The MAB Film Exercise

Placement and practice

The MAB Film Exercise Mar - May 2010

A monthly screening and discussion group around artists' film and video in which invited curators present and discuss a programme (or single piece) of moving image work, addressing both the diverse potential for the form and a sense of the current urgency, social or political timeliness in the work (of both curator and artist).

Presented by Media Art Bath
www.mediaartbath.org.uk

Placement and practice
David Hall and John Latham

Curated by Elisa Kay, Curator, Flat Time House

For the first of a new season of The MAB Film Exercise, Elisa Kay will present some film and video made by members of the Artist Placement Group. John Latham's Erth (1971) is a visual countdown through time and space. In relation to the idea of the Universe as the ‘whole event’, Erth describes the perspective necessary to perceive our temporary habitation of the planet as "a brilliant streptococcus organism for which no antidote exists".

David Hall’s TV Interruptions (7 pieces) (1971) were made specifically for TV broadcast and initially transmitted by Scottish TV during the Edinburgh Festival. Hall has stated that the “idea of inserting them as interruptions to regular programmes was crucial and a major influence in their content”.

Both works were made during artists’ placements and this evening, we will look at how work made through placement relates to an artist’s wider practice.

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