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Lecture Matthew Higgs will give a lecture considering certain aspects of recent British Art, exploring the phenomena of the 'yBa' ('young British artists') and the development of independent artist initiated projects throughout the 1990s, including the work of the artist Jeremy Deller and Higgs' own ongoing publishing project Imprint 93.
Lecture Matthew Higgs will present an autobiographical lecture considering the flux and overlaps of his own practice, operating between education, curating, writing and artmaking.
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Screening
Program curator, Matthew Higgs, will be present to introduce the work of these
rising British filmmakers.
Working collaboratively Oliver Payne and Nick Relph make films that approximate
the language of documentary filmmaking. Payne and Relph set about creating
densely layered filmic essays that chart the ebb and flow of London's urban and
suburban malaise. Driftwood(1999), set within the geographical limits of Central
London, is a tightly scripted journey through the concrete jungle, witnessed
through the sidewalk lens of its skateboarding narrator. Driftwood revels in the
psychological potholes of a London struggling to embrace the future yet burdened
by the legacy of its past. House and Garage(2000), set in London's white collar
suburbs adopts a more intuitive, often contradictory style, that mirrors the
social unease of its disenfranchised subjects. Wistfully melancholic, often
hilarious, House and Garage acts as a rite of passage for its youthful
constituents, climaxing with reverse footage of a millennial firework display
played out over a barely audible take on the Sex Pistols' No Future. The
screening with finish with Jungle(2001) the third and final part in Payne and
Relph's trilogy. | ||
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