Misdirect Movies focuses on the impact of digital technologies in film and the visual arts and how the digital is forging revolutionary changes in making art and its presentations. The artists’ use of appropriation and the principles of collage have become a dominant force when working with cinema as a source material. The digital revolution has re-opened artists’ questioning of the materiality and non-material nature of the medium of collage.
The exhibition has developed from the research interests and artworks of the curators, Andrew Bracey and John Rimmer. All the selected artists explore these ideas in diverse ways to work with narrative and new forms of materiality. The exhibition features a wide range of media, from projections and monitor-based work through to digital prints, painting and even a microfiche viewer.
The curators are both artists and lecturers: Andrew Bracey is programme leader of MA Fine Art and Contemporary Curatorial Practice at the University of Lincoln and Dr John Rimmer is the academic coordinator of the BA Visual Arts at Bishop Grosseteste University.
Misdirect Movies explores new possibilities of collage using material gleaned from cinema bridging the analogue and the digital. It also focuses on the impact of digital technologies in film and the visual arts and how the digital is forging revolutionary changes in making art and its presentations. The exhibition has developed from the research interests and artworks of the curators, Andrew Bracey and John Rimmer. All the selected artists explore these ideas in diverse ways to work with narrative and new forms of materiality.
Artists
Rosa Barba who is currently based in Berlin has produced a Printed Cinema. This series of artist’s books has been published alongside her film projects, as a form of secondary literature, sourced from film stills, text and photographs.
Manchester based artist Dave Griffiths’ recent work dwells on the physical and fictive borders of cinema. He employs projectionist’s cue dot to activate the narrative potential of marginal images.
Cathy Lomax keeps an ongoing visual diary of all the films that she has watched, selecting one image from each to make into a small, rapidly executed painting.
Elizabeth McAlpine is based in London and works with measured enquiry. She has compiled film footage of Nicolas Roeg’s cult thriller Don’t Look Now from each time that a person blinked during their viewing of the film.
David Reed is a New York based painter whose work refers to film and photography. The Searchers animation references John Ford’s western and recalls an earlier personal experience where the artist had accidently discovered a cave used in the actual film.
The exhibition has received funding from Arts Council England.
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