Image: Studio 'Real Life TV'. Artist: Ross Sinclair.
Image: Studio 'Real Life TV'. Artist: Ross Sinclair.
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Black Box Recorder
Image 1: Foo 1994/95. Artist: Christina Mackie. Image 2: Blue 1998. Artist: Douglas Gordon.
Image 1:Foo 1994/95. Artist: Christina Mackie. Image 2: Blue 1998. Artist: Douglas Gordon.
As commonly found in the hands of the amateur or the artist as the news gatherer or film maker, the video camera records everything, regardless of its status, producing an overwhelming flood of moving images from the most banal and inconsequential to the most dramatic. With the video camera now so popular, the nature of the images we consume through television - the black box in the corner of all our living rooms - has become more democratic in content, appearance and production.
This exhibition highlights some of the most interesting work being made in Britain at present in the medium of film and video, encompassing different trends within the media such as appropriation, performances to camera, observations or documentation, and the moving image's relationship to other media such as drawing and sculpture. The idea of presenting only single screened monitor based work provides formal equality to the exhibition. This allows all concepts and ideas to be viewed in the same format, for the audience to experience the multitude of approaches to contemporary video practice. Artists included in the exhibition are Roderick Buchanan, Adam Chodzko, Mark Dean, Sarah Dobai, Graham Fagen, Douglas Gordon, Graham Gussin, Rachel Lowe, Christina Mackie, Kenny Macleod, Ross Sinclair, Carl von Weiler.
As Black-Box Recorder is held digitally, it can be exhibited simultaneously in different countries, and since 2000 has been shown in Germany, Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Montenegro, Slovenia, Hungary, Mexico, Argentina and Israel. More recent venues are:
Varna and Plodiv (venues tbc), Bulgaria 2003 ATA Centre for Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria 27 Mar – Apr 2003 N-Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia 14 Mar – Apr 2003 Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama, Japan 15 - 31 Mar 2003 Contemporary Arts Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania 7 Jun – 18 Aug 2002 NOAH, NGO Art and Culture Project, Riga, Latvia 30 May – 22 Jun 2002 RUSSIA National Centre of Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod Jan – Dec 2002 Novosibirsk State Museum of Fine Arts 2 Feb – 3 Mar 2002 Urals Museum of Youth, Yekaterinburg 30 Jan – 28 Feb 2002 St Peter and Paul Fortress, St Petersburg 12 Nov – 12 Dec 2001 National Centre of Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod 11 Sept – 20 Oct 2001 TV Gallery, Moscow 5 – 30 Sept 2001 An
illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition, with texts by curators Simon Morrissey and Colin Ledwith. The catalogue is available from
Cornerhouse PublicationsFor further information please contact
Louise Wright 