Changing Spaces: Video in the City Centre
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Date: 2 - 16 April
Time: 15.00 to 20.00
Venue: 5 All Saints Passage, Cambridge CB2 3NR
Part of the Changing Spaces series of exhibitions.
Students on the Fine Art BA (Hons) course have the opportunity to experiment with video in the second year of the course. This is often invaluable in the development of their ideas: whether later continuing to work with moving image or else in other media. This is a small selection of student work running over two weeks. The videos can be viewed below.
Time: 15.00 to 20.00
Venue: 5 All Saints Passage, Cambridge CB2 3NR
Part of the Changing Spaces series of exhibitions.
Students on the Fine Art BA (Hons) course have the opportunity to experiment with video in the second year of the course. This is often invaluable in the development of their ideas: whether later continuing to work with moving image or else in other media. This is a small selection of student work running over two weeks. The videos can be viewed below.
1) Jess Dolby - Untitled
This is from a series of short videos that explore, at times quite confrontationally, a sense of 'self'. In this first piece, the protagonist (the artist herself) faces the camera and explores a repertoire of small gestures, some indistinguishable from everyday actions but choreographed nevertheless. The effect is close to an 'awakening' or a preparation.
This is from a series of short videos that explore, at times quite confrontationally, a sense of 'self'. In this first piece, the protagonist (the artist herself) faces the camera and explores a repertoire of small gestures, some indistinguishable from everyday actions but choreographed nevertheless. The effect is close to an 'awakening' or a preparation.
2) Marina Velez Vago - 'Zapatos'
Marina Velez Vago's work is often concerned with how we situate ourselves in viewing a thing or event - proximity and distance figures on different levels in her work. In 'Zapatos' it is the simple event of walking, something that we don't think about or normally observe ourselves doing. Here, as in most of her work it is a subtle 'defamiliarization' that is enacted through the tempo and placing of the camera.
3) Jo Miller - 'Homage to Morandi'
This piece is almost static, or at least might appear so at first, but is essentially about the movement of light through transparent objects. These objects are resin sculptures made by the artist that house photographic images, often of intimate family events encased in bottle forms. When clustered together they conjured up for Jo something akin to another artist obsessed with light on the surfaces of objects - the Italian Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964).
4) Nicola Beckles - Market Feet
Nicola's piece is the only one in this sequence to explore a layering of video images. Splitting the screen into a doubling of the image also offsets this spatial depth element. Here, as with Velez Vago's piece, the focus is on walking, but in this work it is the examination of how space is negotiated, how it is both transient and territorialized. Simultaneous with these images is the onlooking gaze of an animal. Ominous, but effective.
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