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Misdirect movies

Context

'Misdirect Movies' is a co-curated (Bracey/John Rimmer) touring exhibition (Royal Standard, Liverpool, March, 2013; Standpoint Gallery, London, July-August, 2013; Greyfriars, Lincoln, October, 2013; and Meter Room, Coventry, November-December, 2013). The exhibition included diverse media of work by the curators, Elizabeth McAlpine, Dave Griffiths, Cathy Lomax, Rosa Barba and David Reed and featured three new commissions (Rimmer/Bracey/Griffiths).

Process and Insight

The exhibition builds upon Bracey’s previous research disseminated in artworks such as The Jump and Frames and the curated exhibition, 'Unspooling: Artists & Cinema'. It explores how access to digital formats has allowed artists to create different and innovative attitudes towards collage. The quixotic association of artists’ use of image and material from cinema in this area was central to the exhibition, as well as Bracey’s connected research into a scene from Orson Welles’ unfinished film version of Don Quixote where Quixote slashes at the cinema screen. Bracey interprets this as a desire by Welles, Quixote (and by extension artists) to break through what exists in cinema, to create something new.

Sharing

The exhibition was supplemented by a catalogue, new artwork commissions, a series of artist/curator talks/workshops and a website. The catalogue, published by Cornerhouse Publications, features essays by Bracey, Rimmer, Dr Jaimie Baron, Dr Maria Walsh and an interview between Dr Sam George and Sir Christopher Frayling. The catalogue essays reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the exhibition’s curatorial focus and feature contributions from visual arts, English literature and film studies. The exhibition has been reviewed on Interface by Cahal Argue, Double Negative by Mike Pinnington and in Art Monthly (no. 369) by Professor Christopher Townsend.