Isaac Julien's Guide to Artists Filmmaking

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xhh2d

We hear from leading artists working with the moving image - Christian Marclay whose celebrated 24 hour film Clock, is a play on time.

Tacita Dean, committed to the traditional medium of film, describes her roots in pictorial image making and her love of celluloid.

Gillian Wearing discusses her ambivalence to narrative and acting in her new cinema film Self Made. We capture the spirit of artist filmmaking at a screening of films on the platform of Hackney Downs station, where the context of the screen is important to the films shown.

We also hear how Isaac, originally a cinema film director now shows in gallery spaces, working to break down the barriers that exist between different artistic disciplines - film, dance, photography, music, theatre, painting and sculpture, trying to unite these into something he calls a visual narrative.

We discuss the role of the Film Council, BBC and the BFI in working with artists to produce innovative films in Britain.

We chart the rise of artists working in film, moving out of the shadow and the constraints imposed cinema film making.

Producer: Kate Bland
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4.

BROADCAST

1. Tue 18 Jan 2011
   11:30
   BBC Radio 4

Camden Art Centre exhibition

Simon Starling: Never The Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts)
16 December 2010 - 20 February 2011

Francis Alÿs, Francis Bacon, Christian Boltanski, Matthew Buckingham, Harry Burton, Tony Carter, Keith Coventry, Andrea Fisher, Stefan Gec, Ernö Goldfinger, Graham Gussin, Susan Hiller, Douglas Huebler, Des Hughes, ISOKON / Marcel Breuer, Patrick Keiller, Hilma af Klint, David Lamelas, Liberty & Co., Sean Lynch, Mary Martin, ...more

New Contemporaries exhibition

The highly regarded New Contemporaries exhibition is a snapshot of today's emerging art landscape featuring 49 artists working across film, sculpture, photography, painting, animation and performance. Offering unparalleled access to new practice and ideas from across the UK, this exhibition sits at the heart of a dynamic and discursive programme of discussions, workshops and performances for both artists and audiences.

Established in 1949 and presented at the ICA between 1964 and 1989, New Contemporaries is a high-profile annual event offering art students and recent graduates essential recognition and support at a crucial stage in their development. A panel comprised of influential arts figures, predominantly artists, selects participants through a rigorous process that is open, fair and democratic.

The selectors for 2010 are Gabriel Kuri, Mark Leckey and Dawn Mellor

Gallery Tours

Gallery assistants introduce the exhibition Wednesdays to Fridays at 2pm. Meet in the ICA Reading Room. Free. Guided tours by exhibiting artists on 5,12 December and 9,16 & 23 January.

Philippe Parreno

Philippe Parreno
25 November - 13 February

The Serpentine Gallery is delighted to present Philippe Parreno’s first solo exhibition in a UK public institution. Born in 1964, Parreno rose to prominence in the 1990s, earning critical acclaim for his work, which employs a diversity of media including film, sculpture, performance and text.
Parreno’s exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery has been conceived as a scripted space in which a series of events unfolds. The visitor is guided through the galleries by the orchestration of sound and image, which heightens their sensory experience. Noise from Kensington Gardens and from the surrounding streets can be heard inside the Gallery, as though the outside is leaking in. The blinds come up to reveal a sudden change of weather. Taking the exhibition as a medium, Parreno has sought to redefine the exhibition experience by exploring its possibilities as a coherent ‘object’ rather than a collection of individual works.
The show features the UK premiere of Parreno’s latest film, Invisibleboy (2010), the story of an illegal Chinese immigrant boy who sees imaginary monsters that are scratched onto the film stock. In this filmic portrait, fantasy and social realism, fiction and documentary overlap. June 8, 1968 (2009) recalls the train voyage that transported the corpse of assassinated senator Robert Kennedy from New York to Washington D.C. Kennedy’s invisible body and the Invisibleboy are characters that float between several layers of reality. Set in Asia, The Boy from Mars (2003) follows dimming points of light and reflections of the sun, before lingering on buffalo tied to a purpose-built structure containing an electricity-generating machine that provides the power required to make the film.
Whether through the cinematic image or the exhibition itself, Parreno explores and manipulates contemporary signs in all of their hallucinatory reality.
The Serpentine exhibition follows a series of related but distinct retrospectives of the artist’s work presented at Kunsthalle Zürich; Centre Pompidou, Paris (both 2009); the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2009–10); and the Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York (2009–10).


Philippe Parreno
AC/DC Snakes, 1995-2010
Electrical plugs and adapters

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Philippe Parreno
Invisibleboy 2010
Installation view, Serpentine Gallery, London
© 2010 Gautier Deblond


Philippe Parreno

The British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet

The British Art Show is an ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary British art. Organised by the Hayward Gallery, the show takes place every five years and tours four UK cities. This year, the exhibition is visiting London for the first time in 21 years, featuring work by 39 artists including Sarah Lucas and Roger Hiorns. 16 Feb-17 Apr

Modern British Sculpture

This major Royal Academy exhibition is the first dedicated to modern British sculpture for 30 years. The show includes work by top British artists including Jacob Epstein, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and Damien Hirst. The display uses provocative juxtapositions, encouraging you to see the works in a new light. 22 Jan-7 Apr

The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei

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