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September 17, 2020
Strangelove – ISOLATION DIVERSITY CLIMATE
Earlier in 2020, we were invited by the Strangelove team to be one of five selectors, including Abigail Addison, James Collie, Chris Meigh-Andrews and the Strangelove Team, for their international open call programme. The programme, entitled ISOLATION / DIVERSITY / CLIMATE, is presented in 5 screening rooms online. Visitors and audiences can review, discuss and comment on...
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September 1, 2020
Vital Capacities – digital residency launch 1 Sept
Over the past three months we’ve been working with four artists – Seecum Cheung, Joey Holder, Daniel Locke and Romily Alice Walden to create a new purpose-built digital residency space, Vital Capacities. The aim of the project is to provide artists with time and space to develop ideas, while inviting audiences to engage with and...
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July 3, 2020
Yu Araki’s ‘Bivalvia: Act I’ showing online with God’s House Tower
Yu Araki’s Bivalvia Act I showing as part of God’s House Tower’s Beside the Sea: Summer Screenings programme. We were invited to nominate a film by God’s House Tower in Southampton as part of their Beside the Sea: Summer Screenings programme. Throughout July, the Summer Screenings programme will explore how artists and filmmakers have been...
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June 30, 2020
Selected X : interviews with artists
Interviews with some of the artists in Selected X appear below. If you’d like to watch the film programme, click here. Beverley Bennett‘s interview (Bennett’s film Amine is in Selected X): What was it that inspired your film? In 2016 the pioneering writer Claudia Rankine pronounced that ‘the invisibility of black women was astonishing.’ That...
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June 18, 2020
Selected X – online programme
The Selected programme was established 10 years ago with the aims of supporting artist filmmakers to gain greater visibility and to bring new, diverse moving image work to audiences. Each year the artists who are shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award nominate artists who are earlier in their careers and from those nominations a...
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June 16, 2020
Digital residency + space development
Thanks to support from Arts Council England, we now have the resources to support four artists to participate in building a digital residency space with us. Over the next five months we’re going to develop an accessible, purpose-built digital residency platform, collaborating with four artists to create a space that supports their practice, while engaging...
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May 23, 2020
Film & Audio commissions – call for applications
Over the past three rounds of New Creatives, videoclub’s director, Jamie Wyld, has been working as Development Executive on the New Creatives programme with Screen South, to review applications, interview applicants and provide development support. New Creatives is a vital programme that is supporting young, talented artists who want to explore and experiment, and develop...
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May 7, 2020
Selected history + highlights
It’s 10 years since we did the first Selected programme, an idea conjured by Ben Rivers and myself as we talked about ideas for how to curate a new videoclub programme. Simply, Ben had been shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award (2010), and he suggested we ask the other shortlisted artists to nominate artists...
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October 23, 2019
FLAME HK – Asia’s first video art fair
Set in the stunning surroundings of Aberdeen, Hong Kong, Ovolo Southside Hotel is the host of Asia’s very first video art fair, FLAME HK – set up and delivered by Formosa Art Fair (Taiwan). Established as a roving fair, taking place in cities across Asia, Hong Kong is the fair’s first stop. FLAME HK took...
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October 17, 2019
Diary of a Madman: Manchester Plan, New Bees – Cheng Ran
Exhibition preview: Thursday, 24 October 19, 6-8pm Exhibition dates: 25 October 19 – 19 January 20 Opening times: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm (closed Mondays) Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Market Buildings, Thomas Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, M4 1EU Diary of a Madman: Manchester Plan, New Bees, is based on Cheng Ran’s short-term residency at Centre...
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September 29, 2019
videoclub @ FLAME video art fair, Hong Kong
videoclub is presenting a curated showcase of artists’ film and video by five artists based in the UK at FLAME, Asia’s first video art fair in October. The fair is on between 4 and 6 October at Ovolo Southside, Wong Chuk Hang Road, 64, Hong Kong. We will be showing work by celebrated artists Patrick Hough,...
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February 21, 2019
A mood board and sound mix of Taipei by Anne Duffau
A- – -Z (the nomadic curatorial platform run by Anne Duffau) presents a mood board and a mix from a trip to Taipei with videoclub for Viewfinder. It is necessary to share some basic facts about Taipei and Taiwan, then to mention two favourite artworks (by Su Yu-Hsien & Su Hui-Yu) from our curatorial visit...
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January 22, 2019
Highlights of Gwangju and Busan Biennales by Katie Yook
The opportunity to travel to South Korea with videoclub came at a very timely moment in my curatorial career. I was about to open Phantom Limb (phantomlimb.info), an exhibition I co-curated with Kathy Cho at Cody Dock in East London that brought together Korean diaspora artists Dylan Mira, Jette Hye Jin Mortensen, Joan Oh, Tiffany...
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December 10, 2018
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...
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November 25, 2018
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...
