Flicker

'Flicker' is a response to Ian White's performance 'IBIZA: A Reading for 'The Flicker' (2008), and a new collaboration between Kim Coleman and Matthew Noel-Tod who were both LUX Associate Artists. The work was created for 'Here is Information: Mobilise' at The Showroom, London - a weekend of events celebrating the life and work of Ian White (1971-2013). By the time of his early death in 2013, Ian White was a uniquely influential figure: an artist, performer, curator, teacher and writer, whose ideas had affected a generation of artists working with the moving image. Throughout his various roles, he developed a constellation of concepts around ‘cinema’ – understood by him less as a physical space, or a particular canon of films, but rather as a set of social practices open to radical (political) possibilities. Artists presenting included Paul Abbott, Ed Atkins, Giles Bailey, Rosa Barba, Cinenova, Kim Coleman, Phil Collins, Kathryn Elkin, James Hollands, Claire Hope, Ghislaine Leung, Anja Kirschner, Matthew Noel-Tod, Gail Pickering, Rachel Reupke, Kerstin Schroedinger, Grace Schwindt, Cara Tolmie and more. 'Flicker' is a work that combines single-channel video, strobe light, and performance. In the work, a projected video work shows an apartment illuminated through various forms of lighting - candlelight, lamps, a video projector and a strobe –as they each demonstrate their (in turn) soft, sharp violent, or atmospheric effect on the space. This single screen work is presented alongside a pre-programmed colour-strobe. Mobile phones are also dropped intermittently. This was the first collaboration between artists Kim Coleman and Matthew Noel-Tod. The making and presentation of the work were made possible through the support of LUX and The Showroom, London