Programme
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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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January 16, 2019
Both Sides Now 4 (UK & Asia tour)
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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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December 7, 2018
Artist talk by Di Fang at Phoenix, Leicester
Di Fang will talk about his exhibition Streets Paved with Pearl – showing at Phoenix in Leicester till 23 December – and his practice as an artist filmmaker, both solo and as part of the collective Jiū Society. Venue: Phoenix, 4 Midland Street, Leicester LE1 1TG Date and time: Sat, 15 December 19 at 3pm Price: FREE – no booking...
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November 25, 2018
Selected VIII trailer
Selected VIII Trailer from videoclub on Vimeo.
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November 2, 2018
Selected VIII @ Vivid Projects, Birmingham
Selected is a new collection of diverse artists’ film and video, taking place at some of the UK’s leading venues for showcasing artists’ film and video. In November, the final screening of the programme takes place at Vivid Projects, Birmingham. Nominated by the artists shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2017, Selected brings together some of the...
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November 2, 2018
Streets Paved With Pearl – Di Fang & Jiu Society
Streets Paved with Pearl shows a selection of three works, two created by artist Di Fang, and a third by Di Fang in collaboration with Jiu Society, an artist group based in Shenzhen, China. The exhibition is taking place at Phoenix in Leicester, curated in collaboration with videoclub and International Art + Science Research Institute, Shanghai....
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September 17, 2018
Nature as Data
In a world teeming with data it’s easy to be overwhelmed with the flow of information, and to feel oversaturated by its extent. Nature as Data brings together a series of works that offer opportunities to unpack and understand the immense amount of material we experience through digital technologies and interfaces every day. Through this...
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September 14, 2018
Bodyscapes: new film and video from Japan
ボディスケープ：日本のアーティストによる新しい映像作品 Bodyscapes is a collection of new films by Japanese artists whose use of the body is central to their work – either as a landscape, a political metaphor or method of expression – the body acts as a vehicle and subject to communicate ideas. In Fuyuhiko Takata’s Little Mermaid-inspired Cambrian Explosion, Takata’s character –...
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August 13, 2018
OPEN CALL FOR CURATORS: VISIT TO S. KOREA
About Viewfinder videoclub has been awarded funding for Viewfinder from Arts Council England and Creative Scotland to deliver a series of visits across E Asia with artists who work with moving image. This is with the aim of promoting those artists to local audiences and to enable artists to gain contacts, which can lead to earning...
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August 2, 2018
Seeing Systems at ArtScience Museum, Singapore
AfterGlow (Susceptible, Exposed, Infected, Recovered), boredomresearch, 2016 Seeing Systems is a new curated programme exploring some of the organic and non-organic systems that invisibly impact on our lives. Through a series of short but impactful art films, this programme visualises the patterns, structures and habits that surround us in our everyday lives; from the ubiquitous...
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July 31, 2018
Critical review of Selected VIII by writer James Gormley
‘Young man!’ booms the voice of a man in uniform. Disregard your age and gender; he’s talking to you and, with a realization too sudden to sink, you know it. ‘There’s no need to feel down’ he continues ‘I said young man, pick yourself off the ground.’ You can breathe a sigh of relief —...
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June 14, 2018
Selected VIII at Whitechapel Gallery reviewed by Louie Young
Since 2011, videoclub’s Selected programme has been showcasing witty, thought-provoking video art from Britain’s most exciting early career filmmakers. Now in its eighth edition, Selected is full of works that feel politically urgent in their choice of subject matter yet remain refreshingly playful in their treatment of it. For such a long running programme this...
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May 15, 2018
Both Sides Now 4 – Asia tour
Asia screenings (full details below): 30 May 18 – Duddell’s, Hong Kong In its fourth year, Both Sides Now examines new models of making moving image influenced by internet and videogame culture. Showing work made in the past four years, the programme explores new aesthetics, visual languages and digital forms that are native to...
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April 4, 2018
Selected VIII – UK tour
Screening dates for Selected VIII (Full venue dates and details below the programme) 26 April, Fabrica, Brighton 01 May, CCA Glasgow 24 May, Whitechapel Gallery, London 27 June, Exeter Phoenix 26 July, Spike Island, Bristol 31 July, Nottingham Contemporary Selected is a new collection of diverse artists’ film and video touring the UK in April-July 2018, taking place...
