Carrie Skinner & Alexander Storey Gordon: 'When I get that feeling'

This screening will be accompanied by a performative introduction.

'When I get that feeling' features a dark blue 1983 Mercedes-Benz limousine. Usually at the service of cinematic action, the car is instead reframed as the central character. Out of this former prop we draw narrative and dramatic potential.

The film was developed during a time of stillness and urgency that was reminiscent of teenagehood.

When things were still, we had more time and space. The feeling of being a teenager came back to us; the tension of being caught between reality and imagination. 'When I get that feeling' is a tribute to teenage dreams, to hours of watching MTV and the urgent desire to be somewhere you are not.

The film was shot quickly over two days in the spirit of music video production; gathering as many ideas and images as possible before assembling a narrative arc during the editing process. When I get that feeling uses anecdote and cover versions to acknowledge how we borrow from cinema and music to give shape to our emotions and help us articulate them.

Programme:

18:35: Performative introduction (15 mins)

18:50: When I get that feeling (12 mins)

19:02: Finish

Carrie Skinner (b.1987, Birmingham, UK) is a visual artist working with performance. She is into figuring out contemporary cultural relationships with time and its multiple concepts through popular imagery and themes from Gothic and Science-Fiction genres. She has been getting to grips with an experimental performance practice that switches between the languages and conventions of gallery and theatre, and getting over excited by the contradictions of presenting, documenting and archiving the ephemeral moment of performance. Recent projects include; ​‘let the music play on and on and on and on and on and on and on’, CCA, Glasgow, 2019; ​‘on the waves of the air, there’s dancing out there’ Glasgow International Festival, 2018; ​‘woah oh oh oh, on the radio ‑adio –adio’, Radiophrenia, Glasgow, 2017.

Alexander Storey Gordon (b. 1988, Cambridge, UK) lives and works in Glasgow Scotland. He makes drawings, films, texts, and events that look at the way film and literature mediate perceptions and conceptions, of our-selves, our environment, and others, in the construction of meaning.

Recent exhibitions/​screenings include, Pocket Work (2020), Tramway TV online, Matches David Dale Gallery & LUX Scotland (2019), Interludes Plymouth Art Centre and MFS, Plymouth Art Weekender (2018), On The Waves of The Air, There Is Dancing Out There, created by Carrie Skinner, Glasgow International (2018), A Wondering Soul, with Richy Carey, Radiophrenia, CCA, Glasgow (2018), A Apopheny!, CCA Intermedia, Glasgow, (2017); Suppose there is A, ICA Singapore (2017); Aparição, Phosphorus (SE), Sao Paulo (2015)