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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...
July 20, 2021 Intertwined exhibition on Vital Capacities Intertwined is our new exhibition on Vital Capacities, presenting new works by resident artists – Seo Hye Lee, Laura Lulika and Linda Stupart. The works have been commissioned in collaboration with our partners: Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), Phoenix and University of Salford Art Collection. Intertwined opens on 22 July. See the exhibition now...
Image of a black rectangular lightbox with a white screen has the word what with a question mark written 3 times on it, black pipes leave the box on the left and right sides. June 2, 2021 Interview & intro video with artist Seo Hye Lee Introduction video by Seo Hye Lee, resident artist on Vital Capacities, June 2021 Transcript for Seo Hye Lee introduction video Interview with Seo Hye Lee, resident artist on Vital Capacities Jamie Wyld (Vital Capacities’ Director): Thanks for being part of the Vital Capacities residency programme! Can you say a little about yourself and your work,...
Three images in a composite – top left image: a black rectangular lightbox with a white screen has the word what with a question mark written 3 times on it, black pipes leave the box on the left and right sides. Top right image: a white heart shaped balloon has the words stay sick written in the middle. Bottom left image: a collage of green leaves, white daisies with yellow centres, and stripes of yellow and red streak across the image. May 29, 2021 Artists from across UK join Vital Capacities as artists-in-residence For June 2021’s Vital Capacities’ residency, we are collaborating with Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), Phoenix and University of Salford Art Collection. Working with three artists from across the UK, Seo Hye Lee, Laura Lulika and Linda Stupart. Across June, artists will be researching and developing new work, with work commissioned in collaboration...
May 21, 2021 Vital Capacities – A Train to Utopia Digital Workshop by Tzu-Huan Lin Digital workshop on Mozilla’s immersive platform Hubs – imagining and building Utopia by Vital Capacities artist, Tzu-Huan Lin   A Train to Utopia is a digital workshop taking place on Mozilla Hubs led by artist, Tzu-Huan Lin. Questionning Utopia’s existence (and if we can create it), the workshop explores ideas related to this unknown but longed...
A video still from Tzu Huan Lin’s Let Me Inside You – a horse with 3 heads flies through the sky, 3 disembodied hands holding mobile phones are also in the sky. The sky is blue with white lines flowing through it. May 12, 2021 Interview with Tzu Huan Lin, Vital Capacities resident artist Jamie Wyld (Vital Capacities’ director): Thanks for being part of the Vital Capacities residency programme! Can you say a little about yourself and your work, perhaps in relation to what you’re thinking about doing during the residency? Hello Jamie, My name is Tzu-Huan Lin, I am a Taiwanese immigrant artist who lives and works in Brooklyn....
A figure stands reflected in front of a large mirror, showing the person from the waist up. They wear a rose-pink satin negligee, pink fur bra, fishnet vest and shiny black elbow length gloves. They have long pale pink hair and have pink mirrored futuristic sunglasses on. A black fishnet is wrapped tight over their face. The room they are in looks luxurious, with a decorative cream frame to the mirror, and long white and pink drapes against the wall in background. The image is taken from artists film, Broken Hearts Hotel by Katarzyna Perlak. May 4, 2021 Interview wth Katarzyna Perlak, Vital Capacities resident artist Jamie Wyld (Vital Capacities’ director): Thanks for being part of the Vital Capacities residency programme! Can you say a little about yourself and your work, perhaps in relation to what you are thinking about doing during the residency? My practice engages moving image, performance, sound, installation and textiles and explores the intersection of politics and feelings,...
Three digitised figures appear from a digital background. The background waves of digital data, in pink and green, all on a black background. The figures are also waves of data, two are in electric blue and green, the other an off white colour. May 1, 2021 Interview with Vishal Kumaraswamy, Vital Capacities resident artist Jamie Wyld (videoclub & Vital Capacities’ director): Thanks for being part of the Vital Capacities residency programme! Can you say a little about yourself and your work? Vishal Kumaraswamy: Hi, my name is Vishal Kumaraswamy I’m a Bangalore based Artist & Filmmaker. Within my practice, I work across AI, text, video, sound and performance and...
April 18, 2021 New international resident artists on Vital Capacities Artists’ work from top left, clockwise: Katarzyna Perlak, Vishal Kumaraswamy and Tzu Huan Lin We will be delivering our third residency programme on Vital Capacities – bringing together artists from UK/Poland, India and Taiwan, which will take place throughout May 2021. Artists will be experimenting with ideas, developing new projects and sharing work with audiences....
A bonfire on the beach of a large lake at sunrise, blue skies with an orange morning glow in the distance. March 12, 2021 Vital Capacities in Disability Arts International Disability Arts International spoke to videoclub and Vital Capacities’ director, Jamie Wyld about the development and inspiration behind Vital Capacities. Read the article in Disability Arts International.
Bright cut up patterns float in space, rich oranges, reds, blues, yellow - in the front is a patchy area of deep lime green. March 9, 2021 VisionMix: Loss & Transience 2 – film programme and artists VisionMix: Loss & Transience 2 Loss & Transience 2 brings together the work of five contemporary artists/filmmakers who are living and working in India today, and artists of Indian heritage based internationally.  Watch the films now, click here. The films are linked by their protagonists’ state of transience at key moments within the films providing...