"Natural Selections" Exhibition
Light Industry
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Emerging form London's anarchistic underground film and live art club scene in the 90s, where she was a co-founder of the fabled Exploding Cinema Collective, Jennet Thomas's work began as spoken performance with projections, and developed into an innovative hybrid of film languages. Her videos recall weird children’s programming, low-rent 70s sci-fi TV, and Britain’s vaudeville-like music hall traditions; rainbow-hued set designs and idiosyncratic uses of sound collide with a surprising amalgam of genres. "I like to explore unlikely methods of sense-making,” she says. “My narratives are often generated via dream-logic and increasingly experimental methodologies, inspired by odd corners of British culture, our relationship with science, despair at the way the world goes, and the problems of 'truth.'” In Because of the War, a dapper Yellow Man Lecturer looks the viewer squarely in the eye and delivers an account of how it all came to pass: the conflict, the changes, everyday acts of transubstantiation, leading to a world where magick and ritual are suburban norms. Return of the Black Tower provides an elliptical response to John Smith’s 1987 film The Black Tower, and The Man who went Outside features performance artist Richard Layzell, trapped in an ever changing color-void, locked in a power play with a perversely operated camera.
Drawn in fat, inky lines with black sharpies on plain paper, Jim Trainor’s animations explore the inner lives of animals who appear strangely self-aware even as they instinctually copulate, feed, fight, kill and die. Sometimes his characters are humans, likewise acting under animal impulses, who nonetheless passively recount mental inventories of their own organism-driven actions. The Magic Kingdom intersperses footage of creatures in artificial zoo landscapes with what may be animated diagrams of their souls, while Harmony presents ten vignettes of animals and people wracked with guilt over broken taboos. A video documentary that continues Trainor’s trademark morbid humor, The Skulls, and the Skulls and the Bones, and the Bones visits with an amateur taxidermist who lives with his creepy collection in a tiny apartment. The Presentation Theme, Trainor's latest work, involves a mammal-headed snake, a Peruvian prisoner, and a blood-hungry priestess.
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February 24, 2009 from 19:30