SLOW DANS
Solo exhibition comprised of an immersive moving-image installation with 11 channels and three videos, each featuring a different collection of ‘minor’ or overlooked artefacts, all drawn from the same historical period in the late-twentieth century: 1965–95.
- Submitting institution
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-86-1733
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- October
- Year of first exhibition
- 2019
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Elizabeth Price’s research for SLOW DANS begun in summer 2016, with the first presentation of the video cycle taking place in autumn 2019. Each of the cycle’s three videos involved separate and extensive archival research and each was funded, created and exhibited for the first time at different institutions, thus requiring substantial creative and logistical engagement by Price. Individually, they are unusually complex works of video composition, with multiple layers of separately animated motion graphics and tracks of sound, all produced by Price herself. Their combination in a 10-channel, vertical and rear projection has required intensive dialogue, testing and negotiation.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- SLOW DANS (2020) is an immersive moving-image installation by Elizabeth Price, comprised of 11 channels and three videos: KOHL (2018), FELT T IP (2018) and THE TEACHERS (2019). Each video features a different collection of ‘minor’ or overlooked artefacts, all drawn from the same historical period in the late-twentieth century: 1965–95. Through their forensic examination, Price provides distinctive evidence of the period’s profound socio-economic changes, and the fact that the social experiences associated with them have no adequate institutional record. At the same time, through immersive design of the viewing space, controlling light within and without the projections, and looped screening timings, Price puts forward a contemporary interpretation of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or ‘total work of art’, through the medium of the digital moving image.
Price developed this cycle of videos through research into archives of museums, non-departmental public bodies, private artefact collections, libraries, periodicals, societies; a secondary literature review; research into digital processes, including synthetic voice software, synchronisation and motion capture; studio-based photographic and projection processes; site visits; correspondence and interviews with curators and experts at both the subject area of the installation, and its technical specifications.
The individual videos comprising the installation have been widely exhibited internationally, while SLOW DANS (2020) in its complete form was exhibited for first time at Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester – a commission by Whitworth Art Gallery and Artangel. The installation’s second exhibition as a cycle took place in London, accompanied by four new online short videos commissioned by Artangel, under the collective title FOOTNOTES (2020), with each deconstructing one particular research strand of SLOW DANS(2020). Finally, a publication titled SLOW DANS, edited by Price and elaborating on some of her research methods, was published by Artangel in 2020, with support from Whitworth Art Gallery, Film and Video Umbrella, and the Eileen Cohen Foundation.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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