Peggy Ahwesh The Blackest Sea 2016, film still. Courtesy artist and Electronic Arts Intermix, New York
Exhibition
4 Aug — 18 Nov 2018
Projection Series #11: An Oceanic Feeling
An Oceanic Feeling challenges the Romantic myth of the ocean as a dark, monstrous void of unknowable depths, populated by alien creatures.
Peggy Ahwesh The Blackest Sea 2016, film still. Courtesy artist and Electronic Arts Intermix, New York
Noël Burch and Allan Sekula The Forgotten Space 2006, film still. Courtesy of Doc.Eye Film
G. Anthony Svatek .TV 2017, film still. Courtesy of the artist
CAMP From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf 2016, film still. Image courtesy of the artists
Filipa César and Louis Henderson Sunstone 2017, film still. Courtesy the artists
Mati Diop Atlantiques 2009, film still. Courtesy the artist
Philip Scheffner Havarie 2016, film still. Courtesy the artist
Rebecca Meyers Blue Mantle 2010, film still. Courtesy the artist
The Otolith Group Hydra Decapita 2010, film still. Courtesy the artists
Francisco Rodriguez Una Luna de Hierro
(A Moon Made of Iron) 2017, film still. Courtesy the artist
Through a series of screenings of recent film from around the world, An Oceanic Feeling explores how the seas are thoroughly imbricated in human histories of colonialism, slavery, exploration and labour.
The Govett-Brewster’s Projection Series surveys the landscape of historical and contemporary fine art filmmaking, encouraging our audiences to experience the wider world of local and international film and moving image.
Curated by Erika Balsom, the Govett-Brewster’s 2017 International Film Curator in Residence, this projection series asks: what if we understood the ocean not as dividing us but as connecting us? What politics, what ethics, would follow?
Featuring films by Peggy Ahwesh (US), Noël Burch (US) and Alan Sekula (US), CAMP (IND), Filipa Cesar (POR) and Louis Henderson (UK), Mati Diop (FR), The Otolith Group (UK), Maddie Leach (NZ), Rebecca Meyers (US), Philip Scheffner (DE), G. Anthony Svatek (US/AT), Francisco Rodriguez (CL/FR).
An Oceanic Feeling is presented through a series of one-off screenings in the Len Lye Centre Cinema with three works selected as a showcase in Gallery 1 and the Mezzanine.
Screening in the Len Lye Centre Cinema
Sat 4 Aug | 1 pm | approx. 93 min
Philip Scheffner, Havarie, 2016
Sat 8 Sep | 1 pm | approx. 90 min.
Introduced by exhibition curator Erika Balsom
Rebecca Meyers, Blue Mantle, 2010
Francisco Rodriguez, Una Luna de Hierra, 2017
Sat 29 Sep | 1 pm | approx. 60 min.
Peggy Ahwesh, The Blackest Sea, 2016
Mati Diop, Atlantiques, 2009
The Otolith Group, Hydra Decapita, 2010
Sat 6 Oct | 1 pm | approx. 1.52 min.
Noël Burch and Alan Sekula, The Forgotten Space, 2012
Sat 20 Oct | 1 pm | approx. 83 min.
CAMP, From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, 2013
Sat 10 Nov | 1 pm | approx. 60 min.
G. Antony Svatek, .TV, 2017
Filipa Cesar and Louis Henderson, Sunstone, 2017
Special Whakatane screening and book launch with Govett-Brewster Senior Curator Paul Brobbel
Thu 16 Aug | 6 – 8 pm
Whakatāne Museum and Arts
G. Antony Svatek, .TV, 2017
Filipa Cesar and Louis Henderson, Sunstone, 2017
This event's presentation is with thanks to the Volcanic Artist Residency and Whakamax Movies.
Special Auckland screening and book launch introduced by Erika Balsom
Sun 9 Sep | 3 – 4.30 pm
Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland
G. Antony Svatek, .TV, 2017
Filipa Cesar and Louis Henderson, Sunstone, 2017
Special London screening and book launch, LUX in collaboration with BIMI
Sat 10 Nov | 6 – 9 pm
Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1HOPD
Free | Booking required at lux.org.uk
Rebecca Meyers, Blue Mantle, 2010
Francisco Rodriguez, Una Luna de Hierra, 2017
See / download the Projection Series #11: An Oceanic Feeling brochure
Purchase your copy of Erika Balsom's publication An Oceanic Feeling: Cinema and the Sea
Maddie Leach The World Leaving 2003, film still. Courtesy of the artist
Filipa César and Louis Henderson Sunstone 2017, film still. Courtesy the artists
G. Anthony Svatek .TV 2017, film still. Courtesy of the artist
CAMP From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf 2016, film still. Image courtesy of the artists
Francisco Rodriguez Una Luna de Hierro
(A Moon Made of Iron) 2017, film still. Courtesy the artist
Rebecca Meyers Blue Mantle 2010, film still. Courtesy the artist
