UPCOMING EVENT: Sheffield Fringe, 6th - 14th June 2014

Samuel Stevens (University of Westminster), Miranda Pennell (University of Westminster), Stephen Connolly (University of Kent), Daniel Mann (Goldsmiths, University of London), Minou Norouzi (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Sheffield Fringe is an artist-led curatorial project exploring the intersection of art &
documentary practices through screenings, talks, exhibitions and research,
presented in partnership with Openvizor, Diversity Art Forum and Goldsmiths
University of London. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Full programme available at:
http://sheffieldfringe.com/programmes/year-2014/

UPCOMING EVENT: Work in progess screening - Everything | 27 min | VHS, Hi8, DV

Minou Norouzi
Friday 13th June, 10.30am - 1pm at Goldsmiths, MRB Screen 2

© Minou Norouzi

Everything is an adaptation of a short story by Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann. The inner monologue of a man talking in very existentialist, philosophical terms about fatherhood, parenting, childhood, his woman, is the fictional foreground to real life taking place in an assemblage of home footage.

The use of archival home video depicting friends and family, using multiples of him, the child, and woman, whilst telling one couple's story, hints at something of a universal 'family condition’. The unauthorized use of privately collected video and the 'misplacing' of 'real' image onto a fictional canvas raises questions about the objectification of our real life selves, though day-to-day cataloging.

UPCOMING EVENT: Assemblage as a tool to explore Artists Cinema

Stephen Connolly
On Friday 6th June, 10.30am - 1pm at Goldsmiths - MRB Screen 2

© Stephen Connolly

Phenomenological and embodied approaches to cinema propose parallels between the perceptive and expressive agencies of camera and audience, as exemplified by the work of Sobchack and Laura U Marks. However, this paradigm lacks conceptual tools for exploring the manifest visual and aural in cinematic representation.

This practice-based PhD explores the concept of ‘assemblage’ for the analysis of artists’ cinema, informed by Deleuze and Actor Network theory and operationalized in a moving image work exploring material aspects of spatialisation in a US city. This presentation will report on the practice based hinterland of this approach using short moving image extracts; progress in applying it to the object of investigation with short moving image extracts; and explore elements of the theoretical approach.

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