LUX Scotland

03/04/2024

⭐We are delighted to present Isabel Barfod’s new Margaret Tait Commission ‘​How Much Air Lungs Can Hold’. Join us the for the premiere at Glasgow Film Theatre at the end of April! ⭐

🗓️Monday 29 April, 6.15pm
📍Glasgow Film Theatre
🎟️Free, booking required

https://luxscotland.org.uk/programme/events/margaret-tait-commission-2023-isabel-barfod-how-much-air-lungs-can-hold

‘How Much Air Lungs Can Hold’ is an intimate gathering of testimony. Composed of experimental animation and audio recordings of conversations with Black swimmers living in Glasgow and London, this film considers the phenomenological resonance that emerges from swimming and its enigmatic relation with Blackness.

Sound recordings of 11 conversations are collaged into a sonic architecture, forming the narrative body of the work, a way to both describe and speculate on the ephemeral states of alteration or transcendence various encounters with water can facilitate. Meditating on how these encounters can be enabled by affirming social practices, and precluded by mechanisms of regulation, coloniality and enclosure.

Invested in the sensory as an experiential field for staging Black spatial liberation, ​‘How Much Air Lungs Can Hold’ applies immersive, abstracted imagery using CGI, traditional 2D animation and underwater footage, performing as witness and respondent to oral testimony and aural experience.

‘How Much Air Lungs Can Hold’ seeks to invoke the aquatic animation of interiority, rememory, non-linearity, entanglement and submergence. Speculative arrangements for Black social life resurface alongside ideas of light:dark, presence:non-presence, legibility:opacity and surface:depth. Probing possibility from embodiment to ask questions of our incommensurable capacity to hold, listen, sense and what it means to bear witness.

The Margaret Tait Commission is a LUX Scotland commission delivered in partnership with Glasgow Film, with support from Creative Scotland. Isabel Barfod received the Margaret Tait Commission 2023. The selection panel for the 2023 Margaret Tait Commission comprised Sepake Angiama, Artistic Director, Iniva, London; Duncan Marquiss (artist and 2015 Margaret Tait Commission recipient); Ainslie Roddick, Artistic Director, Atlas Arts; Anne Petrie, Visual Arts Officer, Creative Scotland; Julia Paoli, Director and curator, Mercer Union, Toronto and was chaired by Kitty Anderson, Director, LUX Scotland.

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We are delighted to present Isabel Barfod’s new Margaret Tait Commission '​How Much Air Lungs Can Hold' at Glasgow Film Theatre, on the evening of Monday 29 April. 'How Much Air Lungs Can Hold' is an intimate gathering of testimony. Composed of experimental animation and audio recordings of conv...

14/03/2024

‘Girl in the Pub Toilet’ (2024), a new online commission by Phoebe Banks, is available to view on the LUX Scotland website from 1 March - 30 April. The screening is accompanied by an online discussion with Phoebe 21 March 7pm.

To book a free ticket to the discussion please visit our website.

​‘Girl in the Pub Toilet’ (2024) tells the story of a chance encounter between two strangers on a night out. Depicting a scene of fleeting, intense intimacy, the work considers the women’s toilet in clubs and pubs as a site of heightened empathy and connection. The film touches on themes of emotional indulgence and isolation, and sits within a wider body of work by Phoebe exploring grief in a social context.

The work was commissioned as part of LUX Scotland’s Aberdeen programme and was supported by Aberdeen City Council Creative Funding.

Image credit: Phoebe Banks, ‘Girl in the Pub Toilet’ (2024). Courtesy of the artist.

Image description: A colour film still showing a blurred image of a bathroom coloured dark purple, green and brown. The background has a row of sinks and soap dispensers with a mirror above. The mirror is framed by strip lights, creating bright white rectangles.

An online discussion to accompany ‘Girl in the Pub Toilet’ (2024), a new online commission by Phoebe Banks, which will be available to view online for the months of March and April on the LUX Scotland website. The screening will be accompanied by an online discussion with the artist on Thursday,...

04/03/2024

We are excited to present ‘Girl in the Pub Toilet’ (2024), a new online commission by Phoebe Banks, which will be available to view online for the months of March and April.

This screening will be accompanied by an online discussion with the artist on Thursday, 21 March at 7pm. To book a free ticket visit our website.

‘Girl in the Pub Toilet’ (2024) tells the story of a chance encounter between two strangers on a night out. Depicting a scene of fleeting, intense intimacy, the work considers the women’s toilet in clubs and pubs as a site of heightened empathy and connection. The film touches on themes of emotional indulgence and isolation, and sits within a wider body of work by Phoebe exploring grief in a social context.

The work was commissioned as part of LUX Scotland’s Aberdeen programme and was supported by Aberdeen City Council Creative Funding.

Image credit: Phoebe Banks, ‘Girl in the Pub Toilet’ (2024). Courtesy of the artist.

An online discussion to accompany ‘Girl in the Pub Toilet’ (2024), a new online commission by Phoebe Banks, which will be available to view online for the months of March and April on the LUX Scotland website. The screening will be accompanied by an online discussion with the artist on Thursday,...

12/02/2024

LUX Scotland is happy to present ‘Girl in the Pub Toilet’ (2024), a new online commission by Phoebe Banks, which will be available to view online for the months of March and April.

This screening will be accompanied by an online discussion with the artist on Thursday, 21 March at 7pm. To book a free ticket visit our website.

‘Girl in the Pub Toilet’ (2024) tells the story of a chance encounter between two strangers on a night out. Depicting a scene of fleeting, intense intimacy, the work considers the women’s toilet in clubs and pubs as a site of heightened empathy and connection. The film touches on themes of emotional indulgence and isolation, and sits within a wider body of work by Phoebe exploring grief in a social context.

The work was commissioned as part of LUX Scotland’s Aberdeen programme and was supported by Aberdeen City Council Creative Funding.

Image credit: Phoebe Banks, ‘Girl in the Pub Toilet’ (2024). Courtesy of the artist.
Image description: A colour film still showing a blurred image of a bathroom coloured dark purple, green and brown. The background has a row of sinks and soap dispensers with a mirror above. The mirror is framed by strip lights, creating bright white rectangles.

An online discussion to accompany ‘Girl in the Pub Toilet’ (2024), a new online commission by Phoebe Banks, which will be available to view online for the months of March and April on the LUX Scotland website. The screening will be accompanied by an online discussion with the artist on Thursday,...

12/02/2024

12/02/2024

MOVING IMAGES WITHIN PRECARIOUS STRUCTURES, Episode 1: A Prayer Before Birth / Loss of Heat

The first episode of a year-long programme ​‘Moving Images Within Precarious Structures’, this double screening at Glasgow Women's Library presents two works from feminist film organisation Cinenova, newly digitised and captioned as part of their project ​‘The Work We Share’.

🗓️Thursday 22 Feb, 6–8pm
📍Glasgow Women's Library
🎟️Free, booking essential

Jacqui Duckworth’s ​‘A Prayer Before Birth’ (1991) and Noski Deville’s ​‘Loss of Heat’ (1994) tell stories of, and crucially stem from, experiences of chronic illness. Made within a few years of one another, both films challenge preconceived representations of disability through q***r and feminist moving image practice.

In a newly commissioned text responding to ​‘A Prayer Before Birth’, Nat Raha writes that in ​“the space that emerges between fiction, personal experience and surrealism, ​‘A Prayer’ enacts an avant-garde le***an aesthetic working to come to terms with being in a disabled body, that places the emotional turbulence of this experience front and centre while confronting affects through which ableism coheres”.

‘Loss of Heat’ is an evocative portrayal of q***r love that challenges preconceived notions on the ​‘reality’ of living with the invisible disability of epilepsy. It is a poetic, immersive interpretation exploring the interplay of the emotional and the physical, across boundaries of sexuality, dependence and desire.

The screening will be accompanied by a conversation between poet Nat Raha, artist Camara Taylor, chaired by artist and Cinenova working group member Moira Salt.

Find out more about the programme, access measures, The Work We Share, Cinenova, artists and contributors on our website: https://luxscotland.org.uk/programme/events/moving-images-within-precarious-structures-episode-1-a-prayer-before-birth-loss-of-heat

Image: Jacqui Duckworth, A Prayer Before Birth, 1991. Courtesy of the artist and Cinenova.

Image description: A dark brown eye with green eyeshadow looks through a shattered crack of reinforced glass. The glass has a green tone, and we can see the textures of the glass surface, the cracks where it has been broken, and the square webbing of metal within the glass.

06/02/2024

A space has become available for 'Through the lens of your own practice' a workshop led by Ashanti Harris as part of our Aberdeen programme.

Saturday 10 February 2-4pm
Anatomy Rooms project space, Aberdeen.

To book a free ticket and for more information on access funds, child care funds and venue access visit our website.

The workshop will benefit artists who would like to learn more about approaches to making moving image work in a group setting.

Participants can expect to learn more about Ashanti’s practice and methods with a particular focus on collaborative and process orientated making that shapes final works. The workshop will draw on the RSVP method (Resources - Scores, Value-action - Performance) developed by Anna Halprin (Choreographer) and Lawrence Halprin (Architect). Ashanti reinterprets this method for making moving image as Research - Scripting - Thinking - Action (experience).

The workshop will start with an introduction to Ashanti’s previous film works and how the RSVP cycles informed the making of the work and will include some group discussion and practical activities. Participants will be guided through tasks to explore ways of using the RSVP response system to create their own moving image work, incorporating the different elements of your own creative practice.
In this workshop participants are encouraged to bring a collection of “resources” drawn from any aspect of artistic research or practice. This could be an artwork, a text, an object, a place, an image, a story, a tool for example.

Image credit: Ashanti Harris. ‘Black Gold’, 2023. Image courtesy the artist.

Image description: A film still of a brightly lit pair of hands reaching upwards with open palms. The wrists touch together creating a v shape and they are wearing gold coloured rings. The edge of the frame is dark and the background is blurred black, with green and brown foliage. At the left of the image is text ‘And now I’m thinking about oil’ coloured white.

Multidisciplinary artist Ashanti Harris leads this workshop for Aberdeen-based artists who would like to learn more about approaches to making moving image in a group setting. The session will take place on Saturday 10 February from 2-4pm in the Project Space of Anatomy Rooms as part of our Aberdeen...

29/01/2024

Multidisciplinary Ashanti Harris leads this workshop for artists who would like to learn more about approaches to making moving image in a group setting. ‘Through the lens of your own practice’ will take place on Saturday 10 February from 2-4pm at Anatomy Rooms as part of our Aberdeen programme.

To book a free ticket and for more information on access funds, child care funds and venue access please visit our website.

Participants can expect to learn more about Ashanti’s practice and methods with a particular focus on collaborative and process orientated making that shapes final works. The workshop will draw on the RSVP method (Resources - Scores, Value-action - Performance) developed by Anna Halprin (Choreographer) and Lawrence Halprin (Architect). Ashanti reinterprets this method for making moving image as Research - Scripting - Thinking - Action (experience).

The workshop will start with an introduction to Ashanti’s previous film works and how the RSVP cycles informed the making of the work and will include some group discussion and practical activities. Participants will be guided through tasks to explore ways of using the RSVP response system to create their own moving image work, incorporating the different elements of your own creative practice.
In this workshop participants are encouraged to bring a collection of “resources” drawn from any aspect of artistic research or practice. This could be an artwork, a text, an object, a place, an image, a story, a tool for example.

There are twelve workshop places available, open to those with an interest in learning about different approaches to making moving image. We would expect that the group would include participants at an earlier stage in their careers who would value learning new methods and developing their practice in a supported space.

Please note that the workshop is for those who are no longer in full-time education.

Image credit: Ashanti Harris. ‘Black Gold’, 2023. Image courtesy the artist.

Image description: A film still of a brightly lit pair of hands reaching upwards with open palms. The wrists touch together creating a v shape and they are wearing gold coloured rings. The edge of the frame is dark and the background is blurred black, with green and brown foliage. At the left of the image is text ‘And now I’m thinking about oil’ coloured white.

Multidisciplinary Ashanti Harris leads this workshop for artists who would like to learn more about approaches to making moving image in a group setting. The session will take place on Saturday 10 February from 2-4pm in the Project Space of Anatomy Rooms as part of our Aberdeen programme. Participan...