Southend Film Festival

11 MAY 2012 – ONEROI - screening event organised by Michaela Freeman.

Part of Southend on Sea Film Festival 2012, this special programme the latest strange and wonderful short films and videos about dreaming and the night-time made by international filmmakers, including:

Spiral Silverstar:

before you reach the abyss from Spiral Silverstar on Vimeo.

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This Fri LAST FRIDAY SHORTS

This is the last of the Last Friday Shorts monthly events I’ve been organising at TAP since January 2010.

FRI 30 MARCH 7.30pm
LAST FRIDAY SHORTS – Experimental films & video event

With introduction:
ALISTAIR OLDHAM’s film about YOHA (Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji)
JAMES LOWNE
TIM SKINNER

+ an hour of international shorts, including NIKITA DIAKUR, KEIICHI MATSUDA, ROB MUNDAY, SEAN BUCKELEW and JACCO OLIVIER

25 Nov – LAST FRIDAY SHORTS

Another one of experimental films nights at TAP.

PROGRAMME:

7.30-8.30 Films with introduction:

ALICE ANDERSON is an artist currently showing at CoExist Galleries. Her creations span several art forms, from video to photography, to publishing, and drawings. She has been building a kind of novel since 1999 in which each episode is a self-contained personal, poetic and absurd Adventure.

EDWINA ASHTON makes videos, drawings, sculptures and costumes. Mr Panz at Lake Leman, notes on m, (notes on mammals and habitats) is her first animation. She studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths.

8.45pm – 9.45pm International short films: Read more

DARK – with Susan Francis, Josh Langan, Lemeh42, Semiconductor, John Smith


DARK
Curated by Michaela Freeman
Artists: Susan Francis, Josh Langan, Lemeh42, Semiconductor, John Smith
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STATE magazine

We’re now finalising the new issue of State (and F22) art magazine and which is out next week.

Read the previous issues here: http://www.state-media.com/VIP

ARTSIDE – CALL FOR ARTISTS – Southend on Sea – 1-16 July

ARTSIDE – 1-16 JULY

Following its debut last year, ARTSIDE returns to the Southend on Sea High Street in July. It will include works exhibited in the local shops and businesses, as well as lots of extra events and workshops.

We are looking for artists that would be interested to create a site-specific work which will be exhibited there during ARTSIDE 1-16 JULY. Any media will be considered – including sound and performance.

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MONA HATOUM @ The White Cube opened last week

In Mona Hatoum’s installation BUNKER, war aftermath -like distressed metal blocks are organised into shapes reminiscent of a city. It’s downscaled and you are allowed to walk through it – a significant fact as that makes you feel like a giant and the metal blocks/city more vulnerable than its material should allow. Walking through a destroyed city in your contrasting size subversively suggests your guilt, it points a finger at you. The visitors walk through slowly and meditatively, looking down.

Upstairs, SUSPENDED, a room full of swings creates initially a more playful atmosphere. The gallery has predicted that and hired an extra army of interns to tell people off when they look like they are going for a swing.

But the context is serious again, Hatoum has put a randomly chosen map on each swing, and this again brings the war conflict in mind, the randomness of its victims and the loss of perspective from its initiators.

Amazing collection of images courtesy of Google Street View

Google’s mission to map the world has produced an unsurpassed amount of unstaged street view photographs, something that has fascinated many hunters for unusual images.

Exhibited recently at Free, New Museum, NY

Read the essay by Jon Rafman  HERE.

More images: http://9-eyes.com/

STATE MAGAZINE is out!

I’ve just started a new project – editing a new art magazine – STATE!

It’s distributed across the UK from APRIL 2011 and together with F22 (focused on photography), it will cover current exciting projects, artists and ideas.

AnimateTV: 20 Years of Experimental Animation from the UK


I have to get this! An essential limited edition DVD featuring 23 landmark films commissioned through the groundbreaking AnimateTV project. The AnimateTV DVD draws together a unique selection of films to represent the incredible range of experimental practice accomplished in the UK in the past 20 years. The titles were chosen from over 100 innovative and challenging films made by British artists and animators for the enduring AnimateTV project. The DVD features acclaimed works by key figures in British artists’ animation, including Phil Mulloy, Paul Bush, Sarah Cox, Tim Macmillan, Run Wrake, Petra Freeman, Ruth Lingford, Jonathan Hodgson, AL and AL, Keith Piper, Andrew Kötting, Semiconductor, Chris Shepherd, David Shrigley, Stephen Irwin and Simon Faithfull. The illustrated booklet features essays by Adam Pugh, former Director of the Aurora Festival Norwich and Dick Arnall, former producer of the AnimateTV project. The AnimateTV DVD is an essential collection for anyone interested in radical animation, innovative technique, and animation as a contemporary art practice.

AnimateTV – 20 Years of Experimental Animation from the UK – Teaser from Animate Projects on Vimeo.