Screening 1
A showcase of artists’ film and video work from the across the West Midlands and beyond.
Curated by Caitlin Griffiths

13th March – 25th April

The Public
New Street
West Bromwich
West Midlands
B70 7PG

www.thepublic.com

15th – 20th December 2009

Lothringer Straße 13
81667 München

The first in a series of programmes looking at how the ‘individual’ forms the masses and how one takes what is given but works to operate within and without it. ‘Series 1’ starts with the premise that general and specific interests are formed through genuine love and interest. Like TV – but what if…… Taking the form of a programmed video reel ‘Series 1’ will be broadcast in the guest space of Lothringer 13, Munich, for one week, from the 15th December 2009. The majority of the reel for Munich has been selected, however some works have been made specifically for ‘Series 1’.

Programme for Munich (continuous loop 1hr approx.) :-

* ourtv Ants; 1min. 29sec.
* Stina Wirfelt Oasis; 3min.
* Chris Clarke; Amateur; 11min.
* Stephen Sutcliffe; Come to the Edge; 1min. 30 sec.
* Anna McCarthy; TV out of the window at 60mph; 1min. 30 sec.
* Elizabeth Go; ; 1min. 53sec.
* ourtv; Glacier; 1min.
* Luke Fowler; Anna; 3min.
* Lila De Magalhaes Frank; 2min 13 sec.
* ourtv; Fiona-my-middle-name; 2min. 10 sec
* Mark Leckey; Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore; 15min.
* Hank Schmidt i.d. Beek; Hessenschau; 2min. 42sec.
* Anna Witt; Domesticated; 5min.
* Jamie Stevens; Too Unlimited; 2min.

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Lothringer Straße 13, 81667 München
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12th Sept – 4th Oct 2009

For its fifth exhibition of 2009 Supplement presents work by Chris Clarke.

Clarke’s work explores ideas surrounding film and the production of images. In his work filmic techniques are used to explore specific aesthetic and conceptual aspects of filmmaking. The works seek to aestheticise the production processes of film and in doing this look at the way images are produced and given meaning in the world. This lends an interesting self-referential quality to the work in that they become films about being films, subject and object are intertwined within the pieces.

Reunion (2008) is a Super 8mm film projection of the first 10 seconds of Led Zepplin’s 2007 reunion concert that has been re-filmed from Youtube. In the gallery space the film is played backwards on a projector made in the same year the band formed. This process of translation from digital to Super 8 film is inverted in Amateur (2009), which is shot on film and transferred to a digital projection. The film depicts the upgrade of the hardrive of a Macbook Pro, focusing on enigmatic details of the process and presenting itself as curious fetishisation of technology. The film is played from the removed harddrive.

On or after 24.04.09 (2009) uses a print of a single frame furtively removed from an original 1985 cinema release print of Back to The Future. The print depicting Marty McFly in his moment of realization was sent by post to 10 people including an artist’s proof to the artist, which is exhibited in the show.

The works in the exhibition use specific conceptual strategies to underpin a more complex, elliptic exploration of the terms through which meaning is produced through the conditions of medium.

Installation view from MA Fine Art Show, Chelsea College of Art & Design.

Edition of ten prints depicting a single frame removed from an original 1985 cinema release print of the film Back to The Future.
The prints were folded and posted first class to friends and family on 23.04.09.
An artists proof was sent the same day, and is exhibited framed.

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