Back & Forth
Wed 16, 23 & 30 Jan, 7pm
£5/£3 conc
South London Gallery 65–67 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH
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Back & Forth
Wed 16, 23 & 30 Jan, 7pm
Back & Forth 2 - Run Back
Back and Forth is a video and film programme spread across
three consecutive Wednesdays that combines experimental
films, historical documents and performance on screen. Each
programme works as a translation which considers artistic
practice where cultural heritage plays a key role.
This film programme considers issues of identity, the
complexity of social relations and transformation processes –
whether industrial, social, cultural, individual or collective.
Back and Forth was conceived by independent curator Marie
Canet and was shown in part at the Centre Pompidou, Paris in
May 2012 under the title Camera Britannica.
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Klipperty Klopp (Tagada), 1984
Andrew Kötting, 12', Super 8, b&w, sound
Klipperty Klopp is artist Andrew Kötting's first film, in which
he runs around a field in Gloucestershire pretending to ride a
horse. He has described this work as 'post-punk with a pagan
sensitivity', in reaction to, in particular, land art’s preciosity.
'It was extremely unpleasant weather, says the song… I
remember he used to say… this, kid, is the sun… a prehistoric
sun… and this is a sign, kid… and that’s when it all started.'
Andrew Kötting was born in 1959 in Kent. He lives and works in
St Leonards-on-Sea.
Forthcoming Screening
So Many Ways To Hurt You, 2012
Jeremy Deller, 30', video, colour, sound
This film documents the story of Adrian Street, a Welshman
from a family of miners who he left his region and his family and
made a radical, existential and aesthetic change by becoming
a professional wrestler. Street moved to London in the 1950s
to begin his wrestling career and developed his own glam and
super camp personality, which was strongly influenced by postwar culture and deeply marked by his working-class origins.
Now over 70 years old, he lives in Florida and is still wrestling.
Jeremy Deller was born in 1966 in London. He lives and works
in London.
Back and Forth 3 - To The Sky
Wed 30 Jan, 7pm, £5/£3 conc
'Each era dreams of the next one', wrote Michelet, 'Future!
Future!'
Somewhere between performance, land art and cinema,
ranging from historic documents to experimental film, this
programme questions the ambivalence of the notion of
progress.
The Apse, The Bell and The Antelope, 2005
Aurélien Froment, 27’, video, colour, sound
Skytypers, 2007
Marijke van Warmerdam, 6’23’’, 16mm on video, colour, silent
Total duration of film programme: 53'
Don’t Panic, 2005
Ruth Sacks, 4’54’’, video, colour, sound
Recommended Reading:
Running Outburst, 1975
Charlemagne Palestine, 5'56", video, b&w, sound
Composer, performer and visual artist Charlemagne Palestine
developed a corpus of video works under the title Body Music
from the early 1970s. His works are radical explorations,
physically and acoustically, of spaces. In Running Outburst,
his entire body becomes the place of an existential crisis as he
rushes hysterically from one object to the next.
Charlemagne Palestine was born in 1947 in New York. He lives
and works in Brussels.
This Time Baguette, 2011
Lijana Jakovlevna Siuchina, 3', 16mm, b&w, silent
This Time Baguette, a body of work which comprises
photography and film, is a small parable about modern
life, metaphor and the absurd. The film illustrates a shared
interiority: to control the direction of a rather aimless
movement. The artist, her mouth sewn shut with a baguette,
goes around and around on her bicycle.
Lijana Jakovlevna Siuchina was born in 1979 in Klaipeda,
Lithuania. She lives and works in London.
Body Double 3, 1995
Brice Dellsperger, 1'50" looped, video, colour, sound
Dellsperger’s work predominantly consists of a video series
entitled Body Double, named after Brian De Palma's 1984
feature film. The artist proposes a new version of an existing
movie sequence by reproducing it, often shot by shot,
but replacing the characters of the original with various
transvestites. In Body Double 3 he performs by himself the long
and passionate kiss between Jack Scully and Gloria Revelle
from De Palma's movie.
Brice Dellsperger was born in 1972 in Cannes, France. He lives
and works in Paris.
Brice Dellsperger’s Body Double
With text by Marie Canet
£26.95
Brice Dellsperger's Body Double is the first monograph ever
published on the artist's already cult film productions, with
a long essay by art historian Marie Canet that addresses
filmic remake, but also issues of models, gender politics,
and representational chaos. Incorporating a large body
of unpublished images, the book also invites the reader
backstage—as in Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon, which
this book is modelled on—into the Dellspergian camp film
factory, to get a closer look at the characters and personas that
populate the Body Double series, and that are creations both of
the artist and of his main performer and muse, Jean-Luc Verna.
Co-published with Toastink Press.
This publication is available in the South London Gallery's shop.
Kamor, 1986
Roman Signer, 3', Super 8 on video, colour, silent
Moon Landing, 1969
NASA archives, 1'45", video, b&w, sound
Color Film, 2012
Hector Castells-Matutano, 6', 35mm on video, colour, sound
Rabbit's Moon, 1950-1972
Kenneth Anger, 14', 35mm on video, tinted b&w, sound
Total duration: 63'
Booking is essential. Call 020 7703 6120 or book online:
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