New evening course exploring the historical, conceptual and critical relationships between film programming for the cinema and screening room, and curating film and video for the gallery.
Participants on this short course, led by curator and writer Dan Kidner, will look at the historical trajectory from the programming of experimental film and video for cinemas and screening rooms to the exhibition of that same work in galleries and museums. We will also critically reflect on the recent tendency for artists to make long narrative film and video for the gallery.
Over three evening sessions, we will discuss the work of distributors of avant-garde film in the 1970s, and seminal exhibitions of film and video since the 1980s, as well as important critical texts that reflect on the key issues. Each session will feature a screening, in addition to a talk and a seminar.
Dan Kidner is a curator and writer. He was previously Director of Picture This, Bristol (2011 – 2013), and Director of City Projects, London (2004 – 2011). Over the past 10 years he has produced projects by many artists including Knut Åsdam, Anja Kirschner and David Panos, Cara Tolmie, Emily Wardill, James Richards and Jimmy Robert. His books include, with Petra Bauer, Working Together: British Film Collectives in the 1970s (2013) and with George Clark and James Richards, A Detour Around Infermental (2011). He writes regularly for Frieze and other magazines and journals. He most recently curated the exhibitions The Inoperative Community, Raven Row (3 December 2015 to 14 February 2016) and Rozdzielona Wspólnota (The Inoperative Community II), Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland (20 May to 28 August 2016).