Big Screen at Latitude

From Slapstick To Horror

This year's screening was a huge success and was much appreciated by a wide reaching audience of art enthusiasts and general passing revelers. We showed the screening twice and then a film by Jim Hobbs entitled A CLEAR DAY AND NO MEMORIES: a film and sound collaboration with Seattle band Kinski, originally produced at Jack Straw Productions New Media Gallery in Seattle. After that we showed Mordant Music's re sound-tracking of Un Chein Andalou, newly commissioned by the BFI, and then DJ Harry K showed a new piece of cinematic montage with soundtrack: 'The World Keeps Turning'.

 screen  still : 'Table' 2006  Katherine Eastman

 screen still: 'Harry's haircut'  Harry Pye and Gordon Beswick

And then thanks to the exciting mix of eclectic music and moving image by DJ Harry K, we enjoyed a party until the early hours of the morning!

ALSO

Artists selected to show a specially commissioned piece as part of LCA included Delaine Le Bas (here pictured 'in conversation with Anne Hilde Neset and Louise Grey) as well as Alice Anderson, Graham Dolphin, Andy Harper ( the winner of the LCA prize this year) and Maslen &Mehra

From Slapstick to Horror at Latitude

Jim Hobbs and Louise Colbourne are screening a revised version of From Slapstick to Horror as part of the Latitude Contemporary Art programme this year on the 16th July. The screening includes a selection of artists film and video works that show intense physicality on screen, ranging from the comedy of slap-stick through to more demanding performances and scenarios that are more closely aligned with horror. 

This screening will also include a section of vintage cinematic footage from films spanning the years from 1930 to the present, with a live soundtrack accompaniment by DJ Harry. We will also preview Mordant Music’s new score, commissioned by the BFI, for Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí’s 1929 surrealist

classic Un Chien Andalou

Some of the artists included in the programme are:

Dennis Oppenheim                       Bob Flanigan

Philip Hausmeier                       Katharine Eastman

Eddie Peake & Iñaki Estrada Torío      Laure Prouvost

Jenny Baines                           Andy Parker

Gordon Beswick & Harry Pye             Zoë Brown

Phil Taylor                            Liane Lang

Juliana Cerqueira Leite                Michael James Jones

Raquel Felguerias                      Kate Street

Richard Whitby 
Paul R Jones                           Mark Prendergast

Mordant Music with Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí


Image: Zoë Brown, Dad 2005 

Sarah Angliss

At 'Speakey Spokey' a Brighton based art salon/poetry/performance event, held each month at the Latest Bar...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Speaky-Spokey/172338949480161?sk=wall

..I met Sarah Angliss, performing with Spacedog on her Theremin a piece called Stooky Bill

http://www.sarahangliss.com/spotted/stookybill

I was interested in the links between Sarah's Theremin performance, her interest in early electronic sound and my interpretation of Loie Fuller's Serpentine Dance from the 1890's. At about the same time in history these activities were exciting audiences with the mystery of science and the illusion/sound of new cybotic future possibilities.
I have since filmed Sarah performing on the Theramin alongside a backing track from Willow's Song (Whicker Man). I have now edited the two films together to make a new piece to be screened at the Latitude Festival's Big Screen in the woods on the 16th July.

Rose Wylie

I visited Rose Wylie's studio at her home in Kent.

Here's a link:

http://visitingstudios.blogspot.com/2011/07/rose-wylie.html