I’m Only Human: online launch + artists’ Q&A: 10 December
We are thrilled to announce the online premiere of I’m Only Human – three short animations that that explore what it means to be human, made in the context of a pandemic.
The films are now live on Vimeo and Instagram.
At 6.30pm UK time today, Thursday, 10 December, we’ll be talking to artists Sebastian Buerkner, Kim Noce, and Daksha Patel, about their films, joined by Kim’s editor, Michael Ho, and composer Hutch Demouilpied, and creative coder Chris Ball, who worked with Daksha, to talk about their collaborations.
Zoom. Free. Register here.
Artists Sebastian Buerkner, Kim Noce, and Daksha Patel, take us from an exploration of the internal body, by way of the perceptive connections between our bodies and the world, to our external, social, lives.
The I’m Only Human commissions are produced in association with Phoenix, Leicester and QUAD Derby, and are supported by Arts Council England’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund.
Cities of Ladies (Kim Noce, 2020, 5’ 48”)
In the same breath (Daksha Patel, 2020, 3’ 13”)
Surge (Sebastian Buerkner, 2020, 4’ 37”)
Still above: in the same breath, Daksha Patel
Films
Sebastian Buerkner’s film, Surge, is a visual approximation surrounding the learning or relearning of sight through bionic implants.As we view diffuse and abstracted visuals, based on real footage, the soundtrack reveals that we’re sharing the experience of someone in a fictional medical experiment.
Kim Noce’s film City of Ladies, includes 25 voices from 16 countries, responding to an invitation to express their view for a new world, in a poetic documentary that explores, and acknowledges, the importance of personal viewpoint and individual ideologies of hope, and for change. The film has flat and 360 versions.
Daksha Patel’s film, in the same breath, focuses upon internal body imagery, accompanied by a soundtrack of heartbeats, breathing, swallowing. Hand drawings inspired by bio-medical imagery are animated, through creative coding, in response to the soundtrack data. Daksha says: “Coding and data seemed particularly relevant for the subject matter because the pandemic is made sense of through data and by using algorithms to model and predict future outbreaks.”
Biographies
Sebastian Buerkner was born in Berlin and lives and works in London. He has an MA from Chelsea College of Art and Design.
Solo exhibitions include Kunsthaus im KunstkulturQuartier Nuremberg, Germany; Tramway, Glasgow; Sketch, London; The Showroom Gallery, London; Whitechapel Project Space, London; and Art on the Underground at Canary Wharf. Group shows and screenings include: Tate; Site Gallery, Sheffield; Barbican; South London Gallery, London; and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. His 3D film The Chimera of M. won the Tiger Award for at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and was also was shortlisted for the European Film Awards.
Commissions include work for Channel 4’s Random Acts, AnimateTV and Tintype Gallery London’s Essex Road window projections series. His film The Chimera of M. won the Tiger Award for at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and was was shortlisted for the European Film Awards.
Kim Noce was born in Italy and lives and works in London. She studied at BRERA Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan and has an MA in Directing Animation from the National Film and Television School.
Her work has been broadcast on the BBC, Channel 4, FILM 4 and MTV, and screened extensively at international festivals, winning prizes at Chicago International Film Festival, London International Animation Festival, London Short Film Festival, and many more. Exhibitions include: TATE ‘Loud Tate Pendulum’: Truman Brewery, London; and London Design Festival.
Commissions include work for the Royal Opera House, Royal Albert Hall, Hull City of Culture and Southbank. She also teaches at London College of Communication and the National Film and Television School.
Daksha Patel lives and works in Manchester. She studied at Manchester Metropolitan University and has a PhD from Northumbria University.
Solo exhibitions include: Dundee Contemporary Arts; Paper2 Gallery, Manchester; Watermans, London; Horniman Musuem, London; and LifeSpace gallery, Dundee. Her Art in Manufacturing commission was shown at Queen Street Mill, Burnley, as part of the British Textile Biennial 2019.
Recent group exhibitions include: Coachworks, Ashford; The Ruskin, Lancaster; The Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary award at The Mall Galleries, London; Asia House Gallery, London; and Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester. Residencies include: University of Dundee; Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Hexham; and Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester.
This is the last of our Accelerate Sessions for 2020 – 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.
You can watch recordings of the Sessions here.
