Join us for a screening and Q&A with artist, Steve Oliver who will present his new short film A Terrible Sound, alongside work from Jo Clements and Rachel Reupke.
Steve Oliver is best-known for his filmic, constructed photographic works made with material sourced from Internet searches. His associative, editorial approach to image-making draws upon the possibilities presented by vast, searchable image databases and search algorithms. Incorporating images culled from advertising, journalism, surveillance capture, social media and family snaps, the work is a literal blending of the public and the private.
Thematically, his practice circles issues of provenance, privacy, censorship, authenticity and the struggle to extract a signal from the noise of the internet. The extreme specificity of the work, rendered through prosaic subject matter generates a psychological tension; never quite narrative, nor symbolic.
Programme
This is the Difference Between Evidence and Belief by Jo Clements (9 mins, 2 sec)
Jo Clements is a visual artist based in Manchester, UK who has shown work nationally and internationally for more than 15 years who works with sculpture, installation, video, AI and machine learning. An animated version of Cinderella plays behind a series of tweeted phrases whose random sequence entices false connections and narratives
Wine & Spirits by Rachel Reupke (20 mins)
Wine & Spirits is a film about alcohol and romance, and the rituals that link the two. In a hybrid of real life observation and advertising image, a man and a woman meet for a drink in a series of scenes in which physical gesture and verbal disjuncture are emphasised by the absence of sound.
A Terrible Sound by Steve Oliver (7 mins, 15 sec)
The film explores our complicity in televised trial images, our enjoyment of them, and prompts us to reflect on our culture and methods of storytelling.
Commissioned by HOME for PUSH Festival 2023
Event
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with artist Steve Oliver and Arts Writer Laura Robertson.
Image Credit: Steve Oliver, A Terrible Sound (2023)