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April
4th
Spectrum
(2006) slide show version is being shown at the 'Relocating
Absence' at the Elevator
Gallery.
Other artists include: Brada Barassi | Craig Cooper | Amelia Crouch | Hondartza
Fraga
Zbigniew Tomasz Kotkiewicz | Anastasia Loginova | Michelle Lord | Erin Newell
Ellakajsa Nordström | Anahita Razmi | Mikio Saito & Youngho Lee.
18 April – 4 May 2008
PRIVATE VIEW Thursday, 17 April, 6.30 - 10 pm
www.elevatorgallery.co.uk

Mother Studios, Queens Yard,
White Post Lane, 3 min walk from Hackney Wick station.
March
26th
Worldlanguage is
being screened at the Hull International Film Festival on April
16th, as part of the 'One Minute' schowreel curated by Kerry
Baldry.
March
18th
Ghost
Story is
being screened as
part of Purescreen DVD launch at Roxy Bar & Screen, London
Bridge. For more information about Purescreen, which is curated
by Sophia Crilly and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, click here.
March
4th
Spectrum
(2006) is being screened as
part of tank.tv The
Whole World, curated by Ian White, online from 1st January
2008 .
"The Whole World is a list of lists: a programme of artists’ film
and video and an interactive online exhibition..."
Feb
9th
Everybody
Understands Me is being screened as
part of tank.tv The
Whole World, curated by Ian White, online from 1st January 2008.
Jan 28th
Everybody
Understands Me is being screened at the
Elevator Gallery's Dead Bodies and Cardboard show, opening Friday
8th Feb from 6pm, Hackney Wick. Other artists in the show are: Sarah Doyle,
Kirsty Dixon, Laura May Lewis, Antonio Gianasi, Emma Thatcher, Erica Scourti,
Patricia Shrigley, Grant Foster, Hannah Jesmen, Matt Lippiatt.
.Curated by Cherie-Marie Veiderveld & Simon Reuben White
Mother Studios, Queens Yard,
White Post Lane, 3 min walk from Hackney Wick station.
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to enlarge...
News
2007
December 8th
Some of my videos are being screened at the
musuem of Contemporary Art in Siegen, Germany as part of the 'Mindhacking' programme,
on December 8.
museumfuergegenwartskunstsiegen.de
December
7th
New video online! Everybody
Understands Me is an animated tale of titles taken from self-help
and psychology books, check it out here.
November
5th
The
Speech of Reason is
being screened Arizona State University Art Museum, for
3 days in November 2007 (26th 27th and 28th). Website here.
October 23rd
The Speech of Reason has
won Best Film at the Radical Reels competition of short films!
Here's what they said:
" The atmosphere in the audience was very high last night. Your film received
lots of laughs, clapping and some cheering, too."
The
four winners and the categories:
Best Film: "The Speech of Reason", dir. Erica Scourti (UK, 2006)
Most Experimental Film: "Under Twilight", dir. Jean Gabriel Periot
(France, 2006)
Audience Award: "Test Phantom", dir. Robin Kiteley (UK, 2007)
Young Filmmaker Award: "Cerebratorium", dir. Bryan Launch (UK, 2007)
October
10th
The
Speech of Reason has been chosen for the Radical Reels competetion
of short films, where Malcom Le Grice is one of the selectors. Sunday
21 October (19.00)
CUBE MICROPLEX, Bristol. visit
website.
October
4th
I have been invited to
Berlin from 5th- 8th October, to set up an international art prpoject called 'Signs
of the City' with artists from London, Berlin, Bareclona and Sofia.
Other London artists going are Melissa Bliss, Doug Nicolson and Terez Osztafi.
October
4th
Ghost
Story is being screened at the Sadho Poetry Film Festival, in
October 2007 and then travelling in 2008. Website here.
September 22nd
Ghost
Story is being screened at the Reine Sofia Museum of
Modern Art in Madrid on October 4th, 14th and 19th. And I'm
going. Website here, pdf
programme here.
September 18th
I've
finally managed to upload an essay I wrote earlier this year about
my project Inanima: an illustrated
history of stuff. Read it here.
September 15th
World
language is being screened at the Contact Theatre
in Manchester as
part of the 'one minute' showreel, on Tuesday 16th October- visit
website
September
7th
Nicolas Chidiac,
an old school friend who works in adverstising and is based in
Dubai, commented on my work on his blog:
One of the many traits of the emerging media landscape is the idea of remixability,
cutting and pasting reality into new constructs or simply put synthesis for
creation...
read the full post here
September 6th
The
Speech of Reason will
being screened at Media Art Festival Friesland, which takes
place from September 20th – September 30th, 2007 in Friesland,
Netherlands.
www.mediaartfriesland.nl
August 4th
The
Speech of Reason and Trailer
Truths III are being screened at the Wewerka Pavillion
in Münster as part of the mind Hacking II programme, on
the 31st August, 1st and 2nd Sept. The skulptur projekte in
münster 2007 will be running at the same time.
Curated by Theresa Frölich and Antonia Lotz- more
info pdf.
July 23rd
Just back from Anso,
it was absolutely amazing! Many thanks to
Ivan Torres who organsied it and well done to all the artists who
took part- check my contact page
for links to their websites. The main festival website is here.
I will be uploading pictures of my work soon...once I've recovered.
July 14th
I am off to the
Pyrenees village of Anso, near Zaragoza, to do a residency and
create new work in response to the surroundings. I'll be back on
the 23d- more news then!
July 10th
Trailer
Truths I is being published as part of The
Centre of Attention Magazine no.4 (DVD). The launch
is at the Publish and Be Damned Fair, on 29th July at Rochelle
School, London, E2 7ES. visit website.
July 3rd
A selection of my
videos made with young people throughout London and Slough is now
online, check the COMMISSIONS page
to watch them.
June 15th
A selection of my
videos will be shown this Sunday, 17th June, at V22 Gallery in
a screening called Nothingness, curated by The Projection Gallery.com
with V22 Gallery.
Show starts at 7pm,10-16 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL.
www.theprojectiongallery.com
www.v22ashwinstreet.com
May 22nd
World
Language will be screened at One Minute, curated by
Kerry Baldry for Cogcollective, at Candid Arts Trust, on June
7th- visit
website.
May 13th
Trailer
Truths I will be screened continuously for 2 weeks
at Waygood Gallery's Little Jewel Cinema as part of their 'Sapphire
Season', from 12th- 25th July 2007, in Newcastle- visit
website.
May 1st
The
Speech of Reason will be screened at the King Street
Arts Centre, Belfast, as part of ‘The Perfect Real’ curated
by Helen de Main and Maj Hasager, on 1st May 2007.
April 23rd
Ghost
Story and The
Speech of Reason will be screend at the Athens Video
Art Festival, on 27th and 29th April 2007- visit website.
April 3rd
Ghost
Story has been chosen for both exhbitions making up
this year's Creekside Open, at APT Gallery in Deptford, London.
Matthew Collings and Emma Biggs selected the first show, running
from May 3rd- 14th 2007, while Victoria Miro selected the second
show, running from May17th- 28th 2007. visit
website
March
5th
The
Speech of Reason has been chosen for the 700IS Film & Video
Fesitval, Iceland, from March 24th- 31st 2007 at The Culture
Centre of Fljótsdalshéra- visit
website

February 20th
The catalogue for
Espace Crosie's 'Saison Video' is available online and in print,
click here to
download a copy. Spectrum and Ghost
Story are being screened as part of Saison Video 2007.
January 25th
Ghost
Story (2006) will be screened at 'A Room (With A View)'
film screening on Feb 15th, at Arenberg Schouwburg in Antwerp- visit
website
January 25th
The
Speech of Reason will be screened as part of the 'Video
Killed the Painting Star', on Feb 6th, at CCA (Centre for Contemporary
Arts) Glasgow - visit
website
January 21st
Ghost
Story has been chosen for VIDEONALE
11 at Kunstmuseum Bonn, March 2007.

November 9th
Trailer
Truths III (2
min 25 sec 2004) will be screened at will be shown at the Rencontres
Internationales Paris/Berlin, 23rd of November to 2nd of December
2006 in Paris at Jeu de Paume, the French Cinémathèque,
the Théâtre Paris-Villette, the Cinéma
l'Entrepôt, the Cinéma du Monde, and in 3 cultural
institutes. visit
website
November 5th
Spectrum (1
min 2006) will be screened as part of the Espace Croise 'Saison
Video' in Lille, France, in a programme called 'Public Place'
which starts in April 2007.
November 1st
Ghost
Story (3 min 50 sec, 2006) will be screened as part
of the Espace Croise 'Saison
Video' in Tourcing, France, in a programme called 'Hijacking'
which starts in May 2007.
October 29th
The
Speech of Reason (3 min 12 sec, 2006) will be screened
at the Airspace Gallery in Stoke-on Trent, on Nov 17th,as part
of the 'Self Space' video programme. Curated by Yu-Chen Wang
and Matt Roberts of Basementartproject.....more
October 28th
Ghost
Story (3 min 50 sec, 2006) was screened as part of
the tank.tv screening a the ksuns kinogaleria in Latvia, on
27th October more
September 28th
The video version of 'Spectrum' (1
min, 2006) has been included on the 'Loop Pool DVD', which is distributed by
the Oberhausen Film Festival 2006. To view the online (PDF) catalogue click
here.
September 22nd
Some
of my videos are playing at the Liverpool Biennale at The
Projection Room Gallery. Visit the website for
more.
September 21st
Ghost
Story (video,
4 min, 2006) is
playing via webcast on PARK4DTV,
a Netherlands-based video collective. In association with tank.tv.
September 8th
Ghost
Story (video,
4 min, 2006) and Trailer
Truths I (2004) will be screened at the Zebra Poetry
Film Award in Berlin, from 14th - 19th October 2006. more
August 5th
Ghost
Story will be screened at Bureau as
part of 'Purescreen 14: Making Love to My Ego', a film programme
complementing the Castlefield Gallery exhibition. more
July 13th
The premiere of At
Your Own Risk, a video made with young people from
East Greenwich about risky behaviour as part of an artist's
commission for Independant Photography (IP), is on Saturday
22nd July at the Odeon Cinema in Greenwich.
July 10th
Ghost Story
will be screened at a Slack Video & Short Circuits event at
The Lamp, in Hull, on 10th July 2006. visit
the website
June 24th
Ghost Story has been chosen
for two film programmes at 'Kinema screenings' at the Synch Festival
in Athens, Greece, in a showreel that inculdes works by Kenneth
Anger and Matthias Mueller amongst others. visit
the website
June 9th
Trailer Truths
I (2004) will be playing as part of the Purescreen
Archive of artists' films, at Castlefield Gallery, 16
June - 30 July 2006. visit
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