DARK AND DARING (part ii)
22 – 25 MARCH 2006
ST MARY-AT-THE-QUAY CHURCH
Four evenings of media-based moving image and artists’ films

After the very successful first Dark and Daring (part i) in 2005, Visual Arts Ipswich organised a bigger and better event for 2006.

WEDNESDAY 22 MARCH

REGIONAL ARTISTS’ SHORT FILMS
Featured an eclectic mix of short films by Liam Frankland, Alistair Gentry, Tess Glanville, Ian Harris, Tim Holmes, Katherine Hymers, Olga Jurgenson, Caroline Livingstone-Wright, Jay Miller, Alex Pearl, Katherine Tydeman, Caroline Wright, Simon Wild. At the end the night, there was a live performance of new work from both Tim Holmes and Simon Wild and D.I.N., a group of musicians collaborating with video artist Dan Tombs.

THURSDAY 23 MARCH

MARK DIXON: NETWORK
Mark was exploring art and technology during his residency in 2006 with Wysing Arts Centre and The Technology Partnership in Melbourne, both in Cambridgeshire. Network is an aerial microchip sculpture that forms a network of wirelessly connected circuits. He developed this into an interactive piece, triggered by mobile phones. Visitors came with their mobile phones and rang the sculpture on the night. They saw a plume of led lighting from dozens of tiny independent receivers and transmitters light up above the altar.

FRIDAY 24 MARCH

ARTISTS’ FILMS FROM LUX, LONDON
An introduction into what was happening in the world of moving image, artists’ films and animation. A diverse, challenging but above all entertaining selection of short works held in Lux’s collection.
Running order:
David Blandy, Emotional Conduct, 2004
Semiconductor, All the time in the World, 2005
Mark Aeriel Waller, Glow Boys, 1999
People Like Us, Story without an end, 2005
Simon Faithfull, 13, 2004
Kayla Parker, Sunset Strip, 1996
William Raban, Sundial, 1992
Paul Bush, While Darwin Sleeps, 2004
Miranda Pennell, Fisticuffs, 2004
Lux is a major archive for artists moving image work, including film, new media, online moving image, animation and video for more information see www.lux.org.uk

SATURDAY 25 MARCH

ANDREW HERMAN: DO AND DIE
Do and Die is a reinterpretation of a chapter in the New Testament: "The temptation of Jesus in the wilderness", in which the devil challenges Jesus to prove himself The Son of God, by commanding him to make bread from rocks. In Andrew’s reinterpretation, the characters and concepts in this text are replaced by ones that he could relate to better as an artist: God is replaced by Art, “The Artist” replaces Jesus and Jordan becomes London. The language the church uses has always fascinated Andrew. Its powerful use of metaphor and metaphysical narrative, in the attempt to give a meaning to life however fantastic and far-fetched.