Electro Studios Project Space Open

New artist-run project space in St Leonards on Sea

http://www.electrostudiosprojectspace.co.uk

Jarman Award

Hold Your Ground 2012 by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler was screened as part of the line-up at the Jarman Award day held at the Whitechapel gallery on the 3rd Nov. I didn't manage to see all that was on offer, as there two separate sites to the days talks and screening but was glad to catch Karen Mirza and Brad Butler's talk about there new film Deep State 2012.

I would like to have seen Benedict Drew talk about his work and thought the screening set-up didn't do his work justice.

Marcus Coates film Vision Quest - A Ritual for Elephant & Castle 2012 was one of the strangest films, I enjoyed the mix of tension, politics and humour but wondered if it were a little too much like an kind of extended Ali-G sketch!

James Richards video Disambiguation 2012 was a sensual over-load. The free association of random film and video clips with the addition of accompanying sound-tracks and music was cleverly done although it was a lot to take in one sitting. There were a few porn clips, to include at least 2 of male ejaculation which added an edgyness to the screening and made me ponder weather this young artist may win the award!...He did win the award but it would have been great to see the radical act of this award going to artists like Karen and Brad who's practice reaches far and wide beyond the final commodity of the artwork (as I'm sure Jarman himself would also of found attributable)

Juliana Cerqueira Leite

The Juliana Cerqueira Leite exhibition at TJ Boulting was a great opportunity to see some of the Brooklyn based artists work. The large sculptural pieces had been made in London specially for the show and others had been bought over from Brooklyn, making a nice link between the two locations that she has inhabited over the last 10 years. 

Surrounding the sculptures in the show at TJ Boulting were a series of large cyanotypes called ‘Summertime Blues’, which had been made in mid-summer on Brooklyn rooftop. The prints are made up of multiple exposures of the artists naked body, where a series of mirrored poses were struck on the light-sensitive fabric. 
'The evidence of the summer heat is captured in the starburst forms produced by dripping sweat. The final image is therefore a composite, generating a new anatomy, an impossible body, made feasible by the mechanics of directly capturing time'. 

Also I have added some of Juliana's thoughts in response to her performance for the SOLO exhibition on this post:

http://soloexhibition.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/solo.html