Episode

Mark Ingham had two pieces of work in this touring exhibition; both were digital photographs in a series entitled Doppelgängers. It traveled from London to Leeds and then on to Miami. The works shown in the images attached are these photographs as shown were they were installed.

"Episodes" are displaced moments - slices of narrative - sequences and instances that are isolated from, stand apart from, and are de-contextualized from a coherent whole. But "episodes" reach out to the universal - something outside. They call upon a totalized narrative without evidencing its existence - a piece of the real. And knowing that "episodes" are singular, self-contained and fabricated inventions does not prevent us from being enthralled, immersed and moved by the power of such fictions.

The selected artworks included video projections, monitor-based works, lens-assisted painting, and photographs, all of which subject the audience to the pleasures of disorientation of sensory, immersive and rhetorical devices. They produce iconographic and dramatic visual and aural experiences, through entangling documentary with drama, realism with the sensory, and austerity with conviction. They openly expose themselves as fabricated constructs. They carry you away, shift you around, or demand your collusion.

Through the exhibition we explored the pleasure, power and sensory extravagance of the delivery of images that propose themselves as fictions or facts. Rather than identify truth as being behind or beyond images, we analyse the politics of belief in images.

The exhibition was set within a simple but dynamic installation of floating white laminated screens that encouraged and guided as well as inhibited the audience's movement around the gallery space.

Curating Video is a long-term research project set up to propose new possibilities for re-thinking video curation through understanding the materiality and architectural qualities of video artworks in order to elucidate the relationship between curating video and the politics of social and architectural space.

The project was set up and is co-ordinated by:

Amanda Beech
Artist & Course Director, MA Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice, Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London

Jaspar Joseph-Lester
Artist & Programme Leader, MA Contemporary Art Curating, Sheffield Hallam University

Matthew Poole
Curator & Programme Director, Centre for Curatorial Studies, University of Essex

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