Gail Pickering - Brutalist Premolition

Film screening and performance

Events

Tue 4 Nov, 8pm

£5.00 / £3.00 concs (Free for students with valid NUS ID)

Media Art Bath is delighted to announce the exhibition of a new
commission by Gail Pickering, Brutalist Premolition featuring both film
and performance.

The performance and film works of Gail Pickering are characterized by a
layering of performative fictions, constructed and sourced through
specific sites and historical or political events. Her recent video
works explore ideas of highly authored forms of collaboration. Working
with both amateur and professional actors, she devises scenarios or
situations in which the discrepancy between individual and ‘role’ is
emphasised and questioned.

Brutalist Premolition takes as its starting point the snaking concrete
housing estate Robin Hood Gardens, designed by Alison and Peter
Smithson, a key example of post-war New Brutalist architecture intended
as a utopian form of large scale social housing. Pickering works from
the interior of the architecture, producing a film from within one of
the flats on the estate. The film shows a resident family casting
professional actors to play themselves. Embedding familiar faces from
British television and film, we see the actors repeating well-rehearsed
scenes from their inventory of past roles. As the work progresses, the
actors begin to occupy the flat where their theatricality and
professionalism is played out alongside the participation of the
family.

For its presentation at Arnolfini, Pickering will produce a special
performance alongside the film, extending the works interests into the
realm of a live event.

Brutalist Premolition has been commissioned by Media Art Bath with
support from the Henry Moore Foundation and is also included in a solo
exhibition, as part of Nought to Sixty, 13-20 Oct 2008,
ICA, The Mall, London.

www.mediaartbath.org.uk

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