SSA on Screen 2005

Annual Exhibition
5-Day Performance Art Festival
The Future

We present, for the first time, a dedicated program of short film and video.
Our brief when advertising for submissions last summer was a 6-minute maximum
time slot and the film to be independent of 3-D installation. The response was
enthusiastic, international and quite off-the-wall. The following work by 16 artists is
the result of our selection by the artists/curators Council of the SSA. We believe the
medium of the moving image in the hands of the visual artist to be relevant to the
spirit of the Society of Scottish Artists.

Neil Boynton and Emma Rose skyWriting
skyWriting (2004) is a video and sound installation produced in
collaboration between the composer Neil Boynton and artist Emma Rose.
The underlying aesthetic of the work is a transformation of images and
sounds, their meaning and the frame in which they are presented.

Emma Rose trained at Leeds Metropolitan University and Chelsea School of
Art (MA). She has exhibited extensively in Britain and Europe. She has
three solo exhibitions, in collaboration with Neil Boynton, planned for
2005 at the Hotbath Gallery, Bath, the MAC Gallery, Birmingham and the
Buddle Arts Centre, Walsall.

Neil Boynton trained as a composer at the Guildhall School of Music and
Drama and then completed a doctorate at Emmanuel College, Cambridge on
the work of Anton Webern. He has recently turned again to composition
with particular interests in spatialization, digital audio and
installation.

Harriet O Wills Pruned

Pruned consists of many fragments of film and stills. Non liner narrative structure
makes up certain aspects of the whole, a still of a the aftermath of a film piece shown
before the event has occurred in ‘reel’/ ‘real’ time. Parts of the ‘event’ are sectioned
and controlled through a very tight editing scheme. Forming a pastiche of many different
performative pieces to both question and make statements through a unorthodox
play/engagement with objects and addressing notions of gender, perfection, ideologies,
society and femininity.
Harriet O Wills graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2004 and is now
based in London. She works in video and photography. She is now applying for MA
courses in Fine Art and working on film sets in London.

Louisa Sloan Faster, faster!
This work documents three consecutive performances of Scott Joplin's The
Entertainer set to a self-controlled projection of a digital timer. The
objective was to play the piece in as fast a time as possible and over
three attempts, to beat each preceding time. The piece was performed and
recorded in front of a live theatre audience. Louisa Sloan is an artist
based in Dublin.

Nobuka Otsuka Lovers
Against a magenta background, two feminine figures, dressed identically,
look back at us, and one begins to move, coercing the other into actions
which are semi dance-like and semi seductive. By the time we notice that
one of them is a doll, questions arise in the viewer's mind; is the
dance a reflection of outward desire, or is the figure narcissistically
looking at herself? The work blurs the distinction between fantasy and
reality, whilst maintaining an eerie sense of prescience.

Cynthia Whelan Difference (with John Stratton, Camera: Rosie Sanderson)
This video evokes the darker aspects of sexual imagination where
domination and containment are explored, visually heightened by using
red and black. There are psychological aspects to my work which have
developed through my training as a therapist in the 1990's. The creation
of a persona and how they may interact with others and how they react to
situations they find themselves in is an intrinsic part of how I work.

Eun-hee Choi Survival Strategies
I play with objects in front of a video camera. Subjects such as
existence, survival, identity, illusion, disillusion, exclusivity, power
and control are dealt with within my work. Politics merge with the
personal, as this is my belief. Humour is my armour. Despite all, hope
is what it takes to be human.

I come from Korea. I did my B.A.(Hons) in Fine Art Photography at
Glasgow School of Art 2001 - 4, and I am currently doing my M.A. in Fine
Art Media at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL 2004 - 6.

Dave Ball Everything Must Go
By fostering a particular emotional state in the viewer, the work aims
to encourage a particular mode of apprehension and a particular reading.
The profound beauty of both the landscape and the music becomes
entangled with an awareness of the vernacular and on many levels
uninteresting content of the work. The viewer is thus offered an
opportunity to reconsider their response to everyday experience.

Dave Ball was born in Swansea in 1978. Left Wales to attend art college
in Derby in 1997. Since 2001 lived and worked in London. Founded the
London-based art group Discotheque in 2004.

Miguel Angulo Plasmatics, Home-less
These are part of a larger project of video performances in which I,
along with some performers, was trying to find a way between the two
disciplines, in a way that encompassed both languages. This is it,
describing the performances using the video art language and thus
creating a new way of expressing together what they are: on one side
live art and on the other recorded art.

Miguel Angulo was born in Bilbao in 1965. He graduated in Fine Arts from
The University of the Basque Country, majoring in audiovisual production.
his video, short film and photographic work has been shown in several group
and solo exhibitions, and been selected for national and international festivals.

Lorna Knowles Between
What does the physical reveal? Between is a video film work by emerging
fine artist Lorna Knowles, which leads and challenges the viewers
through a brother and sister's exploration of boundaries when playing
with bubbles. The film invites the viewer into this intense pursuit of
making the perfect communal bubble.

Lorna Knowles is based in Sheffield and graduated from Sheffield Hallam
University in 2004. Working in both performance and video, she is an
award-winning artist and has both solo shows and collaborative
performances to her name.

Graeme Roger Yellow Fly, Red Berry
Graeme Roger is interested in cultural and historical oddities.

Brass Art Sojourn
Brass Art access spaces in both a real and virtual sense. Sojourn uses a
fibre optic scope camera to reveal a journey through a 19th century
ivory and bone pagoda. The artists themselves are seen as tiny models
within the structure as the camera gently probes the dusty interior
spaces.

Brass Art are Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz and Anneké Pettican, three
artists based in Manchester and Glasgow. They have worked together since
1998. They have collaborated with a broad spectrum of people, from
confectioners to architectural engineers, from jewellers to the medical
division of Pentax, UK.

Delpha Hudson On the Margin
More than documentation, this video performance represents performance
actions as truly as possible but with altered time scales and potential
for a larger audience than seagulls. On the margin between land and sea,
metaphors for conscious/unconscious elide and become a space in-between
life and death.

Delpha Hudson is a video artist, performance artist, curator, writer and
teacher.

Steve Hines First a right, then a left
This film presents a narrative based on themes of passion, commitment,
time and change. The extremes of love and hate create an intensity of
feeling. In this short film that intensity is relayed through the notion
of being tattooed for a belief, feeling or expression whilst also
drawing on cultural or traditional practices.

Steve Hines has shown his work regionally, nationally and more recently
internationally. From a background in photography his practice is now
rooted within a conceptual framework and as such he works in various
mediums.

Kaori Nakayama Allegory in Macro 8
I am interested in the idea of landscape, and my work has opposite
qualities like the open view of landscape as well as the microscopic
view. Manmade and natural, macro and micro, light and shadow, chaos and
unity, material and immaterial, they are all an important part of my art
practice.

I am a Japanese artist. I want to experiment with many different mediums
to create further works and ideas.

The SSA would especially like to thank:
Di Hope and Edinburgh Academy for staging the initial and crucial viewing; Dave
Stewart, NGS Audio Visual Technician; and Kenny Macleod, NGS I.T., for their
invaluable help in turning this from a box of jiffy bags full of DVDs and videos into
a fully data-projected programme.