Rachel Maclean, Germs (2013), digital video, 3 minutes, commission by Bold Yin for Channel 4 Random Acts, courtesy the artist
Rachel Maclean, Germs (2013), digital video, 3 minutes, commission by Bold Yin for Channel 4 Random Acts, courtesy the artist
Rohini Devasher, Atmospheres (2015) Courtesy Project 88
Rohini Devasher, Atmospheres (2015) Courtesy Project 88
Past Exhibition
29 January – 3 April 2016
Throughout 2016, Artists’ Film International explores the theme of technologies, coinciding with the major exhibition Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966).
Selected by the Whitechapel Gallery, Scottish artist Rachel Maclean‘s pastel coloured dystopias explore parallel worlds. Germs (2013) follows a glamorous female protagonist through a series of commercials, as she becomes increasingly paranoid about the omnipresence of microscopic germs.
Atmospheres (2015) by Rohini Devasher imagines the interconnectedness of things, as we look up from Earth through a decametre wave radio telescope at the Gauribidanur Observatory near Bangalore, India. The work was selected by Project 88 in Mumbai.
Artists’ Film International is a collaborative project established by the Whitechapel Gallery in 2008, featuring film, video and animation from around the world.
A partnership between 16 global partner organisations, the programme brings together recent works which are presented over the course of a year in each venue.
Partner organisations are:
The Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade; Video-Forum (n.b.k), Berlin; GAMeC, Bergamo; Fundacion PRÓA, Buenos Aires; Hanoi/DOCLAB, Hanoi; Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong; Istanbul Modern, Istanbul; Centre for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan (CCAA), Kabul; MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas; National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; Project 88, Mumbai; Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway; Cinematheque de Tanger, Tangier and Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.
