[curatorial.net] The MAB Film Exercise - INVOLUNTARY RECEPTION

[Bridget Crone]

The MAB Film Exercise
A programme of monthly screenings to exercise ideas in and around  
artists’ film

Involuntary Reception
Kristin Lucas, Branda Miller, Craig Mulholland, Charlie Tweed
Curated by Marie-Anne McQuay

18.30hrs THURSDAY 18 FEBRUARY
Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA
FREE but booking recommended (0117 917 2300)

For the third MAB Film Exercise, Media Art Bath is pleased to announce  
that Marie-Anne McQuay (Curator at Spike Island) will present a series  
of video transmissions from Utopia’s shadow world: the contemporary  
technocratic Dystopia.

Dystopia is the utopia you must be careful not to wish for (Michael S.  
Roth)

The work in Involuntary Reception highlights a variety of dystopias in  
which bureaucratic, scientific, economic and environmental systems  
mesh together, asking to whom have we surrendered control and in whose  
name?

Just as classic dystopian fiction blurs the boundaries between present  
catastrophe and future premonition, so too do the fragmentary and  
frenetic transmissions of Kristin Lucas, Branda Miller, Craig  
Mulholland and Charlie Tweed. They do this through montaging  
contemporary and archival film sources with computerised voiceovers  
and layering digital images with analogue noise to disorientating  
effect.

By inviting curators to present a programme of artists’ film, The MAB  
Film Exercise seeks to address both the diverse potential for artists’  
film as a form and a sense of the current urgency, social or political  
timeliness in the work (of both curator and artist). The MAB Film  
Exercise is produced and presented by Media Art Bath – championing  
contemporary art and ideas through the development of bold new work.

The MAB Film Exercise is a place for discussing art and the ideas it  
generates, please join us!

FORTHCOMING PROGRAMME:
THU 25 MARCH – Elisa Kay, Flat Time House
WED 7 APRIL – Richard Birkett, ICA
THU 27 MAY – Paul O'Neill, GWR Fellow / Situations / UWE

For further information please contact Bridget Crone on 01225 442 591  
or email: press at mediaartbath.org.uk
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