Posts by Jamie Wyld

UK & South African artists join Vital Capacities for August

Artists from upper left image clockwise: Amaqhawekazi Emafini Malamlela, Hamza Mohammed Beg, Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley and Kin (Cultura Plasmic INC). For the seventh Vital Capacities‘ residency, we partner with East Street Arts (Leeds), Institute for Creative Arts (Cape Town) and Wysing Art Centre (Cambridge) to work with artists from both South Africa and the UK. From…

Residual Echoes – new Vital Capacities exhibition

For our June 22 Vital Capacities residency we invited four artists – Saverio Cantoni, Estabrak, Ellis Lewis-Dragstra and Aileen Ye – to explore and develop new work, supported by partnerships with East Street Arts (Leeds), Coven Berlin, University of Atypical (Belfast) and Phoenix (Leicester). Over the course of the month the artists did research, tested…

The Portals Project exhibition & events programme

The Portals Project, showing at Bermondsey Project Space, 183 – 185 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3UW Dates: Tues 5 – Sat 23 July, 11-6pm Bermondsey Project Space is the host site for Part One: El Umbral – The Threshold, the first exhibition and events of The Portals Project. In this context, the installed paintings, drawings,…

Both Sides Now 7: DeNatured – screenings in UK and Hong Kong

Both Sides Now 7: DeNatured is a programme of 8 films by international artists, which shows how artists are creating and building new virtual worlds, and in those spaces how they are exploring environmentalism, new societies, post-apocalypse, the (virtual) body and the afterlife. The programme explores how artists are interpreting different forms of environment, from real…

DeNatured – Vital Capacities exhibition

  For April 2022’s Vital Capacities residency, we invited three artists to join as part of our collaboration with Videotage (Hong Kong), Both Sides Now 7: DeNatured. The artists, Andrew Luk (Hong Kong), violet marchenkova (UK) and Jess Starns (UK), took part in Vital Capacities, while also participating in Videotage’s online residency, Leave Your Body, which…

Exploring early film in Hove, with Dr Frank Gray, Screen Archive South East

Exploring early film in Hove, with Dr Frank Gray, Screen Archive South East Free screening and talk by Dr Frank Gray (director, Screen Archive South East) at Hangleton & Knoll Project, St Richard’s Church, Egmont Rd, Hove BN3 7FP. Time and date: 11am, 7 June 2022. To book a place, email Katie Merrien: katie.merrien@hkproject.org.uk At…

Days of Wonder – Screening programme

Days of Wonder Days of Wonder is a curated programme of artists’ film & video created using archival footage by international artists, and archive films by Brighton & Hove pioneer filmmakers from Screen Archive South East (SASE). Archive films will be accompanied by a live music performance. Bringing together some of the earliest films made…

Both Sides Now 7: DeNatured

Both Sides Now 7: DeNatured explores how artists are interpreting different forms of environment, from real to virtual to the spaces in between. It attempts to reconsider the evolving notion of environments and (meta)universes, via recent work by artists and filmmakers. Through Both Sides Now 7, we examine how artists are disrupting, commenting upon, and…

Both Sides Now 7: DeNatured – find out more & individual films

Both Sides Now 7: DeNatured explores how artists are interpreting different forms of environment, from real to virtual to the spaces in between. It attempts to reconsider the evolving notion of environments and (meta)universes, via recent work by artists and filmmakers. Through Both Sides Now 7, we examine how artists are disrupting, commenting upon, and…

Third Thursdays season finale – 21st April

Third Thursdays’ theme for April is Memory. We have curated a programme of new and existing works by artists and filmmakers that reflect on and stimulate memories. Including ‘Laser Lunar Lander’ by Seb Lee-Delisle – the 70s videogame projected onto Polo Restaurant (Nile St, The Lanes); ‘Remembering Place’ by Thomas Buckley – a new commission…

UK and Hong Kong artists join Vital Capacities for April

For the sixth Vital Capacities residency, we partner with Videotage (Hong Kong) to work with artists from both Hong Kong and the UK. From 1 April, artists Andrew Luk, Jess Starns and violet marchenkova will join Vital Capacities, to undertake research and develop new work. Working with our partners, they will explore and exchange new ideas…