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Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou on a video-game installation that provides a traumatic but transformative experience
Adam Hines-Green discovers connections in a timely exhibition of art from newly independent nations.
Caspar Heinemann argues that curators have downplayed politics in Nicole Eisenman’s Whitechapel Gallery show
Maria Walsh on the Lebanese artist‘s use of dreamlike visions to negotiate conflict
Alex Fletcher reports on the contested role of subjectivity in recent documentary filmmaking
London | Henrik Olesen Cabinet opens Fri 24 May |
London | Anders Scrmn Meisner Kristin Hjellegjerde opens Fri 24 May | PV 23 May |
London | Hannah Starkey Maureen Paley opens Fri 24 May |
London | Kiki Kogelnik Pace Hanover Square opens Fri 24 May |
London | Sophie Bouvier Ausländer Patrick Heide Contemporary Art opens Fri 24 May |
Cardiff | The World Without Us Ffotogallery opens Fri 24 May |
Dublin | Dorothy Cross Kerlin Gallery opens Fri 24 May |
London | Matthew Barney Sadie Coles HQ Kingly St opens Fri 24 May | PV 24 May |
London | Harminder Judge The Sunday Painter opens Fri 24 May |
London | Group Show Bartha Contemporary opens Sat 25 May |
Hosted by Chris McCormack
Tom Hastings, Sam Keogh and Luisa Lorenzo Corna discuss the attempts to suppress political protest and artists’ voices in the light of the current war in Gaza.
Hosted by Matt Hale
Bob Dickinson surveys the rise of authoritarian rule and charts feminist art practices that resist such forces.
Presented by Matt Hale
Laura Harris claims that the Levelling Up programme is a sham and Morgan Quaintance argues that Chris Ofili’s ‘Requiem’ for the victims of Grenfell Tower was compromised from the start.
Psychosexual fixations and neuroses do not respect national or racial boundaries says Eddie Chambers
Sarah Jury argues that art can make a difference
Jennifer Thatcher on women in the arts
Elisabetta Fabrizi experiences film installation as an act of remembrance
Emilia Terracciano profiles the Palestinian artist and filmmaker
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The Almanac Prize results in a text commissioned by Almanac Projects in collaboration with Art Monthly and the Black Cultural Archives as part of Almanac’s open call Writer in Residence 2022 initiative. Read the winner’s text below.
Rene Matic
Leanne Petersen responds to Rene Matic’s practice in dialogue with Black Cultural Archives’ collection
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.
2023 Winner
Dreaming Rivers
Leena Habiballa considers the physical reworking of a pioneering film’s 16mm print
2023 Commended
Queer Territories/Lesbian Lenses
Aislinn Evans critically examines a lesbian relation to histories of the land and landscape cinema
Excavating the Body
Natasha Thembiso Ruwona explores Ashanti Harris’s Black Gold
2022 Winners
In Defence of the Small Screen
Laura Bivolaru on viewing the moving image while moving
I Am a Photograph
Evelyn Wh-ell examines two French trans icons’ focus on image as surface
2022 Commended
Going on a Bear Hunt
Dan Guthrie tries to imagine the experience of an elusive artwork
Robert Beavers
Siavash Minoukadeh on the power of oblique suggestion in queer cinema
2021 Winner
Out in the Open
Sara Quattrocchi Febles explores how a film can no longer be fixed in time and place when screened outdoors
2021 Commended
Danielle Dean
Rosa Tyhurst on Danielle Dean’s subverting of the vampiric strategies at work in brand marketing
Blank Space
Ronnie Angel Pope enters a cinematic void
2020 Winner
Lutz Mommartz’s Own Private Idyll
Mimi Howard finds that there are oblique ways to engage with tumultuous times
2020 Commended
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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