Collected Works

Monday 23rd October 2006 to Saturday 18th November 2006
Lethaby Gallery, Central St Martins College of Art and Design
Southampton Row, London WC1B 4AP

Private View Tuesday 24th October 6pm - 8pm

Collected Works
exhibition of materials from the Study Collection

Colour Fields
colour in avant-garde film, video and digital media: installations, screening and discussion

Eutopia
Prague-London live online video performance

Collected Works
A showcase for material from the British Artists' Film & Video Study Collection: posters, photographs, drawings, film strips, press cuttings and video material illustrate the ways in which artists have recorded the activity which takes place between the conceiving of a work and its eventual presentation to a public.

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Colour Fields part 1
An exhibition of new and restaged installation works on the theme of colour in avant-garde film, video and digital media.
Primary Phase Simon Payne

Matrix 73 - 06 (1973 - 2006)
three channel video projection by Malcolm Le Grice
Matrix was first shown in 1973 as a six projector 16mm film installation and moving projector performance. The image is a series of short loops with each screen split vertically into two equal halves of rapidly changing primary colours. The digital version is 'sharper', without the same material traces of film and the movements are constructed rather than spontaneous. It is thus a new work, but as with jazz musicians playing or recording an earlier composition, it is a new performance but retains the composition.

Primary Phase (2006)
four channel video projection by Simon Payne
A looping series of red, green and blue 'wipes' traverse the projected image in vertical and horizontal directions. The loop that each projector shows is a different duration however, causing their synchronisation to phase. While the work employs a very formal approach to screen space, perhaps resembling the aesthetics of early abstract film, the patterns of the piece directly influence what's outside the frame as well: the space between and surrounding the colours - i.e. the wall - is made a part of the work; and the reflected light simultaneously affects the look of the entire space.

Primary Contrasting Elements (1993)
single channel video by Mineo Aayamaguchi
explores the symbolic relationships between primary forms (the circle, square and triangle) and video colours.

Still Life (1976)
single channel video by Jenny Okun
reflects on the mutability of colour in photography, and the elusiveness of photographic truth. Resorting to the older medium of painting, it explores the impossibility of transforming an image from colour negative to colour positive on the same filmstock.

Colour Fields part 2
Screening and panel discussion
6pm - 8.30pm, Monday 13th November, 2006
Cochrane Theatre
Southampton Row, London WC1B 4AP

Abstract Colour Combinations
A short programme of artists' films and videos that explore colour in a variety of ways. Colours in these films and videos either tend to be attached to objects taken from reality or non-figurative forms.

A Colour Box (1935) by Len Lye
Peace Mandala/End War (1966) by Paul Sharits
Colour Separation (1975) by Chris Welsby
Anselmo (1967) by Chick Strand
1001 Colours That Andy Never Thought Of (1985) by George Barber
Colour Study (2000) by Vincent Grenier
uta zet (2001) by reMI (Renate Oblak and Michael Pinter)
Running time approx 30 mins.
Programmed by Simon Payne

The screening will be followed by a discussion about the use of colour in moving image artists' work with:
David Batchelor,
Malcolm Le Grice,
Simon Payne, and
AL Rees (moderator)

Eutopia
7pm, Friday 17th November, 2006
Room G12, Central St Martins College of Art and Design
Southampton Row, London WC1B 4AP

Prague-London live online video performance
Martin Blazicek, Prague, Czech Republic
Steven Ball, London, UK

Devised by Martin Blazicek, Eutopia will build new city structures from looped video sequences of separately captured urban landscapes in London and Prague. These will be constructed live in performance using the Keyworx software to manipulate video streaming between London and Prague.
Duration approx 45 mins.