In Production

Event: Friday 20 January 2012, 6pm

Open to public - admission free

OUTPOST event proudly presents In Production, an event series offering a platform for artists currently developing new video work, which has been hosted by Nottingham Contemporary since July 2010 as part of their Public Programme. The events are intended as opportunities for artists to enter into discussions about work they are still in the process of resolving with an audience who are encouraged to interrogate and offer constructive feedback.

For this event in collaboration with OUTPOST Gallery, In Production will present the work of two artists, Candice Jacobs and Louis Henderson, selected from the Midlands and East Anglia respectively. A guest speaker, Aaron Juneau, will enter into a short Q&A with the artists to open up the themes of their work and encourage audience participation.

Candice Jacobs’ works incorporate sound, images, and text that use repetition as a means of production. Many works are displayed after a process of manipulation; cutting and splicing or re-editing footage from television, the internet or found audio; conducting interviews with the intention of extracting information; working with situations linked to labour and work, marketing and advertising, or re-appropriating observations that are linked to the control or manipulation of small pockets of society.

Louis Henderson’s films are both documentary and essayistic whilst progressing these historicised forms through a research based practice, utilising photography and text as tools allowing the films to engage with history, politics and anthropology. The combination of these elements creates works that anatomize the cultural and material remains of society. Henderson views his work as archaeological; focusing on the signatures of the archaic in the contemporary.

Aaron Juneau is a writer, curator and Co-director of YH485, an independent publishing and curatorial initiative conceived in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Recent projects include an artists seaside holiday and a VW campervan turned mobile art library. He is currently working in collaboration with The Wildlife Trust towards a residency programme at Dukes Wood in Eakring, Nottinghamshire, one of the first on shore oil fields in the UK.

In Production is a project curated by Beth Bramich initiated to support video art in the Midlands. Previous speakers have included Blue Firth, Esther Johnson, Alexander Stevenson, Ian Nesbitt, Alan Armstrong, Ellie Harrison, Ben Judd, Tether, Katy Woods, Jeff Baker and Alia Pathan.

This event is part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and Legacy Trust UK, along with Arts Council England.