Join us for a special event to mark the opening of our current BL CK B X exhibition with the showing artist Morgan Quaintance in conversation with curator Tendai Mutambu and filmmaker Russell Newell.
Hysteresis consists of Another Decade (2018), a film foregrounding the distance between academic art world debates of the 1990s and the dynamic vitality of cultural and political life outside institutions in the UK’s capital; Anne, Richard and Paul (2018), a portrait of the experimental music of Bow Gamelan Ensemble, an artist group who made music from the matter of pre-gentrified East London, commissioned by Live Art Development Agency (LADA); and Early Years (2019), an account of one woman’s first generation diasporic experience in Britain newly commissioned by KARST, Plymouth.
Collaging archival material newly shot 16mm film and standard definition video, the work makes an impassioned plea for progressive thought and action, unifying ostensibly disparate subjects in order to consider how the recent past impacts on, or is occluded from, the conditions of Britain’s artistic and socio-cultural present.
Please note: The exhibition will close at 4pm, reopening again at 5pm for the opening presentation of Hysteresis with an introduction and post-screening discussion with the artist.
