Captured
Captured is a survey of how a collection of artists responds to the simple brief of Performing to Camera. We are looking at conjunction and difference in this collision of new works, in order to inspire discourse and debate. The result will be experimental. We wont know precisely how the artworks might interrelate but we do know that some of the selected artists have pointed the camera and microphone directly at themselves. Most, however, have placed their chosen subject in-screen as the performer while in other works the viewer becomes the performer as they interact with the work.
A few of the artists regularly use live performance. Most use time-based mediums such as photography, video, sound and the internet. The work in Captured will showcase a combination of performance to camera, audio and web based installations as a well as rolling screening programme.
Amongst the installation work shown is Lei Coxs Teleportation Experiment V3 where the technology is used almost as a form of magic or illusion in an exploration of impossible spaces and scenarios. Kevin Henderson considers how the circumstances or condition in which somebody lives is their Estate. Hi Dee Hi Doh by Stephen Partridge is a new multi-screen installation capturing sound and image over a seven-year period. Dan Nortons In Mixing allows the viewer to perform the work through his Gizmo Virtual Container. Zoe Irvines sound work reflects on the lifetime achievements of a Brazilian Aviator, Santos-Dumont. In Callous to Misfortune Clive Gillman looks at the theatre of last words where the condemned utter their final words before execution. Steve Littmans Static Statement is a work that examines personal time and the use of video to record that time as a testament. In From Venus to Mars Mel Woods explores the idea of romance and relationship through the setting and activity of a childhood game and Pernille Spence deals with the juxtaposition of stillness against condensed time in Waiting.
As part of the screening programme Matt Hulse will show Take Me Home where surreal and Dada-esque objects come alive as a naked man rushes through ruined architecture. Holger Mohaupts Sacred Turf shows a cheerful appraisal of the real man behind the game of two halves while in a series of playful experiments Bob Levene composes and manipulates the human voice. Jackie Hatfield presents a performance with dog in Canine Staccato and Peter Richardson is still deeply haunted by demonic Morris dancers in an early episode of Dr Who.
Captured is the first show organised through CRATE, founded by Lei Cox and Pernille Spence in 2005. CRATE, based at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, is an organisation for artists and curators working with Contemporary Art and New and Future Media Art. The group operates with a constantly evolving, fluxion spirit where invited artists and curators collaborate with national and international galleries, contemporary art organisations and festivals. CRATE is open to those who have a common interest in the Creative Response with Art, Technology and Experimentation
There will be opportunities to hear the curators and artists speak about the work featured in the Captured exhibition.
Additional support has been received from the School of Television Research Fund at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design.