Framework: Curatorial Studio Screening Programme: Spiral Shots

Curator Mihnea Mircan presents a programme of artists’ film related to his recent exhibitions and research:

Susan Schuppli, Can the Sun Lie?, 2013-2014
Jonas Staal, Nosso Lar/ Brasilia, 2014
Fabien Giraud and Raphael Siboni, The Unmanned, 1834, La mémoire de masse, 2015
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Spiral Forest, 2015
Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor, Rite of Spring, 2010
Phillip Warnell, Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air, 2014 (fragment)
Laure Prouvost, Lick in the Past, 2016

Spiral Shots borrows its title from Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s film, a 360-degree shot of a forest, executed by a machine whose movements are driven by the same engine that powers the camera. Like Spiral Forest, films in this programme work as idiosyncratic maps for fissures in the contemporary, thresholds between categories, entanglements of technologies, intersections of human and non-human spaces. Astrophysical hypotheses originating in ‘primitive’ observation and ‘advanced’ science, models of urban organization predicated on ideological subjugation or dispossession, animal birth and the ‘conditioning’ of CGI golems, an apartment and a zoo in architectural and ontological disarray, the digital and the visceral – these cartographic experiences move over the course of the screening from a bird’s eye view to the accelerated perspectives of intimacy, weaving around their objects and subjects a net of possible viewpoints, figural avatars and approximations. The films share a preoccupation with anamorphosis, pressing together distinct vanishing points, contrasting takes or contradictory timelines that reveal and abstract in equal measure, that collage moments of transparency and patches of opacity.

Mircan was the artistic director of Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp between 2011-15 where he curated A slowdown at the museum, The Corner Show, 1:1. Hans van Houwelingen and Jonas Staal, the series Cross- examinations, and Jean-Luc Moulène, Endwards. His recent work includes the long-term research project 'Allegory of the Cave Painting', which debuted with an exhibition in 2014 and a reader published in 2015. Mircan has also curated exhibitions at institutions including the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; Museion, Bolzano; Stroom, Den Haag; Spinnerei, Leipzig; David Roberts Art Foundation, London; Fondation Ricard, Paris; Project Art Center, Dublin; and the Venice Biennale, as curator of the Romanian Pavilion in 2007. He was the editor of the books Hans van Houwelingen: Undone (2012) and Cross-examinations (2015), and has contributed essays to monographs on Pavel Büchler, Nina Beier, Patrick Nilsson, Jean-Luc Moulène and Laure Prouvost. His writing also appeared in exhibition catalogues and journals such as Mousse, Manifesta Journal and Afterall.

This is a public event presented as part of the Curatorial Studio programme.
Please note this event will start at 4.30pm, and not 4pm as originally advertised.

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Curatorial Studio is a supportive peer-learning group and mentoring project for emerging curators across Scotland. The participants are: Frances Davis, Gordon Douglas, Cicely Farrer, Rachel Grant, Marcus Jack, Grace Johnston, Maria Lanko, Gemma Lawrence, Emmie McLusky, Katherine Murphy, Rosie O’Grady, Frances Stacey, Shireen Taylor, Nick Thomas and Claire Walsh. The project is organised by Kirsteen Macdonald (Framework / The Glasgow School of Art) and was developed through a partnership between SCAN, Framework, CCA Glasgow and the MLitt Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) programme; a partnership between The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) and the University of Glasgow. The project is also supported by the Student Association at GSA and The Common Guild. For details see http://framework.parallellines.org.uk