WINZAVOD PROSVET and the British Council Russia in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Art present: "In Conversation with the famous British video installation artist Isaac Julien."
When: 15 December,17.00
Where: Lecture Hall of WINZAVOD Centre for Contemporary Art –
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A universally recognized top-notch video art creator, British painter and fine art filmmaker, Isaac Julien has always been balancing on the border between cinema and art. His works are a vivid manifestation of the long-standing interpenetration of these two spheres of human creativity act. This can be evidenced by Isaac’s pieces such as «Long Road to Mazatlan», «Derek», «Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Mask», «Young Soul Rebels», «Looking for Langston» and many others, distinguished by prominent festival awards and participation in prestigious art-forums. |
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In the course of the open discussion Isaac Julien will be considering peculiarities of working within the London art scene, video art of the Present and the Future, as well as touching upon his latest video installation “Ten Thousand Waves”. Cut and assembled out of 9 on-site screens located in China, it has been displayed in more than 15 countries so far. The artist will also present his new project “Playtime: Capital”. Talk will be followed by Q&A session with the audience.
The talk will be moderated by Dr Marc Nash, the professor at the Royal Academy of Arts (UK), film historian and director, whose curatorship experience includes such projects as «Documenta XI» and film department of the Berlin Biennale 2004. Dr Nash will hold the discussion “One Sixth of the Earth: Ecologies of Image” dedicated to similarly-entitled exhibition, which he curated for MUSAC, the Museum for Contemporary Art of Castilla and León (Spain).
Entry is free of charge, advance registration is required. To register please send your name, contact telephone number and email address to event1@winzavod.ru
 Isaac Julien is one of the key trendsetting artists working in the genre of video art and film for the last 25 years.
Isaac Julien was born in 1960 in London and studied painting and fine art film at St Martin's School of Art. In 1991 he was awarded the Semaine de la critique prize at Cannes Film Festival and 10 years later was nominated for the most prestigious award in the sphere of contemporary art – the Turner Prize. The same year (2001) Isaac received the Eugene McDermott Award of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology followed by а Frameline Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution into Arts. His work “Paradise Omeros” was presented as part of “Documenta XI” in Kassel (2002). Moreover, Isaac was the recipient of the Grand Jury Prize at the Kunstfilm Biennale in Cologne (2003) and won the Aurora Award at Aurora Picture Show in 2005.
Isaac was a visiting lecturer at Harvard University's Schools, University of Fine Arts of Hamburg and is currently a faculty member at the Whitney Museum of American Arts. Since 2009 - Professor of Media Art at Staatliche Hoscschule fur Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Germany. The films by Isaac Julien form integral parts of the collections kept by the major museums across the globe, including Tate Modern, Pompidou Centre Paris, Guggenheim, Hirshhorn and many others.
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