Forking Paths, Mirrored Chambers: animation and artists’ moving image course

A six week course, each Wednesday night
5 October - 9 November 2011
7pm - 9m
Course fees are £80/£65 concessions
To book a place please email [email protected]. Places are limited and payment is due in advance via Paypal.
Forking Paths, Mirrored
Chambers places animation within a broader artists’ moving image ecology,
recognising that it is neither purely a discipline in its own right, nor merely
a set of processes, but a transgressive force, a chimera; and that it is this
hybridity that is its strength.

Locating the history of animation as the history of the twentieth century, the
course loosely refers in its structure to revolutions in thought, namely Freud
and the world of the interior; splitting the atom; man in space and the shock
of the without; and the information age and the rise of the machine. Beyond a
structural conceit, this prompts an interdisciplinary understanding of
animation, which sites it as much as a cultural phenomenon as an artistic
practice.

Each seminar will include extensive reference to films from the Animate
Projects and LUX collections and elsewhere, with screenings and guest speakers,
and recommendations for further viewing and reading. The evening will be
emphatically discursive in tone, with attendees encouraged to become active
participants.

The course is led by curator and writer Adam Pugh. Having worked at the
National Media Museum, and as Director of Bradford Animation Festival, he set
up the Norwich International Animation Festival in 2005, later transforming it
into Aurora, the UK’s foremost festival for artists’ moving image, of which he
was director until 2009. He was most recently research curator for Watch Me
Move: The Animation Show at the Barbican Gallery. He has also delivered talks
and curated programmes for various festivals and events worldwide, and in the
last year has been on juries at Oberhausen, Fantoche and Courtisane film
festivals.

The course is offered by Animate Projects in association with LUX.