Author: George Clark

Jatiwangi Sinematek
26 July – 6 August
Jatiwangi Art Factory

The Jatiwangi Sinematek is new project realised with the Jatiwangi Art Factory as part of Film making / film viewing workshop as part of residency UK / ID British Council Residency.

Jatiwangi Sinematek #1: Rituals and Process

Jatiwangi Sinematek #2: Rituals and Process

Jatiwangi Sinematek #3: Buruh / Workers

Jatiwangi Sinematek #4: Arkeologi / Archeology

Thanks to Alma Noxa and Pandu Rahadian for photos

Residency at Jatiwangi Art Factory
July-Aug 2017

I will be in residence at Jatiwangi Art Factory JaF, a collective founded September 27, 2005 that focuses on discourses of local rural life through arts and cultural activities such as festivals, performances, visual art, music, video, ceramics, exhibitions, artist in residencies, monthly discussion, radio broadcast and education.

This residency is a part of the British Council’s UK/Indonesia 2016-18 season, which aims to build new relationships and collaboration between the UK and Indonesia.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION #5
LUKE FOWLER | GEORGE CLARK | PETER HUTTON | HELGA FANDERL | ROBERT BEAVERS | UTE AURAND
Saturday, August 5, 2017 | 7:30PM
Capitol Theatre | 121 University Ave West, Windsor

Sea of Clouds screenings at Media City Film Festival (2-5 Aug 2017) as part of the International competition.

For Christian (Luke Fowler, Scotland, 7 min, 2016)
Sea of Clouds / 雲海 (George Clark, England / Taiwan, 16 min, 2016)
Łódź Symphony (Peter Hutton,USA, 16mm, 20 min, 1993)
Der Augenblick ist mein (The Moment is Mine) (Helga Fanderl, France/Germany, S8mm, 2017)
Among The Eucalyptuses (Robert Beavers, USA/Germany, 4 min, 2017)
Four Diamonds (Ute Aurand, Germany, 4 min, 2016)

Performance/แสดง/หนัง 
Asia Culture Station, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Saturday 15 July 2017

Sea of Clouds presented as part of programme Performance/แสดง/หนัง curated by May Adadol Ingawanij.

“A programme exploring the mobility of the cinematic apparatus. Film projection and montage become audio-visual performances with political and ritual potency. A screen lives in the open. A camera in a street collapses the distinction between film and theatre. These dazzling works signal the long history of the interplay between the moving image and secular and spiritual traditions of media.” -May Adadol Ingawanij

SEA OF CLOUDS
George Clark, 2016, 16mm transferred to HD, sound, colour, 16mins, UK and Taiwan

RECORDING OF A SCREENING FOR A SPIRIT (CHAO PHOR MOR DIN DAENG)
Tanatchai Bandasak, 2015, digital video, sound, colour, 3:10mins, Thailand

ANITO 
Martha Atienza, 2012-present, HD, sound, colour, 9mins

LA HABITACIÓN INFINITA
Christian Delgado and Nicolás Testoni, 2010, digital video, sound, colour, 4:25mins, Argentina

THE AGE OF ANXIETY
Taiki Sakpisit, 2013, digital video, sound, colour, 13:50mins, Thailand

THE DAY BEFORE THE END
Lav Diaz, 2015, digital video, sound, black and white, 16mins, Philippines
Presented as part of the Curatorial Practice in Asia Symposium.

 

 

SEA OF CLOUDS
14 July 2017, EXiS 2017, Seoul

Sea of Clouds screens with new Korean subtitles as part of the EXiS 2017 festival progarmme together with Janie Geiser, Xiao Yao
, Colectivo los ingrávidos
, Naeem Mohaiemen
 & Sebastian Wiedemann.

Also I will give talk ‘Modes of Display: Curating practice with the moving image’ Art Sonje Center on Saturday, July 15, 2017, 2.00pm

EX-NOW 3
Friday, July 14, 2017 at 4:30 pm
Korean Film Archive

하늘의 꽃 Flowers of the Sky_재니 가이저 Janie Geiser, 
USA | 2016 | B&W, Color | Stereo | 9min 12sec | HD
25_샤오 야오 Xiao Yao
,  China | 2016 | Color | Stereo | 7min | HD
빛-소리 장치에 대한 인상 IMPRESSIONS FOR A LIGHT AND SOUND MACHINE_
컬렉티보 로스 인그라비도스 Colectivo los ingrávidos
, Mexico | 2016 | B&W | Stereo | 6min 43sec | HD
아부 아마르가 온다 Abu Ammar is Coming_나임 모하이에멘 Naeem Mohaiemen
Bangladesh & Lebanon | 2016 | B&W, Color | Stereo | 6min | HD
운해(雲海) Sea of Clouds_조지 클락 George Clark
, UK & Taiwan | 2016 | Color | Stereo | 16min | HD
로스 (데)펜디엔테스 Los (De)pendientes_세바스티안 비드만 Sebastian Wiedemann,  
Argentina & Colombia | 2016 | B&W | Stereo | 24min | HD

On The Planters Art: An illustrated talk on films, maps and gardening
Friday 30 June, 3pm,
LUX Scotland
The Mitchell Library, Glasgow
Free, ticketed via Eventbrite

‘I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and find it hard to believe; here is an inexhaustible fund of interest for any man with eyes to see or twopence-worth of imagination to understand with!’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘The map does not reproduce an unconscious closed in upon itself; it constructs the unconscious’ – Gilles Deleuze

Artist and curator George Clark will present this illustrated lecture looking at ideas of perspective, categorisation and interpretation in cinema and art. Drawing from research for his ongoing film projects in Hong Kong and Los Angeles, he will present and discuss a diverse range of subjects from the 16mm Kodachome films of Californian gardener Albert Wilson, the history of bird watching and illustration in colonial Hong Kong and the visionary 1980 Centre Pompidou exhibition on cartography Maps and Figures of the Earth/Cartes et figures de la Terre. Central to the talk is exploration of maps as ‘instruments of travel and discovery, as well as sophisticated tools to dream.’ The presentation will draw on the writings of Jorge Luis-Borges and Gilles Deleuze, film work by South American emigres in Paris such as Hugo Santiago and David Lamelas and Raul Ruiz’s rare film on maps and labyrinths made to accompany the Pompidou exhibition.

Image: Cartes Et Figures De La Terre, catalogue cover, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1980.

A Distant Echo
71st Edinburgh International Film Festival
Tuesday 27 June, 18:10, Odeon Cinema 4
Thursday 29 June, 18:10, Odeon Cinema 4

The UK premiere of my film A Distant Echo will be held at the upcoming Edinburgh Film Festival (21 June – 2 July 2017).

“Breathtakingly rendered on 35mm film, the vast expanse of various Californian deserts provides a stage for the contemplative re-enactment of an Egyptian history. Based on archival research, Clark’s debut feature blends fact and fiction, the historical and the contemporary, and transcends cultural and geographical boundaries to reflect on the ongoing tensions between local and national politics. The hypnotic choral composition by Tom Challenger adds a meditative layer to the expressive stillness of the images. A profound and affecting audiovisual experience.” – EIFF 2017

Termite Workshop: Vegetal logic and the ecology of images
Fri 16 Jun 2017 / 10am – 6pm
LUX, Waterlow Park Centre
Details online

This one-day workshop led by artist and curator George Clark explores and develops key aspects of his practice, while drawing on the environment of Waterlow Park (where LUX is based). Participants will explore methods of filming and working with sound and image by drawing on the logics of gardening and the archeology of images. The day will consist of screenings, readings and practical projects, featuring the writings and works of figures such as Raul Ruiz, Hugo Santiago, Chen Chieh-jen, Hito Steyerl, Trinh T. Minh Ha and The Office of Culture and Design in Manila, amongst others.

Using the idea of Manny Farber’s Termite Art, participants will look at connections across art forms and geographies to collapse established histories and definitions of artistic and curatorial work, seeking a mode of entangled practice. The day will explore strategies of assemblage, disregarding the boundaries between disciplines; ways of working at the intersection of histories and cultures, to develop an entangled mode of production in dialogue with the ecology of images and expanded exhibition contexts.

It’s oblique but it’s all there
Friday 2 June 2017, 18:00
Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD
https://lux.org.uk/event/its-oblique-but-its-all-there

‘The most I can do is try to repeat what took place in a different zone in mental terms, trying to distinguish between what made up a part of that sudden conglomeration in its own right and what other associations might have become incorporated into it parasitically.’ – Julio Cortazar, 62: A Model Kit

More and more my memory and experience of works is coloured by the places and the people with whom I encountered them. This screening brings together works that have been important to me over the last few years selected from places where I have lived for a time and where I have filmed myself. The screening features works from Thailand, Hong Kong, USA, Mexico, Taiwan, the Philippines and Aotearoa New Zealand interspersed with fragments from my ongoing project Untitled (Eyemo rolls) shot in these various countries since I began travelling with an Eyemo 35mm film camera in 2011. Each work is drawn from a particular geography but also blurs the line between them. The project is a way to think about entanglement and the cinema as a locality between places.

The selected films speak to particular places but also to the memory of them, to subculture’s reclaiming of space or the resistant occupation. The works are drawn from each of these locations, but often they blur the line between them; Thai artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s 0116643225059 was made when he was home sick while studying in Chicago, Chick Strand’s Guacamole was made in Mexico during her periodic trips there from her home in Los Angeles. The films speak to particular places but also to the memory of them, subcultural’s reclaiming space or resistance to occupation from Mok Chiu-yu’s iconoclastic Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong an open call to political action in Hong Kong during British colonial rule, Chen Chieh-Jen’s action against the conditions in Taiwan during period of martial law or surfer culture as in Malibu Now, You Can Do Anything. A careful balance exists in many of the works between the observers perspective and staged scenarios in front of the camera from the collective Tito & Tita’s feline screen-test Director’s Cat to Shannon Te Ao’s hypnotic reading to house plants of the poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul. Reflecting on her writing and films, Joanna Margaret Paul stated ‘when my work is all laid out together the jigsaw puzzle of my life will show itself, I think…It’s oblique, but it’s all there.’
– George Clark

 

Thanks to all participating artist, lenders and Michael Temple and Matthew Barrington (BIMI), Maria Palacios Cruz and Ben Cook (LUX), and Laurin Federlein.