‘Casual Encounters: The Untroubled Mind and Nervous Translation’
By George Clark
Text to accompany screening as part of The Machine That Kills Bad People, 6 April 2022 at ICA, London.
Category: Writing
2019 – The Image and Its Image (NKFS, 2019)
The Image and Its Image
NKFS Nordland Kunst- og Filmfagskole, Kabelvåg, Norway
14-18 October 2019
Festival catalogue edited by George Clark, 47 pages, 2019
2017 – ‘A Peculiar Apparatus: Spectres of The Penal Colony’ (In: ARKIPEL Penal Colony, 5th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, 2017)
‘A Peculiar Apparatus: Spectres of The Penal Colony’
By George Clark, pp125-134 (Dual language in English and Bahasa)
In: ARKIPEL Penal Colony – 5th Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival
Ed. Manshur Zikri, Forum Lentang, Indonesia 2017
2016 – ‘Moving Towards The Sun’, with Louise Menzies (In: House Studies II, Nov 2016)
Moving Towards The Sun, with Louise Menzies
In: House Studies II
Ed. Sophie Bannan, Jonathan Smart Gallery, New Zealand, Nov 2016
2016 – ‘On Correct Colour: Notes on Margaret Honda’s Films'(in: Made In L.A, 2016)
‘On Correct Colour: Notes on Margaret Honda’s Films’
By George Clark, p94-102
In: Made In L.A 2016: a, the, through, only
Ed. Aram Moshayedi & Hamza Walker, Hammer Museum / UCLA, USA, June 2016
2013-16 – Tate Film booklets
Selected Tate Film books edited by George Clark:
Throwing Shadows: Japanese Expanded Cinema in the Time of Pop
Tate Modern, January 2016
Curated with Go Hirasawa and Julian Ross.
Chick Strand: Soft Fictions
Tate Modern, November 2015
Embeddedness: Artist Films and Videos from Korea 1960s to Now
Tate Modern, Sept 2015
The first survey in the UK of Korean artists’ films and videos from 1960s until now with guest artists Kim Ku-lim and Im Huang-Soon.
Curated with Hangjun Lee and Hyun Jin Cho.
L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema
Tate Modern, 10–25 April 2015
The month long season provided the most comprehensive survey of filmmakers and artists who pioneered counter-cultural and community-based approaches to filmmaking from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Albert Serra: Divine Visionaries and Holy Fools
Tate Modern, March 2015
The first major survey in the UK of maverick Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra, curated with Andrea Lissoni.
Luis Ospina and Grupo de Cali
Tate Modern, December 2014
Vlado Kristl: Death to the Audience
Tate Modern, November 2014
The most extensive presentation of the work of Vlado Kristl (1923–2004) in the UK, a comprehensive retrospective of films and accompanying exhibition display of artists’ books, poetry anthologies and exhibition catalogues spanning 1969–2003.
TV As Material
Tate Modern, September 2014
Open Form: Oskar Hansen, Art, Architecture and Film
Tate Modern, 2014
Curated with Łukasz Mojsak, and Kasia Redzisz
Magiciens de la Terre: Reconsidered
Tate Modern, April 2014
Marking the 25th anniversary of the controversial Pompidou exhibition, this weekend of screenings and talks revisits and expands on the exhibition’s pioneering film programme includes works by David Byrne, Maya Deren, Len Lye, Chris Marker, Claes Oldenburg, Alain Resnais, Jean Rouch and Dziga Vertov. Curated with Lucy Steeds
Camille Henrot: Grosse Fatigue
Tate Modern, February 2014
To Be Here: The Films of Ute Aurand
Tate Modern, February 2014
Under the Sun: The Films of Rose Lowder
Tate Modern, January 2014
Curated with Anat Pick
Mike Kuchar: Film Follies and Digital Daydreams
Tate Modern, November 2013
Comprehensive retrospective of Mike Kuchar’s work spanning 50 years of work from 1963 presented with the artist.
Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artists Film and Video in Britain 2008–2013
Tate Britain, November 2013 – March 2014
Featuring work by over 80 artists across 20 events including three evenings of expanded cinema works. Curated with Melissa Blanchflower, Stuart Comer, Simon Payne and Andrew Vallance.
2015 – ‘To Pour Milk Into A Glass’ (In: Conceptual Art in Britain, 1964-1979, Tate Publishing, 2015)
To Pour Milk Into a Glass: Film, Video and Conceptual Art in Britain 1964–1979 in Conceptual Art in Britain 1964–1979
Ed. Andrew Wilson, Tate Publishing, UK, March 2016, pp140-147
2015 – L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (Tate Etc, Spring 2015)
L.A. Rebellion: Creating a new Black Cinema
By George Clark
Tate Etc, Issue 33, Spring 2015
2014 – The Luminous View (Tate Etc, Spring 2014)
The Luminous View: Recent Artists Film and Video in Britain 2008-2013
By George Clark
Tate Etc, Issue Spring 2014
2007 – Differentiated Cinema (Art Monthly, Jul-Aug 2007)
Differentiated Cinema
By George Clark
Art Monthly, July/August 2007