Exhibitions2017Empire II: Exhibiting The Moving Image

EMPIRE II was an artist led satellite project devised and curated by Vanya Balogh for the 57th La Biennale di Venezia. The intimate, immersive film hub space featured three chambers; beginning with an extensive library, engaging in film history and theory; leading on to a single screen darkroom showcasing a sequence of 115 imaginative short films programmed that played out on a continuous loop; and on to the Virtual Reality port, a final imaginary space.

Featuring Turk’s Screen Test (2016), Empire II was an immersive single screen experience with a library, a reflection on the elusiveness and temporality of the digital image, interweaving various trends and approaches to film making. Ranging from animation to cold cut editing, 115 digital shorts were transported from London, via Brussels, to Venice.

Empire II Venice was accompanied by a 260-page, full colour limited edition catalogue, designed and produced by Victor Hotz Studio in Switzerland. This bespoke publication was conjured in collaboration with curator Vanya Balogh, and featured film stills, text and further explorations on the ideas of Anxiety & Empire.

The exhibition was presented at: Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, England; Cross Lane Projects, Cumbria, England; The White Post, Hackney Wick, London, England; SPEKTRUMberlin, Germany; Quai au Bois à Brûler, Brussels, Belgium; Castello 1610/A Riva dei Sette Martiri, Venice, Italy

 

Participating artistis: William Angus-Hughes, Montague Armstrong, Yael Atzmony, Jessica Bailey, Jon Baker, Kerry Baldry, Vanya Balogh, Lorenzo Belenguer, Sooz Belnavis, Vardi Bobrow, Whalley & Bricheno, Megan Broadmeadow, Anita Bryan, Theresa Caruana, Roger Clarke, Laura Liliyana-Raffaella Cogoni, Emily Cole, Live Hazard Collective, Paul Coombs & Gabriel Mulvey, Leito de Courson de la Villeneuve, Richard Ducker, Joe Dye, Spizz Energi, Gordon Faulds, Susana Lopez Fernandez, Valentina Ferrandes, Julian Firth, Glenn Fitzy Fitzpatrick, Gzillion Artist, Maryclare Foa, Mandee Gage, Toni Gallagher, Ray Gange, Warren Thomas Garland, Maria Teresa Gavazzi, Alina Gavrielatos, Ann Grim, Fiona Haines, Miriam Mor Hiedemann, Dannielle Hodson, Birgitta Hosea, Leila Houston, Laura Hynd, Shosh Israeli, Marie-Louise Jones, Vanja Karas, Philipp Keel, Will Kerr, Monika Kita, Dion Kitson, Kate Kotcheff, Kristina Kotov, Tomaž Kramberger, Suzanne Bella Land, Bob Lawson, Ibby Doherty & Ed Linger, Crispin Lingford, MC Llamas, Bobby Lloyd, Jeffrey Louis-Reed, Iavor Lubomirov, Julia Maddison, Lee Maelzer, Roman Manfredi, Nerys Mathias, Jane Grisewood & Carali McCall, Joanna McCormick, Stacie McCormick, Emily McMehen, Andrea Morucchio, Anna Mortimer, Eden Auerbach Ofrat, Michal Ohana-Cole, Nouli Omer, Ekin Onat, Adi Oz-Ari, Sarah Pager, Harrison Pearce, Marco Alessi, Benedict Morrison, Martyn Pick, John Plowman, Danny Pockets, Marisa Polin, Eva Raboso, Annika Reed, Meriliis Rinne, India Roper-Evans, Jim Roseveare, Pascal Rousson, Tracey Moberly & Robbie Ryan, Ella Amitay Sadovsky, Mario Varas Sanchez, Susana Sanroman, Susan Schulman, Rebecca Scott, Ashley Scott Fitzgerald, Martin Sexton, Richard Sharples, Liz Sheridan, Veronica Shimanovskaya, Maya Smira, Steve Smith, Barbara Stanzl, Susan Supercharged, Melissa Alley & Paul Tecklenberg, Taline Temizian & Max Maxwell, Sarah Sparkes & Ian Thompson, Paul & Stanley Tucker, Graham Tunnadine, Gavin Turk, Negin Vaziri, Jessica Voorsanger, Tisna Westerhof, Michael Williams, WhittyGordon Projects, Mark Woods