- Venue
- Cooper Gallery
- Date
- Wednesday, September 18, 2019
12:00 AM - Address
- Cooper Gallery Exhibitions at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design 13 Perth Road Dundee DD1 4HT University of Dundee
- Location
- Scotland
- Organiser
- Studio Jamming | Cooper Gallery new season party 2019
The event celebrates the launch of the latest issue of the gallery’s periodical &labels which holds a complexity of perspectives and positions reflecting on the necessarily shifting nature of identity and its other.
“Is it possible to find a part of yourself that you did not know was lost? Is it possible to discover that you are someone other than who you think you are?” Robert Ashley, Part 3, Questions and Answers, Now Eleanor’s Idea, 1994-95.
This short performance and screening taking the form of field notes from the work in progress Taking Counting Blinking Noting: 16mm film as a collaborative action touches on James N Hutchinson’s ideas around the ‘exhibition as object to object as exhibition’, the art object as a constellation, a thing for dispersal, Judith Butler’s Notes on a Performative Theory of Assembly especially her linking assembly to precarity and bodily vulnerabilities and Robert Ashley’s opera libretto on the plural and mutable forms an individual’s identity takes while Gusmao and Paiva’s film sees camera and subject unify. Programme includes: Extract from Now Eleanor’s Idea, Robert Ashley, Part 1 Change (1994-1995), Reading from Judith Butler’s Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, 2015, João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, Wheels, 16mm transferred to digital, streaming, silent, 2 mins 37 seconds, 2011 and Alex Hetherington, Anonymous Writes A Spell for the Camera/Michelle Hannah’s Arm/Marisa’s High, 2019, black and white film, 16mm print, 4 mins 57 seconds, 18fps attached to Alex Hetherington, Untitled (A Possible Spell for Surrounding), 2019, colour reversal film, 16mm print, 2 mins 34 seconds, 24fps, films are played together, both silent, extracts and titled camera tests from the film project Talking Counting Blinking Noting 16mm film as a collaborative action, 2019-2020 funded by Creative Scotland’s Open Project awards.
Projectionist: Oliver Mezger. Thanks to Kenny Christie and the CCA. For Sara Monaghan. Duration 15 minutes. Photo: outtake, 16mm film still, Twin Eye, 2019
