Games Without Frontiers

Games Without Frontiers

'Games Without Frontiers (Work in Progress)' An exhibition by artist Marcel Craven whose work is inspired by Absurdism.
Marcel Craven has exhibited locally (Hull), nationally and internationally and has recently taken part in an exhibition in Bucharest, Romania.

Preview: Saturday 29 March 1pm - 6pm exhibition continues until Friday 11th April. Open weekends 11 - 4.30pm or during the week by appointment.

'Physical games, political games, word games, mind games, art games...games as a concept for the meaning or meaningless of life, looking for sense, looking for clues where, perhaps, there are none. The work is inspired by 'Absurdism', words and their usage or misuse are fundamental in my practice, this body of work is 'work in progress', explorative journeys into culture and thus life'. Marcel Craven

Lets Dance!

Lets Dance! A mixed media exhibition of photography, moving image, vintage ephemera and illustration which celebrates and chronicles the ever developing expressive cultural art form of dance.This exciting exhibition reaches out across the globe and through the ages exploring DANCE MANIA and the nocturnal world of ballrooms, juke joints, subterranean cabaret clubs, street and warehouse parties, raves, discos and nightclubs,

Investigating dance styles as diverse as the nightclub two step, to the charleston, latin mambo, rumba, merengue, the harlem shake, tap dancing, lindy hop, acrobatic jitterbug, the rock n roll jive, the bop, the stroll, the bus stop, cakewalks, Teddy Boy dances, the All night Mod dances, the pony, the twist, the monkey, the mash potato, the boomerang, the funky chicken, Disco dancing, the hustle, Northern Soul shuffles, spins and backdrops, Ska and Reggae dancing, Hip Hop breaking, electric boogie, moonwalks, locking and body popping, the Punk pogo, to raving and House Music dancing, jacking and vogue.

Throw Some Shapes at LETS DANCE! 19th April - 1st June 2014
Open weekends 11 – 4.30pm or during the week by appointment

Amore Hirosuke, champion Lindy Hop, Japan

Guy Sherwin

There will be screenings of 11 films from 'Short Film Series' by Guy Sherwin on Saturday 30th November  and Sunday 1 December at The Projection Rooms, Museum of Club Culture, Hull. 12 - 4.30pm

The work is part of an ongoing film project by Guy Sherwin which began in 1975

'The series is held together by certain formal considerations: each film is three minutes long, i.e. the length of a roll of 16mm film, all films are b/w and silent, and the order in which they are shown is flexible. Apart from this there is a range of imagery from portraiture to still life to travel. The films operate on the border between movement and stillness, revealing their inner logic through an active engagement in looking.
For the exhibition I have made two DVDs from the 16mm originals, one with 5 films and the other with 6 films. Thus the connections between the films are always changing.
A DVD of 34 films from Short Film Series is in production with LUX, to be released late 2013'. Guy Sherwin

A bit about Guy Sherwin:
Films have been included in 'Film as Film' Hayward Gallery 1979, 'Live in Your Head' Whitechapel Gallery 2000, 'Shoot Shoot Shoot' Tate Modern 2002, 'A Century of Artists' Film & Video' Tate Britain 2003/4. His work is in the collections of Cinematheque Francaise, Tate Gallery, British Council, BFI, and distributed by LUX London, Lightcone Paris, Film-Makers Co-op New York and Canyon San Francisco.

Lamp Posts by Riccardo Iacono

 
The Projection Rooms at MOCC is pleased to be screening a selection of video works from Riccardo Iacono's ongoing project, Lamp Posts. 9th and 10th November, 2013. 12pm - 4.30pm

Captured using mobile phones, the videos range from one second to a couple of minutes duration and follow the artist's experience of everyday situations, such as walking to the corner shop, travelling on the underground and using the bathroom.

Screenings will take place on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th November between the hours of 12 and 4.30pm. The programme will be looped and lasts 45 minutes.

Riccardo Iacono (b. Blackburn, 1969) is a British artist working with film, video, digital media, performance, photography, collage, painting and installation. He studied Painting at Glasgow School of Art (1988-91) and Electronic Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art (2000-1).

His work has shown widely including:  Channel 4 (1997/9); A Century of Artists' Film in Britain, Tate Britain (2003); and European Media Art Festival, Osnabruuck (2007). Solo shows include: Ice in The Freezer, Pleasure Dome, Toronto (2003); From Memory, Kino Oko, Prague (2005); Love Songs From a Dark Body, La Enana Marron, Madrid (2005); The No Show, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2007); This Orientation, Summit Gallery, London (2013).

http://www.riccardoiacono.co.uk/projects/lampposts

Film and video screenings by Kerry Baldry

Film and video by artist filmmaker Kerry Baldry will be screening at The Projection Rooms, Museum of Club Culture on Saturday and Sunday 5th and 6th October between the hours of 12pm and 4.30pm.

Kerry Baldry is a Fine Artist, a graduate from Middlesex University who went on to study film and video at Central St. Martins. Her first commissioned film was to make a one minute video for BBC2’s One Minute Television which was broadcast on The Late Show - a joint collaboration between BBC2 and The Arts Council.

Since the 1990's she has continued to make work with 16mm film (edited in-camera) and more recently video and has had screenings and exhibitions worldwide including the big screens in Liverpool, Lux Open at The Royal College of Art, Rotterdam Film Festival. Directors Lounge Berlin, the ICA, OUTVIDEO Video Arts Festival Russia, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum Italy, Furtherfield gallery London, FACT Liverpool and Welcome to the Treasuredome - a London 2012 Cultural Olympiad by the Sea programme in Weymouth (to name but a few places)