Past Events
In a wide-ranging conversation, four artists whose work appears in ‘But Still, It Turns’ temper popular fixations with product by turning their attention to process. They discuss how they go about creating images and films among the tangle of reality: embracing surprise and accident, drawing on mythologies and rejecting conventions, working in both solitude and collaboration.
Rooted to place and to the open road respectively, RaMell Ross and Curran Hatleberg join to discuss their thoughts on community and belonging, their unique relationship to the places in which they work, and the ways a photographer navigates being simultaneously an insider and an outsider.
Paul Graham, curator of But Still, It Turns, joins writer Rebecca Bengal across New York City to discuss the genesis of the book and how it studies and was shaped by time. They reflect on distinctions between photography and film, the time-warping effects of a global pandemic, and the ways an image can slow down, crystallise, or elide time altogether.
Thursday 29 April
In this event originally staged live at The Premises Studios, Hackney, in September 2020, musician and artist Douglas Dare performs three new pieces inspired by the late April Dawn Alison, a Californian photographer who created a vast body of self-portraits as their female persona. With a discussion by Erin O’Toole, curator at SFMOMA, Michael Mack, and Robert Raths, founder of Erased Tapes. A concept by Claudine Boeglin, Dandy Vagabonds.
Thursday 22 April 2021
Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine takes us on an oblique, hypnotic journey into the visual, auditory, and sensual inspirations behind his entrancingly mysterious new book Double Orbit. This collage film navigates cities, dreams, and the terrains lit by twilight where they meet.
Thursday 15 April 2020
This special screening presents two films by Joanna Piotrowska to mark the release of her new book Stable Vices. Alluding to the visual language of scientific experimentation, Piotrowska studies encounters between the staged and spontaneous as she explores animal instincts and domestic environments.