Guy Sherwin - Live Cinema - Performances
24 April 2008 21:57 Filed in: Screenings
8th May 2008 (7 for 7.30pm start)
Guy Sherwin - Live Cinema - Performances
Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Rd, London, E3 5QZ
Admission Free but booking essential events@chisenhale.org.uk
To mark the launch of OPTICAL SOUND FILMS 1971 – 2007, Guy Sherwin, the Guy Sherwin will be performing his seminal work Man With A Mirror alongside three new pieces which will be premièred at the Chisenhale Gallery, London.
Guy Sherwin - Live Cinema - Performances
Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Rd, London, E3 5QZ
Admission Free but booking essential events@chisenhale.org.uk
To mark the launch of OPTICAL SOUND FILMS 1971 – 2007, Guy Sherwin, the Guy Sherwin will be performing his seminal work Man With A Mirror alongside three new pieces which will be premièred at the Chisenhale Gallery, London.
Book/DVD release from LUX, London:
Optical Sound Films 1971 – 2007, Guy Sherwin
Optical Sound Films collects the ongoing work and research of Guy Sherwin, one of the pre-eminent British film artists of the last 40 years in a unique artist’s book and DVD publication. The publication will be lauched at a special performance event at the Chisenhale Gallery on 8th May 2008
Guy Sherwin studied painting at Chelsea School of Art in the 1960s before becoming closely associated with the British avant garde film movement centred on The London Film-makers Co-operative in the 1970s. His film works, often including serial forms and live performance, are characterized by an enduring concern with time and light as the fundamentals of cinema.
Optical Sound Films explores in detail one of his particular and recurrent concerns, the synaesthesic relationship between sound and image manifest in the material of film sound1. These investigations take Sherwin from physical manipulation of the very material of film through to live performances utilising multiple film projectors, all of which are explicated through drawings, diagrams, video documentation as well the films themselves.
This publication provides a unique insight into conceptual and practical concerns for artists’ working with film as well as a detailed exploration of the processes and technology involved in its production and exhibition. It also contains a DVD of Sherwin’s minimalist film works, documentation of a number of his performances and is completed with a new essay by Sebastiane Hegarty exploring synaethesia and sensory metaphor.
DVD contents
Films: Phase Loop (1971), Sound Shapes (1972), Cycles 1(1972/1977), Newsprint (1972), At the Academy (1974), Soundtrack (1977), Musical Stairs (1977), Railings (1977), Night Train (1979), Interval (1974), Interval #2 (1974/2007), Notes (1979), Notes #2 (1979/2007), Optical Sound (2007), Spirals (1974), Cross Section #2 (1997/2007).
Extracts From documentation of Film Performances:
Cycles #3 1972/2003
at La Sala Rossa Montreal.
Newsprint #2 1972/2003 at Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels.
Vowels & Consonants 2005-6 (with Lynn Loo) at Bullion Theatre London,
Mobius Loops 2007 at Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels.
Sound Cuts 2007 at Site Gallery Sheffield.
Author: Guy Sherwin, with essay by Sebastiane Hegarty
Published by LUX, London
128 pages, format 186 x 136, Paperback, 90 b/w illustrations
With DVD 5, PAL, 70 mins
ISBN 978-0-9548569-4-6, Price £20
GUY SHERWIN BIOGRAPHY
Born 1948. Studied painting at Chelsea School of Art in the 1960s. His subsequent film works, often including live elements and serial forms, are characterised by an enduring concern with light and time as the fundamentals of cinema. Recent works include multi-screen projection and gallery installations. Sherwin taught printing and processing at the London Filmmaker's Co-op (now LUX) during the mid-70s. His films have been widely exhibited in England and abroad, as part of 'Film as Film' Hayward Gallery 1979, 'Live in Your Head' Whitechapel Gallery 2000, 'Shoot Shoot Shoot' Tate Modern 2002, 'A Century of Artists' Film & Video' Tate Britain 2003/4; also shown on BBC2, Channel 4 and Arte TV France. Solo shows include San Francisco Cinematheque, LUX London, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Image Forum Tokyo.
www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/guy_sherwin/index.html
LUX
LUX is a UK arts agency exploring ideas around artists’ moving image practice and represents Europe’s largest collection of artists’ film and video works. www.lux.org.uk
OPTICAL SOUND
1Optical sound refers to standard soundtracks on 16/35mm film where the sound is reproduced optically on the filmstrip, then read by a ‘sound lamp’ in a projector and translated from the optical back into sound during the exhibition.
LAUNCH EVENT
Guy Sherwin - Live Cinema - Performances
Chisenhale Gallery
8.05.08 (7 for 7.30pm start)
Admission Free but booking essential events@chisenhale.org.uk
presented in association with LUX
Abrasion Loops (2007) c.10 mins. Performance for 2x 16mm projectors with optical sound, 2 projectionists.
Mobius Loops (2007) c.12 mins Perfomance for 3x 16mm projectors with optical sound, colour gels, performer.
Cycles #3 (1972/ 2003) 8 mins Performance for 2 projectors, 2 optical soundtracks, colour filter.
Bay Bridge from Embarcadero (2004/7) 9 mins. Performance for 3 projectors, silent.
Camden Road Station (2004) 9 mins 3 projectors silent
Man with Mirror (1976/2008) 8 mins. Performance for super 8 film and hand-held screen.
www.chisenhale.org.uk
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