A survey of contemporary practice in artist film and video
GOLDEN AGE CINEMA, Sydney, australia, 28 may 2017
central saint martins, london, uk, 8 june 2017
Theater tri-bühne, Stuttgart, Germany, 19 January 2019
A BROKEN LINK is a survey of contemporary practice in artist film and video. The themes explored include ideas of temporal and geographical displacement, of how digital technologies bring people and ideas together but also reinforce the essence of distance and alienation.
A BROKEN LINK is comprised of two discrete programs based on location. The program is curated by two Sydney-based and two London-based curators in an attempt to explore the similarities and differences of aesthetics and conceptual concerns of artists’ film and video from two different ends of the earth.
In presenting works made between 2007 and 2016, A BROKEN LINK surveys emerging digital imaginaries during that period. The project is a meditation on slippage and displacement, exploring how artists reconcile the local and the global within their work and how this is communicated to a diverse audience.
AUS program co-curated by Samantha Ferris and Claire Taylor: Tim Bruniges, James Newitt, David Greenhalgh, SODA_JERK, nova Milne, Caroline Garcia, Baden Pailthorpe, Dominic Byrne, Heath Franco, Nasim Nasr, Akira and Nathan Lasker, Emily Parsons-Lord, Lauren Brincat.
UK program co-curated by Simon Hollington and Andrew Marsh: Thomson & Craighead, Rebecca Ross, Tom Dale, Hollington & Kyprianou, Chunky Mark, Rose Butler, Richard T Walker, Sarah Sparkes.
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A BROKEN LINK 2.0 | special program screening at Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media
program Co-curated by Uta Daur, Samantha Ferris, Simon Hollington, Andrew Marsh and Claire Taylor: Baden Pailthorpe (AUS), Max Hattler (DE), Rose Butler (UK), James Newitt (AUS), Dennis Knopf and Sebastian Haslauer (DE), Tom Dale (UK), Karsten Krause (DE), nova Milne (AUS), Dominic Byrne (AUS), Johanna Reich (DE), Richard T. Walker (UK), Constantin Hartenstein (DE), Caroline Garcia (AUS), Angela Goh (AUS), Neozoon (DE/F), Emily Parsons-Lord (AUS), Hollington & Kyprianou (UK), Sarah Sparkes (UK).
Samantha Ferris 