LIGHT WRITING considers the relationship between word and image in artists experimental film and video. Animated text is commonplace in everyday contemporary media, but artists have been experimenting with the interface of word, language, image and movement in film and video for decades through formal exploration. The first Light Writing programme encompasses a range of approaches to mobilising the visual, semantic and linguistic with puns, palindromes and performance; referencing literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, poetry, and media. The programme is part of an event-based research project into the relationship between word and image in experimental film and video led by Dr Duncan White at the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection, Central St Martins and has been co-curated with Steven Ball. It opened on October 7 2011 in the Window Gallery, Central St Martins School of Art and Design, with a live performance of White Calligraphy Re-read in the Window Gallery by Takahiko Iimura (see video above), combining the written word, film and the body. Takahiko Iimura is an internationally significant film and video artist. His work has been shown in major museums such as the Museum of Modern Art New York, The Whitney, and The Centre Georges Pompidou. Light Writing then moved to the Banner Repeater project space from 3 December 2010 - 11 February 2011. The project will continue to develop and there are plans for new editions to be exhibited elsewhere later in 2011. artists featured in Light Wrighting to date: |
