April 01, 2003
aggressive machine gun sex and death video style
presenting the premiere UK screenings of the work of
TASMAN RICHARDSON & JUBAL BROWN
UK PREMIERE SCREENING 3RD APRIL 2003
Doors 7.30pm £6 / £5 members / concs
INSTALLATION
FRIDAY APRIL 4TH – FRDIAY APRIL 18TH
12 – 6 Entrance free.
The Horse Hospital is honoured to present the first UK showings of the work of Toronto’s luminary art / videotech composers: Tasman Richardson and Jubal Brown.
Natural heirs and the logical next step within the Burroughs / Leary / Throbbing Gristle / Psychic TV analysis into the destruction and re-contextualisation of mainstream media, Brown and Richardson are the founders of the JAWA style of video and co-curators of the infamous FAMEFAME movement.
In conjunction with the premier UK screening, The Horse Hospital will be running Richardson / Brown’s latest work - The Hymn to Thanateros – as an installation for the two weeks following the screening.
For further information and images please contact : James Hollands, ( 020 ) 7833 3644 popculture@thehorsehospital.com, or go to
http://www.famefame.com/ for previews and product purchase.
TASMAN RICHARDSON & JUBAL BROWN
Motivation
"a violent reaction to the misuse of video as a literal, narrative, identity focussed and time-based medium. Fast, rhythmic edits of sex and violence, both catering to and encouraging the dissipation of the attention span of its audience."
Method
Non-linear editing as an audio-visual sampler to compose audio-visual music where picture synchronises with sound, cut for cut, beat by beat, bringing about a serendipitous symmetry of sensory unity. The sound track is the image track. Video becomes music, music becomes environment, environment becomes wanton destruction, wanton destruction becomes joy, joy becomes creativity, creativity becomes video, video becomes music.
THURS 3rd APRIL P R O G R A M M E 7.30pm
The Blob
2000, Jubal Brown, 9 min, colour / b&w
Paranoid science fiction obsessing over the omnipresence of television and radio waves, wireless communications… in our very midst, in us
and around us " a rock n’ roll fantasia, joining 50’s horror flicks, swamp guitar and rave beats in a juiced up look at the roots of TV."
Architecture of Doom
2001, Tasman Richardson, 3 min 5 sec, colour
Cross-product compatibility equated with the fascist enforcement of uniformity. The social implications of life as product placement.
Apollo Shrapnel : Part 3
2001, Tasman Richardson, 5 min 1 sec, colour
Offers atomically inspired tribute to the perfect beauty in the countenance of the god as he defends heavenly order in the face of
assault.
Apollo Shrapnel : Part 5
2001, Jubal Brown, 2 min, colour / b / w
Elaborate video dedication to the god of war. Perfect control and directed will represented with cold, mechanical clarity. "Precise control".
War
2001, Jubal Brown, 3 min, colour / b/w
An opus on the nature of lifestyle commercialism. Images of war and ballet, issues of class and cultural refinement as a form of fascism. An anthem to beauty, power, and danger.
The Adversary
2002, Tasman Richardson, 1 min 30 sec, colour
Reordering the pre-established language of vengeance and failure to resonate with a new call to arms. Glorious praise for fanatical passion and the endless, unquenchable conflict perpetuated by adversarial polarities unified only by their
blind hate.
Operation
1999, Jubal Brown, 10 min, colour
Referencing early video art this performance by the artist in a room with a camera, Home operation to remove unwanted fat. Body vs. image, male feminism vs. female patriarchy, personal body control vs. the social stigma of body image, individual body ownership vs. the
institution of the medical profession.
Mother May I Sleep with Danger?
2001, Tasman Richardson, 1 min 3 sec, colour
A raging deathmetal satire of the teen death media obsession.
Teletubbies Rising
2001, Jubal Brown, 3 mins, colour
The popular children’s characters are re-contextualized as the hippie cult known as the "Manson Family". The idea of TV babies, young peoples manifestation of popular culture as reality, the Manson Family's realization of Hollywood movie fantasy and the Teletubbies internalization of the television.
Vader Lives
2002, Tasman Richardson, 3 min, b & w
A thundering ode to a cultural icon that has become greater than the sum of its parts. The themes of which have become holographic, that in short samplings have instant meaning and gratification for viewers.
****** I n t e r m I s s I o n *****
I.A.O.
2001, Tasman Richardson & Jubal Brown, 13min, colour / b & w
Video mantra invoking Tiphareth (solar perfection, balance of force, beauty)
Isis, the phallic I, ego, forward projection of the procreative force.
Appophis, violent and chaotic destruction of that which has been created by the I. Osiris, the void, the space left in the wake of the previous destruction and an opening allowing for further creation. This cycle is repeated.
The Hymn to Thanateros
2003, Jubal Brown & Tasman Richardson, 6min 66sec colour/b&w
The Hymn to Thanateros is an experimental abstract narrative video based on montage, juxtaposition and rhythmic editing. It is designed to invoke the feelings in the viewer sympathetic to the subject matter. Thanateros, a unification of the Gods of Love and Death, represents the constant conflict of Love vs. Death as a sensational clash. Throughout the development of the piece the interdependence of these two apparently disparate elements will be made clear: elucidating their necessity to each other’s existence and the tragic beauty resulting from their harmonious or discordant unification.
Images are treated as musical elements of melody and rhythm. Love is melody and death is rhythm. Through complex looping and layering these are interwoven and revealed to be indispensable to one another. Images of lush sensuality are co-mingled with images of death and decay.
posted by James on April 1, 2003 09:14 AM