FAFF Programme
Friday 20th August 2010
Continued
Sai Hua Kuan (SG/UK)
Space Drawing No.5
Space Drawing No.5 was created in 2009 in Russia. Through the simplest yet most fundamental function of line – to divide, subtract, Space Drawing attempts to capture a moment of transitory energy.
Sara Brannan (UK)
Work no.14
“I am using animation as an extension of my sculptural practice and I am using the medium to promote ideas that I am unable to do in conventional sculpture. I am shifting the location of the art object from being wholly material into the realms of digital art and in doing so I can play with form, movement and perception. The low-resolution DIY ethic of my practice is continued by using basic tools and equipment to produce the works.”
Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans (BE)
The Good Life (a guided tour)
The Good Life shows a guided tour through empty white gallery spaces. An exhibition is being built up, paintings are ready to be unpacked. A guide is accompanying a small audience and comments upon the art and the fantastic spaces in the museum. However, after a while the guide appears to be an estate agent who recommends a visionary architectural design (by architectural agency 51N4E), which will replace the museum with exclusive lofts.
Tether / Grin & Slutsky (UK)
Grin & Slutsky
Soon, Grin & Slutsky will reveal the one thing that all people want to know…
Doplgenger (SRB)
Voices Gazes Traces
Medusa, one of the three sisters known as the Gorgons, was punished by given the destructive power to turn anyone who looked directly at her into stone. The piece Voices Gazes Traces as expanded cinema deals with feminist concept of writing here transposed to film medium. It is a study of the screen history and contemporary placement of ‘Woman as film Icon’.
Milk, Two Sugars (UK)
Cinefun
Bob Milner on Cinefun: “I became interested in the expressive qualities of the human voice during voice workshops I attended some years ago. Participants were encouraged to play with sound, in the way children seem to, before they learn to speak. We gurgled and chortled, made animal noises, called and crooned, and we communicated to each other using these nonsense sounds. Though we were sometimes in a darkened room where we could not ‘read’ each other’s facial expressions, we were able to convey emotion and meaning with these nonsensical noises. As a visual artist, I wondered if something as abstract as these sounds could be explored in visual imagery. How could I depict an energetic, joyous laugh, or a gut-wrenching, wailing sadness? Could frenzied, erratic lines convey wild cackling calls, or a soft smudgy line convey a gentle humming? I didn’t know then and I still don’t. Enjoy the film!”
Paul Tarragó (UK)
The Badger Series Episodes 7 & 8
The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role of a kindly uncle mentor to a household of capersome woodland creatures. Mortality, self-sacrifice, depression, altered states of consciousness and transgressive art practices are all explored as part of their everyday lives together. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere to the traditional structural formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts moral instruction and narrative play, mediate through the forced fit of an experimental filmmaker as children’s entertainer.
