GHost IV:
Presence and Absence
curates by Sarah Sparkes
Read more on the GHost Blog
VENUE
St. John on
Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge
Heath Road, E2 9PA (next to Bethnal Green tube)
December 6th
7th & 8th
An exhibition
and series of art events exploring the desire to materialise what is
absent via the medium of haunted landscapes or through the
manifestation of a ghost. Works have been selected in response to
research seminars, held earlier this year, at UOL. The exhibition
will feature audio visual installation plus a programme of
performances and artists film screenings all sited throughout this
atmospheric John Soane Church of St John Bethnal Green.
The winter
nights are long and dark and the church's stone floors breathe out
cold vapours. Wrap up warm, or bring a blanket . Wander around the
vestibule, belfry and gallery, haunted by manifestations of moving
images, interventions and performances and entwined with the smell of
incense. Then settle down in a pew and cast yourself adrift in the
films and sounds of haunted landscapes, haunted seas.
Warming winter
drinks will be served.
Programme
December 6th
6.00pm – 9.00pm
First Thursdays
Opening Night: Exhibition of audio-visual installation and
performances throughout the venue and continual screening of Haunted
Landscapes, a selection of artists short films, in the nave .
December 7th
6.00pm – 10.00pm
Adrift::
The nave of st.
Johns will play host to a programme of live soundscape performances
and film screenings including an edited show reel of international
films, “Haunted Sea” first shown at Folkestone Triennial 2011.
Exhibition and performances throughout the venue.
December 8th
2.30pm – 7.30pm
Exhibition of
audio-visual installation throughout the venue and continual
screening of Haunted Landscapes, a selection of artists short films,
in the nave
7.30 – late:
GHost selects John Carpenter’s The Fog for Phantasmagloria Film
Night (note: there is an entry fee for the Fog screening – more
details here)
