Emily Wardill
dal 18/9/2010 al 27/11/2010
Segnalato da
18/9/2010
Emily Wardill
De Appel Boys' School, Amsterdam
Structured around an ongoing dialogue between British artist Emily Wardill and artist/curator Ian White, "windows broken, break, broke together" is the most extensive exhibition of Wardill's films to date. The show presents six 16 mm films and one video projection, sound and music are an integral part of the work. Three public lectures mark the beginning, middle and end of the exhibition; today: "The Object".
Solo Exhibition
Structured around an ongoing dialogue between British artist
Emily Wardill and artist/curator Ian White, the solo
exhibition "windows broken, break, broke together" is the
most extensive exhibition of Wardill’s films to date.
Described as 'brilliant cinematic labyrinths. Visually
striking and playfully rigorous’ the films occupy wildly
different stylistic positions as a means of re-animating the
ways in which form can become the unquestioned carrier of
meaning – by the way in which meaning is implied through
metaphor or example, inscribed by case studies,
fictionalised in props or interpreted in art criticism,
status symbols and as the evidence of crime.
Wardill poses fundamental questions about perception,
representation, the relationship between politics and
linguistics and probes the mysteries and mechanisms of human
communication, reconfiguring ideas of and as experience.
Sound and music are an integral part of the work.
The exhibition will present six 16 mm films and one video
projection:
"Born Winged Animals and Honey Gatherers of the Soul", 2006,
16mm, 9’
"Basking in what feels like 'An Ocean of Grace' I soon
realise that I am not looking at it, but rather, I AM it,
recognising myself", 2006, 16mm, 8’
"Ben", 2006, 16mm, 10’
"Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck", 2007, 16mm, 12’
"SEA OAK", 2008, 16mm Installation, 51’
"The Diamond (Descartes Daughter)", 2008, 16mm, 10’
"Game Keepers without Game", 2009, video projection with 5.1
sound, 72’
Three public lectures by Emily Wardill and Ian White mark
the beginning, middle and end of the exhibition. Conceived
as a triptych they respond to the themes of the show in both
form and content, proposing three different routes through
the work on display and three different attempts at
embodying knowledge. The lectures also provide the structure
for the publication "We are behind" that accompanies the
exhibition, published by de Appel arts centre and Book
Works, London.
Emily Wardill (b. Rugby, UK, 1977) is a London-based
filmmaker. She has exhibited widely in the UK and
internationally, including solo projects at The Showroom,
London (2009) the ICA, London (2008), Fortescue Avenue /
Jonathan Viner, London (2005, 2006), STANDARD (OSLO) (2008)
and the performance event "The Feast Against Nature", at PS1
Contemporary Art Centre, New York (2004). She has shown at
Tate Britain, Film Festival Oberhausen, Whitechapel Art
Gallery, Witte de With, the London and New York Film
Festival, MOCA Miami, has been shortlisted for The Future
Generation Art Prize and Jarman Award and will be showing at
The British Art Show and MIT List at the end of 2010.
Ian White (born London, UK, 1971) is an artist, curator and
writer based in Berlin and London. As a curator he
specializes in artists’ film and video, being Adjunct Film
Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. He curated
"Kinomuseum" (2007) and "Whose History?" (2008) for the
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival and was
associate curator on "The Secret Public: The last days of
the British underground 1978-1988", Kunstverein Munich and
touring, 2006. His most recent solo exhibition - a series of
performances - was held at the daadgalerie, Berlin, July
2010. He is the facilitator of the LUX Associate Artists
Programme.
Events in the context of the exhibition:
Sunday 19 Sept.
4 pm Public lecture "The Object" by Emily Wardill and Ian
White and Book Launch "We are behind"
Sunday 24 Oct .
3 pm Free guided tour
4 pm Public lecture "The Window" by Emily Wardill and Ian
White
Sunday 21 Nov .
3 pm Sunday School: one work of the exhibition becomes
subject of close reading by Jacob Korczynski (Curatorial
Programme 2010/2011)
4 pm Public talk "The Theatre" by Emily Wardill and Ian
White.
Sunday 28 Nov .
3 pm Free guided tour
Reservations via reservation@deappel.nl.
Image: Basking in what feels like 'An Ocean of Grace' I soon realise that I am not looking at it, but rather, I AM it, recognising myself, 2006, 16mm, 8'
Fore more information please contact Hiske Zomer via Hzomer@deappel.nl / +31 (0) 20 6255651.
Opening Friday September 17, from 6 pm onwards
de Appel Boys'school
Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat 59 Amsterdam
Opening Hours: Tue-Sun from 11-6pm
Entrance prices
Normal Entrance price: EU 7.00
CJP: EU 3.50
<12 years: free
12-18 years: EU 3.50
students: EU 4.50
65+: EU 4.50