I N T E R N AT I O N A L PHOTOGRAPHY F E S T I VA L F O R M AT F E S T I VA L . C O M
15 MARCH 9 JUNE
F O R M AT O P E N C A L L C U R AT E D B Y LAURA O’LEARY
ARTISTS 4 IC Visual Lab (UK) Alone with Empire: The Counter Archive Presented here for the first time at FORMAT Festival, Alone with Empire: The Counter Archive is an interactive-display that maps out key elements from IC Visual Lab’s recent commission working with the British Empire and Commonwealth Film Collection held at Bristol Archives. Showcasing generated film sequences, catalogued emotional responses and a curated soundscape 5 Guanyu Xu (CN/USA) Temporarily Censored Home In Guanyu Xu’s project Temporarily Censored Home, he covertly situated photographs into temporary installations in his teenage home in Beijing to ‘queer’ the heteronormativity of his parents’ space. Even though these installations were not permanent, Xu reclaimed his childhood home as a queer space of freedom and a temporary protest.
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6 Steven Barritt (UK) Of Swallows and Ravens Touching on subjects such as quantum mechanics, astronomy and mathematics the series explores our scientific and philosophical notions of how we define reality. Photography and its relationship to the real is examined and questioned, ambiguity and mystery are combined with visualisation and documentation to create a kind of spectral dissonance. ORGANISED BY
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