Visions in the Nunnery
Hetain Patel will be showing new work alongside 26 international artists part of Bow Art's Visions in the Nunnery exhibition. Entry is free.
Bow Arts, 25 September – 13 December 2020
FVU Recommends
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Picks of the week
Ed Atkins: Death Mask 5
In Death Mask 5 (2019), Atkins presents a specially compiled mix of works from the past decade including his Jerwood/FVU Awards film Warm, Warm, Warm Spring Mouths.
CCA STREAMS, Goldsmiths CCA
Dean Blunt On Wine, Hashish and Molly
Online as part of MattFlix, a fortnightly series of online projects at mattsgallery.org
Matt's Gallery, 1–15 May
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival presents some of the most distinctive cinema and artists’ films being made today + conversations, new writing and podcasts direct from Berwick-upon-Tweed! bit.ly/bfmafonline
Online, 17 September – 11 October 2020
Mariam Ghani: What We Left Unfinished & Dis-Eas
What We Left Unfinished (2019) explores the unfulfilled potential of left political futures in Afghanistan. The film is based on archival research assembling five unfinished Afghan feature films shot, but never edited, between 1978 and 1992.
Mosaic Rooms
Sets and Scenarios
Sets and Scenarios Sets explores our heightened proximity to images and what it means to live under their influence, featuring new commissions by Adam Christensen, Eva Gold, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi and Aaron Ratajczyk.
Online
Tina Campt: The Slow Lives of Still Moving Images
Tina Campt expands on her coined term of 'Black visual frequency', which was the starting point for Nadeem Din-Gabisi's MASS, in this talk 'The Slow Lives of Still Moving Images'.
Nottingham Contemporary, via YouTube
Reflections from Home No.5: Sohrab Hura, Delhi, Indi
Kettle’s Yard has been asking artists to offer their reflections from home, through images, text and film. The latest artist to respond is Sohrab Hura, who shares photographs from his rooftop in Delhi, India.
Kettle's Yard
Marguerite Duras: Les mains négatives
From the end of a night till dawn, from the Bastille to the Champs-Élysées—by way of the boulevard des Italiens, avenue de l'Opéra, and rue de Rivoli—a depopulated Paris offers itself to Marguerite Duras' voice.
e-flux
Hu Wei: Butter Lamps
A young itinerant photographer and his assistant suggest to tibetan nomads to photograph them in front of various backgrounds.
Dryden Goodwin: Alongside
Alongside is a closely observed portrait of a care worker as he builds supportive relationships with three vulnerable clients with severe physical disabilities or autism.
Work Projects
Paul Rooney: Still at Large (The Creeping Things Cut)
A disturbing male figure is on the run from an unspoken crime; yet he is, in turn, on the hunt for something or someone.
Berwick Visual Arts