Ben Judd

"Ben Judd’s work examines his relationship to specific individuals and groups; recently the choreographic and the rhythmic has been used as a method of constructing temporary communities. The work explores how the ritualistic activities of marginalised groups and individuals can be extended into an action realised by actors (one that itself hovers on the border between immersion and a more self-conscious, knowing state), and how, in turn, this action can be interpreted in a moving image work. Positioning himself and the audience as both participant and observer, he engages the grey area between ritual and performance, searching for an unreachable and idealised state of community."

http://benjudd.com/biography/

http://benjudd.com/video-and-performance/a-deep-and-tenebrous-unity/

"A performance at Bloc Projects, Sheffield, which further explored themes of closeness/distance and revealed/hidden. Performers used text taken from conversations with Icelanders during Judd’s residency in Seyðisfjörður in December 2014. Seyðisfjörður is in a remote part of eastern Iceland surrounded by mountains, and his conversations there focussed on its location, the community, the winter darkness and the Icelandic mythology of ‘hidden people’. This text was combined with selected phrases from William Morris’s diary of his trip to Iceland in 1871. Judd also incorporated original Victorian photographs in a roving magic lantern projection."

http://benjudd.com/video-and-performance/a-deep-and-tenebrous-unity/

Savinder Bual

"My practice is driven by my fascination with the illusory qualities inherent in cinema. Imagining myself as a film pioneer I explore the interplay between the moving and the still creating works that sit between the pre-cinematic and the digital.

By discovering low-fi ways to add movement to single images and commonplace objects/materials my intent is to ignite an element of wonder at the illusion of cinema, giving the everyday enough of a twist to allow the imagination to run free."

http://www.savinderbual.com/about.html

Flight from Bual on Vimeo.

http://www.savinderbual.com/about.html

• Moving image - Both subject and medium within her work.
• Early films - About movement which is something she explores in her work.
• Traditional film - Half of the films are in darkness caused by the interruption of the shutters inside the projectors.
• Interested in what happens in black space between imagery - Sees black space as room for imagination. 
• Believes in living in the now and in the moment.
• The themes of flight play a large part in her practice.

Ian Kiaer

"Ian Kiaer is an artist based in London. Kiaer received his MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London in 1998 and his BA in Fine Art from Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, in 1995."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Kiaer

http://www.fkv.de/english/press.html?id=9&year=2011

http://www.domusweb.it/en/art/2011/06/06/ian-kiaer-at-the-venice-biennale.html

https://sashamorris.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/ian-kiaer-2

• Studio space - space of thinking before making [in relation to time].
• Most important when we are inactive?
• Laying down is a different view [in relation to his yoga mat piece].
• What is production?
• So close to the ground it is passive [yoga mat].
• Monochrome - Death of painting? "First full stop" [where do I go from here]
• Started thinking about architecture - Melnikov
• Kiaer's work - Shiny black material: After the exhibition became limp and powerless [Reused it half a painting].
• Melnikov - First works are death beds.
• Kiaer's work - Hospital work [shezlong] work for quiet spaces: Modernist hospital based.
• Thinking about painting through paintings death.
• Kiaer's work - Based on monochrome and the painting.
• The model is a pragmatic form.
• Mike Web: 'Inflatable suit'.
• Istanbul work - Various proposals based around models.
• Idea of models relationship to the [written] fragment: Philosophical form.
• Talks about autonomy.
• The way he presented was fragmented.