Bureau presents Dave Griffiths, 2nd - 21st July in OUTPOST's 'British & European Legs' at Contemporary Art Norwich 2007 Anglia Square Shopping Centre, Norwich, UK
Bureau is proud to present Dave Griffiths in his first solo exhibition, as part of 'British & European Legs', an invitational project for Outpost Gallery, to coincide with Contemporary Art Norwich 2007. Griffiths presents a body of filmworks constructed from his tenderly curated database of movie cue-dots. Gleaned over the last two years from digital TV broadcasts, Griffiths' archive represents an ongoing restoration of those fleeting, but critical, time signals that regulate the illusionary changeovers between film reels. Griffiths exhibits recent films - both data-driven and linear - plus three new interactive works that place cue-dots from his collection into outmoded or ephemeral display devices. Archaic, dusty machines, from childhood cinematographic toys and microfiche, are revived to function as both expanded silent-cinema and resource for examination of cinematic remains. >From his archaeological sifting of matinee fragments, Griffiths has created exploratory works around the mechanical, aesthetic and narrative structures of celluloid. By November 2007 the cue-dot collection aims to be publicly accessible online as a resource for art-historical and creative research. These top-corner phrases of found footage provide fertile audio-visual materials with which to spin stories about the cinematic continuum, and hint at human commotion both onscreen and in the projectionist's booth. Their imminent disappearance, as industrial casualty of digitisation, marks a sea change in cinema history. Griffiths' depository of near-redundant 'cigarette burns' provides a means of remembering cinema's outgoing physicality, and a method of enquiry into narrative and perceptual processes. Preview: 6-9pm, Sunday 1st July 2007 Anglia Square Shopping Centre, Norwich, (see websites for map) Opening Times: Daily, 12 - 6pm. Admission Free. Fully Accessible. MORE ON DAVE GRIFFITHS: Dave Griffiths' practice dwells on the physical and fictive borders of media spaces and forms, combining a rigorous attention to barely perceptible materials with a study of their dramatic potential. Filtered through the languages and strategies of cinema and media art, his 'close-up epics' playfully touch on social myths of security and perfection that surround our visual technologies. He uses film, video and sonic material, often arising from laborious search or unstable technical methods, to devise encounters between apparatus and accidental, faltering or abandoned codes. Griffiths graduated with MA Media Art at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2004, and is represented by Bureau, Salford. Along with Nick Jordan in 2005 he directed the 'StoryRooms' catalogue documentary featuring artists Susan Collins, Paul Sermon, Cornelia Sollfrank and Andrea Zapp, and co-curated 'CODEC/X: New British Video & Sound Art', which toured internationally in 2003-2004. Griffiths lectures in video production and film studies, and recently presented papers at Sonic Arts Network and the Security Bytes Conference, Lancaster University, UK. www.davegriffiths.info <> www.bureaugallery.co.uk www.norwichoutpost.org <> www.contemporaryartnorwich.co.uk Please, post to the list info about calls for video festivals and screenings. Post a message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you live in London you can sign up for Art Scene Investigation, a mailing lis of member's comments about shows in London. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ArtSceneInvestigation/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unxposed/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unxposed/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
