Between a Gaze and a Gesture
With images sourced from the Liberty human rights archive, this installation shows post-colonial and racial tensions in mid-20th-century Britain.
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
Blackout Installations
Combined Programme
IFFR 2019
Revolving around the carousel slide projector, Blackout spotlights how we often forget. Despite Kodak terminating its production in 2004, slide projectors continue to be used by artists – often exploring history from a personal perspective. In the age of swipe and scroll, the slide projector calls for us to remember.
Sun 27 Jan, 13:00-15:20, Kunsthal Rotterdam, €6. The event begins with an exhibition tour with the artists at 13:00 and the performance at 14:00.Also see Sojourner, Drylongso and compilation programme Calling Planet Earth.
Thu 24 Jan to Sun 3 Feb, 10:00-17:00 (Sun 27 Jan en 3 Feb, 11:00-17:00, Mon 28 Jan closed), Kunsthal, free with an IFFR ticket or pass
Sun 27 Jan, 13:00-15:20, Kunsthal, €6. The event begins with an exhibition tour with the artists at 13:00 and the performance at 14:00. Also see Sojourner, Drylongso and compilation programme Calling Planet Earth.
In this combined programme
Fossil Locomotion
This flickering installation with multiple slide projectors is a study of motion that activates fossils that have been stationary for millennia.
Belgium
IFFR 2019
Her Luminous Distance
This installation oscillates between archival images of stars, craters on the moon and under-recognised women scientists in space stations.
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019
Landscape Series #1
A series of mysterious photographs of people pointing into Vietnamese landscapes becomes a commentary on news events in this slide installation.
Vietnam
IFFR 2019
A Man Called Love
A poetic slide installation that intertwines psychic medium Francisco Candido Xavier, Brazil’s race and class relations and military dictatorship.
Brazil
IFFR 2019
Mneme
In Greek mythology, Mneme is memory personified. This installation is a projection onto a painting where textures are subtly combined.
USA
IFFR 2019
Non-chronological History
The history of Thai political events since 1932 is reshuffled out of chronological order in this installation with multiple slide projectors.
Thailand
IFFR 2019
Recollections of Long Lost Memories
A present-day hippy finds his way into historical photographs that mark Malaysian history in this humorous slide installation.
Malaysia
IFFR 2019
Sedimentation of Memory
This installation examines the caves of Cannerberg, located on the Dutch-Belgian border, which bear traces of its layered history.
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
Space Station: Rainbow Ihnfinity
A nod to Sun Ra’s obsession with rainbows, this installation places living plants, theatrical furniture and a rainbow mural in an ‘arkestral’ arrangement.
USA
IFFR 2019
Srinagar
Conceived during a time of violent protests in Kashmir, this installation dwells on Srinagar’s cultural history and media representations of the region.
India
IFFR 2019
Programme
Blackout
This exhibition and series of performances spotlight works that explore history and memory from a personal perspective through the carousel slide projector.
Read more about this programmeBetween a Gaze and a Gesture
With images sourced from the Liberty human rights archive, this installation shows post-colonial and racial tensions in mid-20th-century Britain.
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
Black Utopia LP
A constellation of sounds, images and histories from research into Sun Ra, Afrofuturism and the African diaspora is brought together in this slide-projection performance.
80'
USA
IFFR 2019
Fossil Locomotion
This flickering installation with multiple slide projectors is a study of motion that activates fossils that have been stationary for millennia.
Belgium
IFFR 2019