Selected VI

May 17, 2016

“… if you’re in search of something experimental, intriguing, challenging, perhaps even perplexing… think of this as a lucky dip, perhaps containing a future Turner Prize winner.” – The Guardian

Various screening dates for Selected VI

(Full venue dates and details below the programme)

  • 25 May 2016, CCA Glasgow
  • 02 June 2016, Plymouth Arts Centre
  • 23 June 2016, Fabrica, Brighton
  • 27 June 2016, Chapter, Cardiff
  • 28 June 2016, Watershed, Bristol
  • 07 July 2016, Whitechapel Gallery, London
  • 13 July 2016, The Northern Charter, Newcastle
  • 14 July 2016, HOME, Manchester
  • 26 July 2016, Nottingham Contemporary

Selected 6 is a new collection of artists’ film and video touring the UK in May-July 2016, taking place at some of the UK’s leading venues for showcasing artists’ film.

Nominated by the artists shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2015, Selected brings together some of the best work from early career film and video artists from the UK in a vibrant programme of recent artists’ moving image.

Shortlisted artists for the 2015 Film London Jarman Award – Adam Chodzko, Seamus Harahan, Gail Pickering, Alia Syed, Bedwyr Williams and Andrea Luka Zimmerman – have nominated work by up-and-coming filmmaking talent, to develop an invigorating new programme of work. The screening will be followed by Q&A with artists.

Artists in the programme include: Megan Broadmeadow, Upanishad Kanad Chakrabarti, Robert Fox, Tom Goddard, Nina Mangalanayagam, Paul Rooney, Liberty Antonia Sadler and Charlie Tweed.

Programme:

A Corruption of Mass – Megan Broadmeadow, 2015, 2:41 mins
Archimeters – Charlie Tweed, 2011, 4:38 mins
Shift + F9 – U. Kanad Chakrabarti, 2014, 4:02 mins
Balancing Act – Nina Mangalanayagam, 2015, 10:19 mins
Lost High Street – Paul Rooney, 2008, 12 mins
Chew Chew – Tom Goddard, 2015, 2:55 mins
The Locoemotive Lounge – Robert Fox, 2014, 6 mins
Private Theatre – Liberty Antonia Sadler, 2015, 4 mins
Sink Women – Iris Zaki, 2014, 14 mins

Produced by videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network. Supported by Arts Council England and Film London.

Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network

Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) supports London-based artists working in moving image, working in partnership to deliver a comprehensive programme including production award schemes, regular screenings, talks and events, as well as the prestigious annual Film London Jarman Award.

Venue and screening details:

CCA Glasgow

Date and time: Wednesday, 25 May 2016, 7pm.
Price: FREE
Address: CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
To book tickets (tickets also on door): www.cca-glasgow.com / 0141 352 4900 / Book a ticket

Plymouth Arts Centre

Date and time: Thursday, 2 June 2016, 6pm.
Price: £3 / free for PAC Home members.
Address: Plymouth Arts Centre, 38 Looe Street, Plymouth PL4 0EB
Web / contact: www.plymouthartscentre.org / 01752 206114

Fabrica

Date and time: Thursday, 23 June 2016, doors and bar 7pm, event starts 7:30pm
Price: £5
Address: Fabrica, Duke Street, Brighton BN1 1AG
Web / contact: www.fabrica.org.uk / 01273 778646 / Book a ticket

Chapter

Date and time: Monday, 27 June 2016, 6pm.
Price: £3
Address: Chapter, Market Road, Canton, Cardiff, Wales UK CF5 1QE
Web / contact: www.chapter.org / 029 2030 4400 / enquiry@chapter.org / Book a ticket

Watershed

Date and time: Tuesday, 28 June 2016, 6pm.
Price: £9.00 full / £6.50 concession / £4.50 aged 24 and under
Address: Watershed, 1 Canons Road, Harbourside, Bristol BS1 5TX
Web / contact: www.watershed.co.uk / 0117 927 5100 / info@watershed.co.uk / Book a ticket

Whitechapel Gallery

Date and time: Thursday, 07 July 2016, 7pm.
Price: £9.50 full / £7.50 concessions
Address: Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX
Web / tickets / contact: www.whitechapelgallery.org / 020 7522 78889 / Book a ticket

The Northern Charter

Date and time: Wednesday, 13 July 2016, time 6pm.
Price: FREE
Address: The Northern Charter, 5th Floor Commercial Union House, 39 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 6QE
Web / contact: thenortherncharter.org / thenorthernchater@gmail.com

HOME

Date and time: Thursday, 14 July 2016, 6:20pm.
Price:£9 full / £7 concessions
Address: HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, M15 4FN
Web / Box office: homemcr.org / 0161 200 1500 / Book a ticket

Nottingham Contemporary

Date and time: Tuesday, 26 July 2016, 6:30pm.
Price: FREE
Address: Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham NG1 2GB
Web / contact: www.nottinghamcontemporary.org / 0115 948 9750

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Acentered: Reterritorised Network of European and Chinese Moving Image

February 17, 2016
Common Descent – Daniel Shanken (2015)

Acentered: Reterritorised Network of European and Chinese Moving Image

videoclub will take part in Acentered: Reterritorised Network of European and Chinese Moving Image during Art Basel’s show in Hong Kong. Presented by the Art Basel Crowdfunding Initiative, Acentered is part of the Crowdfunding Lab and curated by Videotage.

The 21st century defines an emerging set of complex relationships between creativity, knowledge, capitalism, and innovative technologies. Today, we live in a world that revolves around networks and necessitates a belief in a future that is powered by the connection of people – a culture that embraces fluidity, collaboration, and creative mobility.

During Art Basel’s show in Hong Kong, the Crowdfunding Lab will feature video art works from the Videotage Media Art Collection, and also works from international art organisations, which include Casa Asia (Barcelona & Madrid), Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art/University of Salford Art Collection (Manchester), The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Department of Fine Arts, City University of Hong Kong/School of Creative Media, Connecting Spaces (Hong Kong-Zurich)/Zurich University of the Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University/Academy of Visual Arts, The Hong Kong Institute of Education/Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, Momentum (Berlin), and videoclub (London). Videotage will also organise a series of roundtable discussions at the booth on a variety of relevant topics in the art world today.

Works selected by videoclub include: Anjin 1600: Edo Wonderpark – David Blandy, From Our Own Correspondent – Lucy Clout, A Rat Biting Another Rat – Anita Delaney, The Lion and the Unicorn – Rachel Maclean, Common Descent – Daniel Shanken and The Udder – Marianna Simnett.

Exhibition

videoclub’s selection of British artists’ film and video is drawn from the recent programme, Both Sides Now II, a collaboration between videoclub and Videotage. This selection of films reflects upon the current psyche of the British people, arguably in a state of flux and uncertainty, echoed by the artists’ works.

In September 2014, Scotland had a referendum, to decide whether or not to stay part of the United Kingdom. Rachel Maclean’s ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ represents both opposition and alliance to explore national identity and the tension felt in the country at the time of referendum.

In David Blandy’s ‘Anjin 1600: Edo Wonderpark’ we see the British explorer William Adams venturing to a new world, Japan, in 1600. The torturous journey, and Adams’ solitude, is pictured by Blandy through space battles and the starkness of a technology-filled future.

This state or sense of unfixedness in the UK perhaps stems from media-induced tension about personal concerns. ‘A Rat Biting Another Rat’, by Anita Delaney, harasses and unnerves with big beats and fast edits, nipping at our anxiety. And in Daniel Shanken’s ‘Common Descent’ we are challenged, unwittingly, to recognise what happens inside our head without us knowing about it, while exploring a psychedelic dreamland.

Irreverent images, playful characters and dance tunes slip and slide against anxiety and frayed nerves throughout the programme, forming unknown questions in our minds without us realising.

Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
Address: 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, China

Vernissage
Wednesday, 23 March 2016, 5pm to 9pm

Public days
Thursday, 24 March 2016, 1pm to 9pm
Friday, 25 March 2016, 1pm to 8pm
Saturday, 26 March 2016, 11am to 6pm

Salon Program: Collaborative Network – Curating in the 21st Century

Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
Address: Auditorium, Entrance Hall 1A, Level 1, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, China

Date and time: Friday, 25 March 2016, 2 to 3pm

How should curating be in the 21st century? By bringing together veteran curators across the globe,this discussion contemplates different views regarding contemporary curating, with a focus on new networking channels.

Speakers:

Menene Gras Balaguer, Culture and Exhibitions Director, Casa Asia, Barcelona & Madrid;

David Elliott, Freelance Curator, Writer and Teacher, Berlin & Belgrade;

Isaac Leung, Artist, Curator and Chairperson, Videotage, Hong Kong;

Jamie Wyld, Director, videoclub, London.

Moderator:

Adrian George, Deputy Director and Senior Curator, UK Government Art Collection, London.

Roundtable Discussion: Inside Out: The Rise and Rise of the Youtube Generation

Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
Address: Crowdfunding Lab, Level 3 Concourse, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, China

Date and time: Saturday, 26 March 2016, 2-4pm

Practicing video artists, famous local YouTubers, and film directors host a roundtable discussion exploring the impact of new channels and the rise of artists with non-conventional training, and how that is changing the art-making environment in Hong Kong.

Speakers:

Susie Au, Film Director, Installation Artist, Handmade Films, Hong Kong;

Chan Ka Ming, Angus Kwok & Yeung Chun Yin, One Letter Horse, Hong Kong;

Jan Cho, General Manager, TBWA\ Hong Kong, Head Of Digital, Hong Kong;

Ben Tang, Programme Manager in Arts Programme; TV and Advertising Director, Hong Kong;

Jamie Wyld, Director, videoclub, London.

Moderator:

Ellen Pau, Founding Director, Videotage, Hong Kong.

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East Asia Moving

February 16, 2016
Lu Yang Delusional Mandala – Lu Yang (2015) – Courtesy of the artist and Beijing Commune

East Asia Moving – at various venues

East Asia Moving presents recent work by artist filmmakers from China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore, giving a brief glimpse into moving image practices from East Asia. Deeply spiritual imagery combines with cutting edge biological technology in Lu Yang’s LuYang Delusional Mandala, while dark humour, the sublime and high energy intertwine throughout and between each film.

The programme contains a review of poetic, accomplished and emotive films, created by rising filmmaking talent from East Asia. Artists include: Lu Yang, Shi Zheng, Isamu Hirabayashi, Lai Tsung Yun, Ryu Biho, Kent Chan and Li Ming.

Curated by Moritz Cheung and Jamie Wyld for videoclub.

Venues and screening details

Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre

Date and time: Thursday, 31 March 2016 at 6:30pm
Price: FREE
Address: 4 Midland Street, Leicester LE1 1TG
Web / contact / tickets: http://www.phoenix.org.uk / 0116 242 2800

Fabrica

Date and time: Thursday, 14 April 2016, Doors and bar 7pm, screening 7:30pm
Price: £3
Address: Fabrica, Duke Street, Brighton BN1 1AG
To book tickets: www.fabrica.org.uk / 01273 778646

Institute of Contemporary Arts

Date and time: Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 2pm
Price: £5 / free to members of the ICA
Address: 12 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
Web / contact / tickets: www.ica.org.uk / 020 7930 3647

 

Supported by Arts Council England.

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Hong Kong: consulates, venues and collaborations

January 19, 2016

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As the first port of call and a place of recent collaboration and partnership, I wasn’t expecting to unfold such great opportunities in Hong Kong. Had some great meetings that really contributed to the development of Both Sides Now for 2016, and interesting information on venues/activity, including an educational exchange programme, a residency and super meetings with British Council and Swiss Consulate General.

Erwin Luthi is deputy director of the Swiss Consulate General – we decided to visit him as we’ve previously worked with Connecting Spaces (through Videotage), which is a project of Zurich University of the Arts. Erwin gave us some great advice regarding places we might want to present video work at, or who could be good collaborators, in Hong Kong and Switzerland, here are a few:

– Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival (SW) – Visual Art Center (HK) (Apparently inexpensive to hire.) – Hong Kong International Film Festival (HK) – East Kowloon Flyover / Energising Kowloon East (HK) – PMQ (HK)

At British Council we met with Grace Zhang and Meijing Hei, who (very usefully) let us know that only ODA (official development assistance) countries (those in receipt of development aid) will receive funds from British Council from 2017. Which gives an interesting focus. British Council will be doingshowcase of British work in Korea during 2017, where there is potential for collaboration. And then Tokyo/Japan in 2020. We were encouraged to develop a clear digital strategy if we were wanting to approach British Council to get financial support.

While in Hong Kong we managed to outline a couple of good opportunities with partners, one with Hong Kong Institute of Education – a residency for an individual, to work on a collaborative artists’ film with artists from Hong Kong; the other an educational exchange with K11 Art Foundation, to bring together artists and students from the UK and Hong Kong.

David Blandy and Wong Ping show work at HOME’s artist weekender

October 24, 2015
Anjin 1600: Edo Wonderpark – David Blandy

Both Sides Now II artists David Blandy and Wong Ping show and talk about their work, 29 November

As part of HOME’s November Artists’ Film Weekender Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA), Videotage and videoclub present a screening of two artists from the Both Sides Now 2 exhibition at CFCCA, curated by videoclub and Videotage.

UK based artist David Blandy and Hong Kong artist Wong Ping will each be presenting three of their films which explore nationality and identity. Both artists will also each host a Q+A session following their screenings.

Event: Sunday 29 November, 4pm
Click here to purchase tickets, £6 full price / £4 concession or call 0161 200 1500
 Address: HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place Manchester M15 4FN

Both Sides Now 2 is on at CFCCA from September 25 – 6 December 2015.
www.cfcca.org.uk/exhibition/both-sides-now/

Both Sides Now 2 screening programme supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council and Arts Council England.

 

 

Presentation by Shi Zheng – Both Sides Now II artist-in-residence, Brighton

October 24, 2015
Offset – Shi Zheng

Chinese artist-in-residence at Phoenix Brighton shows previous and current work, 2 November

Shi Zheng is in residence at Phoenix Brighton between October and November, as part of the international exchange programme, Both Sides Now, curated by videoclub and Videotage (Hong Kong).

At Phoenix’s latest SPOTLIGHT event, Shi Zheng will show some of his beautifully-rendered, computer-generated landscapes that run alongside his addictive, rhythmic soundscapes; he will also give us a glimpse of new work he has been creating during his residency at Phoenix.

In recent years he has shown work at international festivals including Sound Art China 2014 (Hong Kong), Sound Art China 2013 (Shanghai), FILE Electronic Language International Festival (Brazil), Today Art Museum (Beijing) and Ars Electronica 2012 and 2015 (Austria).

Get a drink and join us to experience Shi Zheng’s work.

Event details

Date and time: 2 November, 6:30pm

Venue details: Phoenix Brighton, 10-14 Waterloo Pl, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 9NB

Cost: Free event but please book: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spotlight-artist-residencies-tickets-19188498315

Both Sides Now residency programme

Both Sides Now supports four artists in residence in 2015, enabling the programme to benefit practitioners, and to further support cultural exchange between China and the UK.

Two artists from each country will exchange, working at cultural institutions, where they will have access to local resources and contacts. The aim of the residency programme is to provide artists with the opportunity to explore new practices, develop new work and experience new cultures and share experiences.

The four artists in the programme are: Lucy Clout, Wong Ping, Daniel Shanken and Shi Zheng. The programme is supported by Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (UK), Cinecity + Phoenix Brighton (UK), V Art Center (in association with Chronus Art Center), and Wuhan K11 Art Village.

 

Supported by the associated organisations, Arts Council England and Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

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Both Sides Now 2: K11 Chi Art Space, Hong Kong

October 24, 2015
The Lion and the Unicorn – Rachel Maclean (2012)

Both Sides Now 2: It was the Best of Times, It was the Worst of Times?

Exhibition at K11 Chi Art Space, Hong Kong, 9 Oct – 1 Nov 2015

Both Sides Now 2 attempts, through moving image works, to explore national identity and culture, and to raise questions about China & Hong Kong and the UK. Comparisons between both countries arise – revolution and referendum, richness and austerity, lions and tigers. And unicorns.

The programme at K11 includes work by: David Blandy, Linda Lai, Anita Delaney, Choi Sai Ho, Chow Chun Fai, Jo Law, MAP Office, Law Yuk Mui, Benedict Drew, Silas Fong, João Vasco Paiva, Chloe Cheuk, Marianna Simnett, Angela Su, Lucy Clout, Rachel Maclean, Ellen Pau, Wong Ping, Daniel Shanken and Ben Rivers.

Both Sides Now – It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times? is the second phase of a long-term project that proposes (historical) re-readings of artists’ moving image from Hong Kong, China and the UK. By selecting video works of art, animations and documentary films, produced by Hong Kong and UK artists from 1989 to 2015, the project will reinterpret the experience of here and now by looking into the potentially excluded and forgotten moving images of Hong Kong.

In the new edition, videoclub (UK) and Videotage (HK) bring together internationally-recognised artists from the fields of video and film during a several month-long programme from June – August 2015. To build on the ideas posited from the success of Both Sides Now – Somewhere between Hong Kong and the UK, 15 arts organisations in the UK, China and Hong Kong will take part in various extensive screenings, exhibitions and artists-in-residence programmes.

Opening date and times: 9 September 2015, 6pm – 8pm

Exhibition dates: 9 October – 1 November 2015

Address: 18 Hanoi Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tsim Sha Tsui MTR Station Exit D2 / The Masterpiece

K11 website: http://hk.k11.com/en/Today-in-K11/News-Event.aspx#/General-Events-Both-Sides-Now-II

The exhibition has been curated by videoclub (UK) and Videotage (Hong Kong) in collaboration with K11. It is supported by K11, Arts Council England, and Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

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Both Sides Now 2: CFCCA, Manchester exhibition

September 13, 2015
FRUITPUNCH – We Want More – Wong Ping (2010)

Both Sides Now 2: It was the Best of Times, It was the Worst of Times?

Exhibition at Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, 25 Sept – 6 Dec 2015

Both Sides Now 2 attempts, through moving image works, to explore national identity and culture, and to raise questions about both China & Hong Kong and the UK. Comparisons between both countries arise – revolution and referendum, richness and austerity, lions and tigers. And unicorns.

The programme at CFCCA includes work by: David Blandy, Birdy Chu, Lucy Clout, Lu Yang, Rachel Maclean, Map Office, Ellen Pau, Wong Ping, Daniel Shanken, Ben Rivers.

Both Sides Now 2 – It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times? is the second phase of a long-term project that proposes (historical) re-readings of artists’ moving image from Hong Kong, China and the UK. By selecting video works of art, animations and documentary films, produced by Hong Kong and UK artists from 1989 to 2015, the project will reinterpret the experience of here and now by looking into the potentially excluded and forgotten moving images of Hong Kong.

In the new edition, videoclub (UK) and Videotage (HK) bring together internationally-recognised artists from the fields of video and film during a several month-long programme from June – August 2015. To build on the ideas posited from the success of Both Sides Now – Somewhere between Hong Kong and the UK, 15 arts organisations in the UK, China and Hong Kong will take part in various extensive screenings, exhibitions and artists-in-residence programmes.

Opening date and times: 24 September 2015, 6:00pm – 8:30pm

Exhibition dates: 25 September – 6 December 2015

Address: Market Buildings, 13 Thomas St, Manchester M4 1EU

CFCCA website: http://www.cfcca.org.uk

The exhibition has been curated by videoclub (UK) and Videotage (Hong Kong) in collaboration with CFCCA. It is supported by CFCCA, Arts Council England, and Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

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Both Sides Now 2: Residency programme

August 9, 2015
Offset – Shi Zheng

Artists in residence across China and the UK

Both Sides Now supports four artists in residence in 2015, enabling the programme to benefit practitioners, and to further support cultural exchange between China and the UK.

Two artists from each country will exchange, working at cultural institutions, where they will have access to local resources and contacts. The aim of the residency programme is to provide artists with the opportunity to explore new practices, develop new work and experience new cultures and share experiences.

The four artists in the programme are: Lucy Clout, Wong Ping, Daniel Shanken and Shi Zheng. The programme is supported by Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (UK), Cinecity + Phoenix Brighton (UK), V Art Center (in association with Chronus Art Center), and Wuhan K11 Art Village.

Daniel Shanken at Wuhan K11 Art Village, Wuhan, China

Residency dates: 19 July – 15 August 2015

Daniel Shanken website

Daniel Shanken is an artist from Los Angeles, USA, living and working in London, UK. He works in a variety of mediums drawing from the likes of hypnotherapy, neurology, advertising, and scripted spaces. Recently his work has been shown at the Whitechapel Gallery, CCA Glasgow, Nottingham Contemporary, Five Years Gallery, Kiasma Helsinki, and CGP London.

Wuhan K11 Art Village

K11 is committed to promoting the development of contemporary art and the communication between young artists in the fields of visual arts, design, multimedia, music and other creative genres. K11 art village hopes that through art exhibitions and exchange activities in our art spaces, the habitats of the community can become the basis of an artistic life. Art events are organized for the whole community to participate, thereby strengthening the linkage of art, people, nature.

K11 art village provides a platform for young artists dedicated to their art and yet do not have the financial means to support themselves. We are constantly in search of young artists who are full of talent, passion and unique ideas and invite them to join our artist-in-residence programe to use our artist studios for creation. Moreover, they can gain access to a wide range of nationwide and overseas creative resources, exhibition opportunities, media exposure, academic exchange, as well as public awareness.

Lucy Clout at V Art Center, in association with Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China

Residency dates: 1 – 16 August 2015

Lucy Clout

Lucy Clout’s previous work has investigated the experience of viewing performance, interrogating the communicative aspects of the physical and social relationships between the audience and the art-object/performer. She graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Sculpture in 2009, and has exhibited in commercial and non-commercial spaces in the UK and internationally.

V Art Center

Established in 2010, V ART CENTER is located in the Shanghai M50 Innovation Park. As a non-profitable space affiliated with SIVA of Fudan University, the center is presided by Mr. Ding Yi, a famous modern artist and an associate dean of SIVA. Both of its exhibition halls in Building No. 3 and No.6 are being operated in an open manner. This young space shall maintain its vitality all the time, presenting a dialogue platform for modern arts in Shanghai.

Chronus Art Center

Established in 2013, Chronus Art Center (CAC) is China’s first non-profit art organization dedicated to the presentation, research / creation and scholarship of media art. CAC with its exhibitions, residency-oriented fellowships, lectures and workshop programs and through its archiving and publishing initiatives, creates a multifaceted and vibrant platform for the discourse, production and dissemination of media art in a global context. CAC is positioned to advance artistic innovation and cultural awareness by critically engaging with media technologies that are transforming and reshaping contemporary experiences.

Shi Zheng at Phoenix Brighton with Cinecity at the University of Brighton, UK

Residency dates: 2 October – 8 November 2015

Shi Zheng

Shi’s work takes on multiple forms such as audio-visual installation work, recordings, and concert pieces. He composes time-based sculpture, using field recordings and digital generated structures, and reconstructs, architecturally, audiovisual phenomenon.

In 2013, Shi Zheng co-founded new media group RMBit with nenghuo, Zhipeng Wang, and Wei Weng. The group has participated in several significant exhibitions and performance, including exhibitions and performances in art institutions and cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taipei.

In recent years, his work has been shown at international festivals including Sound Art China 2014 (HongKong), Sound Art China 2013 (Shanghai), FILE Electronic Language International Festival (Brazil), Today Art Museum (Beijing) and Ars Electronica 2012 (Linz).

Phoenix Brighton

Phoenix Arts Association Ltd (trading as Phoenix Brighton) is a charitable (not-for-profit) arts organisation based in central Brighton.

Its charitable objectives are:
1.The promotion of the arts
2.Advancement of public education in the appreciation, production and practice of the arts, particularly in the towns of Brighton & Hove, and in other areas of Sussex
3.To relieve poor artists by providing workspace and studio facilities and by the provision of advice in artist development seminars.

Phoenix provides 100+ studio spaces, short-term project space for hire by community groups and supports a gallery and education programme which bring together professional artists and the general public in a friendly and creative environment.

Cinecity

CINECITY is a partnership between the Duke of York’s Picturehouse, Screen Archive South East and the University of Brighton. We deliver a year-round programme of film and moving image events, screenings and exhibitions and present the annual CINECITY The Brighton Film Festival, the region’s major celebration of film. Our patrons include Nick Cave, Paddy Considine, Steve Coogan, John Hillcoat and Henry Normal.

CINECITY celebrates its 13th edition of the festival in November 2015 with the very best in international cinema and a global mix of premieres and previews, artists’ cinema and installations, treasures from the archive, retrospectives, free education screenings and events, talks and debates.

Wong Ping at Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK

Residency dates: 25 September – 6 December 2015

Wong Ping

Wong Ping is a Cantonese animator and director based in Hong Kong, mixing topics such as teenage lust, shame and sexual suppression with a surprisingly fresh and luscious colour palette. NOWNESS writes about him: “Wong Ping gives new meaning to NSFW… His gasp-inducing imagination feeds into our child-like curiosity to toy with social and cultural taboos”. He likes to hike, which gives him numerous, randomly meaningless but beautiful inspirations.

Wong Ping was selected as one of the Saatchi & Saatchi 2013 new directors and his work has been internationally screened and exhibited.

CFCCA

The Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (formerly Chinese Arts Centre) is leading the UK in exploring a changing international dynamic. This is the Chinese Century and Chinese contemporary art and visual culture is a vibrant force, fast gaining momentum.

CFCCA has a proud 29-year history of ‘first’ UK solo exhibitions, featuring exceptional artists that go on to achieve international acclaim. We work with a wide array of partners to provide people with a lively and innovative programme of exhibitions, residencies, engagement projects, festivals, symposia and events.

CFCCA is uniquely placed to explore the Chinese Century through art and the trans-cultural debates that will shape our future.

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Both Sides Now 2: Shanghai exhibition and screenings

August 9, 2015
Anjin 1600: Edo Wonderpark – David Blandy

Both Sides Now: It was the Best of Times, It was the Worst of Times?

Exhibition at V Art Center, Shanghai, 15-30 August 2015

Both Sides Now 2 attempts, through moving image works, to explore national identity and culture, and to raise questions about both China & Hong Kong and the UK. Comparisons between both countries arise – revolution and referendum, richness and austerity, lions and tigers. And unicorns.

Both Sides Now 2 – It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times is the second phase of a long-term project that proposes (historical) re-readings of artists’ moving image from Hong Kong, China and the UK. By selecting video works of art, animations and documentary films, produced by Hong Kong and UK artists from 1989 to 2014, the project will reinterpret the experience of here and now by looking into the potentially excluded and forgotten moving images of Hong Kong.

In the new edition, videoclub (UK) and Videotage (HK) bring together internationally-recognised artists from the fields of video and film during a several month-long programme from June – August 2015. To build on the ideas posited from the success of Both Sides Now – Somewhere between Hong Kong and the UK, 15 art organisations in the UK, China and Hong Kong will take part in various extensive screenings, exhibitions and artists-in-residence programmes.

The programme includes work by: David Blandy, Lucy Clout, Choi Sai Ho, Jo Law, Rachel Maclean, Joao Vasco Paiva, Ellen Pau, Wong Ping, Daniel Shanken, Ben Rivers.

Preview opening date and time: 15 August 2015, 6:00pm

Exhibition dates: 15-30 August 2015

Address: Space 1 (view point) : 2F, Building 3, No.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai 200060

V Art Center website: www.vartcenter.com   Tel: +86 21 5212 2691

Screenings take place in Shanghai of UK and Chinese and Hong Kongese work, details can be seen on the Both Sides Now website.

The exhibition has been curated by videoclub (UK) and Videotage (Hong Kong). It is supported by Chronus Art Center, V Art Center, Arts Council England, and Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

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Both Sides Now 2: Screenings in UK

May 20, 2015
Image credit: ‘An emo nose’ – Wong Ping (courtesy of the artist)

Both Sides Now – It was the best of times, it was the worst of times?

Various screening dates (full details below)

  • 07 July 2015, Phoenix, Leicester
  • 12 July 2015, Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings
  • 14 July 2015, Fabrica, Brighton
  • 15 July 2015, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
  • 26 Sept 2015, ICA, London
  • 29 Nov 2015, HOME, Manchester

Both Sides Now explores the political and social connections and differences between the UK and China & Hong Kong, by bringing together artworks that investigate nationhood, individuality and power. Both Sides Now responds to past and recent political and cultural events, including Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution and the handover of Hong Kong to China. It explores the implications of wealth creation, capitalism and its proposed decline, and what they mean for the individual.

Artists include: Birdy Chu, Map Office, Ellen Pau, Wong Ping and Lu Yang.

The UK screening programme has been curated by Isaac Leung, Videotage.

Both Sides Now is curated and produced by videoclub (UK) and Videotage (Hong Kong). The aim is to open up dialogue between Chinese, Hong Kong and British film artists and audiences, working with artists’ moving image to reinterpret the experience of here and now for both cultures.

A wider programme of activity will take place in the UK, China and Hong Kong, including an exhibition and residency at Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, and a programme of activity in Shanghai, Wuhan and Hong Kong. Details to follow.

Supported by Arts Council England and Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

Videotage (HK)

Videotage is a leading non-profit organisation in Hong Kong focusing on the presentation, promotion, production and preservation of video and media art, serving artists in the expanding technological art and culture network. Since 1986, Videotage has developed itself from an umbrella for media artists, to a network of media art and culture for cross-disciplinary cultural productions, and platform to facilitate international exchange.

Venue and screening details:

Phoenix

Date and time: Tuesday, 7 July 2015 at 6:30pm
Price: FREE
Address: 4 Midland Street, Leicester LE1 1TG
Web / contact / tickets: http://www.phoenix.org.uk/event/both-sides-now-2/ / 0116 242 2800

Electric Palace Cinema

Date and time: Sunday, 12 July 2015 at 8pm
Price: £7 / £6 concessions
Address: 39A High Street, Hastings TN34 3ER
Web / contact / tickets: www.electricpalacecinema.com / 01424 720393

Fabrica

Date and time: Tuesday, 14 July 2015 at 7pm
Price: FREE
Address: Fabrica @ Friends’ Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton BN1 1AF
Web / contact / tickets: www.fabrica.org.uk / 01273 778646

Aspex

Date and time: Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 6:30pm (6:15pm doors open)
Price: FREE
Address: The Vulcan Building,  Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth  PO1 3BF
Web / contact / tickets: www.aspex.org.uk / 023 9277 8080 / No booking required

Institute of Contemporary Arts

Date and time: Saturday, 26 September at 12pm
Price: £5 / free to members of the ICA
Address: 12 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
Web / contact / tickets: www.ica.org.uk / 020 7930 3647

 

HOME

Date and time: Sunday, 29 November at 4pm
Price: £TBC
Address: 2 Tony Wilson Place Manchester M15 4FN
Web / contact / tickets: http://homemcr.org / 0161 200 1500

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Selected V

April 12, 2015
Rigged, Kate Cooper, 2013

“… if you’re in search of something experimental, intriguing, challenging, perhaps even perplexing… think of this as a lucky dip, perhaps containing a future Turner Prize winner.” – The Guardian

Various screening dates for Selected V

(Full details below)

  • 28 May 2015, CCA Glasgow
  • 10 June 2015, CIRCA, Newcastle
  • 11 June 2015, Fabrica, Brighton
  • 09 July 2015, FACT, Liverpool
  • 21 July 2015, Nottingham Contemporary
  • 23 July 2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London

Selected 5 is a new curated programme of artists’ film and video touring throughout May-July 2015 to some of the UK’s leading venues for showcasing artists’ film.

Drawn from nominations put forward by the artists shortlisted for the 2014 Film London Jarman Award, Selected 5 brings together some of the most outstanding work from early career moving image artists working in the UK.

Shortlisted artists for the 2014 Film London Jarman Award – John Akomfrah, Sebastian Buerkner, Laura Buckley, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Steven Claydon, Redmond Entwistle, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Ursula Mayer, Rachel Reupke and Stephen Sutcliffe – nominated up-and-coming filmmaking talent. Key works were selected to form a touring programme that represents a cross section of early career moving image practice in the UK today.

Artists in the programme include: Lucy Beech, Nicholas Brooks, Niels Bugge, Lucy Clout, Kate Cooper, Anita Delaney, Tom Lock, Richard Sides and Min-Wei Ting. Artists will be present at screenings to introduce their work and be in conversation with audiences.

Selected has been produced in partnership with videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN).

Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network

Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) supports London-based artists working in moving image, working in partnership to deliver a comprehensive programme including production award schemes, regular screenings, talks and events, as well as the prestigious annual Film London Jarman Award.

Venue and screening details:

CCA Glasgow

Date and time: Thursday, 28 May 2015, 7pm.
Price: £6 full / £4 concessions
Address: CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
To book tickets (tickets also on door): www.cca-glasgow.com / 0141 352 4900

CIRCA Projects @ The Northern Charter

Date and time: Wednesday, 10 June 2015, 7pm.
Price: £5 full / £3 concessions.
Address: The Northern Charter, 5th Floor Commercial Union House, 39 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 6QE
Web / contact: http://circaprojects.org / info@circaprojects.org

Fabrica

Date and time: Thursday, 11 June 2015, 6.30pm.
Price: £3
Address: Fabrica, Duke Street, Brighton BN1 1AG
Web / contact: www.fabrica.org.uk / 01273 778646 / Book ticket

FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)

Date and time: Thursday, 09 July 2015, 7pm
Price: £4 / £3 concessions. Please book at: www.fact.co.uk or in person at box office.
Address: The Box, FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ
Web / box office: www.fact.co.uk / 0871 902 5737

Nottingham Contemporary

Date and time: Tuesday, 21 July 2015, 7pm.
Price: FREE
Address: Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham NG1 2GB
Web / contact: www.nottinghamcontemporary.org / 0115 948 9750

Whitechapel Gallery

Date and time: 23 July 2015, Time 7pm.
Price: £6 full / £4 concessions
Address: Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX
Web / tickets / contact: www.whitechapelgallery.org / 020 7522 78889

 

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Kisses, picnics and film at Art Basel

March 27, 2015

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I don’t remember seeing much artists’ moving image at the art fairs during Art Basel Hong Kong, which struck me as a little strange, but I always feel strange at commercial art fairs. The shocking lighting, the mixture of appalling art work with some classic pieces that look like they should be in a museum. All this complemented and in contrast with the revved up, label-slicked, money-gownery striding everywhere with champagne in hand. It feels like a mockery of the art world (all that creativity and unique ideas perverted into another reason to get dressed up and go shopping for the rich), but this is a core part of that world now.

The main pillar of artists’ film at Art Basel was the Art Basel Film programme. This is the second year Art Basel Hong Kong has implemented a film programme, which gives moving image artists represented by galleries at Art Basel a platform to exhibit work that exists away from the bustling mall-like fair.

Curated by Li Zhenhua, Beijing and Zurich-based producer and multimedia artist, screenings were held over four days in Hong Kong Arts Centre’s cinema space. Seven themes were explored over the four days, drawing the films into discrete programmes of work.

As the way is with screenings, it was, for me, a mixture of excellent, fair, and not so great work. The first two films, represented by Star Gallery, were in the great category. PICNIC by Chen Tianzhou is a riotous escapade of sexually charged madness; colourful, blissed out, marvellous and delirious. Drug-induced delirium is suggested at the start, and continues throughout. It is irreverent, gripping, a good antidote to the many banal works in the art fair.

A Thousand Kisses Deep by Song Kun is a slippery, sexual film; architecture intermingles with human bodies and octopus tentacles, striving to get closer to each other, increasing in number as they desperately entangle. The film is a sensual meditation on the rapid growth of cities, and growing numbers of people living in them.

A third film I really appreciated was Lu Yang’s Manga-style animation Uterusman, an overview of a superhero whose superpowers derive from a woman’s genitalia, Uterusman himself being made up of the collective elements of the female reproductive system. Superpowers include: blood energy altitude flying, sanitary pad skateboard, blood chain defence, ovum light wave attack, DNA attack, pelvis chariot, baby weapon, plus more.

The film dynamically mixes in archival film of blood flowing, ovulation, birth and umbilical cord clipping, presenting female reproductive processes as super while everyday. The artist denied that she intended the film to be feminist, but confirmed that she wanted to present a character who combined male and female attributes as a way of expressing everyone is equal. It’s a very funny, challenging film, the insightful contents of which, I believe, the artist is still to become aware of.

Art Basel Film programme was a great opportunity to duck out of the kerfuffle of art fair crazy, and to take some peace in knowing that there is some good art for sale. I look forward to next year’s programme.

Stateland – Recent film and video from the USA

January 26, 2015

Various screening dates

(full details at the bottom)

  • 12 February 2015 : Whitechapel Gallery, London
  • 26 February 2015 : Fabrica, Brighton
  • 12 November 2015 : Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
  • 15 November 2015 : Electric Palace, Hastings
  • 18 November 2015 : Phoenix, Leicester

Stateland is a collection of recent work by  some of the most creative and ground-breaking artists living and working in- and outside of America.

This collection of films reveals the contrasts and qualities being utilised by contemporary filmmakers from the US, varying between 16mm and digital collage; uncanny storytelling and subtle abstraction.

Stateland puts America under the microscope, revealing the multifaceted landscape that these films are informed and inspired by. In Luciano Piazza’s ‘Windows’, voyeuristic gazes into apartment windows allow us to glimpse the everyday of daily American lives. Gazelle Samizay’s ‘Ravel’ reveals the impact of growing up in America as an Afghanistani child, interpreting the complexity of cultural crossovers. In ‘The Dark, Krystle’, Michael Robinson plays with the nature of video and the representation of familiar American TV characters from Dynasty, reappropriating their stories with new emotional power.

Artists in the programme include: Gabriel Abrantes, Laida Lertxundi, Luciano Piazza, Michael Robinson, Ben Russell, Gazelle Samizay and Daniel Shanken.

Venue and screening details:

Whitechapel Gallery

Date and time: Thursday 12 February, 7pm
Price: tickets from £6.50
Address: Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX
To book tickets: www.whitechapelgallery.org / 020 7522 78889

Fabrica

Date and time: Thursday 26 February, Doors and bar 6pm, screening 6.30pm
Price: Free
Address: Fabrica, Duke Street, Brighton BN1 1AG
To book tickets: www.fabrica.org.uk / 01273 778646

Aspex

Date and time: Thursday, 12 November 2015 at 6:30pm (6:15pm doors open)
Price: FREE
Address: The Vulcan Building,  Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth  PO1 3BF
Web / contact / tickets: www.aspex.org.uk / 023 9277 8080 / No booking required

Electric Palace Cinema

Date and time: Sunday, 15 November 2015 at 8pm
Price: £7 / £6 concessions
Address: 39A High Street, Hastings TN34 3ER
Web / contact / tickets: www.electricpalacecinema.com / 01424 720393

Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre

Date and time: Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 6:30pm
Price: FREE
Address: 4 Midland Street, Leicester LE1 1TG
Web / contact / tickets: http://www.phoenix.org.uk / 0116 242 2800

 

Supported by Arts Council England.

 

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Both Sides Now

January 26, 2015

Various screening dates

(full details at the bottom)

  • 24 June 2014 : FACT, Liverpool
  • 26 June 2014 : Duke’s at Komedia, Brighton
  • 05 July 2014 : Whitechapel Gallery, London
  • 13 July 2014 : Floating Cinema, King’s Cross, London
  • 30 July 2014 : Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle

Both Sides Now presents contemporary and historical film and video work from Hong Kong and China, curated by Isaac Leung of Videotage (Hong Kong). The films explore developments within the culture and society of Hong Kong and China over the past three decades, including work which comments upon such events as Tianamen Square and the ongoing economic development of China.

The programme contains work by some of Hong Kong and China’s most exciting artists working in film and video, and varies between animation, documentary and artist’ moving image. Artists in the programme include: Ellen Pau, Linda Lai, Anson Mak, Kwan Sheung Chi, Lee Kit, Tse Ming Chong, Choi Sai Ho, and other 11 artists from Hong Kong.

Both Sides Now will tour in the UK during June and July 2014, visiting FACT, Liverpool; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Broadway, Nottingham; Duke’s at Komedia, Brighton; and will be exhibited at Floating Cinema on the Thames mid-July.

Both Sides Now is a video art exchange project curated and produced by videoclub (UK) and Videotage (Hong Kong). The aim of the project is to open up dialogue between China and Hong Kong and British film artists, academics, curators and audiences. Working with artists’ moving image, animation and documentary films – produced by artists from Hong Kong and the UK – we aim to reinterpret the experience of here and now for both cultures.

A corresponding tour of artists’ film from the UK will take place in Hong Kong and China in August 2014.

Both Sides Now is supported by Arts Council England, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Brighton & Hove City Council, Connections through Culture (British Council), Osage Art Foundation and Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

Videotage (HK)

Videotage is a leading non-profit organisation in Hong Kong focusing on the presentation, promotion, production and preservation of video and media art, serving artists in the expanding technological art and culture network. Since 1986, Videotage has developed itself from an umbrella for media artists, to a network of media art and culture for cross-disciplinary cultural productions, and platform to facilitate international exchange.

Venue and screening details:

FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)

Date and time: Tuesday 24th June, 6:30pm
Price: £4 / 3. Please book at: www.fact.co.uk or in person at box office.
Address: FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ
Web / box office: www.fact.co.uk / 0871 902 5737

Duke’s at Komedia

Date and time: Thursday 26th June, 7pm
Price: £5
Address: Duke’s at Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, North Laine, Brighton BN1 1UN
Web / box office: BOOK A TICKET / 0871 902 5728

Whitechapel Gallery

Date and time: Saturday 5th July 2014, 1:30pm
Price: Both Sides Now + Selected 4 £12.50 full / £10.50 conc / £6.25 Whitechapel members or Both Sides Now only £8.50 full / £6.50 conc / £4.25 Whitechapel members
Address: Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX
Web / box office: BOOK A TICKET/DETAILS / 020 7522 78889

Floating Cinema with Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art – OPEN AIR WEEKENDER

Date and time: Sunday 13 July, 3pm onwards – playing on a loop on the Floating Cinema barge
Price: Free
Address: Canalside Steps, Granary Square, Off Good’s Way, King’s Cross, London N1 4AA (Tube: King’s Cross)
Web / details: http://floatingcinema.info/

Star and Shadow Cinema

Date and time: Wednesday 30th July, 7.30pm
Price: £5 full / £3.50 concessions. Star and Shadow membership is required for entry; £1 for a year, available on the door.
Address: Star and Shadow Cinema, Stepney Bank, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 2NP
Web / box office: www.starandshadow.org.uk / 0115 9526 611

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