FALL – artist statements and screening running order
1.
Nicholas Shoesmith/Ishan Mahabir-Stokes, ‘How Was Work?’
As artists with Scottish Ballet, we wanted to respond to your call-out with a rhythmic take on filmed poetry, incorporating our physical approach to storytelling. Knowing that Ishan has always been very interested in writing, I asked him to write up something bespoke for this call-out and we got to creating this work. Rhani (Ishan’s sister), helped us enhance the piece with her musical score of the poem.
2.
Helga Fannon/Haroon Mirza, ‘You can see me under blankets’
Fannon is an Icelandic-British moving image artist. Using fiction, sound, performance and writing as narrative devices, her work borrows from phenomenology, mythologies, consciousness, the unknown and her own disparate ancestral histories to navigate the weaving in and out of dreams, confessions, the historical, the lost and found. Creating tender and often beguiling links between these and other narratives, both found and imagined.
Haroon Mirza has won international acclaim for installations that test the interplay and friction between sound and light waves and electric current. He devises sculptures, performances and immersive installations.
https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/haroon-mirza
3.
Korallia Stergides, ‘Bud’
Stergides explores the vital politics of care in an interdependent world, emphasizing nonhuman agencies working through various characters to “remythologize” autobiographical narratives; reimagining the intimacy of our interspecies relationships and home. Choreographic inquiries are framed through an interweaving of multiple mediums through spatial-material inversions to construct an autofiction. The ways of participation in my work relate to the embodiment of care; by activating the body, the potential for a deeper understanding of care is opened.
https://linktr.ee/KoralliaStergides
4.
Dan Power, ‘Fireball’
Dan Power is a poet living in Dundee. He’s an NWCDTP-funded PhD candidate at Lancaster University, researching how AI can be a muse for human-generated poetry. His poems have appeared in Spam, Berlin Lit, aswirl, NTS Radio, and more. His pamphlet ‘Memory Foam’ was published by Doomsday Press in 2023. Dan was shortlisted for the 2024 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award.
Insta: @therealdanpower
5.
LMFS, ‘virtue flagging’
LMFS is the collaboration between Louisa Minkin and Francis Summers. Recurring themes: agitation, solidified memory, forgetting, allusions, technologies, poetic dispersal and concretion, patchwork archaeology of failed forms, the lumpen-vectoral…
Selected publications and exhibitions:
What are dreams if not hostage situations, Spring Break, New York, USA, 2024
Ascension, Koppel 180, Piccadilly, London, 2024
Arctic Moving Image Film Festival, Harstad Kino, Norway, 2023
Yes We Cannibal: Capitol Offense, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, USA, 2023
6.
Flora Cullerne Bown, ‘imaginary path of the yellow heart’
As a filmmaker and artist, Flora Cullerne Bown (b.1996, London) is concerned with personal experiences of place rooted in the sensory and poetic. These concerns are reflected in her film-making methods – incorporating diverse mediums such as writing, sewing, drawing and stop-motion within her films, favouring a DIY approach by using what is close at hand, as well as approaching an embodied use of the camera through improvisation. Flora also works with installations and workshops.
Insta: @flor.aeve
7.
Raha Farazmand, ‘Figuratively Speaking’
Raha Farazmand’s works explore space and change in their abstract and hybrid forms. They depart from a dichotomy between the inner and outer landscape and sway by factors such as memory, context, emotions, and societal constructs.
Farazmand’s works have been exhibited both in the UK and internationally, including Christie’s in London, the Sydney Architecture Festival in Australia, the London Festival of Architecture, The Architectural Association, and the Winterpalais Belvedere Museum in Vienna.
8.
Rhia Lang, ‘Launder/Lavender’
Lang’s research-based practise focuses on experimental-video and writing, exploring archival traces left by our collective pasts and studying the non-figurative aspects, framing them in an alternative way from traditional sources. The aim of the work is to leave audiences questioning their own histories, our collective stories and how these are represented by institutions. Lang’s practice is best described as ‘film-poetics’, bringing together visuals, writing, and social history – reflecting how working-class history has traditionally been transferred.
https://cargocollective.com/rhialaing
9.
Yanzi, ‘Disassemblage’
Yanzi is a London-based new media artist with a background in robotics and automation (2010). He shifted to contemporary art, studying at ICA Moscow(2017) and later joining Strelka Institute’s “The New Normal” (by Benjamin Bratton(2019)). Yanzi has exhibited internationally: FutureTense in Hong Kong(2023), DeepTruth(2022) by Rijksmuseum Twenthe, ‘FakeMeHard’ in Netherlands and Santa Fe International New Media Festival(2021). His work won Best Animation at the Berlin Music Video Awards 2021 for “Kasseta – Rewind the Tape”
Insta: @wyxzii
10.
Lala Drona, ‘The Like Me’
Lala Drona is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in painting and video, from Denver, Colorado. She is currently completing her Painting MA at the Royal College of Art, London, and exhibits internationally. Most recently, her artwork was showcased in the solo exhibition “Virtual Reverence,” in Paris, France. Her artwork engages with The Abject Feminine, prompted by her medical experiences of growing up with a congenital deformity which resulted in only one breast developing.
11.
Lucy Swan, ‘Fuck You’
Swan is a writer living in London whose poetry, essays and fragments have been published in Pilot Press anthologies, Tissue Papers, Pala Press, Bittersweet Review et al. Previous video work has been published with SORT. Swan is currently working on a book length project about women in love.
12.
Louiza Ntourou, ‘Chronicle’
Louiza Ntourou is an artist-filmmaker and visual ethnographer based between Athens and London. Her videos explore new ways of seeing and reimagining everyday objects—both animate and inanimate—that surround us. Her practice is significantly informed by “chance,” which she embraces as a means of disrupting conscious control and welcoming the unexpected. She captures objects encountered by chance in public spaces and, through experimental techniques with the moving image, lets these objects reveal their own stories.
13.
Tessa Berring, ‘Paste’
Tessa Berring is an Edinburgh based writer and artist. Her work has been published by a number of small presses/journals. These include Blue Diode Press, If a Leaf Falls Press, Berlin Lit Mag, Tangerine Press and The Interpreters House.
Insta: @tbberring
14.
Naya Aka Kwarm, ‘where the children live’
Nayaa is an afroqueer multidisciplinary artist, creative producer and poet.
In their practice, they delve into the layering of realities, exposing the simultaneity of existence and non-linearity of time. In the “thin spaces”—the impressions we leave and the ones that shape us, they investigate how film and moving images act as portals, making visible multiple realities.
Insta: @na-yaa(they)
15.
Ray Sims, ‘Hand-held’
Sims is a writer and filmmaker, with a background in narrative film and artists’ moving image.
16.
Izzy McEvoy, ‘And They’
Izzy McEvoy is an artist based in London. She graduated in Sculpture from the RCA in 2015. Working across film, writing, sculpture and textiles her practice engages with issues of mental health, trauma and loss. Exploring alternative forms of care, she makes work with people who perform healing roles, counter to mainstream medicine. This has included a shamanic counsellor and psilocybin facilitator, end of life doulas and a horse assisted therapist and herd of horses.
17.
Kathryn Mason, ‘Lemon Juice’
I am a ‘rough-round-the-edges’ interdisciplinary artist currently focussed on video art, experimental film, animation, and performance for camera. My work embraces surrealism and absurdism. I seek to articulate the anxieties, restrictions or freedoms found within the worlds inhabited by myself or the characters in my films. I am interested in liminal spaces, the line where the imaginary and real blur, the bizarre in the mundane, and where somatic embodiment meets digitally experienced reality.
18.
Cheryl Moskowitz/George Gavin, ‘You had no hands the last time I pictured you’
George Gavin is a musician, film maker, editor, producer and freelancer living in Brooklyn, NYC. Cheryl Moskowitz is an award-winning poet, novelist and creative translator living in London. She’s an editor at Magma Poetry and co-founder of the poetry and electronic series, All Saints Sessions http://www.allsaintssessions.uk They are a mother and son team who mostly collaborate remotely. Previous film poem collaborations include ‘Fixed in Place’ made in ‘virtual residency’ at Bethany Arts Community 2020.
Insta: @c.moskowitz
19.
Ian McCartney, Forest
Ian Macartney works with words, sounds, images and other people. He can be found online, but for how much longer?
20.
Sena Başöz, The Box
Sena Başöz is an artist working across many different media whose works investigate healing, seeking ways of interacting with what is considered out of reach and experimentally regenerating what is considered frozen-dead-stale-lost. She often works with archives as the only tangible material between life and death. She focuses on broader definitions of “care” and the practices it entails. The organism’s self-repair and balance nature obtains in the long run constitute the backbone of this narrative.
FALL selection panel
Malaika Bova Film Programmer for Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and Producer for Foundazione La Biennale di Venezia.
Tamsyn Challenger Artist/poet and Associate Artist Beaconsfield.
A.David Crawforth Artist and Founding Director of Beaconsfield.
Colin Herd Poet and Senior Lecturer of Creative Writing at Glasgow University.
Naomi Siderfin Artist-curator and Founding Director of Beaconsfield.
Film Art Literature Lesson is a Glasgow University initiative in collaboration with Beaconsfield.