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THE GREAT CURDLING

showed @ Matt’s Gallery London Friday 31st March

with a live performance of THE ERROR MODE

THE GREAT CURDLING is…

A new film, installation with live performances commissioned by
WHITSTABLE BIENNALE 2022

The Error Mode

a live musical sermon by
Jennet Thomas & The Curdles 
at Whitstable Biennale 2022

Not Yet Out Of the Wood

a commission for More Than Ponies

 is still screening Here now!


IT ONCE HAD A FACE

NOW IT WANTS ONE AGAIN

IS NOW showing ON 
MATTFLIX REPEATS

and screened IRL in January 2022 at

THE LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

It was first shown in London at:

Zero Kline & Coma

 then at

DEULGE CONTEMPORARY ART, CANADA

MORE INFO about the series that this work is part of HERE


THE MAN WHO WENT OUTSIDE

is currently still streaming as part of the IMPAKT Curated Channel here:

Love in the time of Corona


I was the SPOTLIGHT ARTIST at the

 Cologne Short Film Festival 2018

showing a program of works including alive performance of I AM YOUR ERROR MESSAGE.. and some older ones like THE ADVICE SHAPE

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Animal Condensed>Animal Expanded#1&2

showed as part of an immersive installation in London at

TINTYPE GALLERY from JUNE 14- JULY 14 2018

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 more info about these works also here

Trailer for #2 below (full length video is 14 minutes)

Trailer for #1 below (full length video is 7 minutes)

Here’s a perceptive Art-Monthly review by Maria Walsh of the Tintype show

And an equally penetrating one in Art Review Magazine by JJ Charlesworth

THE UNSPEAKABLE FREEDOM DEVICE

showed at Glasgow International at the Centre for Contemporary Arts on May 2nd

more info on this work

 is HERE


A TALE I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT

short film for ESSEX ROAD III

showed at  Tintype Gallery on  8th December – 14th January 2016

more info on the film Here show info HERE

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 2 live performances:

I AM YOUR ERROR MESSAGE

and a live version of

ANIMAL CONDENSED> ANIMAL EXPANDED #1

 at  EVP sessions shows in London (Shoreditch Town Hall 5th Nov ) and Liverpool (Bluecoat) 10th November 2016

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 UNSPEAKABLE FREEDOM

>> TASTES LIKE CHICKEN

A solo exhibition at Block 336, in London, Brixton in September- October 2016 featuring the long film work: The Unspeakable Freedom Device presented as  full scale installation and a new video work Animal Condensed>>Animal Expanded#1

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Info about the Block 336 show HERE

On 12th October at 7.00pm an in-conversation in the gallery with Professor Simon O’Sullivan and George Vasey. Recording HERE

TRAILER FOR THE UNSPEAKABLE FREEDOM DEVICE HERE:

More info on UNSPEAKABLE FREEDOM project HERE 

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THE UNSPEAKABLE FREEDOM DEVICE SHOWED as an installation at
UTAH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Salt Lake City, USA

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An experimental fiction book of the same name, published by Book Works buy it HERE

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Artists Behind BarsMatt’s
Gallery and X Marks the Bökship
Saturday 23 April 2016

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new performance work tested here at Acts RE-ACts

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THE UNSPEAKABLE FREEDOM DEVICE
screened all day at

Matt’s Gallery
Saturday 21st November as part of
G.S.O.H. The Rest is Dark, The Rest is Dark

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THE UNSPEAKABLE FREEDOM DEVICE

3rd July – 22 August 2015

AS AN EPIC INSTALLATION SHOW

AT

GRUNDY ART GALLERY BLACKPOOL

THE UNSPEAKABLE FREEDOM DEVICE is an experimental narrative film and multi screen/sculptural installation work that  occupies all of the 4 gallery spaces of GRUNDY.  The narrative follows two women through a bizarre, broken landscape of collapsing signs and imploding meanings, on a pilgrimage to the Winter Gardens, Blackpool to cure their green baby. Our characters become entangled in a cargo-cult of Margaret Thatcher and buy a Thatcher Doll which spouts  quotations when they pull its string. This project explores the idea of the image of Margaret Thatcher as an after-burn on the collective memory of our culture. In this fantastic, primitive-future world, the difference between technology and magic has become incomprehensible.  More info HERE…

On Saturday 5th July a one day Seminar at Grundy Gallery with Speakers  Martin Rowson ( Guardian Cartoonist) Esther Leslie (professor in political aesthetics) Sally O’Reilly, Jennifer Thatcher, Alwyn Turner and a new music/text performance work by Leo Chadburn .

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As a run-up to this show, the film toured to 4 artist-run venues around England in April 2015 with debates from speakers and audience, and live performance. Documentation of these events  HERE

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THE ADVICE SHAPE

Speculative Frictions

The Advice Shape- Nurse STOP

at Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, Canada

June 3 to 27, 2015

Speculative Frictions is a media installation exploring constructed cinematic landscapes, narratives restructured though repurposed footage/sound and tropes of speculative fiction and surrealism.
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ALL SUFFERING SOON TO END!

ALL SUFFERING SOON TO END!

showed at

Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artists’ Film and Video in Britain

2008–2013  Tate Britain, Clore Auditorium

on Monday 9th December

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I AM YOUR ERROR MESSAGE

 MAGIC EYE, at GRAND UNION, Birmingham

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Video + Installation+ live performance performance

with: Goodiepal, Luke McCreadie, Plastique Fantastique, Alexander Stevenson, Jennet Thomas

Je cherche en même temps l’éternel et l’éphémère

Seeking the eternal and the ephemeral in the nonsensical, abstract and mythical, Grand Union presents Magic Eye: a group exhibition of sculpture, installation and video, activated by a festival of performance, screenings and music.

The works have in common a self-consciously progressive reaching for the transcendental and a questioning of scientific or rational methodology and conventional ideas of knowledge.

The exhibition features the UK premier of Jennet Thomas’s new installation I AM YOUR ERROR MESSAGE. By turns absurd, amusing and unsettling, the video suggests malfunction and misinformation in Thomas’s anarchistic and bleakly humorous style. For the festival Thomas will enter into a dialogue with her video work.

13 July     – 10 August 2013 click HERE for full info (festival is on Sat 20th July)

This work also toured a number of venues in the US and UK including

REACTOR HALLS  THE DOUBLE NEGATIVE  HERE

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The Dark Horse Moving Picture Show

was a steaming, full-to-capacity success…

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FRIDAY 5th APRIL 2013

At the HORSE HOSPITAL

Collonade, Bloomsbury

London WC1N

Doors Open 7.30pm – show starts 8.00pm sharp – £4.00

The Dark Horse Moving Picture Show is a Film and Live Performance event by Jennet Thomas and Paul Tarragó featuring special guest Leo Chadburn (a.k.a.  Simon Bookish). It will premiere brand new Film/Performance/Music works by all three artists, as well as explore work from their extensive back catalogues of films and songs. This rich and strange cocktail of aesthetic pleasures, urgent ideas and cerebral experimentations will explore new hybrid territories that include a Mystery Event, and a Quiz with Prizes…

 

SCHOOL OF CHANGE- THE SHOW -was at  MATT’s GALLERY- did you miss it? Well here’s a 3 minute film exploring the sculptural/performative Installation

Below is the trailer for the  42 minute Sci-Fi Experimental musical  film  inside the installation .Here  on the Matt’s Gallery pages

CLICK HERE to read what the Guardian said

CLICK HERE TO READ AN ENTERTAINING AND INFORMATIVE  DIALOGUE ABOUT ‘SCHOOL OF CHANGE’ BETWEEN RACHEL WITHERS, LEO CHADBURN AND JENNET

The Live  Show: ‘SCHOOL OF CHANGE -the recruitment‘ was at Camden Arts Centre Dec 17th .. and outpost gallery October 26th

 

SCHOOL OF CHANGE is a new franchise of girls’ schools, existing in a post-apocalyptic future, so radical it threatens the working of reason itself. SCHOOL OF CHANGE attempts to shore up against this breakdown, to educate a new generation to adapt, building an alternative ‘hive mind’ that has a new, stronger kind of logic.

Each student’s learning is bio-technically monitored and assessed  through the Personal Circle lodged inside them. High-scoring pupils perform their learning through a rhythmic song and action practise: ‘the Production’. This trance-like group activity produces small solids – Units of Knowing – the currency through which the new economy tries to function.

This work is a musical collaboration with composer and performer Leo Chadburn (aka) Simon Bookish

Leo Chadburn (aka Simon Bookish) performs as Mr New Structures-

SCHOOL OF CHANGE is a project that collides genres and ideas; a sci-fi musical + experimental narrative film, based in another reality where a number of rapid changes; geographical, organic, mathematical – even mutations in the workings of reason itself- are threatening the viability of human society.

‘ Echo vs Gown ‘

Performed on June 18th as part of ‘This is not a Performance or a Lecture’ for RADAR Was apparently a HIT…so we  did it again…on Monday 17th  October I  was commissioned by RADAR to make a new work for their  programme ‘This Is Not A Performance or a Lecture!’ presented on Saturday 18th June 2011,  at a kind of festival of 7 of these commissions around the campus at Loughborough University. Other artists include Janice Kerbel and  Pil and Galia Collectiv.  ‘ECHO vs. GOWN’ takes two very different local texts as its material starting point; the Loughborough Echo newspaper, and the Loughborough University website ( specialist subject: Sport Science and Systems Engineering) A dialectic-cum- duel will be fought as a 2-handed illustrated lecture between the costumed personifications ‘Echo’ and ‘Gown’; a live collage of absurd collisions in rhetoric, sound, text and image, mining through explosions the latent ideologies, varied human aspirations and mysteries of Loughborough life. The methodology is poetic, analytical and mischievous, sometimes making hard sense, sometimes making a structured anarchy of sense-making nonsense.

Life of the Mind

at New Art Gallery Walsall 21 January – 20 March 2011

http://www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition/the-life-of-the-mind-lovesorrow-and-obsession

My Video installation ‘Return of the Black Tower [after John Smith]’ showed from January to March 2011 as part of ‘ The Life of the Mind’ at New Art Gallery Walsall, curated by Bob and Robetra Smith. Watch the complete video here

Click HERE for info about the work as a Solo show at PEER in 2007

‘Return of the Black Tower [after John Smith]’