Exhibition
Mathew Parkin: Slope-Tend-Big
11 Nov 2016 – 18 Nov 2016
Grand Union
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Still image from will you dance with me?
Event
Will You Dance With Me? Derek Jarman Screening and Club Night
18 Nov 2016
Event times
8pm - late
Cost of entry
£3, or pay what you can
Address
- 19 Minerva Works
- Fazeley Street
- Birmingham
- B5 5RS
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Train Stations: nearest is Moor Street 10 minutes walk 20 minutes walk from Birmingham New Street
Event map
Join us for a rare screening of 'Will You Dance With Me?' by British film maker Derek Jarman. This lost footage in the context of Mathew Parkin’s installation slope-tend-big at Grand Union as part of Shout Festival 2016.
About
In 1984, British filmmaker Derek Jarman took his Olympus VHS camcorder into Benjy’s, a gay nightclub in East London’s Mile End district, and taped patrons dancing, talking, sitting, and drinking. Until recently this film has remained buried in an archive, but has now been unearthed by producer Ron Peck.
Join us for a rare screening of this previously lost footage in the context of Mathew Parkin’s installation slope-tend-big at Grand Union as part of Shout Festival 2016. The screening will be preceded by a discussion between Parkin, Fierce Festival’s Director Aaron Wright and Luis-Manuel Garcia, lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Pop Music Studies at the University of Birmingham. They will be touching on themes of social dancing, queer space, community and utopia. As the night progresses a dancefloor will emerge as DJs take to the decks as the film loops on late into the night.
Grand Union is pleased to present slope-tend-big, a project by Mathew Parkin for SHOUT Queer Arts Festival 2016. The gallery will be transformed into a queer social space, with a changing installation of artworks and a public programme of events. Parkin will present his own work, alongside that of invited artists and writers, to form a wider conversation about queer artistic practice.
