For the Sake of the Image

Screening of First Memory (1981) and Temenos (1997 (extract) in 'For the Sake of the Image' curated by Suki Chan, Jerwood Visual Arts following a Panel discussion on sound and image with Nina Danino and Larry Syder, chaired by Gareth Evans. The film screening included 2 films by Nina Danino and 2 films by Emily Richardson

Maya Deren in Context: British Women Filmmakers

Stabat Mater (1990), in Maya Deren in Context: British Women Filmmakers,Maya Deren 50 Years, BFI Southbank, October 2011. A programme of films by artists working at the London Filmmakers' Co-op, Circles, the distribution organisation focused on women's practices formed in the late 1970s. Circles played an important role researching and re-examining the contributions of pioneering filmmakers such as Maya Deren, and sought to locate their work within, in the words of Lis Rhodes, 'the context of their own concerns'. Seminal works featuring dance, performance and rituals of play accompany poetic articulations and calls to the materiality of film. Programmed and introduced by Elinor Cleghorn. CLAPPING SONGS dir Tina Keane 1979 6mins SLIDES dir Annabel Nicolson 1971 16mins FOCCII dir Jeanette Iljon 1974 12mins NIGHT DANCES dir Sandra Lahire 1995 15mins DELILAH dir Tanya Syed 1995 12mins STABAT MATER dir Nina Danino 1990 8mins LIGHT READING dir Lis Rhodes 1979 20min

Experimental Film: Catholic and Feminist Readings of my Films (2010-2016)

The commentary addresses the works in the Research Portfolio (2010-2016) which consists of three films and one multi-media installation. These films are experimental but look very different from my previous work. This reflects my decision to address figuration and realist representation in order to expand and develop my experimental film language. The works are collective and individual portraits of women in monastic life, and one is a portrait of a young girl in a Catholic iconography. In these new works I find out what happens when you insert direct works about religion into an art space that is not expecting them and has no context ready for them. My aim is to see how that changes and tests the binaries of religion/art, traditional/experimental. The commentary investigates the works through a Catholic framing/perspective; close reading as a method of viewing the work, and a feminist analysis that provides gendered readings of the works. These three come together to open a space of reflection and a critical perspective on the films. The commentary shows how the works open a space for a religious subject to emerge: one not hitherto represented in the context of experimental film

Little Constellation - a vision of contemporary art in geo-cultural micro areas and small European States

Communion (2010) was shown in this exhibition. The international network for contemporary art Little Constellation was initiated by Rita Canarezza & Pier Paolo Coro for the creation and the spread of projects and research in small states of Europe, Andorra, Cyprus, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino and some micro geo-cultural entities of the European markets including Canton Ticino (CH), Ceuta (ES), Gibraltar (UK), Kaliningrad (RUS). The aims of the exhibition Little constellation is the need to give a concrete vision of this research through the meeting of more than 20 artists from the countries concerned, with the support of their cultural institutions, the involvement of Milan and two of the most important bodies for the promotion of contemporary art; DOCVA and Documentation Center for Visual Arts, Milan. Curated by Roberto Daolio, assistant curator Alessandro Castiglioni. Artists: Albani & Mussoni, Danil Akimov, Sigtrygy Berg Sigmarsson, Barbara Buhler, Canarezza & Coro, Nina Danino, Oppy De Bernardo, Sandrine Fleury, Barbara Geyer, Irena Lagator, Ingiborg Magnadotir, Mark Mangion, Christodoulos Panayiotiou, Paradise Consumer Group, Pierre Portelli, Quino and Juanjo Oliva, Matteo Terzaghi and Marco Zurcher, Axsinja Uranova, Martin Walch, Trixi Weis. The exhibition was accompanied by an illustrated publication Little Constellation published by Mousse Publishing, Italy

From Floor to Sky - British Sculpture and the Studio Experience

Premier showing of Communion (2010) and slide tape First Memory (1980) Group show curated by Peter Kardia who is widely recognised for his work as a radical and pioneering educationalist at both St. Martin's School of Art and at the Royal College of Art. Invited former students. Each contributing two pieces of work, one from the early career and a contemporary piece. The show includes sculpture, painting, film and performance, bridging 30 years and provides a crucial assessment of contemporary British art and gives a unique insight into the development of each artist's work. Participating artists : Alison Wilding, Bill Woodrow, Boyd Web, Brian Catling, Carl Plackman, Carolyne Kardia, Frances Earnshaw, Gillian Cook, Guy Martin, Hamish Fulton, Ian Kirkwood, Ismail Saray, Jean Matthee, John Hilliard, John Panting, Katherine Meynell, Keith Brown, Martin Ive, Nigel Slight, Nina Danino, Paul Etienne Lincoln, Peter Ven, Richard Deason, Richard Long, Roger Ackling, Terry New. The exhibition is marked by a fully illustrated publication From Floor to Sky: The Experience of the Art School Studio, with texts by Heather Westley, Malcolm Le Grice and Peter Kardia, London A&C Black. Events : Panel Discussion: Peter Kardia "From Floor to Sky" Education and Research Practice in the Visual Arts, Clore Gallery Lecture Theatre, Tate Britain, 10 March 2010 2-day Seminar: Peter Kardia, Garth Evans and Gareth Jones to assess the "Locked Room Course and its legacy. Central St. Martin's 26 and 26 March 201

For the Sake of the Image

Panel Talk on sound and imagel: Nina Danino and Larry Syder, chaired by Gareth Evans, Exhibition Events, For the Sake of the Image, curated by Suki Chan