Fed from the fiery springs

United by an engagement with the elemental forces of nature on volcanic islands and city streets, Fed from the fiery springs is a programme of artists’ moving image with a new performative lecture from Glasgow based artist Ilana Halperin.

Coinciding with Joan Jonas’s major exhibition at Tate Modern, the programme offers a rare chance to see Jonas’s Volcano Saga (1989) featuring Tilda Swinton in an imaginative retelling of 13^th century Icelandic myths, alongside Trisha Baga and Jessie Stead’s take on the conventions of the spaghetti western on a volcanic island in Stromboli (2014) and Cinthia Marcelle’s stoked up tension at a zebra-crossing in Confronto (2005).

The programme will close with a new performative lecture inspired by artist Ilana Halperin’s longstanding geological research. Minerals of New York (2018) sees Halperin work with 18 photographs of the Upper West-side Manhattan street where she grew up, taken by her mother in 1986 prior to its demolition during a wave of gentrification.

Programme:

Joan Jonas, Volcano Saga, 1989. SD Digital File, 29 min.Trisha Baga and Jessie Stead, Stromboli, 2014. SD Digital File, 10 min.Cinthia Marcelle, Confronto, 2005. SD Digital File, 8 min.Ilana Halperin, Minerals of New York, 2018. Performance, 30 min.

Total running time: 77 min.

Fed from the fiery springs has been selected by independent curator and writer Graham Domke, who will give a short introduction to the programme.

Part of GFT’s Crossing the Line strand.

Graham Domke, formerly of Dundee Contemporary Arts and Inverleith House, Edinburgh is a freelance curator and writer. He recently curated the exhibition Chamber of Maiden Thought in the new Glasgow studio/​gallery Plant, inspired by an 1818 letter by the poet John Keats. His inspiration for Fed from the fiery springs is a Piero di Cosimo painting in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin and Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising.