Slowness

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Slowness is an exhibition that presents six young international artists who work with video and live art. Often collaborating with musicians, writers and other none art counterparts, the artists will converge on Red Wire Gallery, with the joint intention of subverting and reinterpreting our conventional perceptions of time based artworks. Slowness is the first moving image and live art project to be held at Red Wire Studios. It is curated by Vanessa Bartlett. Laura Cooper presents Exercise PH, a Herculean attempt to connect Bangkok and Liverpool via the medium of the Internet. Frequently thwarted by the unpredictability of Internet connections in Thailand, the performance serves as a reminder that even the technologies of globalization fail to supersede the physical constraints of distance and time. Birgit Deubner lures her audience into a state of perpetual waiting, with the rural leg of her Dungbeetle and Sisyphus work. Searching for inherent purpose in daily activities, she creates an illusion of narrative that has no immediately discernible conclusion or purpose. Rhian Russell collaborates with filmmaker Nick Wright on (Abridged), to deconstruct the fine line between form and formula in filmmaking. Reducing a full-length feature film to a time frame that is perceived to be more appropriate to a gallery context, the work presents its own bite sized cinematic experience. Jens Strandberg and Giles Bailey collaborate on a new live performance that borrows the formal model of film and attributes it to the medium of performance. Reflecting on the fearsome void that existed before time, the artists hail the success of cinema in its ability to structure and concretize time's passage. Hanna Tuulikki collaborates with James Lee on Our Breaths Bellow, a performance to camera that observes the artists singing singular notes into the resonant chambers of one another's mouths. Kai-Oi Jay Yung collaborates with Neil Campbell and Mark Pilkington on Exquisites Actes III, an exploration of art as an act and its relationship in terms of effect meeting the spectator. This installation and live performance demonstrates the artist's characteristically prolific approach. The exhibition is curated by Vanessa Bartlett. www.vanessabartlett.com - New Website by Smiling Wolf will be online by early November.