Another investigation into Flight

Montefiore Flip

 

Investigating Flight

I’ve been enjoying remaking Muybridges’ “Animal and Human Locomotion” by putting together this sequence of photos taken by photographer Paul Weaver, “Investigating Flight”.  If I could fly, this is what I’d do, wave my arms around in a vertical sort of butterfly motion…

 

Shows in April

In all the fluster of New Orleans, I forgot to mention I’m in quite a few shows in the UK and abroad in the next few weeks.

1) Kicking it off will be a group show called Spring at the Smokehouse, with 50 artists all responding to the theme of spring. That show opens on Thursday 5th April more details are here. I’ll be showing my new dancing dress animation, Shift, in a vertical format, with a dress flying above it on the wall. There will be many other friends and colleagues at this show so please come and check it out.

2) I’ve been invited to be a guest artist in the 8th British Miniprint show, which opens on the 12th April in London Print Studio. My print is a big one, to show off how cute and small the other prints are, I’m sure! Other guest artists include Guy Langevin, He Weimin and Ana Maria Pacheco. More details here.

3) On that same day, I have 3 books in the 6th International Artist’s Book Triennial, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2012, on the theme of Love. All my books are about love, I realise. More details here.

4) Next up will be a group Lino show, Linoleum: The Cutting Edge, in Hemingway art, Oxfordshire, opening on the 14th and a celebratory steam roller event on the 28th April, more details here.

LINOLEUM art show invitation

This is from the blurb: Artists from the UK, USA and Germany present works that push the boundaries of the seemingly simple linocut artform, through large-scale prints, installation and animated films. The artists are Victoria Browne, Steve Edwards, Bill Fick, Wuon-Gean Ho, Scott Minzy, Nick Morley, Carsten Nicolaus, Chris Pig, Peter Rapp and Mark Andrew Webber.

5) I’m in the Glasgow International Book Fair on the 28 and 29th April, with East London Printmakers, should be a fun event.

6) Finally, one month away, but counting down, I have a solo show in Ludlow, Material gallery, opening on the 6th May.

PS) Oh yes, just got mentioned in the Guardian on Friday, my book cover for the Tiger’s Wife was singled out as different from the rest, in a good way. Nice!

 

Time Slice project with Angus Leadley-Brown

For leap year, and in particular, leap day, I wanted to make a leap in time.

Last year’s dancing sequences were partly about celebrating this transient moments of weightlessness, so it was appropriate to team up with photographer, Angus Leadley-Brown who has developed an impressive circular bank of cameras to recreate what feels like being in the matrix- flying and frozen in motion.

We did the shoot in Stoke Newington Library, and there is a video of the set up of the cameras, which took 5 hours, and the final jumps, all here

And for the movie of the jumps themselves, without the previous set up, please go to this link http://youtu.be/dLTf87qcAjA

 

Costanza video now has music

 

Click on the picture above to go to youtube video of Costanza with music by Mordant Music… Costanza’s feet resemble fluttering moths batting against a pane of light.

 

Test animation for Costanza

I have developed an unhealthy obsession with Costanza, the heroine of Malatestan medieval history, who was murdered after having a string of lovers in the 15C, and been trying to create a sequence of images of her ghost in the room where she lived in the castle of Montefiore Conca. Well, it isn’t her ghost, it is me jumping around like a cricket pretending to be a ghost, but at least it’s a start! I think I’ll be working on some better files, and making it smoother in the next few weeks. In the meantime, have a look!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kalQNSdzCc0

The amazing Baron Mordant has made sound for the piece, (MMoth) which really fits in with the crashing fluttering moth-like feel to the jumps. I love it! Have a look at the latest version here: http://youtu.be/IqvrHTAXpQs