Antarctica -a choice? part of Rothera collection showing in Sunderland
Successful Wellcome Trust Arts funding for ‘Exploring the Invisible’ Bioluminescent project
February 5, 2009
Dr Park, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology, University of Surrey, and Dr Caterina Albano, Research fellow and Curator for ArtAkt, The Innovation Centre, Central St Martins and I will be collaborating in researching the bacterial communication and light producing properties of P. phosphoreum outside of the usual confines of purely practical scientific practice and developing a body of work based on less traditionally scientific quantifiable attributes; an alternative data collection based on subjectivity, emotion, playfulness and instinctive human enquiry.
For more details and up to date information on the project see Exploring the Invisible
I will be showing a photographic/sound piece of work ‘Do I dare disturb the universe?’ as part of ‘Diverse Practices – celebrating 20 years of the City Lit Ceramics Diploma course’. 11 past sudents will be showing at the Barrett Marsden Gallery alongside a slideshow of images by the current teaching staff.
Evening event at the Dana Centre 26th November
November 24, 2008
Dana centre talk (photo by D. Epstein)
Dr Park and I will be exhibiting and taking photographs in the living photograph booth and participating in a discussion at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre on the evening of Wed 26th November.
‘Bioluminescence-held’ Copyright Anne Brodie 2008
Next Level is an art magazine founded by Sheyi Antony Bankale and Jimo Toyin Salako. ‘It is dedicated to showcasing photographic art, creativity and culture, the essential source for cutting-edge contemporary photographic art.’
My work has been published in the current Next Level 15, the H2O edition alongside writing about the images by Amanda Loomes.
‘Crossing Over’ Bioluminescent Photo Booth and Projected Portraits at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 2nd Oct – 21st Nov 2008
September 23, 2008
As part of the exhibition ‘Crossing Over’ I will be showing a new body of work based on some of the countries most eminent scientists, utilizing bioluminescence. The work is made in collaboration with Dr Simon Park and Pattie Hendrie with sponsorship in kind from Bibby-Scientific and is curated by Dr Caterina Albano (Artakt, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design), and Rowan Drury.
Prof. Chris Mason Faraday projection
Faraday projection
‘Going to Ouessant’ video encounters Oct 11,12
September 17, 2008
‘Going to Ouessant’ is an event taking place on the small island off the coast of Brittany on 11th and 12th Oct organised by Marcel Dinahet, Celia Cretien, FINIS TERRAE association. One of my films ‘Gin and Tonic’, filmed on board the James Clark Ross as we crossed the Convergence zone en route for Antarctica will be showing alongside 20 other contemporary artists showing video relating to themes of the sea, the littoral, insularity.
Gin and Tonic video still
‘Breathing Berg’ at Collision 2008
September 10, 2008
‘Collision is an annual festival of moving image, music, art and performance. It brings together artists from different disciplines and presents their work under one enormous roof over three nights, Thurs11, Fri12, sat13. It is an immersion into many forms of creative expression. New and surprising encounters occur as diverse pieces exist, and occasionally travel, in the same space at the same time. Collision is an experience that becomes more than a sum of its parts.’
The 2008 Collision Team:
Alon Ramage, Tom Slater, Hannah Mason, Ellie Doney, Belinda Abbott Supported by: Estelle Holland, Sara Fernandes, Linda Dobell, James O’Brien, Tom Hutchings
Venue:
Area 10 Project Space, Peckham, London, SE15 5JT
View e-flyer at www.collision.org.uk/e-flyer
‘Antarctic Walk’ video still
This looped short film, part of a series made in response to my residency in Antarctica, is representative of the relentless disorientation I felt in such an extraordinary disempowering environment. The colour effect of the strong 24hr daylight inside the red canvas tents in which we slept for 3 weeks added to the surreality of the situation.
Hastings Film Festival runs from 25July-1Aug 2008 ‘Antarctic walk’ will be shown in Claremont Art space, 12 Claremont, Hastings 01424 445743
The following images are of an installation made on Friday 20 June inside Burlington House, Piccadilly, to coincide with the book launch of ‘Bipolar‘. I took one of the lumps of ice I brought back from Antarctica out of its lodgings inside the British Antarctic Surveys freezer in Cambridge and let it not so gently melt over the course of the evening. It was acoustically wired up by sound engineers Lee Patterson and Mark Hornsby, and produced uncomfortably loud interruptions as the ancient air kept locked under pressure by the ice belched into the London air. I intend to reuse the meltwater in another project I’m working on. The cabinet was recycled from an exhibition held in the British museum.
