LUX is pleased to announce the selection of the eight LUX associate artists for its 2009/10 programme. The artists are Paul Abbott, Mark Barker, Erik Blinderman, Lucy Clout, Kim Coleman, Jenny Hogarth, Maria Taniguchi and Cara Tolmie.
The LUX Associate Artists Programme (AAP) is a unique 12 month post-academic programme for artists working with the moving image. It aims to provide an intensive course of development focused on critical discourse, extending to the practical and infrastructural issues that present challenges for artists working with the medium through seminars, mentorship and a final funded public project.
The programme is lead by Ian White, writer, artist and adjunct film curator of Whitechapel and generously funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
The programme is managed and facilitated by LUX, an arts agency which explores ideas around artists' moving image practice through exhibition, distribution, publishing, education and research.
This is the third year of the LUX AAP. The second year’s associates (Luke Fowler, Laura Gannon, Duncan Marquiss, Laure Prouvost, Grace Schwindt, Samuel Stevens, Stina Wirfelt and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa) have just completed the programme and are working towards a final project which will be launched in Spring 2010.
Speakers and mentors on the programme have so far included John Akomfrah, Robert Beavers, Gregg Bordowitz, JJ Charlesworth, Adam Chodzko, Stuart Comer, Adam Curtis, Stephan Dillemuth, Kodwo Eshun, Ryan Gander, Neil Gray, Graham Gussin, Chrissie Iles, Mary Kelly, Mark Leckey, Francis McKee, Daria Martin, Simon Martin, Jan Mot, Laura Mulvey, Rosalind Nashashibi, Uriel Orlow, Maureen Paley, Pawel Pawlikowski, Gail Pickering, Josephine Pryde, Steve Reinke, Polly Staple and Hito Steyerl, Catherine Sullivan, Stephen Sutcliffe and David Toop.
LUX Associate Artists 2009/10
Paul Abbott
Born in the UK, studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, lives and works in London. Paul Abbott makes videos and is an experimental improvised musician. Recent screenings and performances include London Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Aurora 2008 and Café Oto, London.
Mark Barker
Born 1983 Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, studied at Slade School of Fine Art and lives and works in London. Mark Barker constructs sets and scenarios that form the basis of videos that explore the relationship between people and inanimate objects. Using narrative structure as a loose framework, the videos weave together various factual and fictional references and allusions that are grounded in the making, filming and performing of props and objects. Recent group exhibitions include auto Italia, Paradise Row, Form Content, Gasworks and Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.
Erik Blinderman
Born1979 in USA and lives and works in London. He studied at Frankfurt Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Kunst; Frankfurt and Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh. Recent exhibitions include Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Perla-Mode, Zurich, ICA London and Platform Sarai, Frankfurt.
Lucy Clout
Lucy Clout was born in 1980 in Leeds and lives and works in London. She studied at the Royal College of Art, London, and Goldsmiths College, London,. Performance, and the experience of viewing performance constitute the basis Lucy Clout’s practice. This is reflected in the production of objects, sound work, video and installation, as well as straight-performance. Recent exhibitions include Limoncello, Associates, South London Cultural Centre, and Tate Britain.
Kim Coleman
Jenny Hogarth
Kim Coleman (b. 1976 N Ireland) lives in London and Jenny Hogarth (b. 1979 Glasgow) lives in Edinburgh. They have been working together since 2003. Their video and performance works play with the choreographed and the non-choreographed. Exploiting the potential to create simple and enchanting illusions with video, their installations use looped footage and performance to divulge and liberate the charms of liminal processes, objects and subjects. Employing ambient experiences and visual subterfuge, their works toy delicately with the subtle gradations of influence we might steal over our environment.
Maria Taniguchi
Born 1981 in the Philippines, and now lives and works in London. Studied at Goldsmiths College, London and the University of the Philippines. Recent exhibitions include Brain Factory, Seoul, FormContent, Artprojxspace, VWFA Kuala Lumpur, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco and Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila
Cara Tolmie
Born in 1984 in Glasgow. Cara Tolmie works with video, performance, sound, text and object. She lives and works in London and Glasgow. She studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design and Konstfack, Stockholm and was Secretary and committee member of Transmission Gallery 2006-2008. Recent exhibitions include Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, GSK Contemporary, Royal Academy, Low Salt Gallery Glasgow and Sierra Metro Gallery, Edinburgh.
To view more information and works by by this year's and previous year's LUX Associate Artists see the main LUX AAP PAGES
