Misc. Leaflet 2/12, Visual Drama, Fiona Tait
The second in the edited series, released 01.07.2010 at mac.
Fiona Tait is archivist at Birmingham Archives and Heritage. The essay is an amended version of the text that first appeared in Source Photographic Review in Spring 2009.
ISBN 978-1-907796-01-2
Pages from my new book ‘Vanishing Point’ resographed in a signed edition of 50 copies currently forming part of a new installation at the exhibition ‘Meeting – Treffen’ at Philara Space, Dusseldorf. Please see editions for more information.
Misc. Leaflet 1/12, Speech, James Yarker
The first of the edited series, released 01.06.2010 at mac.
James Yarker is Artistic Director of Stan’s Cafe, the internationally acclaimed theatre company.
ISBN 978-1-907796-00-5
I am pleased to announce the forthcoming bookwork ‘that is, these scenes’, commissioned and published by mac (Midlands Arts Centre), which will be made available over the next twelve months.
In June 2010 the first of 12 booklets will be released, under the series title ‘Miscellaneous Leaflets’.
The Miscellaneous Leaflets project takes its name from one of only a few British Library holdings relating to mac – a disparate collection of brightly coloured pamphlets tied together with string.
This series gathers interpretations of photographs found in the mac archive and returns them to the public realm. The leaflets are distributed in a limited edition of 1500, each finding its meaning in Birmingham through forums such as bus routes, community centres, and libraries.
Titles will include contributions from Derek Bishton (one founder of Ten.8), Dawn Pereira (writer on the public sculptures of William Mitchell), Fiona Tait (Birmingham Archives), Catherine Fehily & Kate Newton (IRIS Women’s Photography Project and Staffordshire University), James Yarker (Stan’s Cafe), Jonathan P. Watts (YH485 Press) amongst others.
More information can be found on the project blog.
Extract: The curtain is drawn, and the projector is switched on. There is a whirring sound, and the door closes as though by itself. In this sealed vessel one of the participants swims in to focus; she is immersed in an aperture of light.
Click here for the full version of my contribution for the Jane Arden Project.
The publication will be presented at London College of Communication on June 3rd 2010, and will be launched later this year with a further exhibition. It is supported by the BFI.
Still from the Other Side of the Underneath, Dir. Jane Arden, 1972.
Jane Arden was, amongst other things, a film director, actor, screenwriter, and poet. Following her death in 1982 her creative output has failed to achieve deserved recognition amongst that of her peers. As one of the only female directors producing feature length films during the 1970s this near omission from the history of radical cinema is a concern that needs be urgently reassessed.
Excerpt from the Jane Arden Project:
By asking women artists to respond to the viewing of two of her films, Separation and The Other Side of the Underneath, the Jane Arden Project aims to draw attention, not only to Arden’s work, but the influence and stimulus her work is able to bring to a new generation of artists, writers and filmmakers.
The project is lead by artist and activist Charlotte Procter and will culminate in a limited edition artist bookwork and accompanying exhibition, which will include my own contribution amongst others including the work of Elaine Tierney, Susanne Bürner, Mia Clarke, and Sophie Brown. The project is supported by the BFI.
Extract: An image of Kissingtree, the house in which Jacquetta Hawkes spent the final years of her life. In it boarders of trees and plants obscure the home – this outermost film of private life, somehow stilled and peacefully interior. I imagine the archeologist, her knees rested on a flat, old-fashioned, cushion formed like two plastic circles squeezed tight together, carefully positioning seeds to grow in the damp earth. I imagine a bird overhead, time momentarily caught up in a childish delight – how quickly it all seems to change, and how slow it all is. I think of her own film of Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures, pictures cut from their surroundings and placed in a montage of drama and hills – the archeologist brings deep time to surface structures, with Priaulx Rainier’s strange compositions sweeping through.
*Surface – a new publication from YH4885 Press – is presented today at Wysing Arts Contemporary: Presents and can be seen at Wysing Arts Centre alongside other publications from YH485 until the 23.05.2010. More information can be found on the blog of Harriet Mitchell, co-editor of *Surface and founder of the curatorial and research initiative Gymnasium.
*Surface includes my own text ‘Inside Out’ which relates to an ongoing film collaboration with Jessica Anne Stockdale inspired by the life of archeologist Jacquetta Hawkes. Other contributions include Paul Pieroni, Martin Pigott, Helen Sear, and Marine Hugonnier. The publication is available through the YH485 Press website.
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