Artist Birgitta Hosea will present recent work and the films that have inspired her to think about the microcosm and the macrocosm: from the inner workings of the human body to the outer reaches of the galaxy, everything is connected. She will talk about how she uses a combination of analogue and digital techniques to expand her drawing practice off the page and into time and space to create animation and expanded animation performances.
Hosea's films will be screened alongside other works in expanded animation:
Hevn - P Staff
Bent Time - Barbara Hammer
Stellar - Stan Brakhage
Colour Flight - Len Lye
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Birgitta Hosea is an artist, filmmaker and curator working with expanded animation, time-based drawing and live performance to create experiential installations, embodied events, durational images and short films that expand the concept of the moving image out of the screen and into the present moment.
She is Professor of Moving Image and Director of the Animation Research Centre at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. Having written publications on drawing, performance and experimental animation, her most recent book is Performance Drawing: New Practices Since 1945 (Bloomsbury, 2020) co-written with Maryclare Foá, Jane Grisewood and Carali McCall.
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This is part of a BEEF curated programme series that shines a light on experimental and expanded film practices homegrown in the city and beyond.
This opportunity is part of the West of England Visual Arts Alliance (WEVAA), supported by Arts Council England. WEVAA is a consortium partnership of nine organisations co-lead by Spike Island and Visual Arts South West, and including the Brunswick Club, Bath Spa School of Art, Bristol City Council, Creative Youth Network, Culture Weston, North Somerset Council and UWE Bristol. This alliance is delivering a 3-year programme of activity with the aim of supporting visual arts progression in the region, and a collective vision for the visual arts in Bristol and the West of England to become more progressive, sustainable and inclusive by 2024.