REVERBERATIONS # 2: BRADLEY EROS
18 & 19 October 2008
Reverberations is a series of events and workshops where six international moving image artists trace lines of influential thought through their practice.
Saturday 18 October 2008, 2 - 5pm
EVENT: REVERBERATIONS # 2: BRADLEY EROS
Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG
Finchley Road or Hampstead underground
Admission FREE, to reserve call 0207 4725500
The second event in the series will centre around the work of American artist Bradley Eros. Simultaneously making, researching, programming, writing, and performing, Eros has been an enigmatic catalyst in the New York experimental film scene for over two decades. His oracular and multi-faceted practice challenges what can be done with and known about film through artisanal investigations of its material and apparatus.
Taking its cue from Camden Arts Centres Wallace Berman exhibition, Eros will locate his work within a set of interconnecting references that centre around the philosophy of arte povera a process of open-ended experimentation using existing and found materials. Over the course of the afternoon Eros will unfold and examine the use of found and discarded materials in his work, as it relates to ideas of quotation, detournement, parody, deconstruction, homage, and artistsā such as Berman and Joseph Cornell. The format of the event itself will take on these ideas though a cumulative and fluid interaction of performed works, dialogue, screenings and audio-visual reference points. Alongside Eros expanded performances, films by Cornell and Berman will also be shown and he will be joined in dialogue with researcher and writer Rachel Moore.
Sunday 19 October 2008, 3-9pm
WORKSHOP: CINEMA POVERA & COLLAGE COMPOSITION WITH BRADLEY EROS
no.w.here, 316 - 318 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 OAG
Bethnal Green underground
£40 full price / £30 concessions & no.w.here members
To reserve call 0207 729 4494 or email: james.holcombe@no-w-here.org.uk
"The workshop will reveal a theory & practice of cinema povera by creating hybrid forms using found and discarded materials; and will emphasize methods and techniques as well as a philosophy of collage composition as they relate to found-footage film, photomontage, assemblage, appropriation and cut-ups. This will include elements of quotation, homage, critique, parody, deconstruction and detournment, with inspirations as they relate to Wallace Berman and Joseph Cornell and other collage artists of the 20th century."
Bradley Eros
This unique workshop, taking place over the course of an afternoon and evening, will be divided equally between contextual screenings/discussion, and practical explorations. Based on the term arte povera (Italian for 'poor art'), cinema povera similarly applies the open-ended use of found and discarded materials to the moving image. Using fragments of the same found footage film as a starting point, participants will produce their own investigations through a variety of manipulations and interventions such as unconventional projection and production processes. The resulting works will be screened at the end of the session, along with the film from which they derived.
A practical knowledge of filmmaking is not expected or required. Places are extremely limited, so book early to avoid disappointment.
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