Monday 21 May 2012

Trisha Baga: Rock, Benedict Drew: Gliss


TRISHA BAGA: ROCK 
Vilma Gold 5 APRIL – 19 MAY





'Baga is a young artist working mainly in video and performance. In terms of technology, plot and resources however, her approach to making is inclusive, playful and highly improvisational, so that her practice begins to unfix such distinctions. Though precarious by its nature, this tack also thrives on the possibility that arises when everything around becomes potential material for narrative making'. 


Benedict Drew: GLISS 
Cell Projects 20th April - 27th May, 2012




'This step by step visual account documents the artist's futile attempt to implant the living into the inorganic. GLISS is an immersive and visceral installation, which goes further to provoke human sensory and cognitive responses as sound and image induce sensory powers of calm and well being, but it also highlights our anxiety and rejection of technological systems. The exhibition features a chorus of melodic TV talking heads singing a version Cloud Busting, a Kate Bush track based on the bizarre cloud bursting machine of psychologist, Wihelm Reich,  to an enormous anthropomorphic lump of clay defiantly rejecting its relationship with technology. Drew’s unlikely material combinations are fused with the electrical pulse of computer technology to catalyse and transform the obsolete nature of analog media'. 
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Both these installations are indeed 'immersive and visceral' Baga's is much more random, intuitive and spontaneous and Drew's could be considered as far more orchastrated and slick ( perhaps to an extent the 'hers' and 'his' of moving image installation).





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The Big Screen and Film Gallery at the Latitude Festival 2012 
Produced by Louise Colbourne with assistance from Jim Hobbs, Paul Burgess, DJ Harry K, and No.w.here. In association Cine-city film festival, LUX, Tank TV and the BFI

The Big Screen and Film Gallery will run for the three days of the Latitude Festival
from 13-15th July 2012.

The Big Screen presents a selection of different artist’s film and video work each evening, and will then go on to show-case experimental film, alternative sound-tracks and re-workings of classic cinema footage. Also there will be late night VJ’s and DJ’s.
The Film Gallery will focus on artist’s 16mm and 8mm film work and will include curated programmes and events by No.w.here, Jim Hobbs  and  Louise Colbourne 

ARTISTS: James Holcombe, Malcolm Le Grice, Jeff Keen, Laure Prouvost, Henry Hills, Tanja Goethe, David Blandy, Keran James, Philip Hausmeier, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler, Mordant Music, People Like Us, Stan Brakhage, Len Lye, Tracey EminLuke Losey, Jayne Parker, Zoe Brown, Semiconductor, Sebastian Buerkner, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Squint, Jasper Goodall, Paul Burgess, Benedict Drew, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Emma Hart, Kevin Gaffney, Ian Helliwell, Oliver Bancroft, Tim Simmons, Graham Dolphin, Katy Dove, Jaye Ho, Tim Riley and Georgina Elizey, Vicki Thornton, Rosa Barba, Nick Collins, Annie Whiles, Toby Tatum
VJ/DJ by David Wilson, Jee Day (Dennis Mc Nanny), Don Letts and DJ Harry K

Delaine LeBas & Louise colbourne


          Figurine found in Robert's Curios in Hastings






Performance by Delaine LeBas and Louise Colbourne May 2012






Jack In The Green



Jack In The Green festval in Hastings