Posts by Jamie Wyld
Flashing Green: Notes on Post-Nature, the 11th Taipei Biennial by Marcus Jack
‘Mycelia can save the world’, artist and co-curator of this year’s Taipei Biennial, Mali Wu tells us with ardent optimism. Post-Nature – A Museum as an Ecosystem, curated alongside Francesco Manacorda, goes on to articulate this foundational belief by collating projects from artistic, filmic, activist, and architectural contexts that interpret this in degrees literal and…
Artist talk by Di Fang at Phoenix, Leicester
Di Fang will talk about his exhibition Streets Paved with Pearl – showing at Phoenix in Leicester till 23 December – and his practice as an artist filmmaker, both solo and as part of the collective Jiū Society. Venue: Phoenix, 4 Midland Street, Leicester LE1 1TG Date and time: Sat, 15 December 19 at 3pm Price: FREE – no booking…
Selected VIII trailer
Selected VIII Trailer from videoclub on Vimeo.
Digital Break: artists’ film from Taiwan trailer
Artists’ film and video from Taiwan’s OSMOSIS Festival from videoclub on Vimeo.
Highlights of Busan Biennale – Abigail Addison
This was my first visit to the Busan Biennale, and having been the day before to the vastly overpopulated Gwangju Biennale, the Busan Biennale curators’ choice of focusing on the work of just 66 artists meant that there was more breathing space to invest the necessary time to properly engage with the works and to…
Curator trip to Taiwan, Nov 18
The finale of our Viewfinder programme – a series of visits across East Asia with artists and curators to promote their work – takes us to Taiwan. While there we will be visiting Taiwan Biennial in Taichung, and Taipei Biennial. We will also be visiting one of the latest and most important sites for the…
Selected VIII @ Vivid Projects, Birmingham
Selected is a new collection of diverse artists’ film and video, taking place at some of the UK’s leading venues for showcasing artists’ film and video. In November, the final screening of the programme takes place at Vivid Projects, Birmingham. Nominated by the artists shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2017, Selected brings together some of the…
Streets Paved With Pearl – Di Fang & Jiu Society
Streets Paved with Pearl shows a selection of three works, two created by artist Di Fang, and a third by Di Fang in collaboration with Jiu Society, an artist group based in Shenzhen, China. The exhibition is taking place at Phoenix in Leicester, curated in collaboration with videoclub and International Art + Science Research Institute, Shanghai….
Nature as Data
In a world teeming with data it’s easy to be overwhelmed with the flow of information, and to feel oversaturated by its extent. Nature as Data brings together a series of works that offer opportunities to unpack and understand the immense amount of material we experience through digital technologies and interfaces every day. Through this…
Bodyscapes: new film and video from Japan
ボディスケープ：日本のアーティストによる新しい映像作品 Bodyscapes is a collection of new films by Japanese artists whose use of the body is central to their work – either as a landscape, a political metaphor or method of expression – the body acts as a vehicle and subject to communicate ideas. In Fuyuhiko Takata’s Little Mermaid-inspired Cambrian Explosion, Takata’s character –…
OPEN CALL FOR CURATORS: VISIT TO S. KOREA
About Viewfinder videoclub has been awarded funding for Viewfinder from Arts Council England and Creative Scotland to deliver a series of visits across E Asia with artists who work with moving image. This is with the aim of promoting those artists to local audiences and to enable artists to gain contacts, which can lead to earning…
Seeing Systems at ArtScience Museum, Singapore
AfterGlow (Susceptible, Exposed, Infected, Recovered), boredomresearch, 2016 Seeing Systems is a new curated programme exploring some of the organic and non-organic systems that invisibly impact on our lives. Through a series of short but impactful art films, this programme visualises the patterns, structures and habits that surround us in our everyday lives; from the ubiquitous…
Critical review of Selected VIII by writer James Gormley
‘Young man!’ booms the voice of a man in uniform. Disregard your age and gender; he’s talking to you and, with a realization too sudden to sink, you know it. ‘There’s no need to feel down’ he continues ‘I said young man, pick yourself off the ground.’ You can breathe a sigh of relief —…
Selected VIII at Whitechapel Gallery reviewed by Louie Young
Since 2011, videoclub’s Selected programme has been showcasing witty, thought-provoking video art from Britain’s most exciting early career filmmakers. Now in its eighth edition, Selected is full of works that feel politically urgent in their choice of subject matter yet remain refreshingly playful in their treatment of it. For such a long running programme this…
