PERFORMANCES
Live events including Rocio von Jungenfeld’s Film Walk, multi-projector performances from Nominoë and Jacques Perconte and a film-rant by Duncan Reekie.
LOCH EXTENSION (MADEIRA) & CORTEX:
JACQUES PERCONTE & JAMES WYNESS, NOMINOË & STÉPHANE MENSAH/France 2013/00:40:00
Digital video clashes with analogue film in this special performance double bill. The pioneering French video artist Jacques Perconte collaborates with sound artist James Wyness in Loch Extension (Madeira), using digital compression tools to create worlds where colour, form, abstraction and realism clash in a magical play of temporal transmutation. In contrast, the French collective Nominoë present Cortex, a collaboration with the dancer Stéphane Mensah, using analogue film and multiple 16mm projectors. Through a play of shadows, the screen captures the image of a body in movement before the projectors’ beams of light, while the dancer’s gestures, through sensors, sculpt light and sound in the space within which he evolves.
Biography/Filmography:
Nominoe:
Nominoë are a collective of artists made up of filmmakers Emmanuel Lefrant, Alexis Constantin, Nicolas Berthelot and Stéphane Courcy di Rosa.
nominoe.org
On Vimeo including Cortex
At the Unconscious Archives
Hors Pistes 2012
Emmanuel Lefrant
Jacques Perconte:
Born in 1974 in Grenoble (France), Jacques Perconte lives and works in Paris. He is well known as one of the pioneers of French internet art and is among the first artists to have worked extensively with compression codecs. His first films date back from 1995 and his first internet artworks from 1996. Though his works over time have become less theoretical, an exploration of the relationship between form and substance remain central to his work. Jacques Perconte works on the forms of fiction within various media in addition to formal research focussed on the body and landscape. His works aim to transform digital technology into a new media, creating works as aesthetically as rich as any ‘classical’ art.
www.jacquesperconte.com
Triptique Films
Jacques Perconte on Vimeo
At Lightcone
On Wikipedia
Collectif Jeune Cinema
James Wyness:
James Wyness is a composer and environmental sound artist based in the Scottish Borders. In his live work he combines layered field recordings and sonic interventions in the landscape with the live manipulation of found objects to create a series of fabricated environments. A constantly shifting mass of natural elements in motion contrasts with representations of wide open spaces, ambiences in which native sounds and human interventions merge, inviting the listener to navigate through deeper listening the time and space of the work.
www.wyness.org
On Soundcloud
Working the Tweed
Venue: OFF-SITE, VENUE WILL BE SIGNPOSTED FROM HEART OF HAWICK – TOWER MILL
Tickets: Tickets: £4
Screening date: SATURDAY 5 APRIL
Screening time: 8.40pm – 9.30pm
FILM WALK – (WH)ERE LAND
Rocio von Jungenfeld/United Kingdom 2013/01:00:00
A site-specific audiovisual walk in Wilton Lodge Park. The walk develops at night while the audience moves through the park with portable projectors in their hands. The walk is guided, but participants move along the path at their own speed, exploring the spaces of the park in the dark and projecting moving images onto the different surfaces and shapes they encounter. Light sensitive paper sculptures are installed around
the walkways and participants are invited to find them, projecting and listening to audiovisual material recorded directly in Hawick.
Biography/Filmography:
Rocio is a German/Spanish artist and researcher working on walking practices, wool threads, optics and site-specificity. Her research is concerned with the transitory nature of things and the textural qualities of outdoor spaces. She produces temporary audiovisual installations and video walks. In her work, she aims to establish a dialogue between technology (tools) and nature (environment), between body and space, between ephemerality and persistence.
Full biography: www.rociojungenfeld.eu
On Vimeo
http://www.rociojungenfeld.eu/
Venue: MEETING PLACE: HAWICK COMMON HAUGH CAR PARK
Tickets: £4
Screening date: THURSDAY 3 APRIL
Screening time: 9.00pm – 10.00pm
DIY & UNDERGROUND FILM, PERFORMANCE
Duncan Reekie and various artists/United Kingdom 2013/01:15:00
Duncan Reekie, underground film activist and author of Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema, presents a live film-rant performance, plus a selection of films highlighting different approaches to the no-budget, anarchic spirit of underground and DIY filmmaking. The programme includes recent work from the Exploding Cinema, a voluntary common ownership collective which runs London’s longest running open access screenings, also documentary footage from the DIY scene and klassics from the clubs including work by Arthur Lager,
Grace Connor and Ben Slotover.
Duncan Reekie will be present for a Q&A
Biography/Filmography:
Duncan Reekie is an underground filmmaker, film activist and author of Subversive: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema. He has organised numerous underground film screenings and counter-cultural film events throughout the UK and Europe, including The Exploding Cinema Collective and the annual VOLCANO!! No Budget Film and Video Festival between 1996 and 1999. He initiated and co-produced the collaborative underground feature Maldoror, which toured extensively throughout Europe and America.
Links:
Maldoror
Exploding Cinema
Retrospective at London Underground Film Festival
http://www.duncanreekie.co.uk/
Venue: MAIN AUDITORIUM, HEART OF HAWICK – TOWER MILL
Tickets: £4
Screening date: FRIDAY 4 APRIL
Screening time: 10.00am – 11.30am
