Landscape at Whitechapel Gallery Jessica Warboys:Pageant Roll 16 January - 15 April 2013

Artists Film International: Jessica Warboys: Pageant Roll
16 January - 15 April 2013
Zilkha Auditorium

Referencing British Modernism’s preoccupation with the power of landscape and ancient mysticism, Jessica Warboys’ filmPageant Roll (2012) collages forms such as circles and squares and monochrome paintings with shots of Cornish standing stones and brightly-painted eggs.

Through film, painting and performance, Warboys weaves together tangible physical places and objects with abstract gesture and metaphor that allude to psychological spaces. InPageant Roll, this is heightened by an intermittent and unearthly soundtrack as the film loop plays forwards and backwards.

Admission Free

Artists’ Film International showcases artists working with film, video and animation, selected by 14 partner organisations around the world: Ballroom Marfa, US; Belgrade Cultural Centre, Serbia; Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan, Afghanistan; Cinemathèque de Tanger, Morocco; City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand; Fundacion PRÒA, Argentina; Galleria D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Italy; Istanbul Modern, Turkey; KINOKINO Centre for Art and Film, Norway; New Media Centre, Israel; Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong; Project 88, India; San Art, Vietnam and Video-Forum of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Germany. Jessica Warboys is selected by the Whitechapel Gallery.

Rollright stones

I saw this image and loved it - it was taken by Aerial Cam, who I have worked with before. They turn up with a landrover, with a telescopic pole mounted camera and take very good oblique aerial photos (altho' they do a lot more than that, to see the full list click on http://www.aerial-cam.co.uk/). I just think that this single image tells a tale about the physical setting of the monument in rolling hills, and also the prevalence of oilseed rape and the contrast of the green grass of the monument... The Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire, the English Midlands (border with Warwickshire). Archaeologist George Lambrick investigated these in the 1980s, he has subsequently advised the (Irish) Heritage Council on Historic Landscape Characterisation and multi-disciplinary professional development, which I contributed the delivering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollright_Stones

http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/features/360/rollright_stones.shtml Panorama

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