The Primal Shelter is The Site For Primal Fears

26.Nov.2016

The Living Art Museum presents The Primal Shelter if the Site for Primal Fears an exhibition curated by Patrik Aarnivaara (SE) and Maija Rudovska (LV)

This exhibition looks at the subject of fear and horror in relation to spatiality and architecture. The house in particular and architecture in general as an object and possible stage for horror, a place for imagination, action, a cause for psychological triggers, a primal shelter or future ruin, a safe place yet unsafe at the same time, which can possibly turn into a cage, a prison, and a dead fall.

Inspired by Eugene Thacker, JG Ballard and other writers that give us ways to imagine the separation between us and the world, that which is never completely graspable, the “world-in-itself” and the “world-without-us”.

Playing with the idea of architecture as an entity in itself, in a contemporary space or future landscape inhabitable for, or devoid of humans, as if architecture has consumed or outlived its inhabitants.

The project evolved from an interest in horror films as a genre where certain aesthetics and fear are often constructed by means of architecture. Research was conducted on the topic during a collaborative residency at HIAP in Helsinki a few years ago, initially with the title Scenography of Horror .

Images, texts and videos were collected and presented in a joint lecture in Helsinki a year later. The material and conclusions are the foundation for this exhibition project, The Primal Shelter is the Site for Primal Fears, taking place at The Living Art Museum in Reykjavik.

Participants:
Darren Banks (UK), O.B. De Alessi (IT/FR), Shirin Sabahi (IR/DE), Alexandra Zuckerman (IL), Johan Österholm (SE), Christian Andersson (SE), Elin Hansdottir (IS), Yuki Higashino (JP/AT) and Barbara Sirieix (FR).

The ART SEEN

The ART SEEN section of the Nitehawk Shorts Festival explores the relationship between art and film in the cinema. The program features new documentaries on Ed Ruscha and Vito Acconci as well as narrative shorts and artist films.

Thursday, November 10 at 7:30pm. Q&A with filmmakers. 

Part of Nitehawk Cinema’s signature series ART SEEN. Programmed by Caryn Coleman (Nitehawk Cinema)

Nitehawk Cinema’s annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival is a multi-day screening celebrating short films under twenty-minutes. 

Since 2013, the mission of the Nitehawk Shorts Festival has been to highlight exceptional short-form film and videos by artists and filmmakers. The Festival’s main slate programming features a range of filmmakers, from emerging film school students to Academy Award nominees, in curated screenings that prioritize conversations between the films over categorical listings. With a focus on those working in New York, the Nitehawk Shorts Festival provides a platform for local, national, and international filmmakers to encourage an engagement with new audiences and to establish a dialogue with the New York/Brooklyn film community.

The Festival includes an Opening Nite, Music Driven, Art Seen, Midnite, and weekend Matinee screenings along with an opening night celebration and Filmmakers’ Gathering in our Lo-Res Bar. Programs consist of short films in all forms (animation, documentary, narrative, non-narrative, artist films, music videos, horror) by local, national, and international filmmakers.

The Nitehawk Shorts Festival is held exclusively at Nitehawk Cinema, New York’s premiere dine-in theater that pairs exemplary first-run and repertory film programming along with table-side food and beverage service. The cinema is centrally located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at 136 Metropolitan Avenue (between Berry Street and Wythe Avenue). Click here for directions!

Contact: shorts@nitehawkcinema.com

A-or-ist at Raven Row

Saturday 11 June, 5pm

Performances and readings to celebrate the launch of A-or-ist no. 2: A kind of care or sustenance.

A new magazine of contemporary writing on art and other subjects, the second issue of A-or-ist explores the idea of being ‘a kind of care or sustenance’. At a moment when state-provided care is receding, what might it be to ‘take care’ of ourselves or others? What if we’re all past caring – all already polluted, toxic?

This event at Raven Row has been organised by the A-or-ist contributor-editors.

Object Cinema

Tyneside Cinema

26 November 2015 - 26 January 2016

10:00 - 17:00, Monday - Saturday. 11:00 - 17:00 Sunday.

Originally commissioned as an off-site project for this year's Venice Biennale by Tyneside Cinema, Object Cinema is a new work by Darren Banks reflecting on the idea of The Lost Art of the Film Poster. The resulting artwork is a reflection on the life cycle of an idea and its many material and immaterial filmic forms. 

Part of The Lost Art of the Film Poster, an ongoing curatorial project initiated by Tyneside Cinema's Arts Programme, and inspired by Who Goes There?, a short story written in 1932 by John W. Campbell about the discovery of an unknown being under the Antarctic ice, Object Cinema is a moving sculpture, and a film without beginning and end. Who Goes There? was first printed in a magazine before being published as a short story, and has since inspired several feature film versions in the science fiction horror genre, called The Thing. In Object Cinema, the content of the story becomes a 'Thing' itself, morphing from one format to another, linking media from the original films. Banks is interested is in how the physical words vanish, and later resurface as immaterial data flow, moving from the written page, then captured in celluloid, tape and digital code, and ultimately circulated globally online.

Darren Banks is represented by Workplace Gallery (Gateshead/ London, UK

L'EXPOSITION D'UN FILM (PRODUITS DÉRIVÉS) PAR MATHIEU COPELAND DU 17-10-2015 AU 29-11-2015

With: Mac Adams, Darren Banks, Eva Barto, Olivier Castel, Philippe Decrauzat, Charles de Meaux, Charlotte Moth, Mai-Thu Perret, Nicolas Eigenheer & Jeremy Schorderet, Denis Savary, Laurent Schmid, Phoebe Unwin, Alan Vega, Jacques Villeglé.

The exhibition of a film is like an exhibition to feature films. In parallel to the film at the Centre Pompidou in September, the Cneai co-produced derived objects, advertisers and drift that accompany the film.

http://www.cneai.com/evenement/

What were you looking for?

What were you looking for? Big Screen, Armada Way, PL1 1HH.  25/09/2015 /

Screenings of artists’ video, film and animations including David Shrigley, David Blandy, Fiona MacDonald, Laura Denning, Bruce Asbestos, Juneau Projects, Pat Flynn, Colin Priest, Laura Hopes, Carl Slater, Andrew McDonald, Darren Banks, Dave Bevan, Tom Goddard. Selected by Festival Coordinator, Gordon Dalton.

What Were You Looking For? is a series of irreverent short films on the Big Screen on Armada Way, interrupting your journey across Plymouth during the Weekender or as you take a break from shopping in the city centre. From failed attempts at skateboarding to introspective video games, What Were You Looking For? presents slapstick and farting melons alongside meditative empty swimming pools, idyllic countryside and archive photographs of Plymouth’s past.

http://www.plymouthartweekender.com/