NEWS / REEL
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susan pui san lok, NEWS (London: SPSL, 2005), 150x100mm, 32pp,
ISBN 978-0-9551849-0-1 (front & back covers)NEWS and REEL are works in progress initiated during an artist’s residency undertaken by susan pui san lok at the Media Archive for Central England (MACE), in September 2005. The residency was one of three organised as part Necessary Journeys, an Arts Council England programme that took its cue from the bfi’s Black World initiative. Necessary Journeys also saw Keith Piper in residence at Birmingham Central Library’s Photographic Archive, and Jackie Kay at the National Archives of Film and Television in addition, travel bursaries were awarded to seven artists, an original film score commissioned, and a programme of dance on film screenings presented. The programme culminated in a symposium and book launch at Tate Modern.
susan pui san lok, REEL, DVD, alternating audio/video loop, 5' 14".
Archive images reproduced with permission from Central ITV.
Necessary Journeys eds. Melanie Keen & Eileen Daly (London: ACE/bfi, 2005),
96pp, ISBN 0-7287-1112-5 (front cover)Necessary Journeys (London: Arts Council England, 2005), eds. Melanie Keen and Eileen Daly. Produced jointly by Arts Council England and BFI Black World, this fully-illustrated guidebook features new writing by Bernardine Evaristo, Kitty Hauser, Sukhdev Sandhu and Sarah Wood. The book is illustrated by original artwork and visual documentation created by the participating artists. It is prefaced by Caryl Phillips’ essay ‘Necessary Journeys’, from which the programme takes its name. See artist’s pages
Ghosting the Archive, Keith Piper, 2005Necessary Journeys, symposium, Tate Modern, 11-12 November, 2005. The culmination of the Necessary Journeys initiative was an international symposium which discussed the concerns facing artists working on and across the border of moving image and time-based practice. Focusing on the formation of new perspectives through a broad range of artistic journeys, the symposium brought together some projects that appeared within the “Necessary Journeys”: arts initiative. Produced in association with Tate Modern, participants included Caryl Phillips, Kodwo Eshun, Keith Piper, susan pui san lok, Jackie Kay, Harold Offeh, Jonzi D and Tirdad Zolghadr.
REEL has also been screened as part of Arcade (2006), and two Bigger Picture programmes curated by Cornerhouse, Manchester, Collective Rhythm (2006) and Artists in the Archive (2008).
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