Saturday 26th May at Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester

Last Saturday Chris led a workshop at the Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester and despite the blazing and irregularly hot weather for the notoriously rainy city there were some dedicated participants.

 Our youngest and most productive customer was Adnan, aged six who is pictured here. Thanks to Lou Hargreaves, Elizabeth Wewiora and Gass Pendergast for having us.

In other news, the Music Video mentioned in the last post - directed by Chris is now public as viewable in the link below.

Kelvin will also be creating another site specific installation at Late at Tate Britain this Friday with Simon Little in co-ordination with the rest of the work based on the theme of Migration. Exciting times!
Here's a video of their previous event at Tate Modern back in May...

Lastly, Maria shot and edited this video for the Art Auction event entitled NOW & FUTURE: JAPAN organised in aid of ASHINAGA, a Tokyo-based charity providing long-term financial, educational and emotional support to disaster-affected orphans. Take a look:

Saturday 26th May at Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester

Unravel returns to Manchester on Saturday 26th May at the Chinese Arts Centre in the Northern Quarter area of the city to compliment their current exhibition 'Sixty Minute Cinema' which is a six week changing video programme. As ever, we will create, manipulate and screen a 16mm film made entirely by participants during the three hour workshop which runs on a drop-in/drop-out basis between 2 and 5pm. Chris will be leading the workshop.

Other events to look out for this week in Manchester include FutureEverything , our friends Optic Film Screenings and Swing Ting clubnight to whom Chris has just directed a music video and who's trailer is available here. 
You can also finish off the the saturday night by watching the Eurovision Song Contest, we'll be cheering for Greta Salóme, the Icelandic entry this year - Chris worked with her in his residency in Skálholt in 2010 and she took part in the pre-Unravel workshop session written about here (our first entry on this blog, no less)...Good luck Greta! 


Last tip of the week, if you are lucky enough to find a screening of Ben Rivers' Two Years at Sea (all shot and self-processed on Kodak Plus-X Black and White 16 mm Film stock) still playing at a cinema near you and need the extra push to go see... here's the push.

Artists' Cine Club at FACT in Liverpool

On Tuesday 8th April, Chris will be presenting work and talking about Unravel at the event  Artist Cine Club: Cellu-loko! organised by Kate Murphy alongside presentations by Dave Griffiths and our very own Joanna Byrne who will be performing her excellent expanded cinema performance 'Cleanse, Tone, Moisturise, (Conceal)'. The event is free although booking is recommended. Be great if you can make it...


UPDATE: 
This was a great event and massive thanks to Kate Murphy and Omar Kholeif for making this happen. Excellent work on show from Dave Griffiths too. Liverpool was great for us once again and many thanks to everyone who attended. 
Whilst we are namedropping - make sure to attend Omar's excellent curation at the Cornerhouse for his long awaited Subversion show - it's an aptly titled and very relevant exhibition that genuinely has something to say - not to be missed.  

The journey so far...

Just thought we'd show off this interactive map of all our workshops to date.
Happy Easter to all our supporters, participants and hosts past, present and future!


View Unravel workshops to date feb 2012 in a larger map

Updates from March

We've all had a busy couple of weeks and so this blog has gone a bit quiet of late but there's been plenty of activity on each of our own practices.

First of all have a look at Jo's new website showcasing her own experimental film work and expanded cinema performances, we are all massive fans of Screen Kiss - check it out!

Jo and Chris had a great time at the Henry Moore Institute at the Peripherique talk with a really engaging audience for the Q+A. There will be an article to follow later in the year as a further discussion around the points addressed during the lecture. In attendence was our friend Leah Capaldi who has been making some stunning performance work since graduating at the same time as Chris and Maria at the RCA and it was great to catch up with her.

Kelvin and Chase Lane Audio Projects ran a very successful sound workshop at Tate Modern on Saturday 24th March  in response to the work of Yayoi Kusama. The workshop was apparently attended by nearly 2000 people which is an incredible amount!

Lastly, Chris has a new HD video commision, Family Tree, in the year long show Sublime Transactions at the Armitt Museum and Library in Ambleside which also features work by Hannah Alton, Sir Peter Blake, John Ellis, Paul Farley, Karoline Hjorth, Derek Horton, Riitta Ikonen, Russell Mills, Kate Morrell, Eileen Ramsay, Carole Romaya, David Toop, Ian Walton and Jon Wozencroft.

 His piece was made in collaboration with local residents reflecting on their specific histories in the area and utilised an Unravel workshop in collaboration with our friend Kate Morell in order to generate some of the interview-led soundtrack. Coincidentally it appears that the Ambleside and Windermere region is almost equidistant to Land's End and Jon O'Groats making this our official half way point in geographical terms. That's all for now but we've some exciting new dates to announce very soon..... 

Wednesday 22nd February - Talk at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds

This Wednesday, Chris and Jo will give a presentation on the Unravel project so far, as part of the Henry Moore Institute's Peripherique artist-led event series: 

As well as screening some of the raw 16mm hand-painted footage and a section of the digitised 16 hour film (with edited soundtrack), Chris and Jo will be talking about the project in relation to their own filmmaking practice and ideas relevant to the project, including collaboration, participation and a discussion around using film in a contemporary context.
The talk will run from 6-8pm on Wednesday 22nd February in the HMI Seminar Room. 
Free, no booking necessary.  Hope to see you there!

Saturday 18th February at Colchester's Firstsite

We had a great day at Firstsite last saturday in Colchester with a very busy workshop and well attended screening of the edited unravel films in the Auditorium. A full write up coming very soon but in the mean time here's some pictures from the day...