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December 5, 2020 Inside Your Body – exhibition Inside Your Body Inside Your Body is an exhibition of work created by Jaene F. Castrillon, Damien Robinson, Clifford Sage and Angela Su during a month-long online residency on Vital Capacities in November 2020.  Exhibition dates: From 7 December 2020 Exhibition site: vitalcapacities.com Angela Su has been participating in Videotage’s Minecraft residency, Leave Your Body,...
Black and white photo of a woman sits in a chair wearing black ruffled material, futuristically, fashionably cut. She wears stilts on her feet. The chair is ornate, in a palatial style, Edwardian possibly. Two nurses stand either side of the seated woman, stood behind two squared of dollar signs in white, which come to the tops of their thighs. Directly behind the woman is a bright white open doorway almost ceiling height. November 8, 2020 Peer to Peer: UK/HK – Artistic exchange in the time of global pandemic We are delighted to be part of Peer to Peer: UK/HK, a digital programme and platform encouraging meaningful cultural exchange and forging enduring partnerships between the UK and Hong Kong’s visual arts sectors. The programme coincides with Both Sides Now 6, our annual collaboration with Videotage in Hong Kong, which includes a residency exchange between...
October 31, 2020 New resident artists on Vital Capacities Our second residency programme on Vital Capacities brings together artists from the UK, Canada and Hong Kong, taking place between 2 Nov and 10 Dec 2020. Artists will be exploring ideas across the period, sharing work with audiences. The artists are: Jaene F. Castrillon Jaene F. Castrillon is an interdisciplinary film-based artist residing in Toronto,...
September 23, 2020 Interviews with resident artists on Vital Capacities The four artists who are participating in our first residency programme have been sharing their thoughts on participating, what they’re doing and their ideas on the work they make. Interviews can be seen in full on the Vital Capacities website, but here’s a glimpse in response to the question – “Can you say a little about...
Brightly coloured vertical lines waver in psychedelic fluorescent deep pink, ultraviolet purple and vibrant royal blue. 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...
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...
A young woman wearing a dark blue dress with flowers looks away from the camera, her lips parted mid-singing. 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...
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...
Still image taken from the film O'Pierrot by filmmaker Tanoa Sasraku 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...