Programme
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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...
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February 8, 2018
Both Sides Now 4 – UK tour
UK screenings (full details below): 2 December 17 – HOME, Manchester 9 March 18 – SOAS, University of London 27 March 18 – Fabrica, Brighton 29 March 18 – Phoenix, Leicester In its fourth year, Both Sides Now examines new models of making moving image influenced by internet and videogame culture. Showing work made in...
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December 3, 2017
videoclub at Art Kaohsiung, Taiwan
VIDEOCLUB AT ART KAOHSIUNG videoclub has been invited to participate in Art Kaohsiung, an art fair that takes place in Taiwan’s second largest city. We will be showing four films by artists Patrick Hough and Karen Kramer inside two shipping containers at the art fair. The programme is showing as part of Art Kaohsiung’s public...
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November 24, 2017
Both Sides Now 4 – screening at HOME
Both Sides Now 4 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 the internet, and that comment upon local and global...
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November 10, 2017
Viewfinder: ON AIR – Shanghai
Viewfinder: ON AIR ON AIR launches as part of our international showcasing programme, Viewfinder, in Shanghai over 10 till 18 November, alongside the West Bund Art Fair. ON AIR is a collaboration with Shanghai-based International Art and Science Research Institute (AS), which organises interdisciplinary programmes and projects in and beyond China. As part of the...
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October 23, 2017
Ritual: Artists’ film and video from SE Asia
Ritual: Artists’ film and video from SE Asia Ritual presents recent work by artist filmmakers from Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia, giving a brief glimpse into moving image practices from SE Asia. From Shireen Seno’s humour to Taiki Sakpisit’s darkness, through the metaphors of Au Sow Yee’s folk stories, Ritual explores our emotional inner...
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September 14, 2017
Reading List by Wu Chi-Yu – exhibition & opening
Reading List is a newly commissioned work by Taiwanese artist Wu Chi-Yu, premiering at Phoenix in Leicester on 5 October. The film was made in three Malaysian cities – George Town, Tanah Merah and Kota Bharu. During his journey, the artist interviewed local communities, documenting their reactions/interactions with books, articles and literature forbidden in northern...
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August 22, 2017
Both Sides Now 3: Final Frontiers (UK Tour)
