TRIAD

• TRIAD presents ‘You Can Only Understand From A Distance’, a series of screenings and talks by six international women artists from the UK, US, Israel and Venezuela
• The exhibiting artists are Antonia Wright (USA), Charlotte Ginsborg (UK), Einat Amir (Israel), Lucia Pizzani (Venezuela), RMP Projects (USA) and Sarah Turner (UK)
• The project aims to spark debate around how social, political and gender issues are presented via moving image work and through the prism of being a woman
• Each Wednesday, during six weeks, TRIAD will present a screening of one or more video works by each of the participating artists, followed by an artist Q&A or panel discussion
• The project is organized in collaboration with The Screening Room Miami
• The project launches with a screening of short videos by Lucia Pizzani followed by a Q&A with the artist at TRIAD, 28 Field St, London WC1X 9DA from 18:30 – 21:00 on 23 March 2016
• For further information and images, please contact anya.harrison@kallaway.com

TRIAD presents You Can Only Understand From A Distance with the aim of providing a dedicated space for showcasing women artists working across film and video, emphasising their approach to moving image practice. Presenting a number of videos by six internationally acclaimed artists who map out different cultural approaches to topics such as politics, conflict, society, intimacy and nature, You Can

Only Understand From A Distance taps into the question of whether a gendered gaze is also at play here.

Over the course of six weeks starting from 23 March, TRIAD will stage a weekly public screening programme accompanied by artist talks and panel discussions. An invitation for open discussion and debate, the project aims to analyse, question and challenge how social, political and cultural issues are appropriated by a male-driven society, both in the art world and beyond.

You Can Only Understand From A Distance will launch with a screening of short video works by London-based Venezuelan artist Lucia Pizzani. Fusing images of nature and the female body, Pizzani creates highly sensual and seductive visual metaphors that address women’s struggle for liberation from socially imposed roles from the early twentieth century through to today.

Miami-based RPM Projects’ 2407 – The House Inside My Head (2012), originally a multimedia interactive installation and performance, overlays everyday images associated with female domesticity – folding laundry and linen – to raise awareness of how this mundane everyday chore can transcend into a different level of consciousness and meditation (screened on 30 March). The piece was inspired by the public flurry of reactions to an article by Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article ‘Why Women Still Can’t Have It All’ (2012).

Social structures and socio-political issues are the key focus for Antonia Wright and Einat Amir. Inspired by the Futurist artist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s texts, Suddenly We Jumped (2014) is a performance for video in which Wright continuously smashes through a sheet of glass with her naked body which is transformed into a mechanized weapon to be catapulted into the air (screened on 6 April). The ongoing performance piece Are You OK?(2011 onward) explores the concept of social structures and tests our rules of behaviour within different systems as the artist films herself breaking into tears in public spaces around the world, from Havana to New York and Paris. Einar Amir’s I’ll be your guide for this session (2013) is the video version of her performance Our Best Intentions which was premiered at Performa 13 in New York (screened on 13 April). Shot in a professional film studio, I’ll be your guide for this session explores how authentic encounters between people transform and reveal themselves when situated in a highly controlled environment.

Charlotte Ginsborg’s video Opponent (2013-16), a commission by Channel4 and Film London (FLAMIN), fuses boxing and dance to present a hybrid choreographic performance that explores two very different expressions of masculinity through these dichotomous forms of movement (screened on 20 April). The project concludes with the screening of Public House (2015), a feature-length film by British artist and filmmaker Sarah Turner (screened on 27 April). Taking the 2012 sale of the Ivy House pub in Peckham to property developers as its point of departure, Turner created a genre-blending documentary that turns community action into an exhilarating participatory opera. The activism that saved the pub is a metaphor for social and creative agency.

Organised in collaboration with The Screening Room Miami, You Can Only Understand From A Distance continues TRIAD’s mission to promote cultural diversity within local and artistic communities through dialogue and debate.

LISTINGS

Screenings:You Can Only Understand From A Distance
Dates: 23 March – 27 April 2016; every Wednesday

Lucia Pizzani, 23 March 2016, 6-9pm, followed by a talk with the artist and art historian and curator Rodrigo Orrantia

RPM Projects, 30 March 2016, 6-9pm, followed by a talk with art historian and curator Rodrigo Orrantia

Antonia Wright, 6 April 2016, 6-9pm, followed by a talk by art historian and curator Laura Leuzzi (University of Dundee)

Einat Amir, 13 April 2016, 6-9pm

Charlotte Ginsborg, 20 April 2016, 6-9pm, followed by a talk with the artist

Sarah Turner, 27 April 2016, 6-9pm, followed by a talk with the artist

Venue: TRIAD, 28 Field St, London WC1X 9DA

Tel: +44 (0)741 185 2575 or +44 (0)788 203 1137

Timings: 6-9pm with artist Q&A or panel discussion at 7.30pm

Entry: Free

For further information on artist talks and panel discussions please visit TRIAD.  

Notes to Editors 

Media contacts:

Website: thetriad.org.uk

Twitter: twitter.com/TRIADLONDON

Facebook: facebook.com/TRIADLONDON

Instagram: instagram.com/TRIAD_LONDON

 

About the Artists

Antonia Wright (b. 1979, USA)

Antonia Wright explores the various politics and comic facets of contemporary life 

through a multidisciplinary practice that blurs the boundaries between live performance, video, photography, sculpture, poetry, and perception. With extreme attention to esthetic quality, her work brings everything to the body to create powerful visual metaphors that at times appear ambivalent but are never obscure. Wright acknowledges the layers of societal taboos and barriers between her artistic choices, and pointedly pushes them into the public realm for the viewer to examine and assimilate 

Antonia Wright graduated from the New School University in New York City with an MFA in Poetry as well as at the International Center of Photography. She has exhibited in the U.S. and abroad and has been awarded artists residencies both nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at The Screening Room (Miami, FL), Spinello Projects (Miami, FL), Luis de Jesus Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), NSU Art Museum Ft. Lauderdale, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens (Miami, FL), Art@Work at the Mosquera Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami. Other exhibitions include Pioneer Works (Brooklyn, NY), Ping Pong (Basel, Switzerland), The Faena Arts Center (Buenos Aires, Argentina), The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, The National Gallery of Art (Nassau, Bahamas), The Tampa Museum of Art with the Hadley Martin Fisher Collection, Aeroplastics (Brussels, Belgium), and The Cisneros-Fontanals Foundation (CIFO). In April 2012, she became the first artist-in-residence at the Lotus House Shelter for women and children in Overtown, Miami. 

Wright’s work has been presented in publications including The New York Times, Artforum’s Critics’ Picks, Art In America, New York Magazine, Daily News, Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and The Art Newspaper.

Charlotte Ginsborg(b. 1974, UK)

Charlotte Ginsborg is a London based filmmaker. She graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in 2002. Her films interweave documentary, fictional, and performative elements to explore people’s psychological relationship to their jobs and working architectural environments. Her 16mm films and videos have been screened and exhibited nationally and internationally including: the Whitechapel Gallery, the Serpentine Gallery, ICA, and Camden Arts Centre, London, the Walker Institute, Minneapolis, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Her film, ‘Over The Bones’ was nominated for the Tiger Shorts Competition at the Rotterdam Film Festival. She received a Film London FLAMIN Production Award in 2011 to produce ‘Melior Street’ which premiered at the Belfast Film Festival in 2012. Her most recent film ‘Opponent’ was broadcast on Channel4 as part of their Random Acts Series. She also works as a freelance director making documentary films that have been commissioned by Arts Council England, Project Art Works, and Moto Roti. Her films are distributed by The LUX. 

Einat Amir (b. 1979, Israel)

Einat Amir works in the media of video installation and live performance. She received her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2009.

Amir’s work is infused by a great interest in contemporary social-political issues. She aims to set reality against fiction and confronts the viewer with choices, encouraging her audience to shape their own destiny and set their own limits. Amir’s work has been shown at; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; PERFORMA13, New York; Palais De Tokyo, Paris; Istanbul Museum of Modern Art; Whitechapel Gallery, London; The Kitchen, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde; VOLTA, Basel; VOLTA, NY; Scaramouche Gallery, New York; Winzavod Art Center, Moscow; Bergen Kunsthall; Dallas Contemporary Art Center, Texas; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; Haifa Museum of Art Israel; Bat Yam Museum of Art, Israel; Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv; CareOf gallery, Milan; Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris; MLAC, Rome; Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö; Städtische Galerie, Bremen; Scope Art Fair (featured project), presented by Triad, Miami and Digital Art Center, Hulon.

Lucia Pizzani(b. 1975, Venezuela) 

Lucia’s work revolves around issues of gender, body, and a lifelong interest in nature. This combination also feeds from the various studies she has done of Visual Communication, Conservation Biology and Fine Arts. In recent years she has been developing a visual approach that uses photography, performance, installation, sculpture and video. In these various processes she tackles issues addressed by the Surrealists and body art of the seventies linking it to today from a research-based practice. She seeks stories, literary and artistic references in significant periods both in Europe and South America, mixing various aesthetics, cultures and historical characters.

RPM Projects(Marina Font, b. 1970, Argentina; Rhonda Mitrani, b. 1973, USA; Patricia Schnall-Gutierrez, b. 1978, USA. 

Marina, Rhonda and Patricia, while independent of one another and expressed in different mediums, utilize similar threads of gesture and theme.  Together, they explore how feminine ritual transcends into the mainstream, so that an awareness of a culturally constructed world is deconstructed by our unique experiences. 

They arrive from three different ages, covering a broad perception of life through a daughter, a mother and a grandmother. Their multi-media installations create a back and forth between boundaries of time, history, culture and levels of consciousness. They create metaphoric realities that address social issues of feminine culture.

Sarah Turner (b. 1967, UK)

Sarah Turner is an artist who writes and makes films. Her work spans single screen gallery pieces (rooted in the formal preoccupations of the avant-garde from which she emerged) to feature length projects that explore the interplay between abstraction and narration.

Her feature films Ecology (2007) and Perestroika (2009) are characterized by 

explorations of technologies, experimental approaches to writing and an engagement with experiences of narrative, immersion and embodiment within the long form film. Together with her new feature, Public House (2015), these three films form a trilogy of concerns that are broadly linked through ideas of ecologies: psychic, environmental and social.

All of her films have toured nationally and internationally and several have been broadcast through artists’ showcases on Channel 4. Sarah has had feature scripts commissioned by the British Film Institute, Film Four Lab and Zephyr Films. 

She was the writer in residence in the Dept of English and Related Literature at the University of York (2004). In the same year she received a Small Grant for the Creative and Performing Arts from the AHRC in order to investigate and produce an alternative to a script-based filmmaking practice through an innovative, location based process that exploits the responsive potential of digital video technologies. 

Prior to her appointment at Kent Sarah was prominently involved in public life as a curator: In 1997 she curated (with Jon Thompson) the launch season of the cinema at the LUX CENTRE; the most important centre for the production, distribution and exhibition of artist’s moving image work in Europe.  Prior to this she curated: Hygiene and Hysteria: The body desired and the body debased; touring programmes of Artists film and video for the Arts Council of England, as well as programmes for Tate Gallery and the National Film Theatre. 

About TRIAD 

TRIAD: TOWARDS REGIONAL INTEGRATION OF ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT

TRIAD is a registered charity in England and Wales that aims to promote contemporary visual arts and their appreciation and development for public benefit. 

As a not-for-profit organisation based in London, TRIAD collaborates with museums, cultural organizations and galleries to exhibit emerging and mid-career artists internationally.

TRIAD supports emerging and mid-career artists, to further their progression within the arts sector and art market. With an experienced curatorial committee TRIAD selects artists of conceptual and aesthetic value, commissioning exceptional projects and works of quality. A central concern is supporting the promotion of cultural diversity within local and artistic communities by commissioning and exhibiting artists from different cultural regions. TRIAD provides audiences with the opportunity to develop their cultural and social awareness through the medium of art.

About The Screening Room, Miami

The Screening Room is a new media exhibition and project space located in Miami’s Wynwood Art District. Video artist, filmmaker and Miami native Rhonda Mitrani
recognized a need in the community for a multi-disciplinary space dedicated to film and video programs, lectures and gatherings. 

Rhonda Mitrani began her career at Miramax Films and became an editor for Film/TV in New York. In Miami she worked with MTV Networks Latin America and co-founded The Florida Room Documentary Film Festival. As a director, her film Cuba Mia traveled through festivals and later aired on PBS. Rhonda’s video artwork has been exhibited in galleries and art fairs and her multi-media collaborative RMP Project is represented by Dot Fifty One Gallery. Rhonda focuses on telling socially conscious and inspiring visual stories as a video artist, filmmaker and now as the director of The Screening Room.

The Screening Room is located in the Mitrani Warehouse, (2626 NW 2^nd Avenue, Wynwood) where Rhonda and her sister Dina converted their family’s clothing factory into a center for creative thinking.