Current Exhibition:
Rebecca Birch:
Beam
The Great Central is very pleased to present a solo exhibition by Rebecca
Birch.
Shooting new footage in-situ at The Great Central, and combining this with her previous material, Rebecca creates an experimental installation with projected video. Taken from her stack of mini-DV tapes are a series of clips originally shot in California, the Canadian Rockies and inside the Arctic Circle, these clips have been re-edited through a process of selection, projecting, re-filming and then re-editing the new footage. The resulting video imagines a future road trip where Rebecca travels between the locations of the previous projects.
Allowing the beams of light to spill from one projection surface to another, the projected new and historical footage is allowed to refract and reflect within the space to create double exposures, a blurring of the boundaries between the films current, previous and potential context.
This five day process within the gallery at The Great Central recreates the film of a road trip that hasn’t occurred, instead we have a multi-layered history of telling and retelling; slippage and overlap of video; creating a playful installation that is as much about the act of filming and projecting moving light as it is about the mythical road trip.
Birch’s previous work has explored locations through people’s conversational descriptions; here she has taken a more experimental and playful take on describing a space. This work continues with the Great Central’s theme of allowing artists the time and space to experiment and to take their work in new directions.
Rebecca is currently studying for a PhD at Loughborough University. She has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at Quare and the Agency, London; HotelMariaKapel (HMK), Holland and GaleriAneks, Poland. She was selected for East International 06 and had performances and projects at The Whitechapel Art Gallery, South Bank Centre and De La Warr Pavillion as well as residencies in Banff, the Artic Circle and California. She curates ‘Ledge’, ‘Field Broadcast’ (with Rob Smith) and ‘MicroPerformance’. Forthcoming projects include the Tatton Park Biennial 2012 with Field Broadcast.
