"Graham Gussin's "Remote Viewer" is a two-screen installation which describes the journey undertaken by the artist to a distant location known as "the lunar desert" in the eerily deserted landscape of Askja, Iceland. While Gussin made his journey, a "remote viewer" was sitting in a London film studio being filmed in his attempts to follow the artist's movements. A remote viewer is someone deemed to possess the extraordinary ability to tr ..."
"This survey of the work of Carey Young explores the conceptual framework of her artistic practice. Responding to modern-day business culture, her work intervenes in and originates from the culture of business and questions possible models of art practice in an increasingly market-oriented culture."
"Anne Katrine Dolven's work in film and video involves carefully composed painterly images presented on a gallery wall in a clearly demarcated "frame". Shot in real time and left unedited, Dolven's works present windows into often intimate and touching scenes that slowly reveal secrets and compel the viewer. "it could happen to you" features a woman lying on a bed next to a man who is seemingly close to death. This film work provides a c ..."
The Other Side of Zero Video Positive 2000: 2000 by Eddie Berg, StevenBode Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2000 by Foundation For Art And Creative Technology ISBN-13: 978-0-9521221-2-8, ISBN: 0-9521221-2-X
"Tomorrows World, Yesterdays Fever (Mental Guests Incorporated). Abigail Lane
Milton Keynes Gallery. Thanks to: Stephen Snoddy, Natasha Messenger,
Katherine Sorensen, Emma Gregory, Kirsten Gibbs, Victoria Mayes and Anna
Gawronska at Milton Keynes Gallery.; Also special thanks to gallery assistants
Kelly Blyth, Anthony Carr, Justin Neal and Emma Wilde. Milton Keynes Gallery
900 Midsummer Boulevard, Central Milton Keynes, MK9 3QA, Eng ..."
"This monograph on Erika Tan's work is published in conjunction with the exhibition of "PIDGIN interrupted transmission" at Norwich Gallery between November and December 2001. Erika Tan's innovative installation explores the mutations of languages as they clash, combine and cross-pollinate one into another in today's media-saturated polyglot landscape. This publication includes essays by Steven Bode and Nikos Papastergiadis and an interv ..."
Waterlog Journeys Around an Exhibition by StevenBode, Jeremy Millar, Nina Ernst, John Doe Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2007 by Film & Video Umbrella ISBN-13: 978-1-904270-24-9, ISBN: 1-904270-24-7
"Drawing inspiration from the profound sense of place of the landscape of East Anglia and the distinct literary work of W.G. Sebald, the exhibition presented a series of specially-commissioned works by Alexander and Susan Maris, Simon Pope, ..."
"Plans and Spells places 'PLAN FOR A SPELL' within the context of Adam Chodzkos highly individual artistic oeuvre. Richly illustrated with colour plates throughout, and featuring four newly commissioned texts which range widely across Chodzkos career, this publication presents an illuminating portrait of one of the most singular and distinctive bodies of work in contemporary British art. Introduced by Steven Bode, Plans and Spells includ ..."
"The work of the Canadian-born, British-based artist Mark Lewis examines the place of cinematic representation when situated in the gallery. Drawing on a range of references from film history and using the highly polished technical resources of professional film-making, Lewis has produced a distinctive body of film-installations since the mid-1990 s. This publication follows on from an earlier monograph, "Mark Lewis: Films 1995-2000", an ..."
"Looking for Alfred documents Johan Grimonprez's prize-winning film of the same name, an homage to Alfred Hitchcock in the form of a search for the perfect Hitchcock doppelganger and vignettes starring those multiple would-be Hitchcocks, reenacting his cameos. Casting calls and screen tests in London, Rotterdam, Los Angeles and New York are documented in film stills and photos. (Professional Hitchcock impersonator Rob Burrage says, "I th ..."
"THIS ELEGANT, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED publication presents three ambitious new series of works by the Israeli-born, London-based artist Ori Gersht, including The Forest, a major new film work commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella. The forest has been seen traditionally as a dark place, and a place of dark deeds, and this is certainly true of the area surrounding Kolomyia, in Ukraine, where these works were made. It was here that appal ..."
"Tracing the film's meandering journey in images, transcripts and newly commissioned texts, the book is both a reflection of that journey and a companion to it."--Page 7."
"Simon Martin's artistic practice deftly illuminates the unsung histories of familiar objects, the unspoken dynamics of artistic canons and institutional spaces, and the unseen connections between the disparate products of different eras, or ..."