AV Festival 12: As Slow As Possible ‹ Programme

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AV FESTIVAL 12: EXHIBITIONS
Thu 1 March 2012 – Sat 31 March 2012

22 exhibitions took place throughout the Festival month, across Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough and Sunderland, including ten UK premieres and five new commissions.

Time was unfolded, marked, measured and frozen. Work moved at slow, often imperceptible speeds, or was stretched to gallery opening hours: 14 seconds became 31 minutes, an hour of time elapsed each minute, and for others duration was infinite.  

Exhibitions included work by: On Kawara, John Gerrard, Cyprien Gaillard, James Benning, Yoshi Wada, Susan Stenger, Jem Finer, Julien Maire, Jonathan Schipper, Torsten Lauschmann, Benedict Drew, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Sneha Solanki, Marina Zurkow, Bob Levene, Elizabeth McAlpine, John Smith, Manon de Boer, Martin Arnold, Ben Russell, Thomson & Craighead and Michael Snow.  

Highlights included: On Kawara’s installation One Million Years; debut UK solo exhibitions by James Benning, John Gerrard, Cyprien Gaillard and Julien Maire; and newly commissioned solo installations by Yoshi Wada and Susan Stenger.

Yoshi Wada: Sound Ship upon Tyne
Fri 2 March – Sat 31 March 2012
Discovery Museum

Part of the American minimalist music and Fluxus scenes in 1960-70s New York, Yoshi Wada was influenced by George... more

On Kawara: One Million Years
Thu 1 March – Sun 29 April 2012
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

One Million Years is an epic work of conceptual art. It speaks simply and directly about a subject... more

James Benning: Milwaukee/Duisburg
Thu 1 March – Sat 31 March 2012
Platform A Gallery

James Benning is one of the most important figures in American avant-garde film. In 1971 he... more

Susan Stenger: The Structures of Everyday Life: Full Circle
Thu 1 March – Sat 31 March 2012
Newcastle Civic Centre

This sound installation unites Western harmony and Eastern philosophy to mark both... more

Jonathan Schipper: Slow Motion Car Crash
Thu 1 March – Sat 31 March 2012
16 Saville Row / Locus +

Jonathan Schipper’s work provides an alternative way of experiencing the world by slowing... more

Torsten Lauschmann
Thu 1 March – Sun 6 May 2012
Laing Art Gallery

Torsten Lauschmann’s critically acclaimed work has been described as too slow to be film, and too fast to be photography. Working across old and new... more

Cyprien Gaillard
Thu 1 March – Sun 1 July 2012
mima, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

In his largest UK exhibition to date, award-winning artist Cyprien Gaillard presents two major film installations. The works show... more

John Gerrard
Thu 1 March – Sun 1 July 2012
mima, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

The UK premiere of two recent works by John Gerrard. Cuban School (Community 5^th of October) 2010 and Cuban School... more

Julien Maire
Thu 1 March – Sat 19 May 2012
Hatton Gallery

The first UK solo exhibition by this leading new media artist revisits ideas of slow motion and duration. Making his own cinematic machines using... more

Jem Finer: Slowplayer
Thu 1 March – Sat 31 March 2012
The NewBridge Project

At extreme slow speeds, the spin of a record player is reduced to a glacial crawl, the music to seismic rumbling. A beat may last a minute... more

Benedict Drew: The Persuaders
Thu 1 March – Sat 31 March 2012
CIRCA Site

A single screen video gives breathing instructions that induce a sense of calm and well being. Sculptures act as empathetic mascots... more

Agnes Meyer-Brandis: The Moon Goose Analogue: Lunar Migration Bird Facility
Thu 1 March – Sat 31 March 2012
Great North Museum: Hancock

Agnes Meyer-Brandis’ work weaves together history, popular... more

Sneha Solanki: Super-natural
Thu 1 March – Sat 31 March 2012
Vane

Super-natural connects two points in time, the historical pre-enlightenment and genetic science of today, both periods... more

Various Artists: Mirror Neurons
Thu 1 March – Sun 20 May 2012
The National Glass Centre at the University of Sunderland

This group exhibition, including work by Catherine Richards, Michael Snow, Scott Rogers, Thomson & Craighead and Simon Pope... more

Joe Winter
Thu 1 March – Sun 20 May 2012
The National Glass Centre at the University of Sunderland

Joe Winter’s series …A History of Light involves fading pigmented papers with either natural or artificial light to produce... more

Marina Zurkow: Mesocosm (Northumberland UK)
Thu 1 March – Sat 31 March 2012
Vane

Mesocosm (Northumberland UK) is a 146-hour animated portrait of the Northumberland moors... more

AV FESTIVAL 12: EXHIBITIONSThu 1 March 2012 – Sat 31 March 2012

22 exhibitions took place throughout the Festival month, across Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough and Sunderland, including ten UK premieres and five new commissions.

Time was unfolded, marked, measured and frozen. Work moved at slow, often imperceptible speeds, or was stretched to gallery opening hours: 14 seconds became 31 minutes, an hour of time elapsed each minute, and for others duration was infinite.

Highlights included: On Kawara’s installation One Million Years; debut UK solo exhibitions by James Benning, John Gerrard, Cyprien Gaillard and Julien Maire; and newly commissioned solo installations by Yoshi Wada and Susan Stenger.

AV FESTIVAL 12: EXHIBITIONS
Thu 1 March 2012 – Sat 31 March 2012

Time was unfolded, marked, measured and frozen. Work moved at slow, often imperceptible speeds, or was stretched to gallery opening hours: 14 seconds became 31 minutes, an hour of time elapsed each minute, and for others duration was infinite.  