Ukna City Takeover 2022

About

UK New Artists will be bringing over 75 artists to Leicester as part of their City Takeover to present work and share ideas, celebrating some of the very best of contemporary arts being made in the UK today.

At Phoenix, UKNA presents the work of two exciting new moving image artists, Rowland Hill and Hope Strickland.

Rowland Hill – Tha-at’s right
11 Minutes
Gallery

Tha-at’s right is a film in which three dancers and a small crew attempt to choreograph a dance from a dance review, written in 1959 by critic and poet Edwin Denby. His review captures Stravinsky’s final ballet Agon via an idiosyncratic stream of metaphors. Tha-at’s right takes Denby at his word, translating his criticism back into the language of dance.

‘…a seemingly disconnected parade of musical and choreographic gestures that swing—like Denby’s prose—between baroque grace and withering bathos…it raises questions about translation…the role of criticism, and the authority of the score.’ – The Wire

Hope Strickland – Home Soon Come
20 Minutes
Screen Room

Home Soon Come is part of an on-going project with the elderly Caribbean community in South Manchester. It is an experimental documentary that moves between archival footage of the Caribbean Islands, scenes shot in a day centre for the Caribbean elderly and interviews with the filmmaker’s family members. It explores diasporic movements, memory-placing through domestic objects and what it means to find ourselves at home in the people around us.

UK New Artists champions the next generation of creativity, supporting collaboration and intercultural dialogue, ensuring a vibrant and diverse creative future for the UK. UKNA develop artists’ practice through cross art form opportunities and celebrate creativity at national & international biennials. Since 2008, UK New Artists has supported over 1500 young artists through five major City Takeovers in the East Midlands.