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AV Festival

guest — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:30:07 +0000

The sixth biennial AV Festival returns this year with the theme ‘Extraction.’ Focusing on re-imagining the geologic, the month long festival runs through March. With a programme of 11 exhibitions, 36 film screenings, 10 concerts and 11 new commissioned pieces of work, artists will respond to the natural landscape of North East England and beyond.

Selected Highlights include:
Akio Suzuki na ge ka ke - his first major solo exhibition in the UK at Globe Gallery that includes works he describes as ‘of sound but are soundless’
Wang Bing‘s 14-hour film Crude Oil shown as an installation at Stephenson Works, following the long working day of crude oil workers in China’s remote Qinghai province
Lara Almarcegui The Last Coal Extraction in Newcastle - new commission derived from her exploration last year at the site of the last coal extraction in Newcastle
Susan Stenger Sound Strata of Coastal Northumberland - new commission at the Laing based on a 19th century cross-section diagram of coastal geological formations from the River Tyne to the Scottish border, drawn by a local coal mining engineer
Jessica Warboys - solo exhibition at Laing bringing together film, object and canvas including her sea paintings

Akio Suzuki courtesy Aki Onda

The AV Festival runs from 1 – 31 March at various venues around Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough & Sunderland. For more information see their website.

Where I Make: Max Hattler

guest — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:35:03 +0000

Max Hattler is a moving image artist, working with abstract animation in film, video installation and audiovisual live performance. Here is where he creates…

Max Hattler & blackboard scribbles which pertain to the ‘Max Hattler Canal Commission’, a water screen projection which is premiering at KXFS in London on 6 September. Photo: Lucy Pawlak.

I mainly live in London but don’t have a studio there. I travel a fair bit with my work, and I’m laptop-based, so I can work anywhere. I like putting myself in new environments and taking inspiration from them. Currently, I am doing an artist residency with Pixel Palace at Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle. Big Newcastle daily The Journal wrote an article about me and my two fellow residents, Lucy Pawlak and GH Hovagimyan last week which you can read here.

While in Newcastle I’ve been working on several projects, including Model Starship which I shot in my temporary flat in the iconic Byker Wall council estate … Another new work is Catch, the official music video for the single of the same name by The Egg, from their brand new album Something To Do. You can view Catch online here.

The main project here at Pixel Palace, an investigation of scanlines and moiree, is still a little top secret.

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Ellie Harrison’s ‘Market Forces’

guest — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:00:03 +0000

‘Market Forces’, Ellie Harrison, installation view. Photo: Colin Davison

Ellie Harrison’s solo exhibition ‘Market Forces’ is currently on at Vane, Newcastle from 1st November – 17th December 2011. Intro text by Laurie Penny can be read here. A film of the launch night can be viewed below:

Ellie Harrison is an artist who looks at the numbers. As artist in residence at Wunderbar, her solo exhibition at Vane and collaborative projects during the festival tread the line between the sublime and the ridiculous, between creation and activism. It’s all intended to get visitors to understand how our world is shaped by everyday engagements with the micro-detail of a macro-financial system that is steering humanity over a cliff of crisis – with a healthy dose of self-irony.

‘Market Forces’, Ellie Harrison, installation view. Photo: Colin Davison

Vane Contemporary Art Ltd
39 Pilgrim Street
Newcastle upon Tyne