Now Showing: New Film and Video from the Arts Council Collection
- Current
- Now Showing: New Film and Video from the Arts Council Collection
- Unpopular Culture
- No Such Thing As Society
- Jake & Dinos Chapman: My Giant Colouring Book
- Spotlight on Geometry of Fear
- Spotlight on St Ives
- Walker Evans: Photographs 1935 - 1936
- David Hockney: Six Tales from the Brothers Grimm
- Josef Albers - Screenprints
- Peter Blake: Alphabet
- Ana Maria Pacheco: Prints
- Matisse: Drawing with Scissors
- Future
- Past
- Booking
Film and video have emerged as increasingly important media for artists in the past decade, and Now Showing proposes an exhibition in the form of a short season of projected films showcasing a group of new acquisitions to the Arts Council Collection. Part of our ongoing series of Spotlight exhibitions, designed for a single, small gallery or project room, Now Showing will feature one projection a week for six weeks, encouraging repeat visits and adding up to a thoughtful insight into contemporary practice.
Whether more formal in their concerns, or engaged with the history and nature of the medium of film itself, the six works which make up Now Showing draw on a wide range of influences: home movies, news media, grainy black and white archive footage, TV documentary and mainstream cinema. At one level or another, most of the works appear to interrogate the notion of “truth” as presented on the screen, sometimes weaving together appropriated footage with new material to create an authored narrative.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a small publication with texts on the featured artists; the collection is also keen to facilitate artists talks wherever possible.
Artists featured in Now Showing:
Otolith Group
Rosalind Nashashibi
Mark Lewis
Mark Boulos
Luke Fowler
Idris Kahn
Tour Information
For information on this exhibition please contact Ann Jones ann.jones@southbankcentre.co.uk
Tour Details:
10 May – 22 Jun 2008
Hove Museum and Art Gallery, Hove
19 Sep – 2 Nov 2008
Art Gallery and Museum, Leamington Spa
10 Nov – 13 Dec 2008
University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester
10 Jan – 22 Feb 2009
Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate
28 Feb – 12 Apr 2009
Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen
2 May – 14 Jun 2009
Leeds College of Art and Design, Leeds
27 Jun – 9 Aug 2009
Derby QUAD, Derby
22 Aug – 4 Oct 2009
The Collection, Lincoln
12 Dec 2009 – 6 Mar 2010
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
(Top image: Idris Kahn, A Memory... after Bach's Cello Suites, 2006)
(Bottom image: Otolith, The Otolith Group, 2003)
