Screening Series Resting Transmissions / Eyes Above, Bodies Below / Nice Night for a Walk

About

This July The RYDER presents three video programmes, each running a week in the gallery. Nine artists will present their works in: Resting Transmissions (5 – 9 July), Eyes Above, Bodies Below (12 – 16 July), Nice night for a walk (19 – 23 July).

​Resting Transmissions presents works engaging with histories and practices of television. Industrial modes of production and dissemination are intercepted and reinterpreted, shifting and activating viewership. With its semi-lucid self-made counter-narratives, this programme unfolds like an atypical night of broadcast. Featuring work by: Kathryn Elkin, Wendy Geller, and Su Hui-Yu.
 
The programme Eyes Above, Bodies Below suggests there are many ways in which eyes may be separate from bodies; there are many ways bodies swap and narratives switch. The works present combinations of vision, bodies inscribed with self-actuated stories as well as scripted strands from above. Cartesian dualism is both affirmed and confronted, fluidity seeps up as stories hop hosts, sending out beacons. Featuring work by: Deirdre Sargent, Maha Maamoun, and Stephanie Comilang.
 
Nice night for a walk presents works that excavate material from circulating film franchises, and their resulting pop-cultural sediment. Particular moments, cyborgs, and the onscreen presence of Arnold Schwarzenegger are remobilized. Metallic mirrored surfaces emerge that reflect ossified references, surrounding and reworking them. Featuring work by: Jenna Sutela, Daniel Cockburn, and Frank Heath.
 
The series: Resting Transmissions / Eyes Above, Bodies Below / Nice night for a walk is curated by Erik Martinson.

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Programme

Resting Transmissions  / 5 – 9 July
- Michael’s Theme, Kathryn Elkin, 2014, 7:47
- Six, Wendy Geller, 1986, 4:07
- The Upcoming Show, Su Hui-Yu, 2012, 17:14
 
Eyes Above, Bodies Below  / 12 – 16 July
- Traveling, Deirdre Sargent, 2016, 5:16
 - 2026, Maha Maamoun, 2010, 9:00
 - Lumapit Sa Akin, Paraiso (Come To Me, Paradise), Stephanie Comilang, 2016, 25:46
 
Nice night for a walk  / 19 – 23 July
- RI JIRI I O WA NU RU DAINICHI T-1000, Jenna Sutela, 2016, 2:15
- WEAKEND, Daniel Cockburn, 2003, 7:15
- The Hollow Coin, Frank Heath, 2016, 12:13