Contact: Perpetual Possibility
Iklectik, 6 July 2023
Looping, Jenny Baines (2023, 16mm film loop)
Re-cut (Bore Song), Louisa Fairclough (2023, 16mm film loop)
Window, Hover, Laura Hindmarsh (2023, 16mm film loop)
Ballance, Matt Harding (speaker, whistle & voice)
Ecka Mordecai (cello, egg flute & voice)
Blanca Regina & Adriana Camacho (electronics, voice with double bass)
One Minute is an international touring programme of artists moving image curated by artist Kerry Baldry.
Includes work by: Nick Jordan, Rastko Novakovic, Eva Rudlinger, Ruxandra Mitache, Steven Ball, Terry Flaxton, Anna Mortimer, Alex Pearl, Emily Richardson, Lynn Loo, Bea Haut, Nicky Hamlyn, Stuart Pound and Rosemary Norman, Philip Sanderson , Kerry Baldry, My Name is Scot, Andrew Vallance, Bob Georgeson, Julia Dogra-Brazell, Katharine Meynell, Tony Hill, Gordon Dawson, Michael Szpakowski & Anna Szpakowska, Robert Sherwood Duffield, Louisa Minkin & Alex Schady, Zhel ( Zeljko Vukicevic), Jonathan Moss, Guy Sherwin, Rachael Allain, Jacob Cartwright, Kayla Parker & Stuart Moore, Leister/Harris, Paul Tarrago, Jenny Baines, Jamie Naqvi, Guido Devadder, Hendrik van Oordt, Daniela Butsch, Debjit Bagchi & Daniela Lucato.
Frieze, No. 9 Cork Street, 1 July 2023
A ‘dwelling’ can define a place, possibly a home, that is marked by and marks its inhabitants. An individual or group can take dwelling, seek out lodgings, in a particular place for a time. The characteristics of a dwelling are also defined by the relationships it fosters. These notions are explored by four artist-filmmakers through new and rarely seen work.
Shell, Amy Dickson with Zara Joan Miller (2023, performance, 15mins)
Notes: Remembered and Found, Maria Anastassiou (2023, 16mm/video, 20 mins)
Re: exposure, Vicky Smith (2020, 16mm, 10 mins)
PreView 2, Guy Sherwin (1987/2005/2023, 8mm, video, 15mins)
Boscombe Arts Depot, Bournemouth, 27 June 2023
'Programme of short films by local and national artists exploring themes of identity, turbulence and culture related to this year’s theme of ‘unheard voices.’ Featuring work by Zeina Aref, Khaleb Brooks, Asmaa Jama, Adam Lewis Jacob, Zanan collective & Andrew Vallance.
Cafe Oto, 12 June 2023
J.H. Prynne’s poetry with music and flm
Lamp Posts, Riccardo Iacono (selection from 2010 to present, video)
Kernals in Vernal Silence, J.H. Prynne (2020)
- Performed by William Crosby, Kelcy Davenport, Deniz Johns & Simon Payne
Deities, Kerry Baldry (2015, video)
Media Blackout I, Deniz Johns (2016, video)
Fingers in the Gorse, Jamie Jenkinson (2022, video)
Angharad Davies – solo violin
Psalter, Samantha Rebello (2019, 16mm)
At Raucous Purposeful, J.H. Prynne (2023)
- Performed by Crosby, Davenport, Johns & Payne, with Angharad Davies (violin) & Dominic Lash (double bass)
Iklectik, 11 May 2023
New and recent experimental video works and music from Sophie Clements, Simon Payne and Tim Parkinson
Untitled 2021b (for piano), Tim Parkinson, performed by the composer
Edges: Waves, Simon Payne (2018, 6 mins)
On Letting Things Be (An Exercise), Sophie Clements (2020, 2 mins)
Vice Versa Et Cetera, Simon Payne (2010, 10mins)
Sea/Frame (work in progress), Sophie Clements, with live sound by James Woodrow (12 mins)
There, After, Sophie Clements (2011, 5 mins)
Intervals, Simon Payne (2023, 10 mins, two-screen)
Snow/Face (work in progress), Sophie Clements, with sound by Romain Arnette (8 mins, two-screen)
Project 9000 (for piano, percussion and audio track), Tim Parkinson, performed by GBSR Duo
Method / Art: Methods in Artistic Research
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, 12-15 April 2023
A seminar for artistic researchers to discuss their methods
My paper Sites of Co-presence: Four Contact Projects addresses the act of discursive curation through Contact's activities. Through reflecting on these events it asks whether this approach can facilitate more individual and collective engagement through peer-to-peer, artist-to-audience and work-to-context interaction.
Surfeit I
Presented by Contact and The Thames Submarine
Café Oto, 12 January 2023
Gong, NIGHT-LINE-DEC-23(16mm, multi-projector performance with sound)
Melody Inside a Fire, Matt Harding & Sue Harding (foley & phone)
Surfeit, Jo Millett (2010, video, sound)
Metronome/Pendulum, Li Song (snare drum, metronome & hanging speaker)
Ecka Mordecai (horsehair, harp & voice)
Wind, Mersea Island, Steven Ball (video & sound performance)
My Line, Livia Garcia (graphic score performed by Steve Beresford)
Angharad Davies (first solo violin performance of 2023)
Vowels & Consonants, Guy Sherwin & Lynn Loo (16mm, multi-projector performance with sound)
Beyond Beck Road I: Open House Festival, London, 10 September 2022
Reservoir Film, Lizzy Hobbs (2021, video, sound, 1 min)
Slide 1, Karolina Raczynski with Caroline Wilson (2021, video, sound, 1min)
Edges: Ladders, Simon Payne (2018, video, sound, 4 mins)
Apple VHS, Carali McCall (2004/2022, video, sound, 1 min)
Situation, Andrew Vallance (2008, video, sound, 2 mins)
How We Fall, Sophie Clements (2012, video, sound, 3 mins)
Beck Road Film, Cathy Rogers (2022, 16 mm, 1 min)
Arm Flexion Extension, Bea Haut (2012, 16mm, 3 mins)
Unrehearsed Dance Moves, Jenny Baines (2022, 16mm, 3 mins)
Music For a While, Oliver Bancroft (2012, 16mm, sound, 5 mins)
Lunatic, Laura Hindmarsh (2019, 16mm, 3mins)
Soundtrack, Guy Sherwin (1977/2022, 16mm performance with sound, 8 mins)
A series of events inspired by Film Talks: 15 Conversations in Experimental Cinema
Jenny Baines / Amy Dickson / Bea Haut (30 June 2022, Iklectik)
Karel Doing / Bruce McClure & Gregg Biermann / Greg Pope / Tom Richards (7 June 2022, Cafe Oto)
Malcolm Le Grice / Chris Welsby (17 May 2022, Close Up Cinema)
William Raban / John Smith (21 April 2022, Close Up Cinema)
Jayne Parker / Simon Payne / Tim Parkinson (playing Piano Sonatas by John White) (6 March 2022, Cafe Oto)
Jasleen Kaur / Alia Syed (6 February 2022, LUX)
Nicky Hamlyn / Lynn Loo / Guy Sherwin (20 January 2022, Iklectik)
Cathy Rogers / Vicky Smith (28 November 2021, LUX)
Experimental Film, Video Art, and the Borders of Cinema
A British Society of Aesthetics Synergy Conference, Queen Mary University of London, 25-27 May 2022
This conference aims to highlight the contribution of experimental films and video art to contemporary culture.
My paper Discursive Interaction was presented as part of the Screenings As Material & Discursive Processes panel (Nicky Hamlyn, Deniz Johns, Vicky Smith and Andrew Vallance). The panel examines 'the productive relationship between workshops, screening events and making processes, in which a mix of live and recorded works are presented, including dialogues/discussions that are initiated by programmers/curators between artists and audience.'
Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema
Edited by Simon Payne and Andrew Vallance, foreword by Jonathan Walley.
320 pages, fully illustrated in colour.
Film Talks is an edited collection of unique conversations on experimental cinema from a range of eminent and emerging film and video makers. The book represents a contemporary snapshot on the ways in which experimental cinema is perceived by its practitioners, often in relation to other art forms, moving image culture at large and wider social issues. It is an invaluable guide for those keen to immerse themselves in the insights and perspectives that only artists can offer.
'What is there to say here that’s not better said by two film artists talking through, with, in each other’s works?'
Sean Cubitt, Professor of Screen & Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne
'Here we find the impure discourse in which culture begins, theoretical and technical, intellectual and intuitive. Any one of these conversations contains enough vitamins and minerals to fuel a conference.'
Film Millennium Journal, No. 76, Fall, 2022
Three Steps to the Avant-Garde with Neil Henderson & Andrew Vallance
How to Enjoy Experimental Film (podcast)
The Others, Stock Newington
17 September 2021
Friends, colleagues and past students of Al Rees have contributed one-minute films and videos to celebrate his posthumous book Fields of View* and the spirit of the man who was an ardent supporter of experimental cinema. Many have made new pieces for the occasion and responded directly to key terms and ideas that they found in his writing. Over 60 artists have contributed to the screening including: Maria Anastassiou; Luke Aspell; Jenny Baines; Steven Ball; Suky Best; Kelvin Brown, Savinder Bual; Luke Burton; Brad Butler & Noorafshan Mirza, Sophie Clements; Nick Collins; Toby Cornish; Chris Paul Daniels; Karel Doing; Amy Dickson; William English; Anna Fernandez De Paco; Patti Gaal-Holmes; Éric and Marie Gaspar; Rob Gawthrop; Zlatan Hadžifejzović; Nicky Hamlyn; Tony Hill; Elizabeth Hobbs; James Holcombe; Phil Hollins; Riccardo Iacono; Nils Jean; Jamie Jenkinson; Deniz Johns; sue k.; Adam Kossoff; Stephen Littman; Lynn Loo; Paul Martin; Chris Meigh-Andrews; Jo Millett; Jayne Parker; Stephen Partridge; Simon Payne; Alexandros Pissourios; Gareth Polmeer; William Raban; Karolina Raczynski; Emily Richardson; Cathy Rogers; Edwin Rostron; Philip Sanderson; Guy Sherwin; John Smith; Vicky Smith; Anna Thew; Peter Todd; Nikolaos Tzaferidis; Andrew Vallance; Dominic de Vere; Chris Welsby; Ian Wiblin & Anthea Kennedy; R. L. Wilson; winc films.