Programme
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March 30, 2019
Selected 9 – UK tour
Selected is a new collection of diverse artists’ film and video touring the UK in May-July 2019, taking place at some of the UK’s leading venues for showcasing artists’ film and video. Shortlisted artists for the 2018 Film London Jarman Award – Daria Martin, Jasmina Cibic, Lawrence Lek, Margaret Salmon, David Blandy & Larry Achiampong...
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March 13, 2019
Trojan Horse / Rainbow Flag – UK screening tour
“The Joiner’s Arms smelt, tasted, sounded and felt like freedom.” Dan Glass, 2018 Trojan Horse / Rainbow Flag is a programme of artists’ film and video about LGBTQI+ spaces, presented by videoclub in LGBTQI+ clubs and community run spaces across the UK. At a time when queer spaces are increasingly under threat from gentrification the...
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March 6, 2019
Both Sides Now 5: Ho Yan Pun Nicole in residence in UK
Throughout March 2019, Ho Yan Pun Nicole is artist in residence for Both Sides Now 5 with The Marlborough Pub & Theatre in Brighton. While in the UK, Nicole will be meeting with artists and organisations. During the residency, she will be developing a new work exploring gender performativity and the ambiguous space between private and public....
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March 3, 2019
Both Sides Now 5: Rob Crosse in residence in Hong Kong
Throughout March 2019, Rob Crosse is artist in residence for Both Sides Now 5 with Videotage in Hong Kong. While in Hong Kong, Crosse will be meeting with artists and organisations, and investigating the development of a new work. In 2018, Crosse was curated into our Selected 8 programme, and chosen by videoclub and Videotage to...
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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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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...
