THIS OTHER WORLD OF OURS, November-December
1999

November 17 – December 12
Tuesday – Saturday 12:00 – 7:00 p.m.

An exhibition of British artists curated by Francesca Piovano and
Gianmarco Del Re
Financially supported by The British Council, Moscow.

This Other World of Ours is an art project designed to introduce
contemporary British artists to the Russian public. The show will be
staged at The Art Media Center TV Gallery in Moscow, an independent
enterprise, established in 1991, aimed towards the creation and
production of non-commercial cultural projects connected with video and
television. To keep in line with the Gallery’s profile, This Other World
of Ours features artists who work with new media. The exhibition will
comprise four installations pieces exploring spaces that are "other",
either psychologically (Gillian Wearing), socially (Jane and Louise
Wilson), physically (Ceal Floyer) or metaphorically (Mat Collishaw). A video
programme will put these works into context by showing a sample of the
wide variety of works currently being produced in the UK. The works
included in the programme challenge cultural stereotypes, from gender to
nationality and show alternative realities and possible "Other Worlds".

INSTALLATIONS

Mat Collishaw – Duty Free Spirits – UK, 1997, mixed media (courtesy
Lisson Gallery)
Mat Collishaw’s work hinges on interrupting our expectations and
enjoyment of an attractive object with the brutal note of reality.
Beatifully staged it often espouses pastoral charm and urban reality
He lives and works in London.
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Ceal Floyer – Bucket – UK, 1999, mixed media (courtesy Lisson Gallery)
Bucket echoes the subtle understatement and reductive reflexivity that
is consistently present in all of Floyer’s work. Floyer presents
reality in such a way as to set up a dialectical tension between
illusion and anti-illusion, and consequently meaningfulness and
meaninglessness.
Currently artist in residence at Delfina Studios, London, Ceal Floyer
has exhibited at home and abroas and currently has a touring show in
Spain. She lives and works in London.
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Gillian Wearing – I Love You – UK, 1999, col, single screen projection
(courtesy Maureen Paley / Interim Art)
Blurring the lines between documentary, storytelling and fiction,
Gillian Wearing has always been fascinated by people, their fantasy and
their projection of themselves. Capturing the unexpected and scripting a
real event Wearing has placed her new work I Love You somewhere in
between photography and the moving image.
Gillian Wearing has had numerous solo shows in New York, Zurich, Milan,
Amsterdam, and Prague, culminating with the Turner Prize in 1997. A
monograph of her work has just been published by Phaidon. Current
engagements include the Isantbul Biennial (September 1999) and new work
commisioned for the Millenium Celebrations. She lives and works in
London.
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Jane and Louise Wilson – Home / Office – UK, 1998, single screen
projection (courtesy Lisson Gallery)
The Wilsons, who are identical twins, work collaboratively to create
cinema-scale video installations, related photographs and three
dimensional works of art. Their most recent projects are: Sta si City,
1997, set in the former Berlin headquarters of the east German secret
police and Gamma, 1999, located in Greenham Common’s former nuclear
weapon’s facility. Home / Office was shot in collaboration with the fire
brigade.
Between September and October 1999, Jane and Louise Wilson will be
showing at the Serpentine Gallery in what is their first major solo
exhibition in the UK. The exhibition will include a major new work
commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery. From the 20th of October until
23 January 2000 they will be showing at the Tate as part of the 1999
Turner Prize Award for which they have been shortlisted.
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VIDEO PROGRAMME

Helen Bendon and Jo Lansley – Sweet Smell of Success – UK, 1997, 2’, col
(courtesy the artists)
Bendon and Lansley have been working together since 1997. Their first
video collaboration Sweet Smell of Success features in New
Contemporaries '98 at the Tate Liverpool and the Camden Arts Centre
(London).
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Yasu Ichige – Burnout – UK, 3’, col., 1996 (courtesy the artist)
For the last four years I have been making video art works using 'the
moment of tension' as a theme. My obsessional character, my experience
with motor sports and my observation of contemporary society inform this
theme. In Burnout, the activity is totally meaningless and a waste of
energy, and occurs for a certain kind of simple excitement. I am
interested in the self-destructive character of it, process of its
exhaustion and the empty feeling when burnout is finished. We sometimes
make great efforts for our achievements, but when we get it, it is also
disappointing. The repetitive cycle of this process of expectation and
accomplishment is limitless, but we don't know how to stop it. It might
be human condition but I find it very obsessive. (Yasu Ichige).
Since graduating from Goldsmith, Yasu Ichige has taken part in numerous
group shows including New Contemporaries ‘98 at the Tate Liverpool and
Camden Arts Centre; Cluster Bomb at Morrison Judd; and NWUK at the
Chisenhale Gallery. He lives and works in London.
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John Wood & Paul Harrison – Volunteer – UK, 1998, video, 6', colour
(courtesy the artists and Lux Distribution)
In a series of strange performances, Wood and Harrison use the human
body as an object to articulate space and transgress the ways we
conventionally restrict our relationship to objects and buildings, and
to inside and outside. John Wood (b.1968, Hong Kong, lives in London) &
Paul Harrison (b. 1966, Wolverhampton, England; lives in London) live
and work in London.
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Monika Oechsler – For the Very First Time – UK, 1999, 4'43", single
channel video, Pal, mono, colour, original format: wide screen –
(courtesy the artist)
The work portrays three young women engaged in sniffing flowers: red,
yellow and lilac tulips. The concept of the work is seemingly
uncomplicated, pleasure and joy is derived from an exuberant indulgence
in a performance bordering on the orgasmic. Underlying this, the
singular sexual pleasure, derived from the sensual experience of drawing
in and letting out air, echoes a state of intoxication reminiscent of
drug induced activities. (Monica Oechsler)
Monika Oechsler has recently shown at the Conductors Hallway and five
Years in London and in New Work from Great Britain at th Mueseum of
Modern Art, New York. Her work is part of the exhibition Select,
commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and she was selected to
partecipate in East Internatioanl ‘98 at Norwich Gallery. Monika
Oechsler lives and works in London.
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Lars Drinkrow and Jurgen Uren – Miss Otis – UK, 1994, 13', col, 16mm –
(Courtesy the artists)
A transvestite prostitute, Violet Otis, is picked up by a kerb-crawling
gangster who gives her singing act a slot in his nightclub. However,
Violet's presentiments of the Lover's betrayal of her with another lover
are horribly realised when, as she concludes her performance, he exposes
her to his cronies...
Miss Otis was awarded a special mention 1994 Turin lesbian and gay film
festival and was short listed for the Dick Award @ the ICA in 1995.The
makers' new project Shotgun, which went into production in March 1999
and is expected to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in 2000,
develops concepts first explored in Miss Otis.
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Roderick Buchanan – Soda Stream – UK, 1995, Beta, colour, 1'30" –
(courtesy Lotta Hammer)
Like fireworks at a grand finale, the exquisite explosions in Buchanan's
film resemble Jackson Pollock's action painting (pouring, dripping, and
flinging paint on to a canvas), where the traces of an original movement
are contained in intense fields of energy on a two-dimensional surface.
With a liberating, jubilant and violent dynamism, the work slips between
painting and film.
Roderick Buchanan (b.1965, Glasgow, Scotland; lives in Glasgow) is
currently showing Soda Stream at the Venice Biennale.
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Jason Coburn – Oedipus Schmoedipus in Locus Parentis – UK, 1', colour –
(courtesy Lotta Hammer)
Artist and curator Jason Coburn exhibited his own mother in his solo
1998 show at Lotta Hammer. Sitting at the entrance of the gallery Mrs
Coburn could be seen intent in making model planes. In this film the
planes take a life of their own.
As a musician, curator and visual artist Coburn’s work inhabits widely
discursive forms. But like many contemporary artists working in an
interdisciplinary manner, he makes no differentiation between the
cultural fields that his artistic production might inhabit. In this way,
with no immediately apparent formal links, the work seems to gain
limitless conceptual possibilities. (Alexandra Bradley)
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Peter Newman – Free at Last – UK, 1997
(courtesy Entwistle Gallery, London).
Free at Last shows a man skydiviing and taking yoga positions. As his
previous work God's Speed Newman’s video shows their heroic efforts and
inevitable failures in the face of these extreme conditions.
Peter Newman (born 1969) graduated from Goldsmith College in 1990. He
had solo shows at Entwistle, London in 1995, and 1997 as well solo shows
in Brussels and Hamburg. Newman lives and works in London.
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Paul Granjon – 2 minutes of experiment and entertainment (episodes:
#1: The flying synthetic doughnut, 2’35", video, 1996; #2: The
cybernetic parrot sausage, 3’30", 1997; #7: 3 The flying cat,
2’50", 1998.) – UK – col. 8’55" – (courtesy the artist)
Performance and multimedia artist, Paul Granjon set up zproductions in
1990. Since then he has produced several short films and has toured
extensively with his on-going project "z-food across the world". He
lives and works in Cardiff and London.
It is possible to view Paul Granjon's work on line at the following
address: http://www.zprod.org
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Catherine Yass – Invisible City (extract – Arcade, Bar, Garage) – UK,
1999 (courtesy the artist and Asprey Jacques)
>From a recent project filmed in Japan, Yass has manipulated the images
from a fixed camera single shots of girls separating the colours of its
images. Best known for her eerie and sublime light boxes, Catherine Yass
has produced a number of video works and out-door projections which have
been presented at the Tate Bankside in 1998, and have toures
extensively. Yass has also recently been shortlisted for the Glen
Dimplex Award @ the Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Catherine Yass lives
and works in London.
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Total duration of the programme 55' approx
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Mat Collishaw – Duty Free Spirits – UK, 1997, mixed media
Ceal Floyer – Bucket – UK, 1999, mixed media
Gillian Wearing – I Love You – UK, 1999, col, single screen projection
Jane and Louise Wilson – Home / Office – UK, 1998, single screen
projection

Roderick Buchanan (Soda Stream); Jason Coburn (Oedipus Schmoedipus in
Locus Parentis); Lars Drinkrow and Jьrgen Uren (Miss Otis); Yasu Ichige
(Burnout); Paul Granjon (2 minutes of experiment and entertainment –
episodes: #1, #2, #7); John Wood & Paul Harrison (Volunteer); Monika
Oechsler (For the Very First Time); Helen Bendon and Jo Lansley (Sweet
Smell of Success); Peter Newman (Free at Last); Catherine Yass
(Invisible City – 3 segments: Arcade, Bar, Garage).

INSTALLATIONS

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