Beatrice Gibson and Jamie Crewe
KW Production Series
27 Sep - 16 Dec 2018
BEATRICE GIBSON AND JAMIE CREWE
KW Production Series
27 September – 16 December 2018
KW Production Series is a new commissioning project, organized in collaboration with the JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION and OUTSET Germany_Switzerland, which is dedicated to artists’ moving-image works and concentrates on two new productions per year.
The project takes inspiration from KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s founding principles as a place for production, thought, critical exchange, and collaboration. Within this ongoing series, KW seeks to identify and serve artists who are at a pivotal moment in their work and career—those who will benefit not only from the financial support and institutional visibility this opportunity provides, but also those who will be able to use KW Production Series to significantly contribute towards the depth and rigor of their artistic practice.
BEATRICE GIBSON
I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead, 16mm Film, 16mm transferred to HD video
Exploring ideas around gender, poetry, and disobedience, Beatrice Gibson’s 16mm film, I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead, was developed with two of the USA’s most significant living poets—CAConrad and Eileen Myles.
The filmmaker tersely distills material shot on the eve of the 45th presidential inauguration in February 2017 and blends moments of perilous public authority with more intimate scenes and tender portraits. Gibson uses poetry as a means to reckon with the present and looks to its authors as prophetic guides to help one move through chaos.
I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead is a co-commission with Camden Arts Centre, London, Bergen Kunsthall, and Mercer Union, Toronto.
JAMIE CREWE
Pastoral Drama, 2-channel HD video
Over the course of a year, Jamie Crewe worked on Pastoral Drama every day. The piece comprises two parallel videos that use allegory and animation to think about progress. Through intricate drawings in ink and pencil, speckled clay, and encrusted plasticine, Crewe reflects upon the evolution of mythic narratives, (inter-)personal change, and collective political time.
Pastoral Drama juxtaposes the ancient Greek legend of Eurydice and the Underworld with Agostino Agazzari’s Eumelio, a 15th-century opera composed for the male inhabitants of a Roman seminary, in which the titular male figure stands in for Eurydice and so achieves a different fate.
In its double telling, Pastoral Drama envisions the collapse of mythic pasts with the dangerous after-world of the present.
Pastoral Drama is a co-commission with Tramway, Glasgow (GB).
KW Production Series is produced by Mason Leaver-Yap, KW’s Associate Curator, and is made possible with the generous support by the JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION and OUTSET Germany_Switzerland.
KW Production Series
27 September – 16 December 2018
KW Production Series is a new commissioning project, organized in collaboration with the JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION and OUTSET Germany_Switzerland, which is dedicated to artists’ moving-image works and concentrates on two new productions per year.
The project takes inspiration from KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s founding principles as a place for production, thought, critical exchange, and collaboration. Within this ongoing series, KW seeks to identify and serve artists who are at a pivotal moment in their work and career—those who will benefit not only from the financial support and institutional visibility this opportunity provides, but also those who will be able to use KW Production Series to significantly contribute towards the depth and rigor of their artistic practice.
BEATRICE GIBSON
I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead, 16mm Film, 16mm transferred to HD video
Exploring ideas around gender, poetry, and disobedience, Beatrice Gibson’s 16mm film, I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead, was developed with two of the USA’s most significant living poets—CAConrad and Eileen Myles.
The filmmaker tersely distills material shot on the eve of the 45th presidential inauguration in February 2017 and blends moments of perilous public authority with more intimate scenes and tender portraits. Gibson uses poetry as a means to reckon with the present and looks to its authors as prophetic guides to help one move through chaos.
I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead is a co-commission with Camden Arts Centre, London, Bergen Kunsthall, and Mercer Union, Toronto.
JAMIE CREWE
Pastoral Drama, 2-channel HD video
Over the course of a year, Jamie Crewe worked on Pastoral Drama every day. The piece comprises two parallel videos that use allegory and animation to think about progress. Through intricate drawings in ink and pencil, speckled clay, and encrusted plasticine, Crewe reflects upon the evolution of mythic narratives, (inter-)personal change, and collective political time.
Pastoral Drama juxtaposes the ancient Greek legend of Eurydice and the Underworld with Agostino Agazzari’s Eumelio, a 15th-century opera composed for the male inhabitants of a Roman seminary, in which the titular male figure stands in for Eurydice and so achieves a different fate.
In its double telling, Pastoral Drama envisions the collapse of mythic pasts with the dangerous after-world of the present.
Pastoral Drama is a co-commission with Tramway, Glasgow (GB).
KW Production Series is produced by Mason Leaver-Yap, KW’s Associate Curator, and is made possible with the generous support by the JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION and OUTSET Germany_Switzerland.