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Anthony McCall: Notebooks and Conversations
No full textCharting the development of the studio practice of New York based artist Anthony McCall (b.1946), this publication features facsimile reproductions of pages from McCall's extensive archive of notebooks, which are supported by production scores and installation photographs. It was formed out of a series of discussions that took place over the last decade between McCall and the artists Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone.
Anthony McCall is known for his ‘solid-light’ installations, a series that he began in 1973 with his seminal Line Describing a Cone, in which a volumetric form composed of projected light slowly evolves in three-dimensional space. Since creating this ground-breaking piece, McCall has had work exhibited at museums and galleries throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate; Whitney Museum of American Art; Serpentine Gallery; Centre Pompidou; Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
Examining McCall's work of the 1970s and the pieces developed since his return to making art in 2003, the conversations explore McCall's over-riding preoccupations as an artist whose work occupies a space between sculpture, cinema and drawing. In doing so, the book also narrates how McCall has transformed the way he understands his own practice, particularly in relation to notions of performance, the body, projected installation, durational structure and spectatorship.
Emphasising both the continuities and shifts in McCall's working methods in the studio over the last 40 years, Anthony McCall: Notebooks and Conversations presents unique insights into his extraordinary body of work.Contents: Introduction: Thinking in notebook form, Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone; Conversations - Tate Britain, London;10 September 2004; Centre Georges Pompidou, La Maison Rouge, Paris; 5 October 2004; Anthony McCall Studio, New York; 3 March 2005; Ellard and Johnstone Studio, London; 25 March 2006; Ellard and Johnstone Studio, London; 20 March 2011; Gallerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris; 22 October 2013; Flims; Performances; Slide works; Chronological list of notebooks; Biographies.About the Author: Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone have collaborated since 1993. Their large-scale video installations and 16mm films, concerned with the parallels between film and architecture, have been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally, including Tate Liverpool; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Centre Pompidou; the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen; The Aichi Triennale, Nagoya and Tate Britain. Graham Ellard is Professor of Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Stephen Johnstone is Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.Reviews: 'The handsome volume Anthony McCall: Notebooks and Conversations ... is the kind of book that will increase in importance to students of art and art history over time ... it is the kind of invaluable document that will help us access his [McCall's] artworks in their own terms far into the future.' Jarrett Earnest, The Brooklyn Rail
'...this compendium offers readers a fascinating insight into the working methods and thought processes of this groundbreaking British artist...Illuminating.' StateF22Co-publisher: Published by Lund Humphries in association with Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Switzerlan
Fossil 16mm film installation and curated exhibition/artists' book
No full textFOSSIL is a 16mm film installation shot over three years in the Royal Academy Schools studios and a large-scale, handmade artists’ book that takes the form of a bilder atlas album, or scrapbook. The film explores the RA’s extraordinary collection of historic architectural casts, copies of antique columns, capitals and friezes, previously hidden behind temporary studio walls for 50 years. The film combines intense close-ups of the casts - optically printed as negative sequences and tinted with colour filters when projected - with verité style footage that records the precarious revealing of the casts and their ungainly demounting.
FOSSIL was commissioned for the Royal Academy of Arts Schools Weston Studio Gallery by Eliza Bonham Carter, Curator and Head of RA Schools and organised by Joanna Thomas, Exhibitions Coordinator. Funded by the RA, the elephant trust, Goldsmiths Department of Art and Central St Martins, FOSSIL was a long term project that resulted in a 16mm film shown from an adapted 16mm projector and a curated show of objects relating to the film: six Eighteenth century architectural plaster casts from the RA collection; a large scale watercolour copy of a painting commissioned by John Soane for a lecture at the RA in 1804; and a set of photographs of Blinky Palermo painting the frieze for an exhibition at Edinburgh School of Art, curated by Richard DeMarco in 1970 [courtesy the DeMarco archive, Edinburgh].
A second exhibition at the British School at Rome saw the project expand to include a large scale handmade scrapbook of 800 images, researched and photographed at the BSR library, The Royal Academy Library, The Architectural Association Library, the British Library, and Sir John Soane’s Museum.
The film and curated exhibition were staged at the Royal Academy during September and October 2019, and the scrapbook was exhibited at the British School at Rome Sainsbury Gallery in January 2024, the book having been researched and photographed over a number of visits to the BSR collection and archive in 2022 and 2023.
The film has also been screened at:
Image Forum Tokyo, November 2022 [Touched. Gripped. Held. Recent 16mm films by Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone].
The Kaleide Theatre, RMIT University, Melbourne, organised by the Artists Film Workshop, Melbourne, April 2024 [Slowly, and by hand— a programme of films by Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone]
Proposal for an Unmade Film (set in the future)
No full textGraham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone, Central St Martins, London. 1st shown at the British Film Institute Southbank, London July 2007.(UK 2007, 16mm, 20 mins
Geneva express: Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone
No full textGraham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone’s ‘Geneva Express’ was a multi-screen video installation that received its maiden outing as part of the group exhibition ‘Airport’, curated by Film and Video Umbrella and the Photographers’ Gallery. Tracking the routine arrivals and departures of the same 747 jumbo jet, as if counting it in and counting it out from its ‘home’ airport of Gatwick, two facing screens capture the miraculous if lumbering beauty of each take-off and landing as the ear-splitting boom of the aircraft’s passage reverberates around the spac
Anthony McCall: Notebooks and Conversations
No full textCharting the development of the studio practice of New York based artist Anthony McCall (b.1946), this publication features facsimile reproductions of pages from McCall's extensive archive of notebooks, which are supported by production scores and installation photographs. It was formed out of a series of discussions that took place over the last decade between McCall and the artists Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone.
Anthony McCall is known for his ‘solid-light’ installations, a series that he began in 1973 with his seminal Line Describing a Cone, in which a volumetric form composed of projected light slowly evolves in three-dimensional space. Since creating this ground-breaking piece, McCall has had work exhibited at museums and galleries throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate; Whitney Museum of American Art; Serpentine Gallery; Centre Pompidou; Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
Examining McCall's work of the 1970s and the pieces developed since his return to making art in 2003, the conversations explore McCall's over-riding preoccupations as an artist whose work occupies a space between sculpture, cinema and drawing. In doing so, the book also narrates how McCall has transformed the way he understands his own practice, particularly in relation to notions of performance, the body, projected installation, durational structure and spectatorship.
Emphasising both the continuities and shifts in McCall's working methods in the studio over the last 40 years, Anthony McCall: Notebooks and Conversations presents unique insights into his extraordinary body of work.Contents: Introduction: Thinking in notebook form, Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone; Conversations - Tate Britain, London;10 September 2004; Centre Georges Pompidou, La Maison Rouge, Paris; 5 October 2004; Anthony McCall Studio, New York; 3 March 2005; Ellard and Johnstone Studio, London; 25 March 2006; Ellard and Johnstone Studio, London; 20 March 2011; Gallerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris; 22 October 2013; Flims; Performances; Slide works; Chronological list of notebooks; Biographies.About the Author: Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone have collaborated since 1993. Their large-scale video installations and 16mm films, concerned with the parallels between film and architecture, have been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally, including Tate Liverpool; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Centre Pompidou; the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen; The Aichi Triennale, Nagoya and Tate Britain. Graham Ellard is Professor of Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Stephen Johnstone is Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.Reviews: 'The handsome volume Anthony McCall: Notebooks and Conversations ... is the kind of book that will increase in importance to students of art and art history over time ... it is the kind of invaluable document that will help us access his [McCall's] artworks in their own terms far into the future.' Jarrett Earnest, The Brooklyn Rail
'...this compendium offers readers a fascinating insight into the working methods and thought processes of this groundbreaking British artist...Illuminating.' StateF22Co-publisher: Published by Lund Humphries in association with Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Switzerlan
Dance, Film, Performance
No full textDance film performance
A live dance and 16mm film performance
Choreographer: Tony Thatcher
Dance Performer: Stephanie Bergé
Created in collaboration with Stephanie Bergé and Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone
Turner Contemporary, Margate.
Sunday 3 July 201
Edge Balance
No full textA live dance and two screen 16mm film performance
A collaboration between choreographer Tony Thatcher, Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone
Performed by Stephanie Bergé and Jessica Walker
Presented at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London.
Thursday February 2, 201
Dr Hannah Graham on Australian leadership: Integrity, relational leadership and tenacious courage of conviction
No full textHannah Graham talks to Victor Perton about Australian Leadership. Criminologist, author and university lecturer Dr Hannah Graham was born in Tasmania and studied and worked at the University of Tasmania, before moving to Scotland to work in the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Stirling. Hannah has worked on justice and health-related projects with the EU, the Scottish Government, the Australian Government and Tasmanian Government, and she does ongoing research and writing on innovation and justice. Connect to Hannah on Twitter: @DrHannahGraham and @Innovative_Jus
Wall of death/Geneva Express 12" vinyl record. Issued as a special edition for Touch. Issue 4. Inscription. The Journal of Material Text – Theory, Practice, History
No full textGraham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone’s record features the soundtracks from two of their large-scale video installations from the late 1990s. The first side is taken from Wall of Death [1979], which featured images and sounds from iconic car chase movies reedited, synchronised, and spun around a 25m 360-degree cyclorama screen, in an endless and futile battle. This re-edited and re-mastered version of the soundtrack slows down and combines the sounds of the chased and the chasing to make what was once sequential, synchronous. The result is an intense and chaotic montage that also suggests the cartoon-like and the darkly comic.
The second side of the record, Geneva Express, is the soundtrack to an installation that was first shown in the group exhibition 'Airport', curated by Film and Video Umbrella and the Photographers’ Gallery, London in 1997. Over a two-month period Ellard and Johnstone filmed the same Boeing 747 in and out of Gatwick Airport, London as it flew out to and returned from New York. Projected onto two opposing large-scale screens in the gallery space, the sound and image of the 747 appeared to travel through the space, as it approached, roared overhead, and receded into the distance. Here the soundtrack from the piece provides a surprising counterpoint to the chaos of Wall of Death as the regularity and rhythm of the take-offs and landings become strangely ambient and meditative.
Touch. Issue 4. Inscription. The Journal of Material Text – Theory, Practice, History
The theme of the fourth issue of Inscription is touch. The issue features articles from scholars and theorists on subjects ranging from 19th-century books for the blind; touching cursed books in special collections; handling Nabokov’s Pale Fire; to Hansjörg Mayer’s haptic books. Included in the issue there is also poetry by Veronica Groarke, a vinyl LP by Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone, and art editions by Jen Bervin, Erica Baum, Lenora de Barros, Yoko Ono, Natalie Czech, Harold Offeh, Mohamad Hafeda, Steve Ronnie, Alice Attie, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and others.
Limited edition of 500
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