Ben Judd
15 - 21 Jun 2015
BEN JUDD
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15 – 21 June 2015
Ben Judd’s new work ‘Apart, We are Together’ concentrates on the boundaries between dramatic performance and liturgical drama, through staging a set of live encounters followed by an immersive three-channel video installation. The work references the performative ‘pose slide’ genre of magic lantern projections, developed in the late 19th century. The performers activate surfaces of projection and reflection, suggesting a fluctuating state of perpetual becoming in which participants are suspended between points of departure and arrival. The video installation becomes another surface of encounter; both works suggest a unifying experience but also question the relationship between immersion and a more self-conscious, knowing state, as performed by both actors and participants of ritual.
With magic lanternists Mervyn Heard and Jeremy Brooker.
fig-2 would like to thank the Nottingham Trent University and the Arts Council England for their generous support.
Ben Judd (b. 1970, London, UK). Lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions and performances include: Whitstable Biennale, UK (2014); James Taylor Gallery, London (2011); KINOKINO, Norway (2011); Center of Contemporary Art of Tbilisi, Georgia (2011); Swedenborg Society, London (2010); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2010); David Roberts Art Foundation (2009); Dorsky Gallery, New York (2009); Barbican Art Gallery, London (2009); Kunstbunker, Nuremberg (2008); Zendai MoMA, Shanghai (2008); The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2008); Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam (2008).
fig-2 24/50
15 – 21 June 2015
Ben Judd’s new work ‘Apart, We are Together’ concentrates on the boundaries between dramatic performance and liturgical drama, through staging a set of live encounters followed by an immersive three-channel video installation. The work references the performative ‘pose slide’ genre of magic lantern projections, developed in the late 19th century. The performers activate surfaces of projection and reflection, suggesting a fluctuating state of perpetual becoming in which participants are suspended between points of departure and arrival. The video installation becomes another surface of encounter; both works suggest a unifying experience but also question the relationship between immersion and a more self-conscious, knowing state, as performed by both actors and participants of ritual.
With magic lanternists Mervyn Heard and Jeremy Brooker.
fig-2 would like to thank the Nottingham Trent University and the Arts Council England for their generous support.
Ben Judd (b. 1970, London, UK). Lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions and performances include: Whitstable Biennale, UK (2014); James Taylor Gallery, London (2011); KINOKINO, Norway (2011); Center of Contemporary Art of Tbilisi, Georgia (2011); Swedenborg Society, London (2010); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2010); David Roberts Art Foundation (2009); Dorsky Gallery, New York (2009); Barbican Art Gallery, London (2009); Kunstbunker, Nuremberg (2008); Zendai MoMA, Shanghai (2008); The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2008); Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam (2008).