Symposium: Globality in Artists’ Film & Video University of Westminster, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3TP Wednesday 12 November 2014, 2 – 6pm In October and November 2014 London Gallery West is presenting a major programme of single-channel video works by artists from six different continents, tracing regional and global connections among practitioners and exploring shared contemporary concerns. PROJECT 35 VOLUME 2 produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, presents works made between 2001-2012. Many focus on memory and change; notions of place and identity; fiction and history; performance and documentation. Though the works are rooted in the artists’ homelands and derive from personal experience, their impact resonates globally. In conjunction with the exhibition, The Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) and the International Centre for Documentary and Experimental Film at the University of Westminster are convening Globality in Artists’ Film & Video, an afternoon symposium addressing expanded geographies of research on artists’ moving image and experimental video. Bringing together notable artists, curators and academics, the event will provide a forum for discussing these related themes: • Tendencies of artists’ use of video within a global contemporary frame. • • • The aesthetics of a global range of works in relation to their historical, temporal and spatial complexities. Mapping regions, currents and networks of artists’ film and video practices. Infrastructures for disseminating artists and experimental moving image. SPEAKERS INCLUDE: George Clark is a curator, writer and artist. He is Assistant Curator, Film at Tate Modern where he has curated retrospectives of work by Ute Aurand, Camille Henrot, Vlado Kristl, Mike Kuchar and Rose Lowder. He curated the series TV as Material and cocurated Magiciens de la Terre Reconsidered and Assembly: A Survey of Artist Film and Video in Britain 2008-2013 at Tate Britain. He was on the advisory board of the 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival and curated the Lav Diaz focus at the AV Festival 2012. He co-edited the book A Detour Around Infermental following the exhibition co-curated with Dan Kidner and James Richards for Focal Point Gallery, 2010. He has written for Afterall, Art Monthly, Mousse Magazine and Sight & Sound. He cowrote the script for the film The Future's Getting Old Like the Rest of Us (2010) with Beatrice Gibson and collaborated with Luke Fowler on his film The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott (2013). Shezad Dawood is exhibiting in PROJECT 35 VOLUME 2 and is a Research Fellow at the University of Westminster. Dawood works across film, painting and sculpture to juxtapose discrete systems of image, language, site and historical narrative. His practice often involves collaboration, working with groups and individuals across different territories to physically and conceptually map far-reaching lines of enquiry. Dawood’s work has been exhibited internationally including Taipei Biennial (2014), Marrakech Biennial (2014), MACBA Barcelona (2014), MoMA PS1 (2014), Witte de With (2013), Modern Art Oxford (2012), Busan Biennial (2010), Tate Britain (2009), and the 53rd Venice Biennial (2009). May Adadol Ingawanij is Reader and Director of Research of UoW’s International Centre for Documentary and Experimental Film. She writes and teaches on cinema and history in Southeast Asia, cinema apparatus, and independent and experimental moving image aesthetics and dissemination. Her recent publications include Glimpses of Freedom: Independent Cinema in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2012); ‘Animism and the Performative Realist Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul,’ in Screening Nature: Cinema Beyond the Human, Anat Pick and Guinevere Narraway, eds (Berghahn Books, 2013). In 2012 May directed the 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival: Raiding the Archives. In 2009 she co-curated a Lav Diaz retrospective in Bangkok. Ozlem Koksal is a film scholar. Her research focuses on representations of the past, as well as notions of rupture, loss and displacement in visual culture. She has published in English and Turkish and is editor of World Film Locations: Istanbul (London: Intellect, 2012). Her forthcoming book, Aesthetics of Displacement: Turkey and its Minorities on Screen (Bloomsbury, 2015) looks at representation(s) of displacement in cinema, taking Turkey as its case study. After completing her PhD at Birkbeck (2011) she taught at Bilgi University, Istanbul, and currently teaches on the MA Film and Television, University of Westminster. Michael Mazière is an artist and curator, currently Reader in Film and Video at the University of Westminster. His practice encompasses the production of artworks, the curation of exhibitions, lecturing and writing about artists’ film and video. Maziere shows his films and videos internationally; venues include the Tate Gallery, London and MOMA, New York and film festivals in Sao Paulo, Oberhausen, Basle, Berlin and Rotterdam. He has curated moving image exhibitions at the ICA, NFT and internationally and is currently Curator of Ambika P3 - recent and upcoming exhibitions include Anthony McCall (2011), David Hall (2012), Ilya & Emilia Kabakov (2013), Victor Burgin (2013), Chantal Akerman (2015) and Shezad Dawood (2016). Lucy Reynolds is a writer, artist and curator of artists’ moving image. She presents talks on artists’ moving image at arts venues across the UK and runs the MRes: Art: Moving Image, a research based MA devoted to the study of artists’ moving image at Central St Martins, in association with LUX. She also teaches on the MA Film and Television, University of Westminster. She has lectured and published extensively on cinema and artists’ moving image work, most recent articles include: ‘The Subject in Process: Material Equations in the Work of Carolee Schneemann and Annabel Nicolson,’ in Bridget Crone (ed), The Sensible Stage: Staging and the Moving Image (Picture This publications, Bristol, 2012), and ‘Maya Deren: Thresholds to the Imaginary,’ International Journal of Screendance, vol 3, Spring 2013. Julian Ross is a researcher, curator and writer based in Amsterdam. Recently completing his PhD thesis on 1960s Japanese expanded cinema at the University of Leeds, he has curated film programmes and performances for Anthology Film Archives (NYC), Eye Film Institute (Amsterdam), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), Gasworks (London) and Close-Up Film Centre (London). He was an assistant curator for the touring retrospective series (2011-13) on the Art Theatre Guild of Japan at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Pacific Film Archives (Berkeley) and BFI (London). As a writer, he has published articles in POST and Film Comment as well as chapters for Impure Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2014), Slow Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, Forthcoming) and The Japanese Cinema Book (BFI, forthcoming). He joined the short film selection committee at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2014. Erika Tan is an artist whose work has evolved from an interest in received narratives, contested heritage, subjugated voices and the transnational movements of ideas, people and things. Her works arise out of processes of research and responses to the unravelling of facts, fictions, and encounters related to events, locations, audiences and specifics that may already exist. Her work has been exhibited internationally including The Samsung Art Plus Prize (BFI London, 2011); There Is No Road (LABoral, Spain 2010); Thermocline of Art (ZKM, Germany 2007); Around The World in Eighty Days (South London Gallery / ICA 2007); The Singapore Biennale (2006); Cities on the Move (Hayward Gallery, London). She is currently working on an NAC Arts Creation Funded project: Repatriating the object With No Shadow. She teaches in the faculty of Fine Art (4D Pathway) in Central Saint Martins School of Art, University of the Arts, London. PROGRAMME: 14.00 Introduction by May Adadol Ingawanij and Michael Mazière, and screening of a short piece from the ICI programme 14.15 – 15.00 SESSION 1 Response to ICI programme by Lucy Reynolds & George Clark 15.00 – 15.15 Tea Break 15.15 – 16.30 SESSION 2 Shezad Dawood: The New Dream Machine Project Erika Tan: Repatriating the Object with No Shadow Respondent: Michael Mazière 16.30 – 16.45 Tea Break 16.45 – 18.00 SESSION 3 Ozlem Koksal: Representations of Armenian Genocide in Contemporary Video and Photography Julian Ross: Punctuating Motion – Slide Projection in the Emergence of Video in 1960-70s Japan Respondent: May Adadol Ingawanij 18.00 – 20.00 Special late opening of PROJECT 35 VOLUME 2 at London Gallery West Please note that this event will take place in adjoining theatre LT2 and not in London Gallery West itself.