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22-24 July 2010
THE OPEN PRIZE for video painting
In 2009, Open Gallery launched an annual competition to find a new video artist to join the Artscape Project in an ongoing commission for video paintings. The competition was open to all graduating students and Postgraduate Film & Video students from Art Colleges across the UK.
Background
The origins of the Artscape Project can be found in 2001 when a small group of artists led by Hilary Lawson, a philosopher and documentary film maker, attempted to escape the limitations of the traditional video narrative and began to define the video painting medium. Video paintings are filmed in a single take with a stationary camera. They contain no edits or subsequent manipulation. Video paintings show the world in real time. There is no dialogue, no sound. In contrast to the film and video tradition which has been dominated by the provision of meaning and understanding, the video painting aims to escape our cultural and perceptual closures, freeing the viewer to explore the openness of the image. Subsequently, a collective of artists, including William Raban, Sanchita Islam, Nina Danino, Tina Keane, Sarah Turner and Isabelle Inghilieri, was formed to develop the medium.
Open Gallery exhibits internationally and work by members of the Artscape Project has been presented at the Hayward Gallery, The ICA, SKETCH, the Hospital Club, Miami Ice Palace and the Institute of Art & Ideas.
Brief
1. Identify your subject - look for layers of movement and abstraction.
2. Set up your tripod and camera with a fixed frame.
3. Video paintings should at least 4 minutes in length.
4. NO camera movement, NO editing.
Exhibition
The shortlisted work of 10 artists will be shown in a unigue exhibition in the Nichols and Clarke building on Bishopsgate in central London. The labyrinth-like disused Victorian warehouse will allow visitors to encounter each artist’s work one by one as they explore the forgotten spaces of a crumbling monument to British industry. The exhibition will run from 22-24 July, with a private view on the 22nd, and late opening on Friday the 23rd.
Judging Panel
The prize will be judged by leading figures from the UK art world.
Ziba de Weck (Parasol Unit)
Marc Valli (Elephant and Magma Books)
Charlotte Bonham-Carter (ICA)
Hilary Lawson (Artscape Project)
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