What’s On | Alice Anderson amongst others
The Dolls' Day, Alice Anderson
The sublime fairytales of Alice Anderson are currently on tank.tv, in a solo exhibition featuring a selection of 6 films made in the last six years. Anderson creates eerie, fantastical tales of murderous children and secretive eccentrics. Where the combination of unsettling soundtracks, stylised acting and minimalistic settings create dark, theatrical and magical stories. Anderson’s films are often concerned with representations of families where the relationships are less than happy. Her film Bluebeard is particularly interesting for the subversion of gender roles that is presented and the use of layering and shadow play. Anderson’s films are online till 7 June.
There are also a few new gallery openings in London worth mentioning (and, even better, they’re all free to see):
The Last Days of Jack Sheppard, Anja Kirschner and David Panos
There’s a new film and installation by Anja Kirschner and David Panos at the Chisenhale Gallery till 21 June. The Last Days of Jack Sheppard is a 55-minute film with a fragmented narrative, that plays with notions of historical reconstruction, imagining the liaisons between criminal Jack Sheppard and writer Daniel Defoe at a time of the first British financial crisis,the South Sea Bubble of 1720. The film was shot in the Chisenhale Gallery space and is shown on a screen amongst the sculptural white sets featured in the film.
Anja Kirschner also recently completed a short film for LUX’s Associate Artists Programme, which you can watch on The Politics in the Room website.
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard present a new 3D video installation at the BFI Southbank Gallery until 11 July. Radio Mania: An Abandoned Work is inspired by one of the first 3D films: The Man from M.A.R.S., aka Radio-Mania that was produced to showcase the Teleview stereoscopic projection system in the 1920s. The installation focuses on a rehearsal for the reworked film capturing the actors, musicians and the artists themselves, using the latest 3D technology to blur the boundaries between reality and fiction. Forsyth and Pollard create multi-media events that often recreate momentous cultural events, such as File Under Sacred Music, which saw the duo re-enact The Cramps seminal 1978 performance at the Napa Mental Institute.
Pilgrimage from Scattered Points, Luke Fowler
Jarman Award 2008 winner Luke Fowler is at the Serpentine Gallery until 14 June. The exhibition includes new work made for Channel 4′s Three Minute Wonders scheme, alongside previous works that profile unique historical characters, including composer Cornelius Cardew and David Bell, patient of radical psychiatrist RD Laing. The films are shown alongside photographs, paintings, interviews and other archival materials adding to the documentary feel of the work. I particularly liked the work Composition for Flutter Screen, made with Japanese sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda, that explores the use of light, sound and projection in a more abstract way than other works.
Floating Coffins, Zineb Sedira
Zineb Sedira has a solo exhibition at Rivington Place until 25 July. Currents of Time centres on Sedira’s fantastic multi-screen installation Floating Coffins, which looks at the decomposing, abandoned ships along the Mauritan coastline to explore ideas around migration and the human impact on the environment. There are also a selection of light boxes and photographs taken during the filming of Floating Coffins that complement the instllation. Zineb Sedira’s photography and film works often explore ideas of identity and displacement – in Mother Tongue, Sedira shows three generations of women talking to one another in their own language; where the breakdown in communication flags up the divide between generations growing up with different cultural backgrounds.
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