EFS @ GOMA, Waterford

Experimental Film Society (EFS) is pleased to be the subject of a weekend-long event at GOMA (Gallery of Modern Art Waterford) curated by Mick Fortune. Taking place over June 3rd/4th, this will feature the looped projection of three films as well as an artist talk exploring the ideas and history behind EFS.

The films being screened are:

Self Decapitation (2017, 65 mins), a Janus-headed self-portrait by EFS founder Rouzbeh Rashidi and Maximilian Le Cain in which death and desire each in turn take possession of this film in two parts. The ambiguities of inhabiting a human body are conjured by way of film technology in its faults, faulty memories and false promises.

Gleanings (2017, 8 mins) by Atoosa Pour Hosseini in which Super-8 memories emerge and vanish into the imageless texture of scratched celluloid, an object at once very present and channelling long absent moments of ambiguity.

Carcass Programme: Akephalos (2017, 60 mins), the latest in an ongoing series of films edited together from the past work of various EFS members. “Pieced together like cinematic Frankenstein’s monsters, these morbid creations will feed on the flesh of previous EFS films, simultaneously announcing their death and enacting a potentially limitless series of resurrections. Each one will be specifically created for a single venue or event” (Rouzbeh Rashidi). 

slips, speaks @ 12 Star Gallery, London

CIT Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland
at 12 Star Gallery, Europe House, London

slips, speaks

Jackie Burke, Cat Gambel, Vicky Langan, Max Le Cain
Curated by Pádraig Spillane
Accompanying text by Sarah Hayden

17 – 26 May 2017
Opening Reception with a reading by Sarah Hayden
Tues 16 May, 6:30 – 8:30pm
(RSVP comm-lon-exhibtion@ec.europa.eu)

To mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of what has become the EU, 12 Star Gallery is organizing a season of exhibitions that features students from Europe’s leading art schools.

slips, speaks features four 2017 graduates from the MA in Art & Process at CIT Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork, Ireland. This exhibition explores shifting influences within our contemporary times. It contemplates our present flux with works by Jackie Burke, which give back to us digitally disseminated and mass-consumed images of power, through paint on board. In searching from the present to the past, Cat Gambel’s clay and photographic works interrogate how to represent forgotten individuals from family archives. These works do not provoke reaction but reflection. They want us to take notice of what is hidden in plain sight and for examination to bring understanding and reconciliation.

Vicky Langan and Max Le Cain, working singularly and collaboratively, seek to bring our attention to the passing moments within in our lives. Langan ask us to listen to the sounds of a roof being taken down to be reconstructed, to immerse ourselves in an intimate reorientating of place. Le Cain, with both moving image and stills, creates ambiguous filmic moments disclosing alternatives that reside in every moment. In this respect, the works presented in slips, speaks look beyond the binaries we are fed by seeking ways to connect with others and to ground ourselves beyond the obvious.

Pádraig Spillane is an artist and exhibition-maker based in Cork, Ireland. His work has been exhibited in Kerlin Gallery, Dublin; Treignac Projet, France; and CCA Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland. He has curated exhibitions featuring Viviane Sassen, Dara McGrath, Tom Climent, Miriam O’Connor, Zhang Kechun, and Mariela Sancari. Spillane is a 2012 graduate from the MA in Art & Process at CIT Crawford College of Art & Design.

CIT Crawford College of Art & Design (CCAD) is a vibrant multi-campus College, which has been providing education in the arts for over 200 years. Crawford graduates are among Ireland’s top artists, designers, media designers and communicators, art therapists and art educationalists.

12 Star Gallery, Europe House,
32 Smith Square, Westminster, London SW1P 3EU
https://ec.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/events/12-star-gallery_en

10 am – 6pm, Monday – Friday
For private views please contact
+44 (0) 20 7973 1992
or comm-lon-exhibtion@ec.europa.eu