'Mary Kelly' is an artist-led project that attempts to articulate the politics of site and self through a radical engagement with "cinema". There will be a screening series of work drawn largely from the Cinenova distribution catalogue, organised collectively and individually, that will be shown in specific locations beginning in May 2003.
There will be a simultaneous publication, an organic document of the work, of process, expression and ways of working, and through all of this: hope, love and feminism.
"A common and absolutely exposed singularity," refutes the lie of originality and it takes a collective name. 'Mary Kelly'. No voice can be switched on by another. A collective enunciation of no composite parts. Mediation throws up immanence. Intimacy becomes revolutionary when it becomes a desire to communicate. The lie of alienation scrambled by a flurry of small, purposeful movements.
Just as different MATERIALS (people, film, publication, site) come to solidify a project and give form to an idea, although this idea is formed in an accumulative manner in the process of our actions; "as a delayed but significant insight rather than the instant recognition of forms."
The potential of our actions coming into being, against the tendency of things to remain the same.
It seems incredibly important to recognise the strategies of formation, the processes in which experience and formal representation takes place. The formal not distinct from the latter, but as a continuous grasping on the surfaces of the other. Forms, unveiling the nature and essence of our commonality working on the same idea, and at the same time, forms being the surface that gives each one of us a tangible distinct shape from one another.
Printing of publication, artists screening fees, administration costs are funded by the LFVDA exhibition fund.
Screenings
Born in Flames by Lizzie Borden 10th May 2003 The Other Cinema (Read More)
Hidden Faces by Kim Loginotto 24th May 2003 Lambeth Women's project
Forms of resistance 27th May 2003 Lux Salon (Read More)
Lives of Performers by Yvonne Rainer 30th July 2003 Whitechapel Gallery
Home Truths by Yvonne Baginsky 23rd August 2003 Duckie
Bred and Born 29th August 2003 Space Studios