Sunday 5 December
2pm
Serpentine Cinema: CINACT is a series of monthly film screenings and events at The Gate cinema in Notting Hill which give an opportunity to view rarely seen artists’ films in a cinema context.
Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth’s If you can’t see my mirrors I can’t see you presents an online video chat that generates two live portraits with changeable backdrops. It is a digital two-way mirror, a self-reflexive feedback loop wherein the artists witness themselves talking back. This new work invites the audience to eavesdrop upon their Skype conversations. The dynamics of these dialogues are recorded and reassembled, to reveal spaces between and around objects and subjects. The computer screen operates as both mirror and lamp, whilst acting as a frame into another world and a mimetic means of duplicating information.
Serpentine Cinema: CINACT will also screen three short films by Agnès Varda 7 P., cuis., S. de b... (à saisir) (1984), L’opéra-Mouffe (1958) and Ulysse (1982), interspersed with a selection of 1-minute commentaries on artworks, Une minute pour une image (1983).
Agnès Varda was in born 1928 to Greek father and French mother and after studying in Paris she worked as a photographer throughout the 1950s. Varda presented her first film in 1954 La point courte and is frequently cited as the ‘Grandmother of the French New Wave’. Varda’s filmography includes Cléo de 5 à 7 (1961), Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond) (1985), Jacquot de Nantes (Jacquot) (1990), Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (The Gleaners and I) (2000) and most recently The Beaches of Agnes (2009). Video installations include PATATUTOPIA at Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale (2003) and she had a major solo exhibition L’île et elle at Fondation Cartier, Paris in 2006.
Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth's video and performance works play with the choreographed and the non-choreographed. Their videos and installations divulge and liberate the charms of processes, objects and subjects, focusing on how people and things perform. Their video work circumspectly unravels the relationships between the camera, subject matter and author through various techniques of disclosure. Many of Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth's videos and performances generate visual metaphor through the abstraction of everyday objects and actions. Employing ambient experiences and visual subterfuge, their works toy delicately with the subtle gradations of influence we might steal over our environment. Coleman & Hogarth have been working in collaboration since 2003. Recent works include: Staged, an Edinburgh Art Festival 2010 commission produced by the Collective Gallery; Players, a Frieze Project for Frieze Art Fair 2009; Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth with the Boyle Family at the ICA, London, 2008, and Glare, S1 Artspace, Sheffield. They were LUX Associate Artists 2009/2010.
In association with sketch and Picturehouse Cinemas
The Gate
87 Notting Hill Gate
London W11 3JZ
gate@picturehouses.co.uk
Tickets £6/£5
Tickets available from The Gate
or www.picturehouses.co.uk
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Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth
If you can’t see my mirrors I can’t see you, 2010 (still)
© Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth
