Good Friday | Bankside, London 2012.
February 8, 2012
PROVOKE | Inspired
Auckland, New Zealand (2006)
Prague Airport (2002)
Rotorua, New Zealand (2006)
February 7, 2012
PROVOKE | Daido Moryiama
© Daido Moriyama. Selection of images from the Provoke era.
October 23, 2011
A different kind of performance: Tacita Dean
This is a quick test, messing around trying to get to grips with iMovie……still a lot to learn!
FILM is an 11-minute silent 35mm film by Tacita Dean, projected onto a gigantic white monolith standing 13 metres tall at the end of a darkened Turbine Hall. It is the first work in The Unilever Series devoted to the moving image, and celebrates the masterful techniques of analogue film-making as opposed to digital. The work evokes the monumental mysterious black monolith from the classic science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film feels like a surreal visual poem, including images from the natural world among others, with the epic wall of the Turbine Hall showing through, in a montage of black and white, colour, and hand-tinted film.
Tacita Dean is a British artist now based in Berlin, best known for her use of film. Dean’s films act as portraits or depictions rather than conventional cinematic storytelling, capturing fleeting natural light or subtle shifts in movement. Her static camera positions and long takes allow events to unfold unhurriedly. Other works have attempted to reconstruct events from memory, such as an infamous thwarted attempt to circumnavigate the world.
Many of Dean’s works show the ways in which architecture can be transformed by the camera’s lens. Craneway Event 2009 follows the choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919–2009) and his dance company rehearsing in a former Ford assembly plant, built of glass and steel and overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Dean’s film allows the ever-changing light of this environment to fall in rhythm with the dancers’ movements.
Read more here.
Related articles
- Exhibition in focus: The Unilever Series, Tacita Dean at Tate Modern (telegraph.co.uk)
- Tacita Dean, Tate Modern, Turbine Hall (independent.co.uk)
- Tacita Dean’s Turbine Hall Film pays homage to a dying medium (guardian.co.uk)
- Tacita Dean, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London (independent.co.uk)
- Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall transformed into stretched cinema (telegraph.co.uk)
August 27, 2011
Peace n Love….carnival time.
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Notting Hill Carnival (1998).
June 28, 2011
Quote of the day:
In photography there is a new kind of plasticity, the product of instantaneous lines made by movements of the subject. We work in unison with movement as though it were a presentiment of the way in which life itself unfolds. But inside movement there is one moment at which the elements in motion are in balance. Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind’s Eye.
Related articles
- Henri Cartier-Bresson (christinavazou.wordpress.com)
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