Forum 1: Performance and public space
With reference to early works by African American artists David Hammons and Pope.L, we will discuss how to make work when it’s no longer safe in the gallery! Is it any safer outside? How does the context of a work affect its interpretation? How can we find new audiences in the world beyond the museum walls??
David Hammons – Pissed Off (1981)
Pope.L – Tompkins Square Crawl (1991)
Forum 2: Sound, image and video collage
This session explores how we might use combinations of sound and moving image as collages. With reference to video works by Interdisciplinary artist Evan Ifekoya, we will begin a discussion about non-linear moving image-making, the body, race, gender and landscape.
Evan Ifekoya – Nature Nurture (sketch) (2013) and Contoured Thoughts (2019)
LUX New Artist Focus: Taylor Le Melle on Evan Ifekoya
Forum 3: Moving Image sharing and feedback
You will have the opportunity to share your moving image work and receive feedback from the group.
Forum 4: Performance sharing and feedback
Share your live performances for Zoom 🙃 with feedback from the group.
Forum 5: Trauma, Survival and Spirituality in Moving Image
Larisa Sheptiko’s seminal film The Ascent 1977.
We will discuss how her visceral and personal vision transgressed traditional cinematic story telling. Reflecting on how trauma, health issues, inequality in the patriarchal film industry and soviet censorship impacted on her life and career, and how these experiences informed the powerful moral and existential themes explored in this seminal piece of 20th century film making.
👇Please familiarise yourself with the work in advance
Please watch The Ascent before Forum 5, you can access the film on the streaming platform Kanopy, log in with your University email for free view.
Link to film Ascent on Kanopy
Scholar Barbora Bartunkova discusses Larisa Shepitko’s singular vision and fearless
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh. Guardian article on Larisa Shepitko
The Story of Larisa ShepitkoLarushka Ivan-Zadeh.
Guardian article on Larisa Shepitko
Forum 5: Practice discussion with Onyeka Igwe
For this session we will be joined by Onyeka Igwe who is an artist working between cinema and installation. She has kindly offered to share her process around the work a so-called archive from 2020. We will watch the film in the forum and open out a discussion with Onyeka from there.