Apparent Positions - Agatha

17th Nov 2012 - 9th Dec 2012

Apparent Positions is a series of installations by contemporary artists who work with the moving image.

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Based around the notion of transfigured space, the four shows � separate, yet in dialogue with one another � comprise work which deals with spaces imagined, implicated, even compromised. Complicating and subverting the construct of landscape and the Romantic tradition, the films summon the notion of the plurality of place, of a meta-landscape; and beyond that, of the active site, loaded, both defining and defined by interaction with its occupants and would-be occupiers.

Beatrice Gibson's "Agatha" is the second installation in this series. Beatrice Gibson is an artist and filmmaker based in London. Her film A Necessary Music (2009) won the Tiger Award for best short at the Rotterdam Film Festival. Recent solo screenings, exhibitions and performances include Anthology Film Archives, New York; Kunstverein Amsterdam; Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart; the Serpentine Gallery and The Showroom, London.

�Agatha� is a psychosexual sci-fi about a planet without speech. Based on a dream of the radical British composer Cornelius Cardew, its narrator, ambiguous in gender and function, weaves us slowly through a mental and physical landscape, observing and chronicling a space beyond words. Without language to describe it, the space itself is unavoidably altered, and the film invites an appraisal of the relationship between work and land; between the physical and conceptual, the signified and signifier: once it is named, it is.

Curated by Adam Pugh. Thanks to Anna Mustonen, Max Wigram Gallery; Silvia Batschun, Spr�th Magers Berlin; Marie Logie, Auguste Orts; Gil Leung and Ben Cook, LUX; and all artists.

Part of the Changing Landscapes project