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…
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 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 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….
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…
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 –…
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…
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…
‘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 —…
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…
Asia screenings (full details below): 30 May 18 – Duddell’s, Hong Kong In its fourth year, Both Sides Now examines new models of making moving image influenced by internet and videogame culture. Showing work made in the past four years, the programme explores new aesthetics, visual languages and digital forms that are native to…
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 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 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 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…
