Sizemology
Friday 13th - Thursday 26th June 2008
Big Screen Liverpool, Clayton Square / Curated by Bren O'Callaghan
In response to the lingering perception of outdoor screens as giant TVs, we take a step further by magnifying the miniature and everyday while simultaneously shrinking the grandiose down to size. Featuring The Model City, a new commission for the Big Screen Liverpool starring a B-movie invasion of super-sized insects that stalk, crawl and ooze amongst the city streets.
99¢ Travelogue
Art & animation by Molly Schwartz, music by Eric Eble
2007, 1"39'
Animation of an eerily compressed world built of plastic animals, construction paper drawings, erasers forests and brightly coloured plastics from the densely crowded 99¢ landscape.
Little Deaths 2 / 8"
excerpt
Alex Pearl
2007 / 8" excerpt
Part of a series of films using non reversible state changes, Alka Seltzer tablets carved with the bare minimum of features - two eyes, a mouth - are held under water until their inevitable end.
Clockwork Protest Films: St Petersburg
Alex Pearl
2006 / 1"29'
A kit containing a clockwork protester and placards is dispatched to various locations and passed between participants. No limits are set on how or where the protesters are used or what they are protesting against.
In Places
Erik Olofsen
2004, 2"25'
An abstract skyline tipped with imposing towers until the artist, gigantic in comparison, falls from the sky to perform an apocalyptic belly-flop. But the city has a secret means of defence.
Dwelling
Hiraki Sawa
2002, 9"20'
A domestic house is transformed into an international flight-terminal as jumbo jets stack up in holding queues around the light fittings before descending for touchdown upon the carpet.
The Model City
Sam Meech
2008, 23", new commission
Architectural models of Liverpool are populated with insects that investigate their environment unimpeded, enjoying a freedom to roam while we the public are restricted to approved access and prescribed routes.
Winter's Veil
Eva Lee
2007, 7"10'
Inspired by the inner worlds of snow and other particles, the mind's eye alternately flickers between what appears to be microscopic in nature but also mimics the massive orbit of interplanetary objects.
www.christiansonlee.com/evalee.htm
Open My Glade
Pipilotti Rist
2000, excerpt
Originally commissioned for outdoor display in Times Square, New York, the artist squashes her face against a glass panel in a humorous yet disturbing confrontation of elasticized flesh and smeared lipstick.
Pipilotti Rist is the focus of a major new solo exhibition at FACT from 27 June - 31 August 2008. Presented in association with Hauser & Wirth, Zürich London. Open My Glade will continue screening on the Big Screen Liverpool during this period - see website for timings.