I DO KIND OF KEEP FORGETTING TO UPDATE THIS SECTION ….
Early 2012: I screened Tarkovsky’s River at the Whitechapel gallery in their programme of artist film screenings.
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Spring 2011 I made THE LANDSCAPE OF PLEASURE with Catia Ott & Nazir Tanbouli. It is a film about a walk around the old resort town of Southend on the Thames estuary east of London. Built for the amusement of the nobility and royal family to get out of the city, it became a Victorian pleasure centre. But today it struggles to continue to attract, given the vagaries of the British weather. But we found many attractants, mainly in the form of light and colour and shifting shadows … Watch it online here:
screened at Artside festival of contemporary art, Southend, curated by Coexist
I also had screenings of various works in Manchester and Montreal, courtesy of Black Duck.
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DECEMBER 2010:
Some of my work was screened in New Delhi at Edgelogue:
http://carnival-of-ecreativity.com/edgelogue/
Global Art Video curated by Black Duck / Red Nomade
Celebrating the Pomp us…! Topolski Century Gallery, London South Bank. Showed the video art loop “Project Gagarin: A Cold War Nostalgia” 18- 19.12.10
Photography Exhibition:
2 photos from my “Marine Landscapes: North Sea” series at the exhibition “Beneath the Water” at the Bridewell Theatre, Bride Lane EC4Y 8EQ. This runs from 20.12.2010 to 11.02.2011.
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A couple of outings for my videos in NOVEMBER 2010
DALSTON UNDERGROUND TEN YEARS 5 – showing monitor-based video art including Project Gagarin, Passenger, Iron Abstracts and Spin.
CREATURE 10 Gales, Bethnal Green E2 Nov 11 – 24- a group show of monitor-based video art. Showing two works: Crossings: Gleim Tunnel and Sentence.
Screening “Experimental City” and “Iron Abstracts” at International review of short video movies as part of the 19th DokumentART – European Documentary Film Festival 8-13 October 2010, Szczecin / Poland
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October 2010
TINAG festival in London, with Namastic Collective.
Programme 1 Luna Nera presents video works from the following artists:
At TINAG, Luna Nera presents video works from the following artists:
- Luna Nera; Postindustrial Baroque (2009); Kronstadt Connection;The Derelict Sensation. (Gillian McIver, Julian Ronnefeldt, Valentina Floris, Ben Foot, Sandrine Albert)
- The Boy Who Chose Sleep (Tom Adriani)
- Tout Bouge (Dir. Mark Arrigo; Sound: Adam Aguiar, Chris Jack, Santiago Prado)
- Energy (Enzo Perin)
- In Search of Hitler’s Bunker (Adrian Shepherd)
Programme 2 At TINAG, Namastic Art Collective presents video works from the following artists:
- Showerama Sari Palosaari
- A Monument for the Invisible Anu Pennanen
- What For? Teemu Mäki
- Beatbox, alternate take, Jani Ruscica
- Under the Skies of the World, Simo Rouhiainen
- Thought Moves Surround, Sanna Maarit Kuittinen
PERFORMANCE / INTERMEDIA
I screened some video works and a short film at the Performance/Intemedia festival in Szczecin, Poland:
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- to see the films visit my Youtube page – My channel is v1de0art
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FROM WEST TO EAST
This photographic project is a series of 35mm photos taken on different journeys through Poland, 1996 – 2008. Exhibited as a slideshow at the Jewish Museum, London.
photo: Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie 1996
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INDIA 2010
Some of my films were screened in India, at the Sarai centre and at the CEC Festival, both curated by Ima Pico
MOSTI
- screened at the Bartlett Urban Film society
POSTINDUSTRIAL BAROQUE – the film
The film is in screenings all over the place - not yet in London though! Contact me if you want to screen it.
PHOTOCINEMA
Forum Festival of Photography 09. I exhibited the Tarkovsky’s River slide show. Plans are now for a book and full exhibition of the photography based show, along with the film. The show featured David Lynch, Gregory Crewdson, William Egglestone (I’m a big fan of his!) and others.
POSTINDUSTRIAL BAROQUE
“Post Industrial Baroque” is ten years of Luna Nera Site Responsive art. It’s a retrospective of 10 [!] years of invading weird spaces and making films, installations and other mayhem in them.
I exhibited photographs and video, including 3 short films from the DVD collection “Places”. We alsl unveiled the multiscreen installaiton version of our new film “Post Industrial Baroque” (a Luna Nera collaboration). The single channel version will be out later.
Globe Gallery (City) Newcastle, Feb 08-March 22
Artists: Gillian McIver, Julian Ronnefeldt, Valentina Floris, Ben Foot, Nazir Tanbouli
Also featuring Hilary Powell, Agnes Domke, Sandrine Albert, Chris SInger, Natasha Mayran
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I reviewed the 2008 Turner Prize
And the Expanded Cinema event at the BFI
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“Foreword” Menier Gallery, London
New contemporary photography
[above, one of my works in the show, 50 x 70 cm C print]
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I attended:
Nazir Tanbouli’ show at the Redgate Gallery, London. I also reviewed it.
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Digital Media 1.0
University of Valencia
I participated in a seminar on digital media and distribution and dissemination of new media production. My paper was about “Digital anrt and digital economies” looking at the question of “Podcasting: art form or marketing tool?”
I also exhibited a digital installation loop “Moments in the transference of knowledge”
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March 2008 was the building of London’s cheapest house! An art installation made out of the free newspapers that litter the city’s streets and transport, the “house” was made by Sumer Erek and documented by me. As well as designing and doing the photo shoot for the publicity [above], My job was creating the photographic images for the publicity campaign, and I followed Sumer Erek around with my camera while he was building the piece. I also made a short documentary podcast for the Guardian and Building Design websites.
Weblink: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/mar/10/recycling?gusrc=rss&feed=environment
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News 2007
Autumn I was participating in the event “In Situ07″, in Barcelona, at La Farinera del Clot 26.10.07
Summer I was lucky enough to take a trip through British Columbia up to the Rocky Mountains.
Spring I was in the exhibition Coldstore, in Berlin. Then I worked with artist Sumer Erek on a project called Toprak: The RawEarth project. This is a site specific project that is made up of series of actions and things – art works, performances, texts -and is an ongoing organic collective project. My contribution is in literary and critical writing. On 7 June Erek presented the project at the Venice Bienniale 2007.
2006
Autumn I attended the Vidifestival Valencia as participant and spectator. I gave a talk introducing the work of Luna Nera at the Llogeta, and a paper on the problems of contemporary video art practice, at the University of Valencia. There were screenings of Luna Nera video work and a live video mixing show by Valentina Floris.
Summer I created a work based on ideas of Anselm Kiefer and writings of Gaston Bachelard about the idea of “empty” space. The work “no empty place (is ever empty)” is an ongoing audio-video research project, and was shown at the AirSpace, for the exhibition ‘Conjunction’.
