Episode Focuses On Lens-Works At Leeds Met Gallery
By Siba Matti
02/05/2006
The Leeds Met Gallery is showcasing Episode, a new exhibition of lens-based work by nine acclaimed artists, from April 29 to June 2 2006.
It includes photography, video projections and painting and explores how viewers engage with various semi-fictional scenarios.
Mark Ingham, Doppelgänger: USSR Pool, edition: 1, (2004/2005). Photo Leeds Met
Each artist produced a series of ‘episodes’, floating installations of white laminated screens that guide, as well as inhibit, the viewer’s movement around the gallery space. The work is designed to play on the senses and produce a dramatic visual and aural experience.
Work by art lecturer and curator Amanda Beech looks at crime and justice narratives in Western film and literature, to examine the relationship between freedom and violence.
Alison Jones instead uses both distorted and three dimensional painting to produce images that reflect the settings of everyday life- including a man urinating up a wall, a woman hiding a bottle of vodka, and a large pile of rubbish-laden bin bags.
By comparison, fine art tutor Jasone Miranda Bilbao observes different perspectives of the world using sculpture and photography and art scholar Mike Marshall combines the latter with video and sound to explore how we interact with the immediate world around us.
Other contributing artists include Julie Henry, Mark Ingham, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Nayan Kulkarni, Giles Perry and freelance curator Mathew Poole.
The exhibition is one in a long line of unconventional offerings at the gallery, which was set up in 1991 to bring cutting edge contemporary and visual performing arts to Leeds.
Episode is also a research initiative, set up to generate critical thinking about lens based artworks. A seminar will be held at the gallery on May 12 2006 to explore how photographic and video images can influence our beliefs.
temporarycontemporary
10 December 2005 - 22 January 2006
Open Saturdays and Sundays, 12-6pm. Closed weekends of 24th and 31st December.
Private view: Friday 9th December 2005. 6.30pm-10pm
New lens based work by: Amanda Beech - Julie Henry - Mark Ingham - Alison Jones - Jaspar Joseph-Lester - Nayan Kulkarni - Mike Marshall - Jasone Miranda Bilbao - Giles Perry
Curated by: Amanda Beech - Jaspar Joseph-Lester - Matthew Poole
temporarycontemporary is pleased to be hosting EPISODE, an exhibition of new lens-based work by nine London-based artists from 10th December 2005 – 22nd January 2006.
"Episodes" are displaced moments - slices of narrative – sequences and instances that are isolated from, stand apart from, and are de-contextualized from a coherent whole. But “episodes” reach out to the universal – something outside. They call upon a totalized narrative without evidencing its existence - a piece of the real. And knowing that “episodes” are singular, self-contained and fabricated inventions does not prevent us from being enthralled, immersed and moved by the power of such fictions.
Through the exhibition we explore the pleasure, power and sensory extravagance of this fiction/fact relationship. Rather than identify truth as being behind or beyond images, we analyse the politics of belief in images.
The selected artworks include video projections, monitor-based works, lens-assisted painting, and photographs, all of which subject the audience to the pleasures of disorientation of sensory, immersive and rhetorical devices. They produce intense visual and aural experiences, whilst openly exposing themselves as fabricated constructs. They carry you away, shift you around, confuse you and demand your collusion. To this end, the exhibition will be set within a simple but dynamic installation of floating white laminated screens that will encourage and guide as well as inhibit the audiences’ movement around the gallery space.
EPISODE will tour to Leeds Metropolitan Gallery in April 2006, where a symposium will be held on 12th May. The tour will continue to South Florida Arts Centre, Miami, in July 2006.
For more information please contact the gallery via e-mail: info@tempcontemp.co.uk.
EPISODE is generously supported by Sheffield Hallam University, Portsmouth University, NK Projects, and The Spanish Embassy London.
EPISODE EXHIBITION AT ARTCENTER/SOUTH FLORIDA
September 16- October 15
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 16 7:00-10:00PM
MIAMI BEACH – (September 16, 2006) –
Episode presents new lens-based work by nine internationally emerging artists, based in the United Kingdom. Predominantly through video and photography, Episode explores how images that we understand and accept as natural or as facts of our lives are constructed and perceived. Episode features Amanda Beech, Julie Henry, Mark Inghma, Alison Jones, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Nayan Kulkarni, Mike Marshall, Jasone Miranda Bilbao, Giles Perry and is curated by Amanda Beech, Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Matthew Poole.
Mark Ingham, ‘Döppelganger: USSR Pool’,Photographic digital print mounted on foamex, L 105cm x W 155cm, 2004
Established in 1984, ArtCenter/South Florida (located at 800, 810 and 924 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach) is a non-profit 501(C)(3) organization that provides subsidized studio and exhibition space as well as teaching opportunities for emerging and career artists in their facilities at 800, 810 and 924 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach. The mission of the ArtCenter is to advance the knowledge and practice of contemporary visual arts and culture in South Florida while providing affordable programming and work-space for professional artists. The ArtCenter/South Florida is open Monday through Thursday from 11:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. and Friday through Sunday from 11:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. For further information please call (305) 674- 8278 or visit the website at www.artcentersf.org.
Exhibitions and programs at ArtCenter/South Florida are made possible through grants from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; Tropiculture, Greater Miami; the City of Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council; the City of Miami Beach Community Development Block Grant ; the Miami Beach Mayor and City Commissioners and the State of Florida, Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Arts Council; the Dade Community Foundation and the Walgreen’s Company.