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Seer's Catalogue - Dave Griffiths

27 Nov 2010 – 29 Jan 2011

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Gallery open: Weds to Fri 12 - 6pm, Sat 12 - 5pm

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Free

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Bureau is pleased to announce Dave Griffiths solo show 'Seer's Catalogue', featuring newly commissioned works and his award-winning film of the same title. Griffiths work dwells on the physical and fictive borders of cinema and media spaces, attempting to activate their histories and playfully explore their dramatic potential as living forms of cultural memory. A rigorous observation of marginal fragments is combined with dead and alive technologies, as he attempts to critique our perpetual social bond with hoarding and recombining media relics, and the illusions of security that we construct around images. In 'Seer's Catalogue', an investigator decodes the Universe through fiery entrails of film, recounting a myth of primal origins, worldly corruption and ultimate fate. His shuffling archive of movie cue-dots hovers between stillness and motion, the result of observing and recording barely visible matter on the screen's margins. Energy escapes these orbital fetishes, displaced from their usual microscopic scale to mix with scenery and bodies. Meanwhile their collector recounts a life of fruitless research into the cores of darkness that accompany any humanness. Griffiths has painstakingly sourced and removed the cue-dots from a series of films (cue-dots are a visual indicator used with film prints used to signal the projectionist that a particular reel of a movie is ending) and re-edited them to create a new mythological narrative structure, charting the beginning and ending of a universe. Re-editing and re-visiting hundreds of archival clips from throughout the history of cinema he explores moving images as a visual art medium alongside their relationship to the structures and narratives of cinema. The new works in print, film and light-boxes, produced especially for the exhibition, further develop the content and material from 'Seer's Catalogue'. Utilising Griffiths' personal archive and practice around the ‘history' of the cue-dot, the works commemorate the mechanical flux of celluloid, and reflect on our urge to hoard and recombine media relics in intimate acts of collective memory. ---------------- Dave Griffiths (b. 1967) is based in Manchester and gained MA Media Art from MIRIAD, Manchester School of Art in 2004. He works with predominantly with film, video, animation and print. Recent work dwells on the physical and fictive borders of cinema, attempting to activate the narrative potential of marginal images as living forms of cultural memory. A rigorous observation of marginal fragments is combined with dead and alive technologies, as he attempts to critique our perpetual social bond with hoarding and recombining media relics, and the illusions of security that we construct around images. His series of filmworks that form Griffiths 'Cue-Dot Observatory', examine the archaeology of movie changeovers. He has shown extensively internationally, and recent exhibitions include: Analogue is the New Digital, Abandon Normal Devices, Manchester; Madrid Experimental Film Week; Sugary Photographs, Antwerp; Infernal Machines, g39, Cardiff; Oà ¹ va le cinéma? Centre Pompidou, Paris; video_dumbo, Brooklyn; and Video Vortex, Brussels. Griffiths, with Andrew Bracey, co-curated the current exhibition 'Unspooling' at Cornerhouse, Manchester (running until January 2011), to further explore interests from his practice and review the relationship between art and cinema. He is currently showing in 'Industry & Idleness', curated by Sophia Crilly (Bureau) for Contemporary Art Society, London until March 2011. 'Seer's Catalogue' has been selected to feature as part of the forthcoming online Animate Projects 'Appropriate', in December 2010, accompanied by an essay by curator Lucy Reynolds. For further information: www.davegriffiths.info / www.unspooling.org ---------------- Please note: The gallery is closed for Christmas & New Year from 19th December 2010 until 12th January 2011.

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