2015 Exeter Phoenix Artists’ Moving Image Commission. A live soundtrack shown here for the first time. The event was accompanied by a small publication, which includes Charms, a narrative response to the commission by artist and writer Kit Poulson
Read moreThanks to musicians Dave Collett George Mackenize Tina Hitchens Nick Harrison Phil Owen and Spike Island, Bristol
Read moreWe Could Not Agree Exhibition – Q Park, Level -3, London W1 – Blue back print with mixed wood, bolts and foam
Read moreShort expanded document of 24th September 2014 at Spike Island Bristol – Film and photographic installation involving seven musicians playing in response to the film, the space and the audience. Phil Owen Tina Hitchens Markland Starkie Nick Harrison Paul Jones Ben Trinkle George Mackenzie Extra camera work – Richard Edkins
Read moreA stripped back portrait of two townscapes and the emotional currents that animate them. Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini noted that political protest is the degree zero of cinema – when a body of people come together to create an image and present their collective narrative. In Owen’s film, the march becomes symbolic of so […]
Read more‘Benjamin Owen’s recent work has explored the potential for objects to become performative as they drift through junk shops, commercial environments and museums. The objects, whether priceless or discarded, carry their own narratives in their passage to future museums or future landfill. Whatever their status they are designed, fabricated and produced – they leave a […]
Read moreThe Parlour Rooms Bristol 2012 – see films for the film element
Read moreLooking across to space from Richard Edkins looking across to space A broken broadcast, out of hours, from a triumvirate of tangled voices. A fading workshop, site of ritual and wires. A conversation in a crowded room. A slick loop of loops. As part of the collect coop. first performed as part of Rhythms of Time Sharing […]
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