AV Festival 10 Launch, National Glass Centre, Sunderland. Photo © Louise Hepworth
AV Festival opens with 24 continuous hours of exhibition openings and events across the North East.
The exhibition launches across Sunderland take place from 3pm-6pm on Fri 1 March. All 5 venues are open for these three-hours, so you can make your way across them all.
Sunderland exhibitions slow us down with film installations that freeze time or punctuate it with colour. 60 seconds and 60 landscapes are re-made 27-years-on at NGCA; time is delayed, mirrored and exposed at the National Glass Centre, whilst a wooden digital clock tells us the real time in an empty shop as dusk falls.
James Benning, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
Bob Levene, Project Space, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
Elizabeth McAlpine, Reg Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland
CRUMB Drop-In, Ashburne House, University of Sunderland
John Smith, CIRCA Screen
Mark Formanek, 50 Fawcett Street
Mirror Neurons, The National Glass Centre at the University of Sunderland
Joe Winter, Balcony Gallery, The National Glass Centre at the University of Sunderland
Running concurrently from midnight throughout the day and night is Leif Inge’s 9 Beet Stretch: Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th Symphony stretched to 24-hours at Star and Shadow Cinema.
The 24-Hour Launch is FREE, no booking required. Join us for 24-hours, or drop-in at any time.
The 24-Hour Launch is preceded by a FREE symposia about slowness and contemporary art at mima, Middlesbrough from 2–5pm on Thu 1 March. With guest speakers philosopher Eric Alliez and media theorist Sean Cubitt plus Festival artists.
The Opening Weekend programme of concerts and screenings starts at 7.45pm on Fri 2 March with Phill Niblock’s The Movement of People Working at The Sage Gateshead.
FREE
Fri 2 March, 3pm–6pm
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Phill Niblock: The Movement of People Working
Fri 2 March
James Benning: Nightfall
Sat 3 March
