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Indepth Arts News:
"New England: Ann Course, Stephanie Bolt and Eric Lesdema, Subc_t + Mufcoli, Adam Scrivener, Mark Aerial Waller"
2001-08-10 until 2001-09-09
Lux Gallery
London, ,
UK United Kingdom
This exhibtion presents five projects by individual artists and collabortions. Ann Course presents her animations, drawings, and a neon work. Stephanie Bolt and Eric Lesdema bring to the public 'Blue Straggler' a film shot in Bognor. Subc_t + Mufcoli present 'Bus Stop', a video work. Adam Schrivner shows 'The Persistent Attempt to Exist'. And the film ‘Midwatch’ by Mark Aerial Waller will be on view. The Lux is an international centre dedicated to film, video and digital arts. Their mission is to develop, support and promote artistic practice and critical discourse in the fields of moving image and emergent media.
Ann Course presents her animations, drawings, and a neon work entitled 'Mother Sleeping Bag' (animation's
edited by Paul Clark). Previous exhibitions and screenings include 'Pandæmonium', 'Pandemic 01', Lux Centre
(2000), 'Girl', The New Art Gallery Walsall, West Midlands (2000) & Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham (2000),
'Sweetie, Female Identity in British Video', The British School at Rome, Italy (1999), 'Slacker Attitude; Wannabe
Maybe Not', ICA, London (1994). Upcoming exhibitions include 'By Hand', Hales Gallery, London (Jan/Feb
2002).
Stephanie Bolt & Eric Lesdema present 'Blue Straggler' a film shot in Bognor, featuring Bognor-ites, for the
Brighton-based band Electralane.. Bolt is currently exhibiting at Angel Row Gallery and co-ordinating a series of
private views in front rooms as part of a yota residency Home Demonstration. Lesdema was awarded the UN
Nikon prize for photography in 1998 and a recent LED text work is currently touring the UK. Bolt and
Lesdema's film 30,000 acres was screened at the BBC Short Film Festival (London) and Video Archaeology
(Sofia, Bulgaria).
Subc_t + Mufcoli present ‘Bus Stop’; a morbid and malevolent eye surveys ordinary activity. So far this year,
Subc_t + Mufcoli have debuted three video works: ‘Austin Insomnia’ (at ‘Free Love’, a Valentine’s Day event
organised by the London Musician’s Collective); ‘iscream’; and ‘Bus Stop’. Other performances have included
an electronic improvisation, broadcast to a small array of transistor radios in the Bonnington Centre, Vauxhall
(at the behest of the Bohman Brothers). Subc_t + Mufcoli are also protagonists in the interdisciplinary journal,
‘Inventory’, and underground cinema group, ‘My Eyes...My Eyes’: It’s futile, I know, but half of what we do is
about avoiding work, rejecting a world of stupid compliance and subjugation....
Adam Schrivner presents ‘The Persistent Attempt to Exist’ - a journey simultaneously real and metaphorical, a
headless quest for a sovereign atheology. Scrivener’s most recent activities have included participating in the
exhibitions Century City at Tate Modern and Pandaemonium at the Lux Centre (2001). He rarely exhibits any
work as an individual artist, the last time being the exhibition Limit Less at Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (1999).
The film ‘Midwatch’ by Mark Aerial Waller depicts a battle of wills in the galley a ship returning from the first
British nuclear test, shot in infra-red and starring Steve Evets and Mark E. Smith of The Fall. Waller is a British
poet and film-maker, whose work is based on a narrative often emerging in enigmatic circumstances, where the
protagonists engage in a search for meaning. Whether in the canteens of nuclear factories or in the galley of a
warship, the actors are debating with gravity and humour in vertiginous dialogues and disconcerting intimacy.
Exhibited at Salon-3, London (2000), with solo shows at Konstmuseum Uppsala, Sweden (2000) and En
Cours, Paris (2001). Waller is presently working on a feature-length psychedelic thriller, ‘Save Our Souls’. IMAGE:
Ann Course
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