Screenings and presentations from the following artists and writers
Benedict Drew's work aims to create or locate systems, within this process the mechanics of film, video, and music production are often complicit in the destabilizing of these systems. The materials, objects or form are selected to set up a dialog with the histories of conceptual art, experimental music and artist film and video. Benedict Drew is an artist who's work crosses video, performance, sound and other media.He has traveled widely presenting work in UK, Japan, USA and Europe. Much of his work has been based in collaboration most significantly with artist Emma Hart. They have performed often in the UK and internationally including at the Rotterdam Film Festival, Kill Your Timid Notion, Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre, ICA London as part of the Nought to Sixty season, Performa 09 New York and most recently at The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art as part of images festival where they received OCAD Off Screen Award for the installation untitled seven. Benedict has also composed the soundtracks for several artists. He has made many works for radio, most recently the series Unter Radio on Resonance FM. for many years he curated the London Musicians' Collective annual festival of experimental music.
Marcia Farquhar is an artist working in performance, photography, video and object-making. Her practice revolves around the stories and interactions of her everyday life, particularly in relation to the meaning and histories of objects. Always telling or retelling stories, and engineering unexpected social interactions in which the distance between audience and performer is repeatedly breached, Farquhar probes the nature of biography and autobiography, and grapples with storytelling as a strategy that is forever renegotiating its relationship with truth. Her site-specific events have been staged and exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, as well as in lecture theatres, kitchen showrooms, pubs, parks and leisure centres.
Emma Hart’s practice is a course of action. Through video and performance she devises anarchic processes for the moving image, rethinking its mode of address and reception. Based in London, Hart exhibits videos, installations and performs internationally. Her work has been presented at institutions including Tate Britain, Camden Arts Centre, Battersea Arts Centre, Dundee Contemporary Art Centre and Cell Project Space. Hart also collaborates with artist Benedict Drew and their work was included in the 2008 Nought to Sixty programme at the ICA and at Performa 2009, New York.. In 2010, they exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art.
Gil Leung is a writer and curator based in London. She regularly contributes to Afterall and various other publications. She currently works at LUX and previously worked as assistant curator for Tate Film, producing projects like Expanded Cinema, the Baldesssari Frieze Oil Tank Commisssions and the Tate Live programme.
Laure Prouvost, is an artist and filmmaker who lives and works in London, England. She graduated from Central St Martins College of Arts in 2002 and her MFA at Goldsmith College. In 2009 she completed the LUX Artiste Associette Programme. Her work, includes painting, video, sound and site-specific works has exhibited extensively , Lightbox Tate Britain, London, BFI, London, Form Contente, London, EAST International, Norwich, MOT Gallery, London, After the boutcher, Berlin, Lighthouse, Brighton, Monika Bobinska Gallerie, London, CCCB, Barcelona, St Gervais centre , Geneva, NMFP Bradford. She wone the EAST International Award 2009 in Norwich UK. Her videos are distributed by LUX and is repersented by MOT international.
Lucy Reynolds is a lecturer, artist and film curator. Her area of research focuses on expanded cinema and British avant-garde film of the 1970s. She teaches the history and theory of cinema and artists’ moving image at the University of Westminster, Goldsmiths College, LUX and the Arnolfini. She presents talks on artists’ film and video at arts venues across the UK, including the CCA, Glasgow and the Serpentine Gallery, London and her recent articles appear in Afterall and Millenium Film Journal.
Since the early 1970s John Smith has made over fifty film, video and installation works that have been shown in cinemas, galleries and on television around the world. Strongly influenced by the Structural Materialist ideas which dominated British artists' filmmaking during his formative years, but also fascinated by the immersive power of narrative and the spoken word, he has developed a body of work which deftly subverts the perceived boundaries between documentary and fiction, representation and abstraction. Drawing upon the raw material of everyday life, Smith's meticulously crafted films rework and transform reality, playfully exploring and exposing the language of cinema.
John Smith’s solo exhibitions include Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin (2010), Royal College of Art Galleries, London (2010), Sala Diaz Gallery, Texas (2010), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2006), Kunstmuseum Magdeburg (2005), Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool (2003) and Pearl Gallery, London (2003). He regularly presents his work in person and in recent years it has been profiled through retrospectives at the 2007 Venice Biennale and film festivals in Oberhausen, Cork, Tampere, Uppsala, Bristol, Regensburg, Glasgow and La Rochelle. His work is currently showing in the 2010 Berlin Biennial.
John Smith lives and works in London.