Moving Image Art Fair, London
Moving Image will be returning to the Bargehouse in London’s South Bank this October. The art fair, this year partnering with Aesthetica, will be showcasing 35 single-channel videos and installations.
Moving Image will be returning to the Bargehouse in London’s South Bank this October. The art fair, this year partnering with Aesthetica, will be showcasing 35 single-channel videos and installations.
The rock and roll lifestyle may be all glamour to an outsider, but rockumentary Hit So Hard shows precisely how one musician paid the price for fame.
Yorgos Lanthimos returns this autumn with his third feature film Alps, an extraordinary follow-up to Dogtooth, imbued with Lanthimos’ trademark style.
Animated Encounters 2012, Bristol, has once again provided a welcome platform from which to fully appreciate the electrifying potential of animation. The festival ran from 18 until 23 September.
Yung Ho Chang, a pioneer of contemporary Chinese architecture, presents his first retrospective at UCCA, Beijing. The exhibition includes over six installations, 40 models and 270 drawings.
Following the popularity of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation, the director’s previous film About Elly has just received its UK cinema release. About Elly won a Silver Bear at the Berlinale.
With the 20th century came bloodshed and genocide on a scale so vast and industrial even now it barely seems fathomable. The Nazi’s final solution stands out as the most heart wrenching.
Winner of the Alfred Bauer Award and FIPRESCI Prize, Tabu is a strange and intriguing film. It begins in Lisbon where Aurora, a woman on her deathbed, wants to locate a man from her past.
The 21 September is World Peace Day, a day of ceasefire across the globe and the chance for artists and organisations to demonstrate acts of peace. The films4peace is curated by Mark Coetzee.
The 18th Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival takes place this September. The stunning line-up for this year includes new visual art and animation exhibitions, and 3D Soviet Russian work.
The Nour Festival will be celebrating contemporary arts and culture from across the Middle East and North Africa, from 1 October. It will be a borough-wide event based in Kensington and Chelsea.
Over the past decade Finnish artist Pilvi Takala has developed a body of singular performance pieces, unpicking those conventions created within micro-social environments. Site Gallery, 14 September.
As the title suggests, Unseen, is a celebration of international contemporary photography, showcasing work from new and established photographers. From 19 until 23 September.
The Imposter sets itself up as an investigation, looking into the story of a master impersonator. Frédéric Bourdin was 23 when he successfully passed himself off as a missing 16-year old.
Conceived specially for an arresting 19th century corrugated iron chapel in Kilburn, known as The Tin Tabernacle, Nowhere Less Now is British artist Lindsay Seers’ ambitious new installation.
Behind a slightly run-down high-street is a little known landmark: a Victorian chapel known simply as The Tin Tabernacle. Housed within this modest building is Lindsay Seers’ most recent piece.
The Wapping Project Bankside showcases British-Iranian artist Mitra Tabrizian’s unseen series Another Country. Tabrizian’s work explores post-colonial theory and corporate culture in the West.
Imagine if a painting came to life: brushstrokes rippling across the canvas like muscles and shimmering like the surface of a wind-swept lake, drips of paint resolving into heads and limbs.
Over the past five years, Aesthetica has consistently supported and championed artists working in all mediums. Artists may submit their work into any one of the four categories. Entries close 31 August.
