KYE WILSON - ARTIST'S TALK - 17 AUGUST, ASPEX

ARC is pleased to be hosting a talk by Portsmouth based artist, and regular ARC contributor,  Kye Wilson to coincide with his solo exhibition Entrapment of the o/Other at the Round Tower, Old Portsmouth.  
Kye will be discussing his Unsettled-Beautiful video which was commissioned by the Madrid Festival of Contemporary Audio-Visual Arts after he won their Best Video Artwork award in 2009.  
The video was filmed on location in Madrid and exhibited as a site-specific video installation at the 2010 festival.
Having premiered the work in Spain, Kye is now taking it to a number of other venues in the UK, reworking it for each space.  The Round Tower, a fortification built in the fifteenth century in Old Portsmouth, is the first of these locations. The work includes a self choreographed live performance by artist Helena Eflerová which Kye has filmed in High Definition Video format and will be showing in the exact spot where the ‘performance to camera’ took place.
Kye's work was inspired by a recurring dream and the connection of that dream with the treatment of suffrage prisoners. Thematically it questions the notions of absence, presence, embodiment, gender, self and the Other by merging the real and imagined. Through strategic - and highly accurate - positioning of the projected image of the female performer Kye is able to create the illusion of a live performance in the architectural space - a video trompe l'oeil.  The image of the figure is therefore seemingly present and yet absent.


Artist's Talk - Kye Wilson: Wednesday 17 August, 6.30 to 8.30 pm, aspex, Portsmouth.
Free but places limited.  Email arc@aspex.org.uk to reserve your place.

Exhibition: 12-19 August 2011 by appointment

Private View: Friday 12 August, 7-10pm, everyone welcome

Venue: The Round Tower, Broad Street, Old Portsmouth, PO1 2JE

‘Entrapment of the o/Other’ is a site-specific, video and sound installation that aims to give the viewer an emotive experience through a form of sensory engagement in an interesting and challenging historical space.  

‘Entrapment of the o/Other’ is funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and sponsored by the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries CCi SPACE Offsite Programme and Portsmouth City Council.