From: Steven Ball (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2006 - 16:07:38 PDT
British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection presents
COLLECTED WORKS & COLOUR FIELDS
Lethaby Gallery, Central St Martins College of Art and Design
Southampton Row, London WC1B 4AP
(closest tube: Holborn)
Exhibition runs Monday 23rd October 2006 to Saturday 18th November 2006
Open Monday - Friday 10am - 8pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
includes:
COLLECTED WORKS
exhibition of materials from the British Artists' Film and Video Study
Collection
COLOUR FIELDS
colour in avant-garde film, video and digital media:
installations, screening and discussion
EUTOPIA
Prague-London live online video performance
COLLECTED WORKS
A showcase for material from the British Artists' Film & Video Study
Collection: posters, photographs, drawings, film strips, press cuttings
and video material illustrate the ways in which artists have recorded
the activity which takes place between the conceiving of a work and its
eventual presentation to a public.
P R E - P R O D U C T I O N
P R O D U C T I O N
P R O M O T I O N
E X H I B I T I O N
D O C U M E N T A T I O N
COLOUR FIELDS part 1
An exhibition of new and restaged installation works on the theme of
colour in avant-garde film, video and digital media
Matrix 73 - 06 (1973 – 2006)
three channel video projection by Malcolm Le Grice
Matrix was first shown in 1973 as a six projector 16mm film
installation and moving projector performance. The image is a series of
short loops with each screen split vertically into two equal halves of
rapidly changing primary colours. The digital version is 'sharper',
without the same
material traces of film and the movements are constructed rather than
spontaneous. It is thus a new work, but as with jazz musicians playing
or recording an earlier composition, it is a new 'performance'.
Primary Phase (2006)
four channel video projection by Simon Payne
A looping series of red, green and blue ‘wipes’ traverse the projected
image in vertical and horizontal directions. The loop that each
projector shows is a different duration however, causing their
synchronisation to phase. While the work employs a very formal approach
to
screen space, perhaps resembling the aesthetics of early abstract film,
the patterns of the piece directly influence what’s outside the frame
as well: the space between and surrounding the colours - i.e. the wall
– is made a part of the work; and the reflected light simultaneously
affects the look of the entire space.
Primary Contrasting Elements (1993)
single channel video by Mineo Aayamaguchi
Primary Contrasting Elements explores the symbolic relationships
between primary forms (the circle, square and triangle) and video
colours.
Still Life (1976)
single channel video by Jenny Okun
Still Life reflects on the mutability of colour in photography, and the
elusiveness of photographic truth. Resorting to the older medium of
painting, it explores the impossibility of transforming an image from
colour negative to colour positive on the same filmstock.
COLOUR FIELDS part 2
Screening and panel discussion
6pm – 8.30pm, Monday 13th November, 2006
Cochrane Theatre
Southampton Row
London WC1B 4AP
Abstract Colour Combinations
A short programme of artists’ films and videos that explore colour in a
variety of ways. Colours in these films and videos either tend to be
attached to objects taken from reality or non-figurative forms.
Colour Box (1935) by Len Lye
Peace Mandala/End War (1966) by Paul Sharits
Colour Separation (1975) by Chris Welsby
Anselmo (1967) by Chick Strand
1001 Colours That Andy Never Thought Of (1985) by George Barber
Colour Study (2000) by Vincent Grenier
uta zet (2001) by reMI (Renate Oblak and Michael Pinter)
Running time approx 30 mins.
Programmed by Simon Payne
The screening will be followed by a discussion about the use of colour
in moving image artists’ work, participants include:
Malcolm Le Grice, Simon Payne, David Batchelor and AL Rees (moderator)
EUTOPIA
7pm, Friday 17th November, 2006
Room G12, Central St Martins College of Art and Design
Southampton Row, London WC1B 4AP
Prague-London Live online video performance
Martin Blazicek, Prague, Czech Republic
Steven Ball, London, UK
Devised by Martin Blazicek, Eutopia will build new city structures from
looped video sequences of separately captured urban landscapes in
London and Prague. These will be constructed live in performance using
the Keyworx software to manipulate video streaming between London and
Prague.
Duration approx 45 mins.
http://www.blazicek.net/eutopia
http://www.steven-ball.net
British Artists Film & Video Study Collection
Room 203
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Southampton Row
London WC1B 4AP
telephone: 020 7514 8159
http://www.studycollection.org.uk
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