Morgan Quaintance: Available Light
Available Light is a new touring commission devised by London based artist, writer and musician, Morgan Quaintance presented by Outlands Network.
Morgan Quaintance: Available Light
Available Light is a new touring commission devised by London based artist, writer and musician, Morgan Quaintance presented by Outlands Network.
A year-long expanded exhibition explores notions of home and belonging in contemporary society. Expanding from themes in an eponymously titled new film work that comprises interviews with workers at the Edo Tokyo Open Air Architecture Museum in Tokyo, and fragments of conversations with renters in that city and London.
The Available Light tour brings together new formal and conceptual elements, writing, and sound compositions developed by Quaintance, and placed in a changing configuration alongside other contributions – music, spoken word and moving image – from a range of invited artists: at one venue a screening programme, at another, a static exhibition, a single performance, or a series of talks, at another still, a combination of all of the above.
This event brings together BEEF-affiliated artists presenting film, performance, spoken word, and sound works in response to Available Light, and marks the culmination of the touring programme. Alongside Quaintance’s premise, the programme reflects upon both personal and social perspectives, exploring notions of home and belonging in contemporary society, and examining how these experiences are shaped by place, memory, and both individual and collective experience.
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The event will include an introduction to Available Light, followed by a discussion with Morgan and members of BEEF exploring diverse forms and modes of presentation across film, performance, and live expanded practices. The conversation will consider how these approaches operate across cinematic, performative, and responsive contexts, while engaging with questions of liveness, materiality, and experience.
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Morgan Quaintance: Available Light (16mm to digital) 32 mins
Katie Davies: Divided by Law (film) 26 mins
Louisa Fairclough: Rattling against the frets (spoken word + live sound) 20 mins
Laura Philips: Dwelling – in progress (16mm + reading) 15 mins
