Blackout
Overview of films
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Black Utopia LP & Blackout Artist Tour
This special event for Blackout includes an artist tour by eight participating artists and a performance by Cauleen Smith. -
Blackout Installations
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… -
Between a Gaze and a Gesture
Hannah Dawn Henderson | Netherlands | None
With images sourced from the Liberty human rights archive, this installation shows post-colonial and racial tensions in mid-20th-century Britain. -
Black Utopia LP
Cauleen Smith | 80' | USA | None
A constellation of sounds, images and histories from research into Sun Ra, Afrofuturism and the African diaspora is brought together in this slide-pro -
Fossil Locomotion
Floris Vanhoof | Belgium | None
This flickering installation with multiple slide projectors is a study of motion that activates fossils that have been stationary for millennia. -
Galvanoscope
Raha Raissnia | 20' | USA | International premiere
Using found 35mm slides depicting an abandoned mosque, Raha Raissnia’s performance considers the state of religion in contemporary society. -
Her Luminous Distance
Aura Satz | United Kingdom | None
This installation oscillates between archival images of stars, craters on the moon and under-recognised women scientists in space stations. -
Landscape Series #1
Nguyen Trinh Thi | Vietnam | None
A series of mysterious photographs of people pointing into Vietnamese landscapes becomes a commentary on news events in this slide installation. -
A Man Called Love
Tamar Guimarães | Brazil | None
A poetic slide installation that intertwines psychic medium Francisco Candido Xavier, Brazil’s race and class relations and military dictatorshi -
Non-chronological History
Prapat Jiwarangsan | Thailand | None
The history of Thai political events since 1932 is reshuffled out of chronological order in this installation with multiple slide projectors.
