Niklas Goldbach
Suzanne Moxhay
Visual Foreign Correspondents

Nottingham, Derby, Leicester
13 – 24 Jan 09

Radiator is proud to present the work of artists and filmmakers from across the world from The United States to Kyrgyzstan, South Africa to Brazil, merging film, art and advertising with architecture to transform the urban landscape into a moving canvas. Large screens are increasingly becoming an everyday part of urban city-scapes, with the overload of commerce and consumerism in our city centres, it is an important step for artists to reclaim this space.

Niklas Goldbach – BIRDS (left), 2008

Royal Centre Screen
14 – 24 Jan

BIRDS (left) was filmed in the ruins of the former outdoor disco club ‘Amnesia’ on the island Corsica. The disco, owned by American investors, was bombed in 2001.

Not accidentally, the film was inspired by the real occurrence of chaos and rebellion against a homogenised world, in this way perfectly miming Goldbach´s own artistic mission.

Birds shows a mesmerizing group of people all alike, seating or standing as if in an amphitheatre and doing nothing except staring back at us. As the film evolves, we realise that these figures slowly move, minimally repeating the same gestures at times. The whole scene achieves a nightmarish and completely fictional state for we do not know what to make out of these “horrifying gracious and calm creatures”, nor are we able to attribute a narrative to the film.

Niklas Goldbach lives and works in Germany. From November 2007 until June 2008 Goldbach was artist in residency at “Palais de Tokyo” and “Cité Internationale des Arts”, Paris.

www.niklasgoldbach.de

Suzanne Moxhay - Armada

Royal Centre Screen

14 – 24 Jan

Built through a reconfiguration of selected elements from found and composed images, Moxhay’s landscapes are both idealised and dystopian, referencing American Westerns and Sci-fi films combined with desert environments found in today’s media coverage of the Middle East.

Recent exhibitions include; ‘Salon 08’, Matt Roberts Arts, Vinespace, London; ‘Borderlands’, Recent Graduates, Tricycle Gallery, London; ‘Florence Trust Exhibition 2008’, Florence Trust Studios, London; ‘Our Friends Are Electric’, Big Screen, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia; ‘Do Billboards Dream of Electric Screens?’, Touring, UK
(Armada: technical direction by Richard Thomas)
www.florencetrust.org

Visual Foreign Correspondents

Derby Big Screen, Phoenix Leicester

Visual Foreign Correspondents is a Dutch independent platform for Urban Screens. In VFC, artists from different parts of the world are invited to give their personal visual commentary on events and situations in the world from their situated perspective.
Over the period of a year, a selection of artists from around the world were asked to be ‘Visual Foreign Correspondents’ and create a work especially for urban screens and online environments.
www.visualcorrespondents.com

Erhan Muratoglu - No Parking, 2007

Erhan Muratoglu is an interactive designer/digital artist living and working in Istanbul. He makes computer-generated projects that originate from the changing impressions and situations of urban surroundings and the problematic consequences these can have for individuals.

Igor Stromajer - The Netherlands is respectful. Russia is corrupt.

Using a form of guerrilla style intervention, digital media and the internet, the Slovenian artist Igor Stromajer is constantly searching for ever more intimate means of communication.

Lin Yilin – One Day

Lin Yilin lives and works in both New York and Guangzhou, China. Yilin is the founding member of a group of artists working in Guangzhou, China, known as “Big Tailed Elephant” who came to international prominence during the 1990s for works that dealt with urban issues such as urban development, consumerism, traffic, population and sex culture. Lin Yilin’s work fuses the formal vocabulary of conceptualism, minimalism and performance. Yilin was featured in Documenta X11, 2007.

Young-hae Chang (Korea) and Marc Voge (USA) - Morning of the Mongoloids, 2008

The artists Young-hae Chang (Korea) en Marc Voge (USA) better known as Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries live and work in South Korea. Their work is clearly related to cinema and poetry. In seemingly simple typographical animations (always in the typeface Monaco) they reveal their story to the audience in poetic and rhythmic sequences. The soundtrack has it’s own colouring role.
Their observations of the everyday life and human acts are always show a critical political perspective.

Tiffany Holmes - Fresh 2.0, 2008

Tiffany Holmes teaches interactivity, environmental art and the history of electronic media at the Art Institute in Chicago, USA. In her work she explores the potential of technology to promote positive environmental stewardship.

Tea Mäkipää - Catwalk, 2008

In her installations, films and photographs, Finnish artist Tea Mäkipää critically examines the sustainability of the Western way of life: consumerism, environmental issues, the gulf between rich and poor, and the downsides of globalisation.
Issue 10: Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries The artists Young-hae Chang (Korea) en Marc Voge (USA) better known as Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries live and work in South Korea.  In their seemingly simple typographical animations (always in the typeface Monaco) they reveal their observations of everyday life and human behaviour with a critical political perspective.


Artists’ Films will run throughout the week in some of the biggest art installations to grace the East Midlands.  The East Midlands’ public screens include:

The facade of Leicester’s Independent Cinema The Phoenix, 8-11pm (tbc)
BBC’ Derby Big Screen: 11am&7pm
The Outside of Nottingham’s Royal Centre: dusk – 2.30am