ping pong presents, screen-play

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ping pong presents, screen-play

Sunday, 26 July 2009 - 7 pm
The James Taylor Gallery
Collent Street, E9 6SQ Hackney, London
www.jamestaylorgallery.co.uk
Free. No booking required.

screen-play looks at a selection of works that turn a blind eye to conventional narrative structures. The presented videos focus on altering the stage of actions, resisting their accomplishment. They do so by playing with the position of the subject and the duration of the time frame. The invited artists propose technical and conceptual shifts that fracture the viewers' expectations, reversing the course of the events and the context in which they take place. This mode of operating allows for a redefinition of the source material employed, as well as a reframing of the setting in which the action occurs.

- Emanuel Almborg, Newsreel, 2008, 10min
- George Barber, Absence of Satan, 1985, 4.46min
- Slater Bradley, Recorded Yesterday, 2004, 2.02min
- Matthew Noel-Tod, Bicycle Thief, 1998/2001, 3.30min
- Maria Domenica Rapicavoli, My Ideal House, 2007, 2.20min
- Brian Rhodes, Glenn Branca Solo Phaseshift, 2009, 7min
- Zbig Rybczynski, New Book (Nowa Ksiazka), 1975, 10.26min
- Jozef Robakowski, The Market, 1970, 6min
- Sepideh Saii, Buffalo 66, 2008, 1.49min
- Alessandro Sambini, Presidents, 2009, 8.45min
- Patrick Ward, Reception, 2004, 4.31min

The notions of repetition, overlapping and de-contextualisation are stretched out to turn the ordinary into the cinematic and the cinematic into the performative. It is where actions and contexts lose their original significance that new interpretative spaces are created - spaces that go beyond any presupposed reading.

screen-play is part of the project A Cinema (July 23 - 26), which brings together the exhibition playing with narratives and the screening Narrative Shorts by Jonathan Entwistle. For details of the programme see: http://jamestaylorgallery.co.uk/exhibitions/2009/06/a-cinema.html

ping pong is a double act founded in 2009 that explores the dynamics of curatorial  dialogue. It is a continuous flow of ideas that produces unexpected results over the process of exchange. The only exception to the rule is that the ball never falls, simply keeps bouncing. ping pong is Marialaura Ghidini and Gaia Tedone.

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