Abstract
Practice-as-research project that investigates the ways in which the past impacts upon experience of the present in the seaside town of Teignmouth, on the south coast of Devon. The research outcomes weave 8mm black and white home movie footage, shot just before the outbreak of WWII, with modern day perspectives, captured in digital video and photography.
The Jones family holidayed in Teignmouth from 1934 to 1939, their summer activities captured forever on black and white film. A lifetime later the town is still here: ships in the docks, bathers on the beach, people promenade.
Teign Spirit celebrates this continuity, mixing these home movies with new waves: a twenty first century stroll along the Back Beach, evoking the optical entertainments of the Victorian pier: the flickering still-moving images of the mutascope, a figure seen for a moment, held in the mind, then gone. Silent memories, coloured by the present.
EXHIBITION includes:
Aurora, Norwich; Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium; London Short Film Festival; Village Scren, Glastonbury Festival; public//domain, Bournemouth; Haifa International Film Festival Start Making Sense programme presented by Animate Projects for The British Council; Sensing Place, Plymouth Arts Centre; Spiritus Sancti and Ghost Radio, Rushes Soho Short Film Festival; Art in Large Doses, Paintings in Hospitals annual summer exhibition, Menier Gallery, London.
Teign Spirit is one of four moving image artworks selected by Tate Youth Forum for the Paintings in Hospitals Children and Young People’s Collection, and is available for loan to all healthcare environments in the UK, including hospitals, GP surgeries, hospices and mental health facilities.
The Jones family holidayed in Teignmouth from 1934 to 1939, their summer activities captured forever on black and white film. A lifetime later the town is still here: ships in the docks, bathers on the beach, people promenade.
Teign Spirit celebrates this continuity, mixing these home movies with new waves: a twenty first century stroll along the Back Beach, evoking the optical entertainments of the Victorian pier: the flickering still-moving images of the mutascope, a figure seen for a moment, held in the mind, then gone. Silent memories, coloured by the present.
EXHIBITION includes:
Aurora, Norwich; Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium; London Short Film Festival; Village Scren, Glastonbury Festival; public//domain, Bournemouth; Haifa International Film Festival Start Making Sense programme presented by Animate Projects for The British Council; Sensing Place, Plymouth Arts Centre; Spiritus Sancti and Ghost Radio, Rushes Soho Short Film Festival; Art in Large Doses, Paintings in Hospitals annual summer exhibition, Menier Gallery, London.
Teign Spirit is one of four moving image artworks selected by Tate Youth Forum for the Paintings in Hospitals Children and Young People’s Collection, and is available for loan to all healthcare environments in the UK, including hospitals, GP surgeries, hospices and mental health facilities.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Animate Projects |
| Media of output | Film |
| Publication status | Published - 5 Oct 2009 |
Keywords
- archive
- artists' film and video
- artist's moving image
- sense of place
- Teignmouth
