Very pleased that Tales From the City (1 minute) has been selected for FILE 2014 – Electronic Language International Festival.
The exhibition will be held from August 25 to October 05, 2014 and take place at FIESP Cultural Center – Ruth Cardoso, located at Paulista Avenue, 1313, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
FILE 2014 website HERE
Very pleased to be included in The Mirrored Edge screening featuring work exploring ideas around utopia/dystopia by a range of artists and film makers. Hosted by Sharon Howard.
Venue: Electro Studios Project Space (ESP)
Seaside Road, St.Leonards on Sea TN38 0AL
Sat 26th April 2014 (6-9pm)
‘The Mirrored Edge’ is an event of artists’ moving image & sound work curated by Sharon Howard which reflects artists’ impressions & ideas about the tensions between utopia, a place where and instinctive harmony between humanity, nature & the environment exists, and dystopia, where a dehumanised society exists under the thumb of corporate uniformity, environmental disaster & a decline in society.’
Sharon Howard
Thanks to Printmaking Today for publishing an article about my digital print practice Manipulating the Media in the Spring 2014 issue. This Artist’s Eye feature was part of the Printmaking Today Award from Print International exhibition last year 2013 at Oriel Wrecsam, N Wales.
(Image) Manipulating The Media article by Sandra Crisp in Printmaking Today magazine
Links
Thanks to filmmaker Constantine Gras for including Mapping London’s Substerranean Rivers in West Ten Fade Out film program. The screening took place to a full house on 13th Feb at BAR (Brent Artists Resource) Gallery, 4-5 Queens Parade, London NW2.
…a curated programme of 11 films exploring the urban environment of West London: From buried waterway to elevated road, carnivalesque collage to historical reflection. Originally screened as part of the Portobello Film Festival.
Also, thanks to BAR and their 10 ft projection screen, alongside a very welcome supply of wine and popcorn.
More info HERE on BAR Gallery website
This ‘Me’ of Mine, Self Time and Context in the Digital Age book publication has arrived!
The companion book to This ‘Me’ of Mine touring exhibition will be available in Tate bookshop in early 2014, also on-line from publishers: Amazon , Foyles and Barnes & Noble . ISBN ISBN 978-1-4836-7006-5
Memory Surfaces , an interview with Sandra Crisp by Jane Boyer is included, alongside images of the artwork. Interview excerpt can be found here on the project’s blog site.
The heart and soul of the book are the artworks in the touring exhibition and full versions of artist interviews with: David Minton, Aly Helyer, David Riley, Anthony Boswell, Melanie Titmuss, Shireen Qureshi, Sarah Hervey, Kate Murdoch, Sandra Crisp, Annabel Dover, Edd Pearman, Cathy Lomax, Hayley Harrison, Darren Nixon and Jane Boyer. Also contains additional texts by Gen Doy, Paul O’Kane and David Houston Jones and more.
The book is more than an exhibition catalogue, it is an intricate view of self in relation to context and explores issues of memory, objects and identity, finding a voice and being an individual in the contemporary world.
Sandra’s recent video Tales from the City (1 minute) has been selected for 2 different European festivals in October 2013;
Danube VIDEOART Festival
Stadtkino Grein Austria
18 – 20 October 2013
View full program Here
Simultan Festival ‘Popular Unknown’
Sinagoga din Cetate, Casa Artelor, Timisoara Romania
10 – 12 October 2013
Website: Here
Really pleased that I made the trip down to Hastings for <<Rewind, where Oceanics, alongside a selection of other screen-based work was displayed in Underground’s dark basement on 35 Robertson Street.
Oceanics was was projected directly onto the wall of a small, darkened side-room with 2 wooden armchairs: The walls coated with blackboard paint gave the work a more luminous quality than the more usual white-wall gallery/ screening space.
<<Rewind brings underground’s recent outdoor projects inside to present a series of video and sound installations in the unique underground project space for Coastal Currents 2013. The work on show reflects the artists’ concerns with a discordant world characterised by conflicts between the natural world and technology, burgeoning dystopias and explorations into the slippery gaps between things. As a continuation of Underground’s….
….End of the World projects started in 2012, <<rewind offers audience the chance to once more step into their dark basement, to experience a range of shadowy and disconcerting episodes. The inspiration for these projects comes from numerous sources including the work of Angela Carter, William Gibson, Jean Luc Goddard, William Burroughs, JB Ballard the Golden Age of TV and our ever expanding dependence on the digital technology.”
(Text by Sharon Howard)
>>Rewind: Sharon Howard, Sandra Crisp, Rachel Finney, Sarah Locke, Emma Jex, Sebastien Seynaeve, Lucinda Wells.
Including a selection from Sussex Coast College current/ x-students. Shammi Begum, Izabela Montoya, Lucy Dixon,Rosie Howard
The final exhibition in the year-long 4 x venue This ‘me’ of Mine ACE funded tour has opened at Ipswich Art School Gallery, Colchester & Ipswich Museum Service, Ipswich, Suffolk. The show will continue until January 5, 2014.
The gallery is housed within a Victorian purpose-built art school that serves mainly as an exhibition space today, alongside education programmes and workshops. There are are numerous rooms leading from the striking, octagonal, light-filled atrium and entrance, with more exhibition spaces connected to the upper balcony. Lined with exposed water pipes, the glass roof is both a functional and beautiful structure.
On the afternoon of the opening September 21 (2 – 5pm) it was really great to eventually meet co-exhibiting artists who I had been in contact with on social media but not actually met in person, including David Riley, Gary Mansfield, Annabel Dover and Suzanne de Emmony.
Artworks by Sandra Crisp in the exhibition Left: Tales from the City (1 minute) video Right: The Bigger Picture Large-format digital print. Out of frame, to the right, Zoetrop_motion video is projected onto the lower section of the same wall.
I am exhibiting The Bigger Picture large-formatdigital print and 2 short moving image works: Tales From the City (1 minute) and Zoetrop_Motion both on continual loop in one of the ground floor exhibition room. (photo above)
Exhibiting the moving image work in juxtaposition with other wall-based artworks, such as painting and mixed media by other artists, presented the opportunity to re evaluate how the work is received differently when compared to a more traditional darkened, sit-down, cinema-style screening. Rather than being set aside in a separate room, the moving images now relate to nearby works in quite unexpected but positive ways in terms of colour, composition & concept.
Thanks to in-house technician Darren for performing a magic trick with the projectors so that my films looked really sharp, not displaying the usual DVD fuzzy compression symptoms which my work usually succumbs to. I must remember this for the next time as it makes such a difference to the image quality. (Which wires, where?!)
‘Hello World’, a short Vine video of the work being installed at Ipswich can be found here
Enigma
We were really pleased to have Enigma interactive project ready for the show after a relatively short development time, thanks to Luis’ expert programming skills. Also to Visual Planet, Cambridge for their kind support in terms of sponsorship of the touch-screen.
Self portrait with Enigmaavatar-generating artwork – A Collaboration between Sandra Crisp, Luis Marques and Jane Boyer
How it works:
(1) The viewer creates gestures on the screen by using direct touch
(2) Clicks ‘create avatar’ button
(3) Each avatar will then be archived and become visible on the surface of a rotating 3D sphere
(4) The sphere will eventually become richly textured with different avatars generated by visitor interaction and will be searchable by rotating and selecting avatars. However, once the sphere is filled with 100 avatars, it will return to a blank state, beginning the process again.
(Photo Credit: David Riley) Interacting on the touch screen: Jane Boyer (left) and Sandra Crisp (right) Children from a workshop held at the gallery really enjoyed drawing on the screen and created great avatars for the sphere.
Sandra Crisp: Texture brush sample – Enigma incorporates brush samples/ textures that can be used to draw on the touch-screen, sampled via a menu of interactive thumbnails.
Luis, testing, testing….
Luis Marques, our creative programmer creating his own Enigma avatar
Exhibiting artists are: Aly Helyer, Edd Pearman, Cathy Lomax, Darren Nixon, Hayley Harrison, Melanie Titmuss, Annabel Dover, Kate Murdoch, David Minton, Anthony Boswell, David Riley, Sandra Crisp, Sarah Hervey, Shireen Qureshi, and Jane Boyer.
Guest Artists are: Kai-Oi Jay Yung, Gary Mansfield, Molly Behagg, Andrew Litten, Suzanne de Emmony, Helen Scalway, Lisa Snook, Jacqueline Utley, Edward Chell and Kate Elliott.
I very happy to be invited by Sharon Howard to show my video Oceanics in her forthcoming event
<<rewind at UndergroundProjectSpace
Friday 27 & Saturday 28 September 6 – 9 pm
35 Robertson Street, Hastings, TN34 1HT
Underground takes place an artist-led project space in the UK seaside town of Hastings and will be part of the well-known Coastal Current festival.
All welcome, do stop by for drinks and nibbles if you are in the area!
As part of the Portobello Film Festival this year, West London-based film-maker Constantine Gras will be presenting West Ten Fade Out, a curated programme of 11 films exploring the urban environment of North Kensington.
Sandra Crisp’s moving image project Mapping London’s Subterranean Rivers will be included in the programme at the Louise Blouin Foundation 3 Olaf Street London, W11 4BE
From canal to subterranean rivers, carnivalesque collage to historical reflections – Films by Sandra Crisp, Dee Harding, Colin Legge, Pat Naldi, NewRedHouse, Helen Petts, RandL and Rickster Includes a trilogy of short films by Constantine Gras: Flood Light, Home and Nursery.
Event Details
Wednesday 28th August – Sunday 1st September
Artist talk by Constantine Gras and Q & A with the filmmakers: Saturday 31 August, 2-3pm
This programme is kindly suppord by an RBKC Arts Grant
Full screening programme: West Ten Fade Out
Sandra will be showing a large format print 5Ways to Save the World at the Members Summer Exhibition, LondonPrintStudio Harrow Road, London
Event Details
Opening Party Thursday 4th July 2013 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Exhibition runs from Friday 5th July – Saturday 31st August 2013 Admission Free
Tuesday – Saturday 10.30am – 5.30pm ing at my print in the window of London Print Studio:)
Forty artists are showing work, ranging from emerging artists to established names. Work was selected by Murray Macaulay, Director of Christie’s Multiplied Art Fair. Murray selected forty prints from more than 100 submissions.
Artists:Margaret Ashman, Jonathan Ashworth, Sara Beazley, Guy Bennington, Jackie Biddulph, Alex Brady, Sandra Crisp, Elizabeth Duncan-Meyer, Jessica Greenman, Clare Grossman, Caro Halford, Iasonas Kampanis, Jennifer Jokhoo, Pierre Julien, Matt Kelly, Roberta Kravitz, Ricky Leaver, Vivien Lodge, John McAulay, Asma Mahmoud Hashmi, William Martin, Alexander Massouras, Georgie McAusland, Vincent McEvoy, Janet Milner, Henrietta Molinaro, Rosie Montford, Eileen Murray, Elena Ortiz, Bronwen Paterson, Sumi Perera, John Phillips, Lorna Scobie, Charlotte Steel, Maaike Anne Stevens, Nicola Styan, Chisato Tambayashi, Jade They, Sally Titterington, Beryl Touchard, and Nicole Vinokur.
LPS
UPDATE:
Just posting a quick photo showing Five Ways to Save the World archival digital print 110 cm x 110 cm slowly emerging from the large format printer in the digital studio at London Print Studio Harrow Road, London.
The image uses the entire width of a roll Somerset Velvet 330 gsm printing paper and took about an hour to print. The paper has a slight texture lifting the density of tone and colour and at the same time saturating the surface with the layered detail embedded in the digital file.
The print will be exhibited in the forthcoming Members Summer Exhibition at LondonPrintStudio
