Last Friday was ARTSIDE Closing Party at the Railway Hotel in Southend. We were showing films from the Artside events and also my selection of short films about sea, including Sean Vicary, Jesse Fleming, Kevin Kelly, Felek Werpachowski and Donna Kuhn.
Unfortunately I had my camera on manual focus without realising so no good photos of us partying but you can watch most of the films embedded below:
I am looking for works that are about settling in and living in another country. The call is open to British and Czech artists with experience of living in the opposite country.
I am co-curating ARTSIDE which takes place in 19 venues in and around the High Street in Southend – 10-23 JULY 2010.
The artists are: Karen Apps, Claudie Bastide, Katy Beinart, Dominic Bradnum, Natasha Carsberg, Frankie Charles & Ashley Gallant, James Clarkson, Debora D’Auria, Birgit Deubner, Kelda Free & David Brazier, Jessica Fuller, Seth Guy, Ann Harvey, Tom van Herrewege, Will Jennings, Laura Keeble, Sally Kidall, Grace Lau, Hayley Lock, Liz Murray, Madelaine Murphy, Alex Pearl, Grant Philpott, Jonas Ranson, Paul Russell, Elaine Smith, Bathsheba Sporle, Helen Sturgess, Lois Elizabeth Taylor, Natasha Vicars, Caroline Wright
More information is on http://www.artside.org.uk
Dee Liquent has posted a review + photos from the exhibition her her blog:
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3 Filmmakers from Southend show and introduce their films:
AARON FOSTER – Lucy Lolly
FRAN WILDE – Handed
GONCALO NASCIMENTO – White
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I am looking for a couple of people to perform FLIRTMAN mobile phone game at the opening of PLEASE TOUCH interactive exhibition at CoExist Galleries at TAP, next Thu 3 June. Even if you want to do just half an hour, that would be fine. Travel expenses covered.
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Performance opportunity: We are looking for 5 people, ideally from Southend, to take part in a performance which takes place at the opening of Please Touch exhibition at CoExist Galleries, TAP on 3 June 2010. Any age from 6 years upwards. Read more
I am in process of preparing for the show that opens in two weeks:
FOR MORE INFO and IMAGES – go to http://www.michaelafreeman.com/pleasetouch
I did a video from an INTERRUPTIONS OF THE ORDINARY exhibition at TAP:
FULL POST IS HERE: http://idea13.org/2010/04/io/
Next in the series of screening I’ve curated for TAP took place last Friday with the following films:
LIZZY LE QUESNE – Reflections on Shop Window – A video about a performance which sought to challenge the stereotypes of female body as portrayed by the media.
GILLIAN MCIVER – Tarkovsky’s River – Tracing a river journey along the Upper Volga to Yureyvits, Tarkovsky’s birthplace, “journey into landscape, into the deep heart of a place where the river is as wide as a sea, where skies are vast and time stands still.”
CATHIE COX – Midnight Encounter
RODRIGO REIS – Omulu – A woman. Different realities. Present, past and future. Inspired by the Afro-Brazilian religions and their archetypes, and 1970’s Midnight movies.
+ Screening of TANK.TV – Fresh Moves anthology with works by: David Blandy, Ben Callaway, Duncan Campbell, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Spartacus Chetwynd, Kate Cooper, Ann Course, Katy Dove, Max Hattler, Runa Islam, Kevin Heavey, Anja M. Kirschner, Zineb Sedira, Andrew Kötting, Torsten Lauschmann, Daria Martin, Alexander Heim, Ben Rivers, Samuel Stevens, Stephen Sutcliffe, Mark Aerial Waller, Saskia Olde Wolbers, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Cerith Wyn Evans
Thanks to TANK.TV – click here for their WEBSITE.
For more information about LAST FRIDAY SHORTS and how to submit a film – see the ARCHIVE.
Organised in collaboration with The White Bus.
