LADA Screens: Rosalind Fowler and Fourthland – Online Screening
- Date
- 01 Dec 2020 - 29 Jan 2021
- Venue
Online
- Price
- Free
LADA is delighted to present this online screening of BREADROCK, I feel like doing this, a film by artist collective Fourthland (Isik Sayarer and Eva Knutsdotter) and artist and filmmaker Rosalind Fowler, originally created alongside a sculptural installation for PEER. The screening will also be accompanied by an artist discussion between Rosalind, Isik and Eva and LADA’s Ben Harris.
This film will be available to watch online until from 1st December until 29th January 2021.
In lieu of the usual LADA Screens live launch event, Ben Harris (LADA) caught up with Rosalind, Eva and Isik remotely for a discussion considering ideas of collaboration, participation, ritual and global cultures in relation to BREADROCK, I feel like doing this
About BREADROCK, I feel like doing this
BREADROCK, I feel like doing this is a visceral homage to cultural history, memory and universal myth. Melding experimental and ethnographic filmmaking, the work presents a series of staged vignettes drawing on the rituals and artefacts of the Estate’s Bangladeshi, European, Kurdish, Serbian, Turkish, Ugandan and West Indian communities, to create new kinships, myths and culture. Shot on 16mm film against the artists’ makeshift stage sets of textiles, paintings, and objects in a public garden on the Estate, BREADROCK, I feel like doing this manifests the inner worlds of Wenlock’s inhabitants: a Bangladeshi woman wearing her wedding dress buries a symbolic ‘umbilical cord’ in front of forty guests to mark her son’s birth; a West Indian man channels his deceased grandmother through an old-fashioned telephone and a cosmic donkey; another man surrounded by sheet music conducts an invisible orchestra and symbolic ancient rock, inspired by his love of geology; and others slowly process and gesture, holding bowls and plates aloft.
The soundtrack is a composition of raw sounds improvised from domestic household objects found in a resident’s flat.
Fourthland have been working with residents of Wenlock Barn since 2008, on projects connecting the land and people of the Estate. BREADROCK, I feel like doing this was Rosalind Fowler’s first collaboration with Fourthland. The project was supported by Arts Council England, PEER, and the Paul and Louise Cooke Endowment. Sound edit by Alejandro Tarraf.
Biography and credits
Rosalind Fowler is an artist and filmmaker interested in entanglement and participatory artistic processes as forms of re-enchantment, transformation and speculative enquiry.She leads gatherings, workshops, performances and interventions in collaborative contexts, using these processes as starting points for creating film work, often in social settings. She has worked together with artists and across other practices such as sound therapy, herbalism, shamanism, astrology, horticulture, and scientific research, to create space for imaginative encounters and shifted forms of consciousness between diverse groups of people and with non-human forms of life.Collective experiences, processes, materials and insights are performed, documented and re-visioned for film. The resulting work, combined with other imagery, weaves together experimental film, poetic ethnography, performance, and fiction. She sees analogue film as a form of magic with the ability to enchant and re-imagine, her haptic approaches to filmmaking echoing a tactile, sensory engagement with the land through the work, often then layered with digital and greenscreen imagery.Recent works include All is leaf, so to amplify the wonder (2019) supported by ACE and Barbican as part of Walthamstow London Borough of Culture, BREADROCK, Chant of the Whaleswan Kestle Barton (2018), and BREADROCK, I feel like doing this, PEER (2018) in collaboration with Fourthland, and NowhereSomewhere (2016) a 2-screen film installation for William Morris Gallery, Barbican Foyer Art commission, and Somerset House’s Utopia season.
Fourthland use their process led research and commitment to social practice to reposition marginalised knowledge in order to form new modes of social and environmental consciousness with diverse communities and cultural groups. Since 2008 their work has sought to merge art and life to collectively develop the myths that are essential to enchant and reposition forms of kinship to foster a deeper connection to the land and each other. These methods produce transformative collaborative projects, choreographed rituals, sculptural and sound works, storytelling and improvisations that weave together human and non-human communication. Recent exhibitions of multimedia installation and performance include Kestle Barton, PEER, SPACE, Somerset House, Arnolfini, Barbican, Errant Bodies, UCL, South London Gallery, with other projects in UK and internationally.
About LADA Screens
LADA Screens is a series of free, online screenings of seminal performance documentation, works to camera, short films/video and archival footage. It is part of Live Online, LADA’s dedicated space where you can watch short videos and films drawn from LADA’s Study Room or generated through our programmes and initiatives.
Each screening will be available to view for a limited time only, and will be launched with a live event at our space in Bethnal Green, London.
LADA Screens is curated by the Live Art Development Agency (LADA). LADA is a ‘Centre for Live Art’: a knowledge centre, a production centre for programmes and publications, a research centre setting artists and ideas in motion, and an online centre for digital experimentation, representation and dissemination.
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BREADROCK, I feel like doing this Rosalind Fowler and Fourthland
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