Past Exhibition
05 July- 13 October 2013
From role-play to communal activities and urban graffiti, this season presents artists’ films based on social and collaborative projects to coincide with The Spirit of Utopia which looks at the role art plays in offering alternative ways of configuring society.
Einat Amir’s collaborative practice encourages volunteers to respond to predetermined scenarios while Ana Gallardo, Marinella Senatore and Katarina Zdjelar each interrogate the power of people coming together in a public space to make music or engage in a shared activity. In Nasan Tur’s performance video, hundreds of graffiti slogans from the streets of Berlin are sprayed on top of each other to create a block of colour in which language is obliterated.
Programme length: 74 mins.
Nasan Tur
Berlin Says…, 2009
DVD, colour, sound
6.30 mins.
Courtesy the artist
Marinella Senatore
ROSAS – The Attic#2, 2012
HD video, colour, sound
30 mins.
Produced by Quad, Derby, courtesy the artist
Katarina Zdjelar
My Lifetime (Malaika), 2011
Single channel video
5.37 mins.
Courtesy the artist, Circus, Berlin and Spazio A, Pistoia
Ana Gallardo
Don Raul, 2012
Camera phone video
9.20 mins.
Courtesy the artist
Einat Amir
I Will Be Your Guide for This Session, 2013
Single channel video
14.45 mins.
Courtesy the artist
Artists’ Film International is a collaborative project established by the Whitechapel Gallery in 2008, featuring film, video and animation from around the world. A partnership between 16 global partner organisations, the programme brings together recent works which are presented over the course of a year in each venue. Find out more
