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The first showing in Scotland of internationally acclaimed young Portuguese artists The first in a five-part ten month series of commisions, exhibitions and events Portuguese Waves Co-curated by Iliyana Nedkova and Filipa Oliveira
14 Nov 09 – 13 Jan 10
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Cinematic presents artists’ video and sound works that explore the strong relationship between the language of film and contemporary art. The exhibition is conceived in response to the location of the Threshold artspace where all performing arts come together. The intimacy between cinema and artists’ moving image is present in all of the selected works thus immediately transporting us to the land of cinema – be it through memory association, or by appropriation yet without the ubiquitous black box or dimmed lights. The exhibition features new commissions and earlier acquisitions showing at the different ‘project rooms’ of the artspace including:
Wave = a long canvas of 22 flat screens in a row under the copper-clad dome
30 min loop comprised of 6 short artists’ films and videos showing back to back as 22-channel video installations including new commissions and a curated selection of works from the Horsecross collection of contemporary art:
To President (Drinking Version) (2005-07) | José Maçãs de Carvalho (Portugal) NEW
By incessantly repeating found Hollywood footage starring Marylin Monroe, re-worked with new superimposed subtitles, the artist urges us to reflect on the connection between film and politics, between politics and the construction of the image.
Circles and Squares (2009) | Igor Krenz (Poland) Drawing attention to the film industry’s secret grammar of cue marks, the artist creates a piece of abstract art by revealing the hidden code system used by projectionists.
x 24 (2008) | Jason Dee (UK)
Combining multiple movie clips of archive footage featuring celebrities, paparazzis and flash photography, the artist builds a Mexican wave of white glow and glamour which highlight the relationship between still and moving imagery.
Sequence (2006) | Adriana Molder (Portugal) NEW
Throwing down photographs of Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper as if they were playing cards, the artist creates a kind of war of the sexes, or a game of attraction between two irresistible characters. The clue is in the final shot: an iconic publicity photograph from the film Morocco (1930) (dir. Josef von Sternberg).
Empire (After Andy Warhol) (2005) | Ergin Cavusoglu (Bulgaria/UK) Slowing down the transition from dusk to night over a forlorn building, the artist echoes Warhol’s pioneering use of single continuous take in extremis but instead creates a subtle interplay of light and dark silently gliding across the 22 screens.
Out of Character ASCII (2009) | Vuk Cosic (Serbia/Slovenia) Selecting scenes from twenty classic films ranging from Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) to The Matrix (1999) the artist applies a retro-futuristic ASCII filter to the history of cinema and also exposes ‘the ones and zeros’ of which popular cinema icons are made of.
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Stage = a playground for live art with larger-than-life projections, a camera and a screen left of the wave Sara & André Arrive in Porto (2007) | Sara & André (Portugal) | loop | 11 min NEW
Questioning the notion of authorship, this duo often investigate, with tongue-in-cheek, the new breed of celebrity artists treated as minor movie stars. Here the artists arrive at an airport and are greeted by a gang of ‘phony’ paparazzi who follow them until they reach... the subway. Showing in the evenings only (4pm-6pm or until late on performance nights) at Threshold Stage as large-scale wall projection.
Pictures are not movies (2005) | António Olaio (Portugal) | 4 min 30 sec | loop NEW
Highlighting the ambiguity in the word ‘pictures’, the artist creates a cross between a music videoclip and a ‘spindle viewer’ or a phenakistoscope as one of the earliest animation devices known. Referencing both the history of fine art and cinema, Olaio foregrounds the fundamental role of music and text in contemporary moving image. Showing at all times at Threshold Stage Screen as well as at Threshold artspace YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/Thresholdartspace
Flush = a trail of 8 small screens tucked away in the public toilets Schizo (2002) | João Pombeiro (Portugal) | 2 min 28 sec | loop NEW
Manipulating a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959), the artist reflects on the randomness and apparent schizophrenia of our contemporary society. Just by erasing the plane that is pursuing Cary Grant from the scene, the artist makes the actor appear to run and duck away for no reason.
Welcome = interactive soundscape doorway of 16 sensors and 8 speakers The Hat (1997) | Luisa Cunha (Portugal) NEW
This audio installation tells a short and odd story about a man with a hat. While keeping us in suspense for the story to unfold, the artist reminds us of crime movies where the hat is Hitchcock’s Macguffin: a plot element that catches our attention and drives the fiction along. Showing on loan from the DGArtes Collection, Ministry of Culture, Portugal.
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First of a four-part programme of artists’ films and videos from the prestigious corporate collection of PJML Foundation, Lisbon showing for the first time in the UK.
Telepathic Agriculture (2005) | António Olaio | 5 min 15 sec My Centrifugal Body Force 2 | O meu corpo centrífugo 2 (2003) | Cristina Mateus | 4 min 47 sec The Experience of a Place II | A experiência do lugar II (2004) | Helena Almeida | 12 min 47 sec Pose, Make-up, Pose I | Pose, maquillage, pose I | (2004) | João Tabarra | 2 min 33 sec Timelines | Linha do tempo (2000) | Jorge Molder | 4 min 50 sec Never Tell a Secret (2004) | José Maçãs de Carvalho | 2 min 40 sec Lacan’s Assumption (2003) | Julião Sarmento | 12 min 07 sec Showing as a bonus short each night preceding the arthouse, independent and world film features programmed by Perth Film Society selected Thursdays. All shorts and films start at 7.45pm. Admission to shorts free with a valid ticket for a feature film. More at www.horsecross.co.uk
Cinematic | various artists Co-curated by Iliyana Nedkova and Filipa Oliveira
Produced by the artists, curators and Horsecross Arts for Threshold artspace in partnership with 55degrees, Glasgow, Perth Film Society, PJML Foundation, Lisbon and DGArtes Collection, Portugal Supported by the Calouste Gulbenkain Foundation, Instituto Camões Portugal of Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Portuguese Arts Council Acordo Tripartido Fund
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