Charlie Tweed, Navstevnici, 2009: image still. Courtesy the artist.

The MAB Film Exercise

Involuntary Reception

Film

Thu 18 Feb, 6.30pm

Free/ Booking Advised

Kristin Lucas, Branda Miller, Craig Mulholland, Charlie Tweed

For the third MAB Film Exercise, Media Art Bath is pleased to announce that Marie-Anne McQuay (Curator at Spike Island) will present a series of video transmissions from Utopia’s shadow world: the contemporary technocratic Dystopia.

Dystopia is the utopia you must be careful not to wish for (Michael S. Roth)

The work in Involuntary Reception highlights a variety of dystopias in which bureaucratic, scientific, economic and environmental systems mesh together, asking to whom have we surrendered control and in whose name?

Just as classic dystopian fiction blurs the boundaries between present catastrophe and future premonition, so too do the fragmentary and frenetic transmissions of Kristin Lucas, Branda Miller, Craig Mulholland and Charlie Tweed. But they do so through utilising the heterogeneity of video: montaging contemporary and archival film sources with computerised voiceovers and layering digital images with analogue noise to disorientating effect.

By inviting curators to present a programme of artists’ film, The MAB Film Exercise seeks to address both the diverse potential for artists’ film as a form and a sense of the current urgency, social or political timeliness in the work (of both curator and artist). The MAB Film Exercise is produced and presented by Media Art Bath – championing contemporary art and ideas through the development of bold new work.

The MAB Film Exercise is a place for discussing art and the ideas it generates, please join us!

Curated Marie-Anne McQuay
Marie-Anne McQuay is Curator at Spike Island, Bristol and an independent arts writer.

The MAB Film Exercise: exercising ideas in and around artists’ film is a monthly programme of screenings that seeks to address both the diverse potential for artists’ film as a form and a sense of the current urgency, social or political timeliness in the work (of both curator and artist). Produced and presented by Media Art Bath

Forthcoming Programme:

Thu 25 March – Elisa Kay, Flat Time House
Wed 7 April – Richard Birkett, ICA
Thu 27 May – Paul O'Neill, GWR Fellow / Situations / UWE

For further information please contact Bridget Crone on 01225 442 591 or email: bridget@mediaartbath.org.uk

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