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More info on the artists participating in Over Time:

Curator: Anne Robinson

Anne Robinson’s multi-disciplinary practice is concerned with the perception and politics of time passing, working experimentally with duration, frame, exposure, paint surface, sound and movement. Previous curated art projects include: Time, Flesh and Nerve, One More Time and Supernormal. In 2013, she showed Que Sera at Stamford University in 2013, made the film work  Inside Out Blues as part of a residency with Counterproductions during the Capital of Culture year in Marseilles. Recent shows include: Lumen at Shuffle and Vital Excess at Bank Gallery, London and, forthcoming, Ghost On the Wire  at Bermondsey Project Space in June, 2014. She works with the moving image as an artist educator, currently senior lecturer in Film at London Metropolitan University and completed a practice-led PhD, concerned with temporality  entitled The Elusive Digital Frame and the Elasticity of Time in Painting  in 2012. . More about Anne’s work  here

Jo David

Jo David is founder and  director of artist-run Space Station Sixty-Five (SS65) based in London which he set up with  Rachael House in 2002. Recent shows/projects include: Northern Souls and Peckham Pet-Tastic. He co-curated, with Rachael House, the critically reviewed The Peckham Experiment,exhibited in Kiss of a Lifetime, Manchester & London, made a collaboration for Mark McGowan’s Village Idiot, in Peckham Square and created and created Space Capsule #10 Misty Fur Sculpture for SS65.as well as contributing work to GHost.

(Image above from: From Beyond, 2009, analogue video transfer, installation, sound: collaboration with Kit Poulson). See more here

Ella Finer and ‘International Western’

The International Western is a London-based collective founded by Ella Finer, Joe Hales, Robert Jack and Flora Pitrolo. Informed by thought and practice across different fields – music, design, performance, writing – it is concerned with developing a collective form of intermedial composition. The International Western’s work to date has concentrated on mechanisms of transmission, translation and transformation of information; the collective is interested in articulating a notion of usable past capable of interfering with the structures governing the circulation of information in the present. Recent pieces include the ongoing pay-phone piece The Telephone Project, the sound-installation Cold Room (Galerie8, London, 2013) and the recording of Four in the Wave (in Verfreundungseffekt Magazine Vol. I, London, 2013).  See more here

Claudia Firth

Claudia is currently a PhD candidate in Critical and Cultural Studies, Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has a background in visual arts practice and cultural theory. She is a regular contributor, editor and founding member of Nyx, the journal for the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and an experienced educator, teaching and running workshops in a variety of educational and community settings.  She is currently co-writing The Force of Listening, a new publication looking at the role of listening in contemporary conjunctions between art and activism, which will be published as part of the Doormats series by Errant Bodies Press.

(Image above from: Response 25 Overtime, 2012 ). See more here

Charlie Fox

Charlie is the artistic director of Counterproductions which continues to promote socially and politically engaged artistic practices: collaborating with different publics on live art, education, and experimental art projects both in the UK and Internationally. Recent projects, “Itinerary” and FoodFace/FaceFood, Smile More Please and The Comm(o)nist Gallery have taken place within art spaces, and without, in parks, public squares, shops. In 2006/7 counterproductions produced and co-curated a large-scale event, SHIBBOLETH (Dilston Grove, CGP London)  and in 2007/8 international project exchange PAVILION (Art Caucasus, Tbilisi). Currently counterproductions is producing a twelve month programme with decentrederspace (Marseille-Provence 2013, France/UK).

(Image above for: forthcoming Detours2 London inaugural event). See more at Counterproductions and here

Katharine Fry

Katharine Fry is a visual artist working across film, performance, installation and mixed media to explore experience and representation of time. Her works either reflect and criticise forms of measured time or propose environments for experiencing the temporal ideal she calls the ‘constant instant’.  Installation Pure Land was recently selected for Artangel Open 100, while new performance Tomorrow we will run faster premiered at PSi 19 Stanford University, and, immersive film White Time was shown at the ICCI 360 in Plymouth.

(Image above from: Tomorrow We Will Run Faster, 2013). See more here

Rachel Gomme

Rachel Gomme trained as a dancer, and makes durational performance, one-to-one interactions, and video and sound installation. Often informed by phenomena conventionally perceived in terms of absence or lack (silence, stillness, waiting, her work explores time and memory as lived by and manifested through the body, communication and exchange through physical materiality (touch, breath), and the shared space of experience between performer and viewer in the unique moment of performance. She has presented work, performed and taught widely throughout the UK and internationally, as well as working with a wide range of artists in dance, experimental theatre and live art.

(Image above from: Line Drawn Between the Inbreath and the Outbreath). See more here

Victoria Gray

Victoria Gray has presented performance and video work nationally and internationally, including France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the USA. Often durational in length, her performance’s utilise temporal strategies of slowness, stillness and extended duration in conjunction with performing unsighted. Above all her work aims to activate the political potential of a body that is attuned to its inherent affective inter-subjectivity via a bodily and language based practice. She is co-director of O U I Performance and is an informal advisory board member of ]performance s p a c e[, London. She is currently a PhD candidate in Fine Art / Performance at Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London.

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Birgitta Hosea

Birgitta Hosea is a media artist working with expanded animation, installation and performance. Her work and PhD research explore performativity, presence, affect and digital materiality. She is Course Director of MA Character Animation and Research Leader for Performance at Central Saint Martins. She was the recipient of a MAMA Holographic Arts Award and an Adobe Impact Award. Following a series of joint residencies at the Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon, she has also collaborated with artist MaryclareFoá and their recent collaborative works have been exhibited in Paris: Dans ma cellule, une silhouette, Centre d’Art Contemporain, La Ferme du Buisson; London: Draw to Perform, ]Performance Space[; DRAFT, Parasol Unit; Bletchley Park Ghost Station and Orkney: Papay Gyro Nights.

(Image above from: Medium, 2012). See more here

Gavin Maughfling

Gavin Maughfling trained at the Ruskin School of Fine Art in Oxford and the University of East London. He has exhibited in the United Kingdom and internationally. His work has recently  been selected for the Mostyn  Open Biennial,  ‘Ruskin Shorts’ at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford, and ‘Landing Places’, Objectifs Gallery, Singapore. He has previously co-curated ‘Close at Hand’ at CAP Projects, London, and was Artist in Residence at the British Embassy in Luxembourg. He is currently co-curating ‘Ghost on the Wire’, a joint United Kingdom – Singapore exhibition about mediated communication which will launch at the Bermondsey Project Space 2014.

(Image above: Fargo, 2005). See more here

Sarah Sparkes

Sarah Sparkes is an artist and curator, whose work is largely concerned with concepts of immmateriality and how this might be visualised. She was one of the artists selected for AIRM2014 and recently completed a commission for Camberwell Arts. Between 2009 – 2011 she was Research Fellow at the University of London, School of Advanced Study where she created a public art work at Senate House in response to ‘The Harry Price Library of Magical Literature’. Recent exhibitions include: Theatrical Dynamics at Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles; The Infinity Show at NN Contemporary, Northampton, and Haunted Landscapes at Falmouth University. She runs the visual arts and cross-disciplinary research project ‘GHost’, which explores how ghosts are manifested in visual art and contemporary culture. Her chapter on ‘GHost’ has been published in The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures (2014).

(Image above: The Time Machine, 2013 ). See more here

Ian Thompson

Ian Thompson is a sound designer and researcher, investigating creative applications of spatial and interactive sound. He’s a member of the Studio for Electronic Theatre group at the University of Greenwich, where he teaches on several digital media courses. He co-founded 3D60, a production company specialising in three dimensional audio, in 2009. Projects include collaborations with The Orb and The Who and sound art works include: When I was a kid, that was the dream installation at the Tate Modern, London 2012 and Roll out interactive installation, Art Trail, Festival Number Six, Portmeirion, 2013 and the  Don’t Tell Stories Woodland Trail.  Ian is also the musical director of the Hackney Secular Singers choir. see more here