Terry Shave
Postcard
5 minutes, 16mm, colour, sound, 1976
Participant in New Contemporaries Live Show in 1977 while completing his masters at Slade School of Art. Postcard was made through the repeated photocopying of a postcard depicting Picadilly Circus. Starting from the demise of the image as the photocopy had all but eradicated, the original image is slowly reformed.
Georgi Stamenov
Dolna Dikania, 42.439, 23.13638
2 minutes, colour, sound, 2019
Current student in MA Animation at Royal College of Art, this work focuses on the unusual interactions that occur between objects within a still life composition as the object’s physical attributes are manipulated out of the realm of ordinary understanding.
As part of the exhibition Not a Live Show an invitation to current students and recent graduates to screen their work at Bonington Gallery, alongside New Contemporaries alumni Helen Chadwick and Terry Shave.
The event was considered within the context of the New Contemporaries Live Show that took place in 1976 and 1977. These two 'Live Show's were the only times in which New Contemporaries had a separate platform for what was termed ‘3rd Area Work'. The film programme was hosted by London Film Co-op in Camden, and the performances were hosted at the newly opened Acme Gallery in Covent Garden. Both venues were at the epicentre of art activity in London at the time, particularly in the dissemination of moving image at the Film Co-op and while relatively short lived, Acme Gallery hosted a number of emerging artists working in performance, installation and conceptual practices, including other New Contemporaries alumni such as Frank Bowling, Stuart Brisley, Bruce Lacey, and Kerry Trengrove. Five decades later, as New Contemporaries reached its 70th anniversary, students and recent graduates work was shown alongside Shave and Chadwick as original participants in an evening celebrating artistic film and performance practice.
Helen Chadwick
Domestic Sanitation: Latex Glamour Rodeo/Bargain Bed Bonanza
30 minutes, colour, sound, 4:3, 1976
Participant in New Contemporaries Live Show 1976, Domestic Sanitation is the documentation of a live performance held that summer in Brighton. Reel 1: The Latex Glamour Rodeo shows five anonymous rubber clad females pursuing their relentless beauty routines, against a mesmeric babble of sales talk. Reel 2: Bargain Bed Bonanza depicts touching episodes from the daily grind of four archetypal figures, half woman, half bed.
Courtesy of LUX - Artists’ Moving Image.
Molly Bouch
HaHa/How to Laugh
Performance/2:32 minutes, colour, sound, 2019
Molly is a current Visual Arts student at NTU. Her work explores the act of laughter and its physical and psychological impact when isolated from an originating context.
Elina Hadjinicola
The brighest mAlgrants
5:59 minutes, colour, sound, 2019
A current student in at NTU, The brightest mAlgrants reflects on current socio-political issues such as Brexit, immigration and automation through the lens of nature. The piece investigates the use of language, symbolism and allegories, questioning if the alteration of words can change an experience. Greek, with subtitles.
Korallia Stergides
Whale For An Ear
3:20 minutes, colour, sound, 2018
A current masters student with Slade School of Art, Whale For An Ear is an abstract representation of the ocean and how it resonates with the idea of home. Placing Korallia’s father, a Northern Cypriot refugee and amateur magician, at the centre of the work, the film brings into question reality and fiction. Spoken narration weaves together anatomical descriptions of whales, ecological facts and poetry, with animated segments exploring the surfaces of a piece of driftwood and two shells.
Whale For An Ear is part of STOP PLAY RECORD, produced by ICA in association with Chisenhale Gallery and in partnership with Channel 4 Random Acts. Funded by Arts Council UK.
Anna Hor
Restrict and Re-generate
1:10 minutes, colour, sound, 2019
A current student in Visual Arts at NTU, Restrict and Re-generate focuses on Anna’s peculiar sculptures, inviting the viewer to a subjective encounter with an object isolated within virtual space. It questions the viewers’ sense of reality in a digital age as they ponder whether the resulting image is formed through digital manipulation.
Ben Rostance
Hiding in plain sight: Sonic 2
6:57 minutes, video, colour, sound, 2019
An NTU student, Hiding in plain sight: Sonic 2 by Ben Rostance is one in a series of vignettes that attempt to delve into understanding the family unit as a functioning body, inside of a malfunctioning social environment. The interview paints a picture of family life whilst the performance focuses on the product of a troubled childhood.
Theodora Prassa
Lavyrinthos
2:46 minutes, colour, sound, 2019.
Theodora is a current NTU student in Visual Arts. Lavyrinthos was filmed between Athens and Dresden in 2017, and portrays representations of spaces and paths that create the illusion of the infinite. The endless creation of plans, asymmetries and complexity that negotiate human’s unbalanced relationship with his environment and the paths of our own mind. The square and geometric shapes echo works by Escher and Mondrian.
