The Collaborators

In her first video work since 2004, visual artist Ann Course manipulates a restricted palette of language and imagery to suggest the instability of personal awareness, interpersonal relations, shifting roles and identities. It is also her first dialogue-based work, although the words come out as sparse as the lines of her rudimentary, yet powerful drawings.

Animate Projects co-commissioned with The Drawing Room three new works for gallery and online, by British artists Edwina Ashton and Ann Course and Canadian artist Barry Doupé. The works premiered online on animateprojects.org in January and were exhibited in Shudder at the Drawing room 2010

Esther Leslie in conversation with the artists Ann Course, Barry Doupé & Marcus Vater, Thursday 21 January 2010,
The Bridge Academy, Laburnum Street, Hackney, London E2 8BA
This in conversation coincides with the exhibition Shudder, Drawing Room, 21 January 2010 – 14 March 2010

Shudder – Shutter - Shatter

An essay by Esther Leslie (Professor in Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London).

Commissioned on the occasion of SHUDDER: Edwina Ashton, Barry Doupé, Ann Course, Avish Khebrehzadeh, Matt Mullican, Raymond Pettibon, Naoyuki Tsuji and Markus Vater.
Shudder: the shutter snaps up and down in the camera. Shudder: the filmstrip snags its way through sprockets of the projector. Shudder: the frame and the frame rate are misaligned. Shudder: the figure who moved too quickly for the frame-rate appears to judder. Shudder: the handheld camera nears its object, jittering as it zooms. Shudder: the high shutter speed matched with a low frame rate generates a strobing effect. Shudder: the pixels drop out micro-momentarily on the LCD screen. Shudder: the backgrounds in the HD film tingle in the deep field of focus as if animated. Shudder is intimate to film, in many ways’.

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