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Movements in Light

This is the first part of a series by contemporary UK artists (also Gussin, Pippin) titled Animated Environments, curated by Charles Danby specifically for the Studios, and is the second solo gallery exhibition of my film work and the first in London. The exhibition comprises three new site-specific installations, earlier photos and drawings shown for the first time, plus expanded cinema events, giving a unique overview of my practice.

The exhibition extends my live multi-screen film practice into gallery installation, developing site-specific ideas first employed in my 4x projector commission for Atopia Gallery, Oslo 2011. It contributes to a significant recent movement towards expanded cinema’ exhibition in art galleries. One objective/consequence is recognition / critical appreciation of such work as a Fine Art rather than Cinematic practice. (Windhausen MIRAJ 2012) My intervention is part reaction to digital ubiquity and brings my particular interest in time structures and materialist film into play with specific spaces of the dance studios. A metal staircase behind the white foyer wall prompted the installation Staircase 2011 (three stacked video projections) comprising images of dancers on the stairs in a play on reality versus the moving image.

Visual rhythm is the unifying aesthetic strategy at the core of a materialist art practice running through all the media employed: film, video, installation, photography, performance. This is dance of film, not film of dance. As part of the work, I performed live film works (incl. Sound Cuts 2007-9) that foreground the choreographic qualities of film material.

A panel talk (Sleeman UCL; Ball CSM) addressed ideas of ‘environment’ arising from my performances.

The output is presented via portfolio, which should be viewed in order to gain a proper understanding of the research.