advertises listings for people wanting to appear on TV.
The girls filmed themselves reading out a script written by Scourti
culled from the titles of ‘unscripted’, reality shows
and documentaries. Between them they re-articulate teenage aspiration
and issues from everyday life, through the language of TV.
http://www.ericascourti.com
Between
Clock and Bed
2007, 20 mins
Rastko Novakovic
Between Clock and Bed takes Edvard Munch’s 1942
self-portrait as a starting point to weave an audiovisual texture
that spans 28 centuries, moving back and forth between clock and
bed, time and death, history and physical love, technology and
ethics.
http://www.rastko.co.uk
Product Recall
2008, 3:12 mins
Philip Sanderson
We are pleased to announce a unique new premier product for that milestone once in a lifetime occasion such as an anniversary, birthday, wedding or as a one-off gift for someone special. The product is made of an alloy glass and onyx compound that changes shape to fit the wearer and the occasion. One moment it is a ring the next a ceremonial dagger; it is whatever the wearer desires. View a prototype sample here.
http://www.psouper.co.uk
Faith
in Infrastructure
2009, 30 mins
Hilary Koob-Sassen/The Errorists
As an Errorist, Hilary Koob-Sassen makes ambitious scientific
and political proposals. Errorism is committed to the act of proposal-making
and a culture of proposal rather than a state of conviction. As
a Syntactical Elaborationist, Koob-Sassen deploys several media.
He uses drawing and sculpture to make aspects of a proposal public,
modelling the relationships between organic four dimensional phenomenon
such as the evolution of life and the elaboration of the artificial
structures that life builds, venturing deeper into the present
and future formations of human culture in time. These processual
landscapes are traversed by songs and performances developed in
collaboration with fellow Errorist and master cellist Andreas
Köhler. The films approach, inhabit, and burrow directly
through reality as it is organized in the models and sung into
presence by The Errorists.
http://www.hilarykoobsassen.com