Film Free and Easy, Primary Studios, Nottingham, UK
This tiny installation with 35mm slides was recently shown as part of Primary Studios Film Free and Easy event.
Curated by Frank Abbott, Film Free and Easy took place on 2nd June 2016 at Primary Studios, Nottingham, and was the fourth in a series of evening projection presentations.
Artists are encouraged to bring along new and developmental work on the night or submit pieces for consideration before hand.
The evening includes, video and film projection, music, photography, sound, installation, performance and objects.
For the June 2016 event Three – Nine – 35mm (Alternative Document filtered) was installed in Primary's playground alongside video installations by Belén Cerezo, Effy Harle and Yvonne Lake.
Exhibition date: 2nd June, 2016.
Title: Three – Nine – 35mm
(Alternative Document filtered) 2016
Date: 2016
Materials: 35mm slides, electroluminescent panel, electrical tape.
Size: Wall Installation
Notes: Three 35mm digital slides exposed to light during the duration of the Alternative Document exhibition, Project Space Plus, University of Lincoln, UK.
First shown: Still Unresolved, ( ) Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, Fine Art, School of Art and Design, Nottingham, UK, 28th April - 5th May 2016.
A 35mm slide projection and digital hologram installation was included in the Alternative Document exhibition at Project Space Plus, University of Lincoln, UK, for 28 days in 2016. Over that period, light from the projectors denatured the photographic emulsion on each of the slides. Originally opaque, with a clear line and rectangle – the dark background slowly turned pink, changing the outcome of the projected image over time.
Through the visible changes, which took place over the course of the exhibition, the installation became an unintentional durational work.
Here, the slides used are part of their own ‘filtration’, illuminated by the cold electronic light from the thin, inbuilt, electroluminescent panel. A self-contained series of tiny images previously hidden within the machines. As in the projector they intercepted light to form an image - in this case they become objects in their own right - bright rectangles made visible by 'electronic' light.
Special thanks to the staff at www.elpanelandtape.co.uk for their help with the electroluminescent panel and electronics for this installation.