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You are looking at a black-and-white image. The scene is in a wood, you will see trees at the back and tall grass on the ground that reaches the waist of an adult. Two men standing in the center of the image facing each other. They both wearing the ancient look with robes. The man on the left is taller with four eyes, holding a crystal cube. The man on the right has another head attached to his head with white hair. He is holding a book with a rope on a book cover. It looks like the man on the right is talking to the man on the left. January 19, 2022 Knotted Water Sizzled Tongue by Tzu-Huan Lin – Online exhibition with Platform Asia Languages are shapes that have fallen out of our mouths. A story about the attempt to make perfect pronunciation for immigrants.  Exhibition dates: 24 Jan – 11 Feb 22, online – opening at 11 am on 24 Jan. Platform Asia presents Knotted Water Sizzled Tongue 形聲, a new film by Tzu-Huan Lin, in collaboration...
A bright yellow head with eye mask looks down upon a group of loving worshippers January 17, 2022 Third Thursdays Brighton – 20 January 2022 Third Thursdays Brighton, 20 January 2022 Third Thursdays returns in 2022 on 20 January, between 4:30pm and 6:30pm. With music by musicians from Brighton & Hove, and film and video work by artists from across the globe. Curated by videoclub. Join our walking cinema film trail and watch films projected onto buildings around Brighton; listen to music played...
December 28, 2021 Screening, exhibition & commission opportunities for Third Thursdays THIRD THURSDAYS – A MONTHLY OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE WITH COMMUNITIES AND AUDIENCES THROUGH ART, MUSIC AND CULTURE. Third Thursdays is a new arts, music and culture programme that aims to make the centre of Brighton more vibrant, through events, performances, film projections and new artwork commissions. It will create moments each third Thursday of the...
A bonfire on the beach of a large lake at sunrise, blue skies with an orange morning glow in the distance. December 15, 2021 Call out: online residency for 2 disabled, D/deaf and/or Neurodivergent artists based in Brighton & Hove We are delivering a month-long online residency exchange in collaboration with Videotage in Hong Kong as part of videoclub and Videotage’s seventh Both Sides Now programme. Residencies will take place on videoclub’s Vital Capacities virtual residency space: vitalcapacities.com and on Videotage’s Minecraft residency. Residencies will take place in February 2022. Deadline for submissions is: 12...
December 10, 2021 Blog post for Culture in Our City on Third Thursdays 16 Dec Our director, Jamie Wyld, has written a blog post about Third Thursdays on 16 December – get an insight into this month’s theme and some background to artworks in the programme, click here to read. To find out more about Third Thursdays, go to the website by clicking here.
December 10, 2021 Third Thursdays Brighton on 16 Dec Third Thursdays – a monthly opportunity to see, experience and take part in art, music and culture.  Third Thursdays is a new arts, music and culture programme that aims to make the centre of Brighton more vibrant, through events, performances, film projections and new artwork commissions. It will create moments each third Thursday of the...
3 frames from Zoom webinar including speakers Jia Tan, Beatrice Wong and Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley November 1, 2021 Both Sides Now: Queer – recorded panel talks Both Sides Now: Queer – recorded panel talks In October 21, we participated in SPARK Festival 21, delivered by British Council Hong Kong. We presented Both Sides Now: Queer – a programme of films and two panel discussions. The two talks are now available to watch: Panel discussion led by Lucia King (Researcher, curator and...
A person looks up facing the ceiling. The word queer in capital letters is written in the centre. October 12, 2021 Both Sides Now: Queer at SPARK Festival 21 HK/UK videoclub and Videotage present Both Sides Now: Queer as part of SPARK Festival 2021, delivered by British Council Hong Kong. Join filmmakers from the UK and Hong Kong to explore aspects of LGBTQI+ life, reflecting upon Queer identity, life and creativity. Both Sides Now: Queer features eight short films (available to stream on-demand between 20-23...
October 11, 2021 SPARK – Both Sides Now: Queer – Panel discussions Two panel discussions take place on 22 and 23 October, which complement the Both Sides Now: Queer film programme. Date and time: 22 October at 11am UK (6pm HK) Participants: Rob Crosse (artist, UK)), Nicole Pun (artist, HK), Lucia King (moderator, UK)  Panellists will discuss what sector support is needed and available for LGBTQ+ artists...
Image represents four artists work, top left: a still image from Siphenathi Mayekiso’s film Echoes of Identity, which shows a man with bare chest and arms across his face against a blue sky; top right: a still image from Rebekah Ubuntu’s film Ecologies of Belonging (a Meditation in Progress), which shows a person standing in the centre of a sandy footpath with long grass either side, in the distance to the left if the sea and clouds in the sky; bottom right: a still image from Nadine Mckenzie’s film A Will, My Wheels and a Way, which shows a young woman sat in a wheelchair reflected in a mirror, a wall of windows shows buildings and blue sky outside; bottom left picture: a dirt track footpath leads into the distance through a field, the ground is a deep red, making the grass on the sides of the path almost black in colour, trees can be seen on the horizon in the distance with clouds and a little blue sky above. September 29, 2021 Reverberation – Vital Capacities’ latest exhibition In August 2021, we worked with four artists-in-residence on Vital Capacities, two from South Africa, Siphenathi Mayekiso and Nadine Mckenzie, and two from the UK, …kruse and Rebekah Ubuntu. All four artists were invited to research and explore ideas, and to share them during the residency. Each artist has produced work that resonates with the...
September 1, 2021 Solo Exhibition: Hibernation Dream by Zara Sands until 30 September 21 An office worker attempts hibernating in a remote forest. With her eyes closed she dreams, hearing recorded sounds of wild animals. Her dream soon becomes a nightmare as she turns into a distortion of the wild animal she once dreamed of. videoclub presents Hibernation Dream, a solo exhibition by Zara Sands during 1-30 September 21...
August 4, 2021 Selected 11 – UK Screenings and Exhibition Selected brings together some of the best work from early career film and video artists from across the UK in a vibrant programme of recent artists’ moving image.  Book a ticket for Fabrica screening on 2 Sept Screening at Fabrica Gallery, Brighton on 2 September at 6:30pm. Tickets are £3. To book a ticket for Fabrica,...
August 4, 2021 Selected 11 – Meet the artists Nominated by the artists shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2020, Selected is a collection of diverse, surprising and provocative new film by early career artists from across the UK. Selected 11 includes work by: River Cao, Sam Grant, Aoibheann Greenan, Katayoun Jalilipour, Roxy Rezvany and Gaby Sahhar. Here you can read about each artists in...
Five images by resident artists form a composite - on the far left, a man painted grey with a beard wears a blue smock. Top centre a man glides horizontally above a woman sat leaning forward in a wheelchair in a dance pose. On the top right a deepinkish red swirl of absract light blends iwht black background. Bottom right a ploughed field has small plants growing in rows, path of green plants runs through the centre. Bottom centre a person with bunched up green hair and rainbow sparkly jacket stands before an audience in a gallery, a laptop open next to them. August 2, 2021 UK & South African artists join Vital Capacities for August For the fifth Vital Capacities‘ residency, we partner with Institute for Creative Arts (Cape Town) and Wysing Art Centre (Cambridge) to work with artists from both South Africa and the UK. From 2 August, artists Siphenati Mayekiso, Nadine Mckenzie, Rebekah Ubuntu and …kruse will join Vital Capacities, to undertake research and develop new work. Working...
August 2, 2021 Vital Capacities’ artist, Seo Hye Lee interviewed by Lutte Collective Vital Capacities resident artist, Seo Hye Lee, was interviewed by lutte collective as their featured artist for August. Lee talks about her work as a deaf artist working with sound, and her time during the residency on Vital Capacities. Read the interview here: https://luttecollective.com/ Image: [Sounds of Subtitles] by Seo Hye Lee (2021), commissioned with University of Salford...