Introducing Ab
[claire_w >> Before you read this fab little post - I thought I'd post a quick intro for those readers who may not know Abs or what she's about.
The new Manager of Animate Projects (the national groundbreaking commissioning project established by Arts Council England and Channel 4 to support risk taking and experimental animation works for television) Ab's will post about the UK animation world and other stuff that interests her. Blogs will include stuff about the new movers and shakers on the animation scene, what's going on where and details of screenings...Take it away Ab - oh - and a BIG welcome...]
First off a shameless plug – please do visit Animate Projects which links to our upcoming events and that of our artists, including the delightful Semiconductor.
My recommendations of events happening in London town this month:
*If you are free on 19 June – Richard Squires’ screening of Programme at the Old Operating Theatre. See Richard Squires for ticket info. I saw the premiere at the Whitechapel Gallery last week and found it a most interesting mix of drama and documentary and what the press release terms ‘sporadic attempts at hypnotic communication’. It will have your skin crawling, literally.
*Invisible Mend at the Lounge Gallery – till 24 June. See Invisible Mend for more information. Although the gallery sits just off of Kingsland High Street, don’t let this put you off if you happen to have a spare half an hour and you happen to be in East London. The highlight for me was Elisabeth Subrin’s ‘Shulie’. The film introduces Shulie, feminist author, through the recreation of a student documentary she starred in in the 1960s, years before she wrote the notorious ‘Dialect of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution’. Engrossing. My one complaint would be that although the gallery tried to avoid overlapping soundtracks of the different films, it is difficult to appreciate fully Jonty Semper’s 2 minute silence recordings.
*Gunter Herbst at One in the Other Gallery till 24 June. See One in the Other. Another small show, but this time a solo show. Herbst creates disturbing paintings from photographs he has taken of the places that the homeless inhabit and mixes this with contemporary painting practices to startling effect.
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