As part of the exhibition H‑E-L-L‑O, currently on show at Collective’s City Dome, seminal American filmmaker Cauleen Smith will lead an in-person screening and discussion around the creative potential of improvisation in film making.
The discussion will centre on Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One (1968), the landmark experimental film by director William Greaves. The film playfully toes the line between fiction and reality, art and artifice; beginning in New York’s Central Park with an argument between a couple, a documentary crew films the crew who are filming the movie, whilst Greaves adopts the role of clueless artist. Cauleen will introduce, present and reflect on clips from the film as well as examples of improvising in her own filmmaking, opening up questions around how improvisation can be produced and worked through and what this produces as an experience for the viewer.
The seminar is open to artists working with the moving image based in Scotland. Places are limited and booking in advance is essential.
This workshop is part of Shifting Tactics is a series of free workshops programmed by Collective and LUX Scotland in direct response to the last two years of lockdowns. These workshops aim to support artists to move on from this period of cancelled exhibitions, closed workshops and the reduction of the important in-person conversations between artists that would have been formative experiences for early career artists under different circumstances.
Led by artists and aimed at artists who are trying to develop their practices, the workshops aim to create a shared space of care and support. Participants will be encouraged to question and explore conditions that impact the practices of early-career artists in particular. What skills do artists need to navigate and challenge the practical, theoretical, organisational and economic concerns that they face?
Drawing on artists’ experiences, the workshops encourage participants to challenge their thinking around ideas of success; question existing art sector structures and‘opportunities’; challenge their own systems; imagine what alternatives could exist and devise strategies to enact them.
Access
A small access fund is available for applicants.
Fund for Childcare, Carers & Support Workers
Support towards the cost of childcare, carers or support workers is available on a first come first served basis to support you to attend any of the events within our Shifting Tactics programme. This is a limited fund that we will try to spread across different sessions. We will pay you £15 per 1 hour session.
The money will be paid directly into your bank account (alternative arrangements can be made if required). Please make your own arrangements as we are unable to book childcare, carers or support workers on your behalf.
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For this workshop please be in touch by 22 April 2022. We may need to close the fund earlier if it runs out before this date, so please get in touch as soon as you can.
Fund for Travel
Support towards travel to the workshop for applicants based in Scotland is available on a first come first serve basis.
To access this fund please email email hidden; JavaScript is required and let us know where you are traveling to and from, and a quote for how much this would cost, then you will be sent an expenses form.
For this workshop please be in touch by 22 April 2022. We may need to close the fund earlier if it runs out before this date, so please get in touch as soon as you can.
Additional Access Support
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About Cauleen Smith
Cauleen Smith is an American filmmaker and multimedia artist living in Los Angeles. Her work reflects upon the everyday possibilities of the imagination. For over three decades she has employed radical thinking to envision a better world through film, video, sculpture, textiles, installations and drawings. Bringing together themes of historic erasure, presence and loss, Smith believes in the redemptive and transformative power of art, music and text.
Her films, objects and installations have been featured in group exhibitions including the Whitney Biennial (2017), Prospect 4, New Orleans (2017), Studio Museum Harlem; the Contemporary Art Museum Houston; the New Museum, New York; and BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. She has had solo exhibitions at MASS MoCA; the Art Institute of Chicago; Institute for Contemporary Art Pennsylvania; the Museum of Contemporary, Chicago and upcoming at Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston and a two-person exhibition with Theaster Gates at the San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art.
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