JOHANNA BILLING
I'M LOST WITHOUT YOUR RHYTHM
17 April – 6 June 2010 - FREE ADMISSION
Johanna Billing’s videos reflect on routine, rehearsal and ritual with an emphasis on the fragility of individual performance and the power of collective experience. In this, the second of a series of three new commissions organised by Modern Art Oxford, Camden Arts Centre and Arnolfini, Bristol, Johanna Billing makes a new film based around the recording of a live performance of dance ‘learned’ or performed by amateur Romanian dancers in Iasi (pronounced ‘yash’), during a week long festival held there in October 2007. The film links several days’ activity whereby the dancers are watched by an audience, their comings and goings producing a choreography of people and community. Johanna Billing (b. 1973) lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
3: 3 artists / 3 spaces / 3 years is funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
MARIA PASK: DÉJÀ VU
17 APRIL – 6 JUNE 2010 - FREE ADMISSIONA newly commissioned film by Amsterdam-based Maria Pask, inspired by a local newsletter Roundabout produced in the 1950s-70s by one of Oxford’s housing estates. Pask’s film takes the aspirations and social ideals of a bygone era and gives them a new lease of life; perhaps even a second coming. Recreating the past within the context of the present she unites a collective memory and repositions the aspirations of old. Pask is known for her project-based work directly involving a wide variety of people from differing societal contexts. Her practice regularly references the language and style of the theatrical and dramatic, though it is never formulaic in its outcome having staged such variations of work as Naturist Campsite and Starhawk! the musical. Pask is drawn to the collaborative process of production and the spotlighting of the failed or under represented, from philosophical ideologies to approaches of making. She favours the amateur and the non-professional to the over contrived and austere.
LINKS
Contemporary Sculpture and the Social Turn, panel discussion at Tate Modern in April 2007, featuring Maria Pask.