Posts by Jamie Wyld

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 –…

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…

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…

Selected VIII – UK tour

 Screening dates for Selected VIII (Full venue dates and details below the programme) 26 April, Fabrica, Brighton 01 May, CCA Glasgow 24 May, Whitechapel Gallery, London 27 June, Exeter Phoenix 26 July, Spike Island, Bristol 31 July, Nottingham Contemporary Selected is a new collection of diverse artists’ film and video touring the UK in April-July 2018, taking place…

Ritual: Artists’ film and video from SE Asia

Ritual: Artists’ film and video from SE Asia Ritual presents recent work by artist filmmakers from Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia, giving a brief glimpse into moving image practices from SE Asia. From Shireen Seno’s humour to Taiki Sakpisit’s darkness, through the metaphors of Au Sow Yee’s folk stories, Ritual explores our emotional inner…

Reading List by Wu Chi-Yu – exhibition & opening

Reading List is a newly commissioned work by Taiwanese artist Wu Chi-Yu, premiering at Phoenix in Leicester on 5 October. The film was made in three Malaysian cities – George Town, Tanah Merah and Kota Bharu. During his journey, the artist interviewed local communities, documenting their reactions/interactions with books, articles and literature forbidden in northern…

Viewfinder at OSMOSIS, Taipei

Viewfinder is a collection of artists’ film and video, exhibiting at OSMOSIS Audiovisual Media Festival in Taipei, which includes an exhibition, two screenings and a performance. Viewfinder brings together a collection of diverse film and video artists working with diverse subjects, including gender, sexuality, class and race. All the artists ask and challenge us to…

Maximum Overdrive, a review by Louie Young

It’s a lazy Sunday morning and you’re reading the news in bed. Or perhaps it’s Wednesday afternoon and you’re hurriedly scoffing away lunch in order to get back to the office in time for the next meeting. Little do you know, the world is about to change. Machines, household appliances and gadgets across the planet…