Artists’ Film: Deborah Joyce Holman: Spill I-III
Join us for the UK premiere of Deborah-Joyce Holman’s Spill I-III (2022), an experimental video work which engages with the politics of representation and explores queerness through nature.
Taking Sicily's volcano Etna as a starting point, the three-channel film by Deborah-Joyce Holman, Spill I-III, draws on Édouard Glissant's notion of tremblement in a visual poem on the motif of the eruption.
Spill I-III takes on the strategies of asemic writing, a wordless, an open form of writing that conveys no specific semantic content and can function beyond a purely linguistic sense, which is underlined by the accompanying score composed by Yantan Ministry. The moving image work ruminates on queer desire, the politics of image-image production and the voice.
The film will be available in our Space from 4pm onwards and the event will start with a poetic offering by Nisha Ramayya at 6pm, followed by an in-conversation with the artist, and Canan Batur, the curator of Live Programmes.
Schedule
4 - 5.30pm: The screening of Spill I-III at the Space
6 - 6.45pm: Poetic Offering by Nisha Ramayya
7 - 8pm: In-conversation between Deborah-Joyce Holman, and Canan Batur, the curator of Live Programmes
About the event
Free.
Limited Capacity.
Booking is required.
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Deborah-Joyce Holman is a multidisciplinary artist based between London and Basel. Their work has recently been shown at Oregon Contemporary (2023); Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich (2022); Cordova, Barcelona (solo, 2022); Istituto Svizzero, Palermo (solo 2022) schwarzescafé, Luma Westbau, Zurich (solo, 2022); Sentiment, Zurich (solo, 2022); Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2022); Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2022); Kunstverein Last Tango, Zurich (2022); Unfinished Live, The Shed, New York City & House of Electronic Arts, Basel (2021); 7th Athens Biennial (2021); TransBona-Halle, Basel (2021); Damien & The Love Guru hosted by Conceptual Fine Arts Live, Milano (2021); Cherish, Geneva (solo with Yara Dulac Gisler, 2021); Yaby, Madrid (2021); Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2021); La Quadriennale di Roma (2020); Material Art Fair, Mexico City (duo booth, 2020); A Soft Spiral, Mikro, Zurich (solo, 2019); Fondation Entreprise Ricard, Paris (2019); Auto Italia, London (2019); Live In Your Head, Geneva (2018); Alienze, Lausanne (duo, 2018); OSLO10, Basel (2017); Locale Due, Bologna (2016), among others. From 2020-2022 she worked at East London arts organisation Auto Italia first as Associate Director. They were the founding director of 1.1, a platform for early-career practitioners in arts, music and text-based practices, with an exhibition space in Basel, Switzerland, which ran 2015 - 2020. Deborah-Joyce has curated the 2018 and 2019 annual group exhibitions for the arts and music festival Les Urbaines, Lausanne, entitled ...and their tooth, finest gold and Cinders, sinuous and supple respectively, presenting newly commissioned works by over 15 international artists.
Event:
Artists’ Film: Deborah Joyce Holman: Spill I-IIIDates:
24 Mar 2023, 4pm–8pmSupported by:
