Our pick of current exhibitions, throughout the UK and beyond, that we're not involved in but would highly recommend. Follow our recommendations on Twitter using #FVUrecommends
A+ Online Festival of Video Art
This festival aims to remind us that artworkers across the board—artists, curators, administrators, designers, writers and so on—have still been working through the pandemic, and they need support.
Online, 1 August to 12 September 2020
Cory Arcangel: Freshbuzz (www.subway.com)
This mesmerizing exploration of subway.com and its rich interactive assets maps the glut of brand narrative, customer sales-pitch, and even business opportunity which comprise the identity of an "All-American" brand.
Screen Slate, Thursday, August 6 at 4PM EST
Frank Sweeney, All I believe happened there was vision (2020, 22 mins)
Frank Sweeney's film All I believe happened there was vision emerged from a period of research with the National Folklore Collection at UCD and incorporates both archival and shot material.
aemi online, until 1 September
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.
Richard Whitby and Oliver Brignall: The Anchorite
This live performance from FVU alumnus Richard Whitby and Oliver Brignall combines video content with improvised playing in a lyrical musical work focusing on an extremely wealthy individual preparing for an apocalyptic endgame, designing and equipping a safe-house within which he will be interred.
13 July 2020, 8pm
Niamh O'Malley, Glasshouse
Glasshouse is an intimate video study of landscape, light and glass that was originally created during a residency in Denmark, after O’Malley happened upon rows of old greenhouses.
John Hansard Gallery, Online, 1-31 July 2020
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
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.
Public Knowledge: F(r)ictions
F(r)ictions is a screening space for experimental film and video work, making room for imperfections, unfinished work, left-field pieces, and diy work. The screening series is a space for feminist film, putting an emphasis on work by queer and trans people of colour
Camden Arts Centre, until 30 June
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