Zone Oxjam Programme for 20th July

Vanitas - Veronique Maria, HDV, 5'32", UK, 2013

Veronique Maria has been making sculpture and paintings since the 1970s . Occasionally she has used video to explore the performative aspects of her practice. In December 2012 she received an Arts Council Grants for the Arts Award which enabled her to learn editing on FCPX. Vanita is her first self filmed and self edited video. It is both a technical exercise, and an exploration into what she is calling 'moving paintings.'  VANITA means Woman in Hindu, and VANITAS is the still life painting style which was intended to remind the viewer of the brevity of life.


The Last Flight - Aisa Boaa, Live performance, 25 mins.

What is hidden in the depths is what leads to the manifestation... making
it visible.

Studying Dramatic Art at Murcia ́s School I gained many useful experiences.
However, it wasn ́t until performing in the streets that I started to gain a full
picture about my interest in the authenticity of expression, the way of the naked
truth. After 12 years of performing Live Art, Aerial Theatre and Butoh, I finally
achieved the authenticity I had searched for. This helped me to uncover
the experiences leading to the works ́ creation and to better
understand the poetics of words, sounds, images, materials and actions that come
from my respected subconscious. In the beginning I approached my work with a
certain abandon, not always knowing what it was about. Sometimes the
result was totally different to the original idea. And so I came to realise that I
prefer to avoid closed meanings within my work and to allow for open and unique
interpretation. By doing this, the work gives the freedom to express latent
meanings as well as increasing the potential for transformation and the evolution
of ideas. Chaos? Or in the opposite way... Putting the chaos in order??
http://aisaboaa.wix.com/this-way

Solid Birds Flying - Live music accompaniment to two films by Simon Mclennan.
Solid Birds Flying are a rock/jazz trio from Brighton and will be playing two tracks to film. The first a black and white Super 8mm film shot in London in 2001, with Danijela Bogdanovic and Scott Biagi. The film has been specially re-edited for a live performed soundtrack.

The second film is mainly shot on iPhone by the driver while driving on the M25, South Easterly stretch, in 2013. (The iPhone can be seen as the modern day equivalent of the cheaper Super 8 and Standard 8 cameras of the mid to late 20th C).

Adrift In Shallow Waters - Carolina Diaz, HD video, 4'43", UK, 2013.
A re - visitation of R.D. Laing, and a talking cure with not much talking  ...or who does the talking?

Palestine Film - Aharon, smartphone video,  Palestine, 2014.

 The Clip*** is of a search from place to place in Palestinian Isra-zionist
controlled areas, very near the Dead Sea and within an area that used to
be Jordanian army barracks - to incorporate digital material into the
land.
The search in the clip is both about questioning how to operate between
such time and rhythmical ranges while on a skateboard that in itself, is a
surfing "animal" over and between ranges of surfaces - and slowly, as the
clip progresses, the encounters with the control and bordering of rhythmic
ranges becomes an element in an unfolding drama.
The drama is at an area I visited a few days earlier and named Palestine
Moon.

Aharon - A short bio:

Graduated from Brighton University’s visual & performing arts, Aharon
continued to question & practice performance in digital and network
environments. Through time Aharon’s work moved from performative acts, to
projects and through to development of imagination and search
technologies.

Since late 80's, Aharon has:

Presentated in conferences, & galleries.

(eg Conciousness-Reframed, Performance-Philosophy, PhiladelphiaICA,
Brighton Phoenix, Mediterranean Biennale)

Created and co-developed events & participation contexts.

(eg, art&chat monthly, art as political uselessness symposium, future of
production conference)

Co-created narcissus (searchnarcissus.net) an award winning search engine
algorithm for dark data.

Developed events and projects with TV (eg tv-tv), cultural websites,
collaborative organisations, and educational organisations.
(eg, Digihub, Lighthouse and Basekamp)

Newhaven Plastic - Peter Pick, DV, 11'1", UK.

Common sense dictates that first there is an object and then there is a range of associations and resemblances, but this is not how the observer experiences the world - on the contrary we make a judgement or assumption about what a thing is 'like' and then classify it accordingly. What i think this video asks is whether a thing is more like what it resembles or more like what it is. The object pictured is a piece of plastic, but its activity is a representation of the movement of the medium it is within, in this case the relationship between two opposing flows of water. The observation of natural processes is problematic in the 'real world' and in 'real time', there is always something to distract us. I hope that through this isolation of a particular fragment from surrounding distractions we are able to focus our attention however briefly on this phenomenon. I believe the most powerful impression will not be of what the object is but of what it resembles: a dance, a creature, a living thing. Is it in such a way that all things are animated?

One Dress Many Costumes - Anastasia Vlachaki, HDV,  4'24", UK, 2014.

Anastasia Vlachaki is balancing between reality and fairy-tales
and she is dealing with personal and universal issues - she is dressed up.

I grew up in busy Athens of Greece but I was born in 1976 in Leivadia, a beautiful small town near Great Delphi.
In 1996 I started my studies in Graphic Arts at “PLAKA”. In 1998 I continued my studies at T.E.I. of Athens in the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts, and I had a great opportunity to go to Spain for six months as part of the Erasmus studies on Video Art.

Since 2003 I have been working as a freelancer photographer and the last 2 years I have been studying Inclusive Arts Practice in Brighton and I've created art workshops for people with learning disabilities and unemployed people.

Queen's Park - Vv Victoria, smartphone, 5'57", UK, 2014.