Terry Silvester

Fertile, 2019. Video with sound 10:35

‘Terry Silvester is a moving image artist based in Bristol and London. Within his work there is a fascination with creating discomfort, producing an uncertainty around the image and its motive, which may lead to apprehension and unease. The work exists in this borderland between the real and the imaginary, the films are led by real characters, locations and experiences. Erratic narratives move between the deeply personal and the extreme, and are poetically elevated, and beautiful. The sequences are fragmented and do not unfold linearly, but instead jump from one moment to the next. These moments are autobiographical and are drawn from the artist’s own memories and experiences. There is no attempt to hide the artist’s presence and this is integral to the folding and unfolding of the images across time and space.’

Svetlana Ochkovskaya

The Seen. Video, duration 00:03:15

‘Through the visual transformation of the human body and creating a disorientated environment in Svetlana's work, she is curious about things that are deemed weird or different. Explore the idea of fantastic, strange and 'other' she produces her wondrous world of curiosities. Inhabited by a creature, neither human nor alien, real or imaginary, these constructed environments bend the fragile boundaries of our perceived reality. Through performance in the full-body sculptural suit, Svetlana attractive in reversion of the identities, extending the boundaries of the imaging.’

Toby Rainbird

Reservoir Revisited. Video. 5:19 mins

‘Toby Rainbird is a Jersey-born, London-based Artist. His practice is an exploration into personal observation, doubt and intimacy. Looking to evoke some essence of likeness and desired understanding of his subjects -Rainbird avoids any sense of true objectivity within his practice; instead, relying on doubt and revision in the construction and reading of his work.’

Anna Kushnerova

MONOMANIACAL. ABOUT YOUR OWN MOMENT OF BEING. Video. 6min

‘Visual Artist, Performer, Curator (video, sound, movement and sculpture). Born in 1984, Siberia. Russian/Belgian. Currently lives and works South Devon (UK) . Anna K. presented and curated at numerous international shows, including a performance at the Art Basel (Switzerland) & Arnhem Mode and Art Biennale (The Netherlands). Anna brings together movement, spoken word, sculpture and moving image. Works and processes reside between choreography and visual art. In live performances and videos she often seeks to initiate and explore forms of collaborative engagement and practice. VIDEO WORKS often resolve around the study of self-perpetuating complexity of experiential synthesis through perspective, image, sound and movement.’

Freya Tewelde

Lost for Territory. Video. 0:48 mins

‘I am a multidisciplinary artist. The concept of social or Political art is the main essence of enquiry. I use absurdity, humour and distortion to highlight this exploration. I am touching and revealing on the notions of difference and ambiguity through moving images and or print installation that reorientate post-identity construction. The performative aspects of my practice explore the overlooked and plain–site of public reception. These images crawl, roll, mask and flip gestures toward a visual break from the associated conventions of the marginalised self whilst equally suggesting joy and ambivalence.’

Caroline Vitzthum

io, dio, ha, he yay! super 8 mm film. 2 minutes, 2019.

‘Caroline Vitzthum creates installations incorporating media such as sculpture, video, text, and sound. In the process, the artist is influenced by mythologising aspects of time, studying and practising various rituals described by anthropologists familiar with witchcraft, alchemy and ancient mysticism. Vitzthum is drawn to employ elements from them regarding the construction of a fictional ‘reality-setting’ surrounding her practice, thus resulting in the content of her works often being surreal and fantastic nature, at times even grotesque.’

Camilla Brogaard

Unimagined Sensitivities. Video of a Performance. 24min

‘Camilla is a Danish dancer and dance-maker based in Berlin. She is a writer, dedicated to poetic work, and whilst engaged in a multiplicity of projects, she is also earning her degree in philosophy. Concerned with the notions, meditation and communication, Camilla honors her romantic belief in the body’s innate need to understand and refine its linguistic depth, not only in her commitments as an artist, but also as a yoga teacher and Reiki practitioner. Thus, her practice is essentially an expression of care and a critical comment on excessive, aesthetic labor. Camilla’s most recent performance commitments and collaborations include the work of Punchdrunk, Ursina Tossi, Rachel Monosov, Theo Clinkard, Simone Forti and Johannes Wieland.’

Linnea Langfjord Kristensen

Is it really ever really really really real? Or is real reality really just a representation? Really. Video, 6:22 minutes.

‘Linnea Langfjord Kristensen is an artist, theatre-maker, poet and researcher who lives in London, graduating with an MFA from The Royal College of Art this June. Her projects take the form of kaleidoscopic performances and theatre, encounters, books and workshops. In different ways they investigate the production and distribution of meaning and realities, with special attention to the ways in which narratives around “the meaningful” are embodied in everyday life. Her current body of work explores a contemporary obsession with "being real" and what that means when reality itself is a representation.’

Nicole Wassall

Songs of the River. Video. 16:58

‘By searching for emotional honesty I investigate how perceptions shape our reality. This means using artistic practices in less conventional ways and combining a study of neuroscience informed by intuition and psychology. The resulting work looks nothing like science, but is underpinned by insights into how the brain processes information for the purpose of opening up ideas.

‘Songs of the River’ is a simple fable about a man and horse. Using a dream like audio and visual aesthetic, the unique structure creates a deeper level of understanding. It takes us from what we think is real to a new level of real.’

Chinar Shah, Leslie Johnson, Smriti Mehra

More Joy, More Love, More Mortgage. Video, 4min 20 sec

‘The work focuses on reality through its artifice, home versus status. Opening a space for contemplation through “speaking twice”: the work has points of departure and then another complexity in representation of the gap between what we know and what we do not know. We break into the fantasies of real estate to lay it bare in its own bizarre syntax. This work is a result of collaboration between three different individuals living in three different countries and two separate continents. Our concerns align and our practices intersect as we reckon our distance through Skype calls and time zones.’