Peter Doig, Man with a Camera 2013
Shezad Dawood film still from A Mystery Play 2010
Bonnie Camplin film still from Terrazzo 2008
Clio Barnard The Arbor 2010 video still
Patrick Keiller Robinson in Ruins 2010: Xanthoria parietina on road sign, March 2008 video still
Andrew Kötting An History of Civilisation 2010 video still
Jennet Thomas, All Suffering SOON TO END! 2010 Video still
Pablo Bronstein, Constantinople Kaleidoscope 2012
Magali Reus Background 2009 HD video still
Mikhail Karikis & Uriel Orlow, Sounds From Beneath 2010–12, video still
Screenings take place at Tate Britain in the Clore Auditorium: on Sundays, feature length films are shown, and on Mondays curated programmes of shorter films are followed by discussions with invited speakers and the artists. Each weekly theme suggests a contested area of practice and prompts a dialogue that continues from one screening to the next, encouraging discussion and debate about contemporary film and video.
The development of digital technology in particular has impacted the distribution, aesthetics and accessibility of film. The popularity of artists’ film and video has surged during the last decade with screenings occurring in numerous venues from galleries to film festivals, from television to online.
The series champions internationally acclaimed single-screen work made over the last five years. Assembly is a unique opportunity to consider what is being produced here and now, throwing into relief and celebrating differences across various artists’ practices in the medium.
Assembly: A Survey of Artists’ Film and Video in Britain is curated by Stuart Comer, formerly Tate, now chief curator Media and Performance, MoMA; George Clark, Tate Modern; and Melissa Blanchflower, Tate Britain; with independent curators Simon Payne and Andrew Vallance.
