ART CITIES:London-Jerwood Staging Series
Jerwood Visual Arts is an English programme supporting visual arts practice, through which Jerwood Charitable Foundation works with early career artists to commission and present new work. Jerwood Staging Series is a new curatorial project designed to provide a London platform for event-based presentations of work, including film screenings, performances, readings and discussion.
By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Jerwood Staging Series Archive
Four events will be on presentation at Jerwood Space starting from 7/7/16, with works of Andrea Buckley, Emma Charles, Lucy Clout, Siobhan Davies, Melanie Gilligan, Keira Greene, Evan Ifekoya, Anneke Kampman, Helka Kaski, Beth Kettel, Quentin Lannes, Shona Macnaughton, Myles Painter, Matt Parker, Abri de Swardt, Lance Wakeling, James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Josh Wilson and Rehana Zaman. In “No Maps for These Territories”, London-based artist Emma Charles is working in collaboration with curator Dave Charlesworth to produce a touring screening programme as part of her ACE/ZKM funded film project “White Mountain”. The films offer a series of different encounters with data space. Some of the works focus on huge data centre infrastructures, at the point at which ‘security’ and freedom butt against one another, whereas others explore the omnipresent, occasionally malevolent, structures of social ordering. Other works consider the scattered chaos of an artist’s desktop, where the frustrations of creativity play back and forth, between the physical and the virtual. On 9/7/16, “Shades of Opacity”, will explore he use and misuse of theorist Edouard Glissant’s notion of opacity. The event takes its starting point from Glissant’s quote from Poetics of Relation: “It is not necessary to try to become the other (to become other) nor to ‘make’ him in my image”. On 12/7/16, “Blend the Acclaim of your Chant with the Timbrels”, will stage screenings, performances and readings including new work by Beth Kettel, Anneke Kampman, Josh Wilson, Abri de Swardt, Quentin Lannes and Shona Macnaughton. On 14/7/16, “Figuration of Place: many full less still”, will bring together two films by Keira Greene, a new work produced by the artist after her recent visit to the studio of Anna Halprin in California, and the work “Totally on Fire”. These will be presented in dialogue with “Manual”, a performance choreographed by Siobhan Davies in conjunction with Helka Kaski and re-enacted by Andrea Buckley.
Info: Curator: Emma Charles, Dave Charlesworth, Shama Khann, George Vasey and Keira Greene, Jerwood Visual Arts, Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, Bankside, London, No Maps for These Territories, Date 7/7/16, Time 18:30-20:30, Shades of Opacity, 9/7/16, Time 14:00-17:00, Blend the Acclaim of your Chant with the Timbrels, Date 12/7, Time 18:30-20:30, Figuration of Place: many full less still, Date 14/7/16, Time 18:30-20:30, www.jerwoodvisualarts.org
