Margate Rising
A slowly altering vista, the distortion of the sun in the lens, a monolith looking Arlington House, the sounds of construction and the bell at Droit House near to where the painter Turner lived with Mrs Booth.
This Film was shown as part of 'Overheated Symphony', at the Birds Eye View Film Festival (films from women across the globe). At the ICA, London. March 2008.
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Underground Bare Knuckle Boxing in the UK
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Once regarded as something that happens exclusively in Guy Ritchie films and on gypsy sites, bare knuckle boxing is fast becoming a thriving scene in the UK -- the ultimate British bloodsport.
When Clive Martin embeds with the bare knuckle boxing elite, what he discovers is not dissimilar to Fight Club; IT technicians, builders, lifestyle coaches and even a solicitor, all throwing their unprotected fists into each other's faces. It's a subculture of honour, pride and violence.
As the UK prepares to play host to the first US vs UK bare knuckle title fight in 150 years -- the biggest event the scene has known since it went underground in the 19th Century -- Clive tries to find out if violence is a cause or effect for these angry young men.
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Sunset on Maragte Beach
Sunset on Margate Beach, Kent. Walking along the beach from Nayland Rock towards the harbour. Margate's sunsets and light inspired the artist Turner.
Constructed Geographies: Maria Amidu
A behind the scenes look at Constructed Geographies artist Maria Amidu. A film by Chris Churcher. Commissioned by This Too Is Real. Part of the Diverse Sussex project, supported by Arts Council England
Maria Amidu is a visual artist who practice centres around the social relationships between people mediated through public archives and sites of memory. She examines public and personal collections and historical places to make work collectively with groups of children and/or adults. She is drawn to what is hidden, obscured or less obvious in varying historical and contemporaneous situations and makes objects and installations to try and substantiate myriad lived experiences.
Maria is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in glass and ceramics and exhibited nationally and internationally as a maker before pursuing a social practice.
She has developed residencies and site-specific commissions with a number of museums, galleries and organisations, including: edge/threshold/brink, 2018, Nuit Blanche, Toronto; Act, Campaign, Petition, Reform, Lobby, Argue and Soit droit fait come est desire (Let it be done as it is desired), 2015, Houses of Parliament, London; Workforce (a work in progress), 2014, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London; a moment of your time, 2013, Turner Contemporary and People United, Margate; Betty, Pat, Diane, Lynette, Ivy, Bonney, 2011, Artquest, London and Parramatta Artists’ Studios, Sydney; and Tribute, 2002, Arnolfini and Bristol Royal Children’s Hospital, Bristol.
Her work is in the collections of the Arnolfini Collection Trust, Bristol; Pilkington Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, London; and the National Drawing Collection, Limerick. She recently received a Developing your Creative Practice Grant for Arts Council England to develop a project entitled air.
ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTED GEOGRAPHIES COMMISSION
because I’d quite like to experience just being in the world, 2019
Maria Amidu
Glass, copper, wood
(Edition One: combs, 3/20)
because I’d quite like to experience just being in the world is an exploration into making, materiality and a proclivity to collect and rework everyday objects. This limited-edition series is in complement to Maria Amidu’s more intangible, collective making projects, and an investigation into hand eye coordination and the unfettered nature of craft.
because I’d quite like to experience just being in the world is also about how everyday objects represent an interplay between a desire to ‘be’ and the social constructs of categorisation. Maria is interested in how material things allude to expectations in terms of cultural identity and ‘womanness’.
// ABOUT CONSTRUCTED GEOGRAPHIES //
Constructed Geographies is a new visual arts exhibition featuring new art work created in response to Sussex’s diverse heritage and population.
The artists are: Maria Amidu, Akila Richards, Amanda Jobson, Rikki Tarascas, Judith Ricketts, Josef Cabey and Amy Zamarripa Solis. The artists work across a variety of mediums including painting, photography, mixed media collage, glasswork, textiles, video and installation.
The broad theme of the exhibition allowed each artist to approach it differently, working to explore the rich cultural heritage of the area and draw out stories from a range of communities.
The exhibition seeks to claim a space for all in Sussex. From the remains of an ancient African women found on Beachy Head to local histories in the African hairdresser in Eastbourne, the exhibition works to dispel the misconception that there is a lack of diversity in the region. You just need to know where to look.
Produced by This Too Is Real Ltd
Supported by Arts Council England National Lottery funded Project Grant
The exhibition continues:
2-14 April 2019
Hastings Art Forum
36 Marina
Saint Leonards-on-sea
TN38 0BU
14 April - 4 May 2019
Colonnade House
47 Warwick Street
Worthing, West Sussex
BN11 3DH
Tracey Emin's new neon - The big switch on!
Margate-raised Tracey Emin launches her new neon installation I've Never Stopped Loving You on the steps of Droit House.
The artist gave an emotional and amusing speech to hundreds of townspeople who gathered to watch the big switch on.
Friday, April 30, 2010.
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1984-1123 Jesus Puja Talk, Hounslow, London, CC, DP
Archive video: H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi at Christmas Puja 1984 in Montague Hall, Hounslow (England).
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T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land documentary (1987)
Read by noted actors Michael Gough, Edward Fox, and Eileen Atkins, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land powerfully expresses the disillusionment and disgust of the post–World War I era in Europe. In this program, Professor Frank Kermode, of Cambridge University; Eliot biographer Peter Ackroyd; and poets Sir Stephen Spender and Craig Raine examine the complex nature of Eliot’s influential poem, analyze its appeal, and trace the reasons why it became one of the best-known emblems of the 20th century.
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Pride And Prejudice (1940)
Oscar-winning adaption of Jane Austins comic classic about five husband-hunting sisters in 19th-century England. Oscar and Golden Globe-winner Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver, Madame Curie) stars in this vivid recreation of the Victorian era. Co-starring Oscar and Golden Globe-winners Laurence Olivier (Hamlet, Henry V) and Edmund Gwenn (Miracle on 34th Street), Oscar-nominee Edna May Oliver (Little Women) and Maureen O'Sullivan (Tarzan and His Mate). MPAA Rating: NOTRATED 1940 Turner Entertainment Co., A Time Warner Company
1989-0611 Virata Puja Talk, New York, version 2, subtitles
Archive video: H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi at Virata Puja 1989 in Camp Wonposet, Litchfield (United States).
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