Accelerate Sessions: Edge of Frame II: Stretching the Frame: Human After All
In the second of our Accelerate Sessions in partnership with Edge of Frame, international artists Cheng-Hsu Chung (Taiwan/Berlin), Wednesday Kim (South Korea/USA) and Amy Lockhart (Canada), discuss their vibrant, absurd and transgressive work in animation and beyond, with Dr Lilly Husbands.
Edge of Frame: Stretching the Frame: Human After All
Thursday, 15 October 2020
6pm UK, Zoom
Free. Spaces Limited. Register here: https://bit.ly/3l6CdMC
Supported by Arts Council England’s Emergency Response Fund.
Three of the most exciting contemporary artist animators working today come together to discuss their work, its contexts and connections. With overlapping interests in internet culture, the absurd, and the endless potential of animation to distort the human body, these three artists are unafraid to take the medium into intense, outrageous and exhilarating extremes. The talk will explore how the three artists have navigated their inspirational animation practices.
Check out the artists’ work (some exclusive!) in advance at Edge of Frame.
Still above: Nobody perceived me entering the Disequilibrium room, Wednesday Kim, 2015
Amy Lockhart is a filmmaker and artist. Her animations have screened at festivals nationally and internationally, including the British Film Institute, N.Y. Anthology Film Archives, Ann Arbor Film Festival and International Animation Festival in Hiroshima, Japan. Her drawings, comics and paintings have been published by Fantagraphics (Ditch Life, 2020), Drawn & Quarterly (Dirty Dishes, 2009), and by Colour Code (Looking Inward, 2016).
Cheng-Hsu Chung is a Taiwanese animation director based in Berlin. Chung’s artistic practise focuses on using surreal images and character performances to articulate the changing nature of emotion, modern love relationships and the queer community.
Wednesday Kim is an interdisciplinary artist and a co-founder of De:Formal Online Gallery. She is from Seoul, South Korea, She studied in School of Visual Arts in New York and is currently based out of Alaska.
Dr Lilly Husbands is writer and researcher, broadly concerned with the legacy and evolution of experimental animation in the context of contemporary multimedia practice. She has a PhD in Film Studies from King’s College London and has published chapters and articles on experimental animation in journals including Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), Frames Cinema Journal, and Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media. She is an associate editor of Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal and co-editor of Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital (Routledge, 2019). She teaches at Middlesex University.
Curated by Edwin Rostron who runs Edge of Frame, a blog and ongoing programme of screening events focusing on experimental animation, including two Edge of Frame Weekends, each featuring over 50 international animation artists at BFI Southbank, Whitechapel Gallery, Close Up and Barbican. Edwin’s own films have been shown extensively at festivals internationally, including Ann Arbor Film Festival, GLAS, Pictoplasma and Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation. He has been a visiting artist at CalArts and at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest and is a tutor on the Animation Programme at the Royal College of Art.
Accelerate Sessions is a series of online conversations with animation artists, programmers, producers and curators, in partnership with London International Animation Festival, Edge of Frame, Animated Documentary, and the British Council. The next Sessions are: on curating experimental animation on 21 October (11am) and on animated documentary, programmed by Alys Scott-Hawkins and Ellie Land at Animated Documentary, on 4 November. More details soon.
