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Letter from Naples
Mark Sladen encounters a chilling new film in a city where edgy art has long been welcome
Trouble In Outer Heaven: Portable Ops Plus
Martin Herbert stalks through a chilling alternative sci-fi realm that is nevertheless eerily familiar
Tino Sehgal at Blenheim Palace
Adam Heardman witnesses an encounter between relational aesthetics and rarefied pomp
Leah Capaldi: Big Slit
Cherry Smyth finds herself alive in the livefeed
Mental Health and Art
Tim Steer on art projects that reveal the sociopolitical roots of mental-health issues
Exhibition Openings
| Bury | The Next Thing Moving Image Award 2021 Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre opens Tue 30 Nov |
| London | Evangelia Dimitrakopoulou & Francisca Sosa López Peer opens Wed 1 Dec | PV 30 Nov |
| London | Jutta Koether Lévy Gorvy opens Wed 1 Dec | PV 30 Nov |
| London | Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now Tate Britain opens Wed 1 Dec |
| Dublin | Derry Film and Video Workshop Project Arts Centre opens Wed 1 Dec |
| London | Aleksandra Domanović, Allan Sekula & Ulay Richard Saltoun opens Wed 1 Dec |
| London | Beuys Open Source Belmacz Gallery opens Wed 1 Dec |
| Edinburgh | FUTUREPROOF 2021 Stills opens Thu 2 Dec |
| London | Hurriers: Poor on the Roll APT Gallery opens Thu 2 Dec |
| London | It's a Magda Archer Christmas Karsten Schubert opens Thu 2 Dec |
Recent Podcasts
11-Oct-21
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Maria Walsh & Chloe Carroll
Presented by Alex Hull
Maria Walsh & Chloe Carroll discuss the remote viewing of moving-image artworks during the pandemic and the work of Irish artist Sam Keogh.
13-Sep-21
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Matthew Bowman
Presented by Matt Hale
Matthew Bowman discusses the history of destruction both of and in art, and Jes Fernie’s Archive of Destruction.
14-Jun-21
Talk Show on Resonance FM
John Smith
Presented by Alexandra Hull
Artist John Smith discusses his pandemic-era video works ‘Citadel’ and ‘Covid Messages’ with writer Alexandra Hull.
From the Back Catalogue
Activism as Art
Activism is not an add-on says Tom Snow
Remote Viewing
Morgan Quaintance argues that it is time to rethink how artwork is distributed online
Jared Pappas-Kelley: Solvent Form – Art and Destruction
Michael Hampton explores Jared Pappas-Kelley’s idea that art is revealed through its destruction
Art v the Law
Colin Perry discusses protest art that uses the law as an artistic medium
Expanding the Curriculum
Ranjana Thapalyal calls for interdisciplinary art teaching to decolonise the curriculum
Found: The Missing Issue
Issue 16 from May 1978
Issue 15 was dated March 1978
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Michael O’Pray Prize
The Michael O’Pray Prize is a Film and Video Umbrella initiative launched in 2017 in partnership with Art Monthly, supported by University of East London and Arts Council England. The prize seeks new writing on innovation and experimentation in moving-image art. Read the winning texts below.
2020 Winner
Lutz Mommartz’s Own Private Idyll
Mimi Howard finds that there are oblique ways to engage with tumultuous times
2020 Runners-up
Alberta Whittle: RESET
Harvey Dimond explores the historical resonances of this slavery-referencing artwork made during a suffocating pandemic
Together, Alone: Watching Sandra Lahire in Lockdown
Rachel Pronger discovers in earlier experimental films a familiar tension between the social being and the individual body
2019 Winners
Image Abrasion
Cassandre Greenberg considers Derek Jarman’s Blue as a celluloid artefact in an age of portable digital media
Patrick Staff: On Venus
Laura Jacobs on hostile environments, both social and natural, in Patrick Staff’s ‘On Venus’ exhibition
2018 Winner
Bank – Basement – Becker
Adam Hines-Green on the expression of horror through both fiction and reality in the LA video art of Julie Becker
2017 Winners
Heat Sensitive?
Lauren Houlton on Richard Mosse’s ‘Incoming’ exhibition
A Long Shot
Dan Ward on artists’ attempts to slow the viewer
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