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LIGHTCONE
Video Screenings
3 - 13 SEPTEMBER
NICHOLAS & SHEILA PYE
VICTORIA BROWN & RICHARD BRAMMER
16 - 20 SEPTEMBER
CLARE LANGAN
OLIVER PIETSCH
23 - 27 SEPTEMBER
RA DI MARTINO
KEN SOLOMON
30 SEPTEMBER – 4 OCTOBER
SHEENA MACRAE
OLIVER PIETSCH
Still from "Loudly, Death Unites", (2007, 11min) by Nicholas & Sheila Pye
NETTIE HORN is pleased to present the first edition of “Lightcone” - a video-programme presenting a selection of screenings by international artists. From experimental video to short film, this event aims to emphasize the alternative form of cultural communication of video art.
Victoria Brown &
Richard Brammer
“The Loamshire Trilogy” (2009, 13mins)
"A transistor radio sitting on a windowsill,
fallen between the stations…" best defines the tone of Victoria
Brown & Richard Brammer’s “Loamshire Trilogy”.
Brown & Brammer work in tandem across a variety of mediums to create
a selection of discrete moments and fragile signals; these are capable
of standing alone by themselves but nevertheless form part of an overall
world, continuous and barely fathomable, where images, sounds and words
blur in and out of focus... They named this place 'Loamshire'.
Ra Di Martino
“The Red Shoes” (2007, Single channel 16mm film loop, 4
minutes and 45 seconds)
The video recalls a story and resembles something
— a hazy memory or dream — from somewhere. The film appears
to be part of a feature film, perhaps one that we have seen, but can't
quite remember the name. It can be read as found footage, a fake found
footage.
Clare Langan
“The Flooded Rooms” (2007, 4mins)
“The Flooded Rooms” adds to Langan’s catalogue of work exploring the extreme forces of nature on mankind and it’s environments. This 4-minute film leads the viewer through a series of flooded rooms where it appears that nature has taken over the interiors created by mankind and claimed them as it’s own new landscape. There has always been a crossover between photography, film and painting within Langan’s practice. The use of hand-painted filters and lens attachments generates a very site-specific approach, as well as an obvious reference to painting. Each shot in the film is taken through specifically fabricated hand painted filters, altering the image as it comes into the camera. Accompanied by an original score by Jürgen Simpson.
Sheena Macrae
“Odyssey” (2006, 7mins)
Macrae’s work manipulates popular iconography in film and video
through compression - exploring the modern fascination with speed, nostalgia,
information and entertainment. She misappropriates the ready-made formats
of cinema and television through digital media technologies fixating
obsessively on pivotal recurring narrative junctions. These works parody
and reconstruct the dynamics of Hollywood clichés, collective
memory and the standardisation of film narratives, co-opting the syntax
of film language to develop alternative meanings through a post-production
remix.
Oliver Piestch
“Maybe Not” (2005, 4:25mins)
“Tuned” (2004, 14mins)
The final sequence of Takashi
Miike’s remake of the film Graveyard of Honor [1975/2002] by Kinij
Fukasaku forms the first scene in Oliver Pietsch’s poetic found-footage
music video “Maybe Not”. A short meditation before the
leap into the void and then the release of free falling - followed
on by a rhythmic chain of images of jumping and falling people, culled
from movie history. With this montage of the cinematic topic of the
falling body in space, Pietsch visualizes the ambivalence between the
terrible yearning for death and despairing liberation.
“Tuned” is a found-footage film, a collection of scenes,
in which subjects are presented in various forms of intoxication. To
this end, Pietsch combed through works from the entire history of film and made
a montage according to his own dramaturgy. The spectrum of his source material
ranges from early silent movies to computer-processed films - from Charlie Chaplin
classics to Andy Warhol's Trash to David Cronenberg's eXistenZ. The way the eyes
move, or the eyelids fall shut, or the eyeballs roll upwards, or the mouth opens,
or the motions the hands make - right away, we associate them with either hallucinations,
drugs and so on.
Nicholas & Sheila
Pye
“Loudly, Death Unties” (2007, 11 mins)
“A young man and woman’s isolated
life is interrupted when a child burrows her way into the back room
of their dilapidated shack. Like the wail of a banshee, she begins to
play a haunting song to them on her violin, warning them of death. Unable
to get into the mysterious room, they become increasingly perplexed
and frustrated by her presence. When the woman becomes to begin unaffected
by the forces of gravity, the man must decide to heed the banshee’s
call and say goodbye to his lover. “(1)
Nick and Sheila Pye are a collaborative artist duo who stage videos
and photographs in dramatic contexts. Using themselves as models, they
situate their characters in domestic situations that amplify the surrealism
or mystic aspects of the everyday.
Ken Solomon
“Her Invisible Time” (2006, 5:43mins)
"Her Invisible Time" follows an individual's journey through the bustling environment of New York City. It is about feeling isolated amongst the masses, about being alone when in the company of many. The video plays with speed to emphasize this feeling of isolation, straddling the fine line between the bliss of solitude, and the loneliness that accompanies being alone. This quest delves into the dichotomy of sombre tranquillity amongst urban chaos
(1) Nicholas & Sheila Pye (14 Novembre-2 Janvier 2008), catalogue exhibition, Alexia Goethe, London, p.39
Abigail Reynolds lives
and works in London, UK. Solo shows: The Universal Now, Seventeen
Gallery, London (2009); ShapeShift: Landscape in motion, Durlston
castle, Dorset, UK (2007) / Group shows: Embedded, Gimpel Fils Gallery,
London, UK (2008); Tatton Park Biennial, Parabola, UK (2008); Jardin
d’acclimation,
Villa Arson, Nice, France (2008); From a Distance, Wallspace, New
York (curated by Vincent Honore) (2007); The Islanders, Nettie
Horn, London (2007); NEVERODDOREVEN, Serpentine Gallery, London
(2007); Behemoth, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London (2007); Day to
Day Data, Danielle Arnaud London (2006)
Brighid Lowe lives and works in London, UK. Solo shows: Jerwood Artists
Platform, Jerwood Space, London (2004); Archives de la Critique d'art
commission for symposium and publication, France (2001); Unedited Confessions,
Galerie Vox, Montreal, Canada (2001) / Group shows: Embedded, Gimpel Fils
gallery, London, UK(2008);Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007, Jerwood Space, London,
then touring (2007-08); Paulo Post Futurum, Lokaal 01/Breda’s Museum, Breda, Holland (2007); Tonight, Studio
Voltaire, London (2004); New Religious Art 1992 – 2002, Liverpool
Biennial, Liverpool and Henry Peacock Gallery, London (2002); Intelligence:
New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London (2000)
Rosie Leventon lives and works in London, UK. Exhibitions and commissions:
Concrete and Glass, Shoreditch Town Hall, London (2008); Et Pendant
ce Temps..., NETTIE HORN, London (2008); Parallax, Fieldgate Gallery,
London (2008); Eyestorm (opp. Tate Modern), (2007); Queens House,
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; Undercurrent, Fabrica, Brighton
(2007); International Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge
(2004); Royal Society of British Sculptors (2000-2001); Commission
for the garden of Mrs Anne Wood CBE, Atrium Gallery, Price Waterhouse
Coopers, London (2001)
Emma Mcnally lives and
works in London, UK. Solo shows: Fields, Charts, Soundings, T1+2
Gallery, London (2008) / Group shows: Avatar of Sacred Discontent,
9 Hillgate, T1+2 Gallery/ Flora Fairbairn Projects, London (2007);
Cannibal Ferox, T1+2/ Paradise Row, London, UK (2006); The Constant
of Variation 2, T1+2 Gallery, London (2001); The n°8 Bus, T1+2
Gallery, London (2001)
Gordon Cheung lives and works in London, UK. Solo shows: The Promised
Land, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York USA (2009); TECHNOPHOBIA, Harris
Museum, Preston UK (2008); Wilderness of Mirrors, Galerie Adler,
Frankfurt, Germany (2008); God is on Our Side, Unosunove Gallery,
Rome Italy (cat) (2007); Heart of Darkness, Thomas Cohn Gallery,
Sao Paulo, Brazil (2006) / Group shows: The Future Can Wait, Truman
Brewery - Ellis Rumley Projects, London (2008); PS: Parsing Spirituality
Affirmation Arts, New York City, USA (2008); Currents: Recent Acquisitions,
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington USA (2007); Fash
n Riot, Photographer's Gallery, London
Sarah Woodfine lives and works in London, UK.
Solo shows: Ha Gamle Prestegard, Norway (2007);
The Drawn Curtain, Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, London (2006);
Dorman Museum Middlesbrough, UK (2003); Five Years, Danielle Arnaud
contemporary art, London (2000)/ Group shows: The Beguiling ... ,
Bury St Edmunds Gallery (2008); isobar, Fieldgate Gallery (2007);
Snowdomes, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK (2006); Cloud &
Vision, Museum of Garden History, London (2005); Staged, Danielle
Arnaud contemporary art, London (2005); The Jerwood Drawing Prize
(2004)
Tove Storch lives and works in Copenhagen (Denmark) and Vienna (Austria).
Solo shows: The Weakest Link, Stedefreund, Berlin; KBH Kunsthal,
Krabbesholm Højskole, Copenhagen, Denmark (2008); Overgaden - Institut
for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (2008); Gallery Kirkhoff, Copenhagen,
Denmark (2007); Superhorst, offspace Berlin, Germany (2006) / Group
shows: Et Vintereventyr, Gl. Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark (2009); The
Weakest Link, Stedefreund, Berlin, Germany (2008); Reduced, Karma
International, Zürich, Switzerland (2008); Pimp my walls, Stefan
Schuster, Strelitzerstraße 59, Berlin, Germany (2007); The Lab,
INTO POSITION, Bauernmarkt 1, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Severin
Dünser (2007)
Nicholas & Sheila Pye
“Loudly, Death Unties” (2007, 11 mins)
Nicholas & Sheila Pye
“Loudly, Death Unties” (2007, 11 mins)
Nicholas & Sheila Pye
“Loudly, Death Unties” (2007, 11 mins)
Clare Langan
“The Flooded Rooms” (2007, 4mins)
Clare Langan
“The Flooded Rooms” (2007, 4mins)
Oliver Piestch
“Maybe Not” (2005, 4:25mins)
Oliver Piestch
“Maybe Not” (2005, 4:25mins)
Oliver Piestch
“Tuned” (2004, 14mins)
Oliver Piestch
“Tuned” (2004, 14mins)
Sheena Macrae
“Odyssey” (2006, 7mins)
Sheena Macrae
“Odyssey” (2006, 7mins)
Ken Solomon
“Her Invisible Time” (2006, 5:43mins)
Ken Solomon
“Her Invisible Time” (2006, 5:43mins)
Ra Di Martino
“The Red Shoes” (2007, Single channel 16mm film loop, 4
minutes and 45 seconds)
Ra Di Martino
“The Red Shoes” (2007, Single channel 16mm film loop, 4
minutes and 45 seconds)
© NETTIE HORN