As part of Art Week Exeter, the Jerwood/FVU Awards will screen four moving-image works by recipients of the Awards: two newly commissioned pieces by Patrick Hough and Lawrence Lek, and two works by the 2016 winners Karen Kramer and Alice May Williams. Taking place at Exeter Phoenix in Studio 74, the screening will be followed by a Q&A with artist Karen Kramer.
In their newly commissioned works, Patrick Hough and Lawrence Lek respond to 2017's curatorial theme Neither One Thing or Another. Both films employing pioneering, conceptually fitting technologies to examine the steadily blurring line between the real and the artificial. In Geomancer, Lek harnesses his trademark - the building blocks of computer gaming technology - to set the stage for an awakening of artificial intelligence. Hough’s work And If In A Thousand Years takes us to the Californian desert, where the landscape was filmed and digitally scanned using LiDAR, to host a Hollywood-inspired merging of authenticity and replica. Both films delve between definitions of consciousness, and in the process invite us to look again at what we think we know and see.
Driven by 2016's curatorial title Borrowed Time, the resulting works: The Eye That Articulates Belongs on Land by Karen Kramer and Dream City - More, Better, Sooner by Alice May Williams reflect on the uncertain nature of our contemporary economic and ecological moment.
Read more about Patrick Hough, And If In A Thousand Years
Read more about Lawrence Lek, Geomancer
Read more about Karen Kramer, The Eye That Articulates Belongs on Land
Read more about Alice May Williams, Dream City - More, Better, Sooner
