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Image: Studio 'Real Life TV'. Artist: Ross Sinclair. |
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| Image 1:Foo 1994/95. Artist: Christina Mackie. Image 2: Blue 1998. Artist: Douglas Gordon. |
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As commonly found in the hands of the amateur or the artist as the news gatherer or film maker, the video camera records everything, regardless of its status, producing an overwhelming flood of moving images from the most banal and inconsequential to the most dramatic. With the video camera now so popular, the nature of the images we consume through television - the black box in the corner of all our living rooms - has become more democratic in content, appearance and production.
This exhibition highlights some of the most interesting work being made in Britain at present in the medium of film and video, encompassing different trends within the media such as appropriation, performances to camera, observations or documentation, and the moving image's relationship to other media such as drawing and sculpture. The idea of presenting only single screened monitor based work provides formal equality to the exhibition. This allows all concepts and ideas to be viewed in the same format, for the audience to experience the multitude of approaches to contemporary video practice. Artists included in the exhibition are Roderick Buchanan, Adam Chodzko, Mark Dean, Sarah Dobai, Graham Fagen, Douglas Gordon, Graham Gussin, Rachel Lowe, Christina Mackie, Kenny Macleod, Ross Sinclair, Carl von Weiler.
As Black-Box Recorder is held digitally, it can be exhibited simultaneously in different countries, and since 2000 has been shown in Germany, Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Montenegro, Slovenia, Hungary, Mexico, Argentina and Israel. More recent venues are:
| Varna and Plodiv (venues tbc), Bulgaria |
2003 |
| ATA Centre for Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria |
27 Mar – Apr 2003 |
| N-Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia |
14 Mar – Apr 2003 |
| Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama, Japan |
15 - 31 Mar 2003 |
| Contemporary Arts Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania |
7 Jun – 18 Aug 2002 |
| NOAH, NGO Art and Culture Project, Riga, Latvia |
30 May – 22 Jun 2002 |
| RUSSIA |
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| National Centre of Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod |
Jan – Dec 2002 |
| Novosibirsk State Museum of Fine Arts |
2 Feb – 3 Mar 2002 |
| Urals Museum of Youth, Yekaterinburg |
30 Jan – 28 Feb 2002 |
| St Peter and Paul Fortress, St Petersburg |
12 Nov – 12 Dec 2001 |
| National Centre of Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod |
11 Sept – 20 Oct 2001 |
| TV Gallery, Moscow |
5 – 30 Sept 2001 |
An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition, with texts by curators Simon Morrissey and Colin Ledwith. The catalogue is available from Cornerhouse Publications
For further information please contact Louise Wright |
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