Programme
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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June 28, 2021
Exhibition: In Search of Chemozoa by boredomresearch
In Search of Chemozoa, is a new project by boredomresearch (British artist duo Vicky Isley and Paul Smith). The project is based on their residency at Arizona Cancer Evolution Center (USA) and at Aspex Portsmouth, responding to new therapeutic approaches centred on managing rather than curing cancer. Combining computer animation with film from inside laboratories...
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June 28, 2021
Making of and more: In Search of Chemozoa
Making Chemozoa Here we present boredomresearch‘s Making Chemozoa, which exposes some of the technical animation methods used in the making of In Search of Chemozoa. It also shows ways in which scientific concepts were added to the film, and how they influenced what the film looks like. Mutate Chemozoa Arizona Cancer Evolution Center have...
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June 28, 2021
Interview with boredomresearch by Lucy Sabin
Vicky Isley (VI) and Paul Smith (PS), aka boredomresearch, interviewed by Lucy Sabin (LS). “You could think of it as cancer in the form of an organism” LS: As I understand it, this artwork was inspired by the laboratory methods at the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, specifically their use of ‘model organisms’ for studying adaptations...
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June 28, 2021
Investigate and learn: In Search of Chemozoa (learning resources for children)
As part of the exhibition at Aspex Portsmouth, Aspex commissioned two learning resources to enable children to investigate ideas about In Search of Chemozoa. And support questions about the thoughts it might prompt for younger viewers. Resources can be found on Aspex Portsmouth’s website by clicking here. Inspired by In Search of Chemozoa by boredomresearch,...
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June 22, 2021
In Search of Chemozoa by boredomresearch – online exhibition
videoclub presents boredomresearch’s latest work, In Search of Chemozoa, showing online between 30 June and 31 August 2021. See the exhibition now by clicking here. In Search of Chemozoa, is a new project by boredomresearch (British artist duo Vicky Isley and Paul Smith). The project is based on their residency at Arizona Cancer Evolution Center...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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,...
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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...
