Artists' Moving Image Festival 2019 Dates and Programmers Announced

Part of Artists’ Moving Image Festival

Courtesy of Matthew Arthur Williams.

Tramway and LUX Scotland are pleased to announce that the eighth edition of the annual Artists’ Moving Image Festival (AMIF) will take place at Tramway on Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 November 2019. AMIF was established in 2012 to provide a platform for the discussion and presentation of artists’ moving image, showcasing forms of production and research alongside screenings and discursive events.

This year’s festival will be programmed by Emmie McLuskey, Kimberley O’Neill, and Ima-Abasi Okon.

AMIF is presented and produced as a collaboration between Tramway and LUX Scotland, funded by Creative Scotland as part of Tramway’s core programme with additional support from LUX. The AMIF Residency is generously supported by Cove Park.

Emmie McLuskey is an artist based in Glasgow. Recent projects include these were the things that made the step familiar, Collective Edinburgh, To: my future body, with Janice Parker, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; The Perfect, Perfect Look with Jude Browning and Amelia Barratt, Glasgow International Festival and PAC Festival, Marseille. In 2017/​18 Emmie has been in residence at Hospitalfield Arts Arbroath, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin and Creative Lab CCA, Glasgow. In 2019 she published A Strange American Funeral with Freya Field- Donovan and this Summer she will be in residence and exhibit at Dogo Residenz für Neue Kunst, Lichtensteig.

Kimberley O’Neill is an artist and filmmaker based in Glasgow. Recent activities include: Enigma Body Tech, Collective Edinburgh, 2019, Technologies of the Self, screening and discussion with SUPERLUX,2019; Cinenova: Now Showing, The Showroom, London, 2018; Circuits of Bad Conscience, The Telfer Gallery, Glasgow, 2017; and Conatus TV, Edinburgh Art Festival, 2016. Kimberley was shortlisted for the Margaret Tait Award 2017/​18, and is currently a lecturer in Communication Design at Glasgow School of Art.

Ima-Abasi Okon lives and works between London and Amsterdam. Selected exhibitions include: Infinite Slippage: nonRepugnant Insolvencies T!-a!-r!-r!-y!-i!-n!-g! as Handclaps of M’s Hard’Loved’Flesh [I’M irreducibly undone because] —Leanage-Complex-Dub Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK, The Weather Garden: Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; Sur— [MIX-USE COMMODITY] —plus, Kingsgate Project Space, London; Parables for the BLAZER: Mahalia’s EXCISTENCEandEXISTENTS-HyPE fragrant stacking balm (306.HAL), Plaza Plaza, London; 13th Dak’Art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal; There’s something in the conversation that is more interesting than the finality of (a title), The Showroom, London (all 2018); UNTITLED: Art on the Conditions of Our Time, New Art Exchange, Nottingham (2017); and OUTPOST Members’ Show 2016, Norwich (2016). In 2018, she was awarded both the Nigel Greenwood Research Prize and the Summer Residency at Hospitalfield, Scotland. She is currently participating in the residency programme at Rijksakademie voor beeldende kunsten (Academy for fine arts), Amsterdam.

Part of Artists’ Moving Image Festival

LUX Scotland and Tramway’s annual Artists’ Moving Image Festival (AMIF)

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