Anticipating the Past: Artist: Archive: Film
12 May 2006
- 13 May 2006
We contributed to Anticipating the Past: Artist: Archive: Film at Tate Modern
The experience of viewing projected archival film or antiquated video footage can have a seductive, even spellbinding effect on the viewer. Its material and aesthetic qualities act as a trigger to memories, evoking a sense of time and nostalgia or conjuring up fantasies of history. This international symposium draws together a collection of voices and perspectives to examine the work of artists and filmmakers who have worked with these materials and dislocated them from their original purpose and intention, revealing new readings, meanings and questions.
The speakers include George Barber, Neil Cummings and Alex Farquharson, Marysia Lewandowska, Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi, Patrick Keiller, Elizabeth McAlpine, Pat O'Neill and Benjamin Weil, Mark Nash, Marcel Odenbach, AL Rees, Heather Stewart and Akram Zaatari. and
Screenings during the day include work by Martin Arnold, Joseph Cornell, Malcolm Le Grice and Wojciech Bruszewski.
Anticipating the Past: Artists : Archive : Film is funded by MI:LL (Moving Image: Legacy and Learning), an Arts Council England initiative to support projects and develop strategies that promote engagement with the arts through the moving image.
Organised with LUX and the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection, in association with Arts Council England and the British Film Institute
We used the opportunity to launch our Screen Tests DVD!