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CCA Glasgow screening: Fragments, wholes & One Minutes, 8th April
Fragments, wholes and One Minutes
Inclinations Film Club, CCA Glasgow
Tues 8th April 2025 7.30-10pm
One Minute Volume XII plus two long takes, two different eras, and a throughline of uncontainable women. A short video featuring Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950) and Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012).
Listasafn Árnesinga Art Museum, Iceland
Part of artist shorts season being shown at Listasafn Árnesinga Art Museum, March-April 2025 Iceland
CIFF, StoryHouse screening
Chester International Film Festival, One Minute programme selection StoryHouse, Chester, Sunday 23rd March
Designing Disobedience, NeMe, Limassol, CY, 2025
#2MINH8 (or Signing Obedience Planning Application For the Enshittification of the town square… to give it it’s almost full title is a planning application for monuments to Trump, Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos that inflate when you post your two minute hate.
It is part of the Designing Disobedience project at NeMe, which approaches how the dominant platforms, systems, and technologies controlled by capital and government interests can be usurped for the interest of the public.
For Yiannis Kolakidis and Helene Black of NeMe, the aim of the project is to encourage artists to approach dystopian media landscapes in a collaborative and critical manner, proposing new ways of navigating dominant platforms and news outlets, in order to highlight the deeper causes of events and create works that reflect the unstable and unsustainable times in which we live.
Participating artists: Jafra Abu Zoulouf with Dorgham Bassam Qreiqa, Constantinos S. Constantinou with Giannis Floulis, Vasilis Vasiliou & Louiza Vradi, George Gavriel, Aggela Ioannidou, Dize Kükrer, Kypros Kyprianou, Danila Parniouk, Efi Savvides, and Nina Sumarac
Opening: 31 January 2025, 19:00
3-28 February 2025.
Opening days-times: Tuesday-Friday, 17:00-20:30
Art Monthly review
Tom Jeffreys has written a lovely and considered review for Art Monthly of what we have been working towards for the annual Middlesbrough Art Week: “Tom Jeffreys reports on an exemplary critical art festival that supports communities of artists at the grassroots level”
Art Monthly 481: November 2024.
Solid Ground exhibition, till 13th December 2024.
Open (10-4) Thursdays – Saturdays, from 23 November to 13 December in the former B&M, Dundas Shopping Centre, Middlesbrough, TS1 1HR
Bobby Benjamin // Dianne Bowell // Danielle Boucher // Fiona Cameron // Tony Charles // Rachel Deakin // Nic Golightly // Peter Gough // Vicky Holbrough // Will Hughes // Steven Irving // Steve Kirby // Kyp Kyprianou // Stuart Langley // Sue Loughlin // Penelope Payne // Curated by Pippa Rook
NE Culture Award 2024 prize
MAW / Middlesbrough Art Week won a Best Event/Exhibition Award at the North East Culture Awards (2024). I’ve had the pleasure of being asked to help shape and co-curate the festival with an amazing team and guest curators over the past 6 years, as well as input into their sister organisation, The Auxiliary.
The award is in recognition of an ‘ambitious programme of exhibitions, performances and events’, highlighting the strength of the festival through its broad mix of exhibiting opportunities and support for regional and international artists who may be just starting out or established: the North East Open Call regional exhibiton and support strand, the expanded New Graduate Award support for recent graduates, and a programme of work by internationally established artists.
Whilst I could not attend the ceremony, I am sure that the festival director, Liam Slevin, will soon be giving me a turn with the award statuette for my mantlepiece.
One Minute Volume 9 will be screening at Close-Up Cinema, Sclater St., London E1 6HR on 12th Dec
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One Minute Volume 9 will be screening at Close-Up Cinema, Sclater St., London E1 6HR on Thursday 12th December at 8.15 pm
Works by Tony Hill, Paul Tarrago, Eva Rudlinger, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore, Rose Butler, Steven Woloshen, Erica Suderburg, Michael Szpakowski, Sam Renseiw, Philip Sanderson, Anna Mortimer, Karissa Hahn, Stuart Pound and Rosemary Norman, Scott Fitzpatrick, Peter Martin, Chris Paul Daniels, Kypros Kyprianou, Katharine Meynell, Grant Petrey, Jonathan Spencer, My Name Is Scot, Kerry Baldry, Sam Meech, Amy Lunn, Nick Herbert, Julia Dogra-Brazell, Chris Meigh-Andrews, Gordan Dawson and Louisa Minkin, David Chatton Barker, Heather Ross, Nicky Hamlyn, Marty St. James, Maud Haya Baviera, Chris A. Wright, Rachel Allain, Ellie Kyungran Heo, Pablo Robertson de Unamuno, and Zeljko Vukicevic (Zhel). Curated by Kerry Baldry.
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Middlesbrough Art Week: IN THE NOW AND THE FAR
26th Sept-5th Oct 2024, festival curation.
The annual festival I help shape and curate, Middlesbrough Art Week: IN THE NOW AND THE FAR returns from 26th Sept – 5th October 2024, across various sites. This year, guest curator Claire Feeley joins the team to explore how we grow a festival.
MAW 24: IN THE NOW AND THE FAR seeks to negotiate the overlap and differences between cultural production and political action. Who has the right to take action?
Wth exhibitions, interventions, talks, performances and workshops by artists including Gracie Mae Bradley, Jace Clayton, Amy Dover, Nigel Dunnett, Alia Gargum, Kyriaki Goni, Karrabing Film Collective, Olana Light, NCNC, Natasha Thembiso Ruwona, Sophie Seita, Various artists Artists Against Apartheid, Strange Telemetry, facilitated by Lesley Guy and Dianne Bowell, Tahmina Ali.
Our annual paid support and exhibition for regional artists North East Open Call (curated by Penny Payne) this year includes Henna Asikainen, Mark Bletcher, Joshua Le Gallienne, Chris Thompson, Christine Walker, Webb-Ellis, Eileen White, Matthew Young. The New Graduate Award scheme now includes artists from all 5 regional universities, with Diane Cobb, Ali Cook, Amy D’Cruze, Nesh Dadgostar, Beth Hinde, Bec Nicholson, Lisa Sopekan, Charlotte Thompson, Katie Young taking part. SPARK: Stephen Irving, Jason Hynes, Stuart Langley, Gresham Merch, We Make Sound. Words per Minute, a 50 artist open call micro-paid open call LED roadsign text project. Industrial Coast with Samuel Kerridge plus Stu Hennigan, Maddock. Comedown Comedy project with Seymour Mace, Liberty Hodes and Elaine Roberston. UPROOT Collective commissioned by The Auxiliary for Middlesbrough Art Week, Uproot Collective is a collaboration between Creative Minds, The Hope Foundation, Pennyman Primary Academy, Brambles Primary Academy, Discovery Special Academy, Wilton Primary Academy, Dormanstown Primary Academy, North Ormesby Primary Academy, Archibald Primary School, St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Seed Sovereignty, Sheffield University, sisters Claire and Kathryn Feeley, and Sue Loughlin.
Links: Festival website and download the pdf guide
One Minute Volume XII screenings, 2024
My short film art by the yard is being screened in One Minute Volume 12 at various locations:
6th July 2024 Festival of Ideas, Story House, Chester, UK
8th August 2024 Close Up Film Centre, London, UK
12th – 26th September 2024 Visualcontainer[.Box], Milan, Italy
March-April 2025 Listasafn Árnesinga Art Museum, Iceland
Includes films by: Eva Rudlinger, Tony Hill, Anna Mortimer, Mike Stubbs, Kevin Atherton, Jennet Thomas, Vicky Smith, Kunal Biswas, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore, Louise Bourque, Steven Ball, Artist A & Artist B, LMFS, Rob Flint, Alina Vasilchenko, Jonathan Moss, Gordon Dawson, Stuart Pound and Rosemary Norman, Lynn Loo, Katherine Meynell, Alessandra Arno, Simon Payne, Rastko Novakovic, Roz Mortimer, Guy Sherwin, Kerry Baldry, Nicole Zaaroura, Terry Flaxton, Andrew Vallance, Tessa Garland, Anne Colvin, Cyril Galmiche, Sam Meech, Ruxandra Mitache, sam renseiw, Hendrik van Oordt, Whitney Lynn, Kypros Kyprianou, Philip Sanderson, Susan Kouguell, Michael Mersereau, Nick Jordan, Leister/Harris, Guido Devadder, Michael Szpakowski.
Curated by Kerry Baldry.
UNLAND
An exhibition and talk at NeMe, Limassol, Cyprus (2023). A collaborative project by Rose Butler, Jeremy Lee and Kypros Kyprianou.
…project info and artwork…
UNLAND presents both documented and fictional material of the Cyprus buffer zone, Varosha, and British military bases, as well as areas of bicommunal activity and farming.
Taking two years to complete, the artists Rose Butler, Jeremy Lee, and Kypros Kyprianou, focused on moving the representation of these complex spaces beyond navigation, illustration, aestheticisation or documentation.
For a downloadable pdf of the UNLAND gallery guide, visit: https://neveroddoreven.org/gallery-guide/.
For gallery information visit UNLAND at NeMe, Cyprus.
Some press about the project can be found here.
human + looking + art: three interconnected works.
human + looking + art mines online imagery of people looking at art, repurposed in three interconnected works:
art by the yard, contemplate, and openings.
stopwatch / watchstop uses machine learning, cctv and analogue clocks in an installation about looking at time and time looking back.
Curator, Middlesbrough Art Week: Measure, 28th Sept-7th Oct 2023
https://middlesbroughartweek.com
Main programme artists: North East Film Archive (Martha Cattell) / Rong Bao / Bordello Collective / Tony Charles / Rachael Clewlow / Abbey Corbin / Cal Dyer / Ken Friedman / Structurally F_cked / J. Neve Harrington / Tehching Hsieh / Jason Hynes / Jo Lathwood / Ben Long / Olivia Louvel / Sarah Maple / MOTHEROTHER (Sue Loughlin) / Mike Nelson / Glen Ogden / Zbigniew Rybczynski / Saeborg / David Shrigley / Alan Smith / Paul Sng / Mike Stubbs / Jacob Talkowski / Liz Wilson.
One Minute Volume IX, Wolf & Galentz Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 30th Sept 2023 (screening)
Film short screening as part of One Minute Volume IX, screening at Wolf & Galentz Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Kerry Baldry, 30th Sept 2023.
Works by: Tony Hill, Paul Tarrago, Eva Rudlinger, Kayla Parker & Stuart Moore, Rose Butler, Steven Woloshen, Erica Suderburg, Michael Szpakowski, Sam Renseiw, Philip Sanderson, Anna Mortimer, Karissa Hahn, Stuart Pound & Rosemary Norman, Scott Fitzpatrick, Peter Martin, Chris Paul Daniels, Kypros Kyprianou, Katharine Meynell, Grant Petrey, Jonathan Spencer, My Name is Scot, Kerry Baldry, Sam Meech, Amy Lunn, Nick Herbert, Julia Dogra-Brazell, Chris Meigh-Andrews, Gordan Dawson & Louisa Minkin, David Chatton Barker, Heather Ross, Nicky Hamlyn, Marty St. James, Maud Haya Baviera, Chris A. Wright, Rachel Allain, Ellie Kyungran Heo, Pablo Robertson de Unamuno and Zeljko Vukicevic (Zhel).
a forest is one tree in front of another
A project that trains its eye on landscape photography in the computational photography age.
It’s an adversarial attack with muddy boots. I take photos of one tree in front of another and then use machine learning algorithms – intended to add natural looking lens depth effects – to instead create slightly unreal images where both foreground and background trees are both in focus.
In a similar mode to this powerpoint AI project, it’s part evaluation of machine learning models and part adversarial attack, here made by an artist stretching their eyes and legs.
No Change, Atlanta, USA
No Change, a coin-operated artwork that was commissioned by Science Gallery, London is showing at Science Gallery, Atlanta, USA till September 2022.
MAW 2019
I had the pleasure of guest curating and co-producing MAW 2019
Middlesbrough, 26-29 September 2019.
Autonomy – artists: Willie Doherty / Troika / Emily Hesse / Chris Riddell / Chris Dobrowolski / Ellie Thompson / Aiste Jurjonaite / Tom Dale / Joe Shaw / Peter Hanmer / Rose Butler / Michelle Atherton / Poppy Whatmore / Eddie Dreadnought.
North East Open Call (selected with MIMA) – artists: Penelope Payne / David Reynolds / Katie Bell / Amy Davies / Kimberley Beach / Evelyn Cromwell / Erin Collins / Alice Highet / Gordon Dalton / Jenny McNamara / Dyad / Ravinder Surah / Yvette Hawkins.
Hooked, Science Gallery, London
Hooked, Science Gallery, London (curated by Hannah Redler) from 21 Sep 2018 – 6 Jan 2019
The coin operated artwork No Change is a commission by Science Gallery, London for its inaugural ‘Hooked’ exhibition (curated by Hannah Redler) from 21 September 2018 – 6 January 2019.‘
Participating artists: Olivia Locher, Lawrence Epps, Kypros Kyprianou, Atelier 010, Richard Billingham, Varvara & Mar, Yole Quintero, Katriona Beales, Jonah Brucker Cohen, Benjamin Grosser, Rachel Maclean, Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos, Joachim Koester, Dryden Goodwin, Mr Gee, Angus Scott-Miller, Blast Theory, Fabio Lattanzi-Antinori, Natasha Caruana, Mark King, Melanie Manchot, YoHa, Daniel Regan, Fallen Angels.
Exhbition information: Science Gallery
No Change, Somerset House, London
No Change is exhibited at Somerset House, London in Now Play This, a festival of experimental game design, 6th-14th April 2019
Salto TV screening
The short film Rabbit is being screened in ‘One Minute Volume IX’ on Salto TV, Amsterdam July 12, 2019
Includes work by Tony Hill, Paul Tarrago, Eva Rudlinger, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore, Rose Butler, Steven Woloshen, Erica Suderburg, Michael Szpakowski, Sam Renseiw, Philip Sanderson, Anna Mortimer, Karissa Hahn, Stuart Pound and Rosemary Norman, Scott Fitzpatrick, Peter Martin, Chris Paul Daniels, Kypros Kyprianou, Katharine Meynell, Grant Petrey, Jonathan Spencer, My Name is Scot, Kerry Baldry, Sam Meech, Amy Lunn, Nick Herbert, Julia Dogra-Brazell, Chris Meigh-Andrews, Gordan Dawson and Louisa Minkin, David Chatton Barker, Heather Ross, Nicky Hamlyn, Marty St. James, Maud Haya Baviera, Chris A. Wright, Rachel Allain, Ellie Kyungran Heo and Zeljko Vukicevic (Zhel).
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