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Wavelength,
Michael Snow, film stillLeeds City Art Gallery (The Silver Gallery) | 1 - 5pm (with breaks)
The first part of a mini-survey of film and video works by Canadian artist Michael Snow. Working broadly across film, photography, music, writing, painting and sculpture, Snow is one of the most influential and prolific artists of the last 50 years. His films are best described simply as conscious experiences, concerned almost entirely with the act of watching. Snow once said of his practice: “I make up the rules of a game, then I attempt to play it. If I seem to be losing I change the rules.” This afternoon focuses on three of his early works: New York Eye and Ear Control, <—> (Back and Forth) and Wavelength, which Snow has respectively referred to as ‘philosophy’, ‘metaphysics’ and ‘physics’. In between the films Snow will talk about his ideas and practice.
Films (all Michael Snow, Canada): New York Eye and Ear Control (1964, 34 mins, 16mm, sound), <--> Back and Forth (1968-9, 50 mins, 16mm, sound), Wavelength (1966-7, 45 mins, 16mm, sound)
Image credit
(Truth is Stranger than Fiction / Still Life)
Co-programmed with Gregory Kurcewicz
Leeds City Art Gallery (The Silver Gallery) | 7 - 9.30pm (with break)
A new dimension to the Evolution programme, The Compendium screenings bring together new films and videos by artists from around the world. Loosely collected into two programmes, tonight’s screening begins with individual perspectives, opinions and expressions on our modern world. Moving into a collection of studies of people, objects, images and lives. Featuring films and videos by Ben Judd, Manuel Saiz, George Kuchar, Ximena Cuavas, Laure Prouvost, Moira Tierney, Nicky Hamlyn, Oliver Bancroft and Jayne Parker.
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The Truth Will Set
You Free Ben Judd, 2005, 11 mins, video, sound, UK A collection of idealistic and apocalyptic public declarations: ranting, busking, demonstrations etc. All are separate and independent but framed together within a rhythmic triptych. |
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Social Sculptures (Everyone is an Artist) Manuel Saiz, 2005, 9 mins, video, sound, UK/Spain Is everybody an artist? Part of Saiz’s ongoing investigation into words, images and the subtleties of language. Seemingly shot in the domestic environs of a show home and acted out with the sensibility of a TV drama. |
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Vacant Viewables George Kuchar, 2005, 10 mins, video, sound, USA A series of portraits either stroked on canvas or snapped on photo emulsions becomes the theme of this travelette as the viewer relives the visions that confronted me during a hop and skip excursion over state lines and bodily curvatures. (George Kuchar) |
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New York, New York Ximena Cuevas, 2005, 2 mins 26 secs, video, sound, Mexico A montage of architecture and cabaret, juxtaposing a second hand view of New York as refracted through Mexican eyes. |
| Stong Sory (Brother) Laure Prouvost, 2005, 2 mins, video, sound, UK/France A video still life is set to song - Laure Prouvost tells us about a fantastical birthday cake prepared for her brother. |
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Matilda Tone Moira Tierney, 2005, 25 mins, 16mm, sound, US/Ireland Martha 'Matilda' Witherington (Dublin, 1775) eloped with future revolutionary Theobald Wolfe-Tone at 16, lost him to a British prison at 23, spent 20 years fending for herself and her one remaining son in post-revolutionary Paris. The restoration of her tombstone in 1998 provoked the excavation of the story of this pragmatic revolutionary. (Moira Tierney) |
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My Friends Laure Prouvost, 2005, 9 mins, video, sound, UK/France Using a still image of a group of elderly people, a strange portal is opened into to a series of believable and unbelievable adventures of an organized group holiday. |
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Object Studies Nicky Hamlyn, 2005, 17 mins, 16mm, sound, UK Object Studies is organised around a colour scheme based loosely on the hues of the colour temperature scale; brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, white. Time-lapse, interlaced, single-frame sequences and lap-dissolves were deployed to explore density, translucency and the interactions of different kinds of cast-shadows. (Nicky Hamlyn) |
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Bacchae |
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Stationary Music Jayne Parker, 2005, 16 mins, video, sound, UK Stationary Music takes its name from the first movement of Stefan Wolpe's 'Sonata 1' composed in 1925. It is introduced and performed by his daughter, pianist Katharina Wolpe. Stationary Music - music that doesn't develop/music that stands still. (Jayne Parker) |
All film texts by William Rose and Gregory Kurcewicz unless otherwise indicated.