Artist films: Human Outlooks on Precarious Coastal Lands
Saturday 8 June, 11.00am to 1.00pm
Free, booking advised
During this breakfast screening artist filmmakers present moving image relating to the coast, performance and the Sussex landscape.
Please note that some of these films include nudity.
This event will take place seated in the Towner cinema.
Films and presentations
Marisa Hayes, Kinaesthetic Tides: Transforming with Landscapes in Amy Greenfield’s ‘Dance as Film’
In her films Element (1973) and Tides (1982), artist Amy Greenfield demonstrates a kinaesthetic approach to filmmaking, exploring equitable human to non-human relations in the natural landscape that anticipate the development of ecological film theory and practices. Greenfield's notion of 'dance as film' contends that camera and performer can interact through movement to create an experience of transformation. Please note: these films contain nudity.
Marcia Teusink, Uncertain Edges (2023)
Uncertain Edges by Marcia Teusink is a short video looking at the precarity of the UK coastline in this era of climate change and rising seas. Using found footage of real cliff falls, Teusink edits the clips to express a human wish to repair, reverse time and make things whole again. Created for Uncertain Edges, Electro Studios Gallery, St. Leonard's-on-Sea, 2023.
Olivia Louvel, doggerLANDscape (2023)
A search for the remnants of the submerged forest of Doggerland on the Lincolnshire coast, when the river Thames was connected to the Rhine. We were not always an island.
Claudia Kappenberg and Julieanna Preston, Shore Variations (2018)
Shore Variations traces a durational, three-day intervention in Birling Gap in which a body probes the tidal space to explore what can emerge at the confluence of material bodies. The conversation between body and site is extended into an exploration of the representation of real space and time and its mediation through images and sound.
Amy Cunningham, Material + Time (2024)
A site-responsive film exploring the visual and sonic textures of the port of Newhaven in East Sussex, focusing on the relationship between the activities of industry and wildlife. This work is part of a series of site-based art works in which Amy Cunningham responds to in-between spaces and spaces of transition.
University of Brighton X Emma Stibbon
A University of Brighton series of events to coincide with Emma Stibbon’s Melting Ice | Rising Tides exhibition at Towner Eastbourne.
Artist Bios
Marisa Caitlín Hayes is a PGR researcher at the University of Brighton, where she is currently writing a doctoral thesis on Amy Greenfield’s late 20th century films. Her first book, Ju-on (Liverpool University Press, 2017), explores the influence of butoh dance in Takashi Shimizu’s eponymous film. Previous publications include chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies (ed., Douglas Rosenberg) and Directory of World Cinema: Britain (ed., Neil Mitchell). For six years, she edited France’s national dance research journal Repères, cahier de danse (2016-2022) at the French National Choreographic Development Centre and is currently co-editor of The International Journal of Screendance.
Marcia Teusink is an American-born, London-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores climate change, collapsing environments and regrowth, through painting, video, sculpture and installation. Teusink recently had a solo exhibition at the Rome Botanical Gardens, was awarded a solo commission for the Od Art Festival in Somerset, and was featured in a three-person show at 195 Mare Street, a historical house and artspace in Hackney, London. She is part of London-based Ground Collective and the international collab group The Prezent. Marcia is just back from contemplating all things coastal at the Brisons Veor Residency at Cape Cornwall.
Olivia Louvel is an artist, composer, and Sound Art Brighton member. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Brighton, investigating the interplay of voice and sculpture across Fine Art and Digital Music & Sound Art departments. She won an Ivor Novello Award at The Ivors Classical Awards 2023 for LOL, a sonic intervention delivered through the public address system of Middlesbrough’s CCTV surveillance network. Her resounding of a Barbara Hepworth archival tape, ‘The Sculptor Speaks’ (2020), was premiered on Resonance Extra, followed by an audio-visual version presented at The Hepworth Wakefield in 2021 and Towner in 2023.
Claudia Kappenberg is an artist, writer and curator. Originally a dancer her projects consist of minimal choreographies which examine systems and parameters in the form of live performances, participatory installations and films, to interrogate that which makes us human. She is an Honorary Fellow of The University of Brighton, founder-editor of The International Journal of Screendance and Director of the Centre for Screendance. Recent writing has been published in LO: TECH: POP: CULT Screendance Remixed (2024), Rethinking Roland Barthes Through Performance (2023), MIRAJ (2021), Performing Process: Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practice (2018), and Syncope in Performing and Visual Arts (2017).
Julieanna Preston is Professor of Spatial Practice at Toi Rauwharangi/ College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington, Aotearoa/ New Zealand. Her practice spans across architecture, art and philosophy, interior design, building construction, landscape gardening, material processes and performance writing. Recent works and publications include restless manoeuvres [durational performance] Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ 2023; FORECAST [durational performance] Tāmaki, Aotearoa, 2023; Love Letters, a concept book edited by Roseanne Bartley (forthcoming 2024); a sole authored book Performing Matter: interior surface and feminist actions (AADR 2014), Performing, Writing: A symposium in four turns (Wellington, NZ, 2017), and Idleness Labouritory: Attuning and Attending (in collaboration with Mick Douglas, Syracuse, NY 2016).
Amy Cunningham is an artist who uses the singing voice, sound, video, materials and drawing to explore patterns and glitches in technologies and environments. She has exhibited her music compositions, performances, video installations, and drawings in various galleries and spaces including, Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, IKON Gallery, Cafe OTO, Towner Gallery, Portland Sculpture Quarry Trust, SC Gallery, Zagreb, and Serpentine Gallery London. Amy is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of MA Fine Art, University of Brighton.