*LAUNCH OF MATCHBOX.TV <http://matchbox.tv/>*
www.mtchbx.tv <http://www.mtchbx.tv/>
Episode 1: Paul Rooney: /Shake It Off/
*Matchbox.TV* is a new online video commissioning and exhibition
platform conceived and curated by *Nathalie Boobis* (London) and *Insa
Langhorst* (Berlin) that offers an experimental framework for artists to
make new work. Invited artists are asked to make a 5 minute video in
response to a set of 10 questions that have been extracted from various
DADA writings:
Why?
How do you light a match?
Which way?
Is the human being a priori good?
Did you see the man through the letterbox?
Which deed creates this rage?
Does the horn sound?
Are we because of you?
Eternity?
Of what concern are they to us?
In responding to abstract questions within a fixed framework, artists
have the opportunity to explore, reflect, challenge or subvert their
practice and the limits of video as a medium. The resulting videos offer
fresh insights into each artist’s work.
Matchbox.TV is a free site that aims to bring the work of international
artists at different stages of their career to a broad, online audience
and promotes the use of video as an artistic tool.
New videos will be released in monthly ‘episodes’ at 6pm GMT on the
first Thursday of every month. Past episodes will then be archived on
the site. Episode 1 is Paul Rooney's(b. & based Liverpool, UK)response
to the questions, titled /Shake It Off /. Episode 2 will launch on
Thursday 1 September with work by Jackie Connolly (b. & based NY, USA)
and Episode 3 will launch on Thursday 6 October with a video by Eloïse
Bonneviot (b. France, based London, UK).
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Nathalie Boobis(b. Leicester, UK 1984) is a curator based in London.
She studied MFA Curating at Goldsmiths and practices independently as
well as coordinating the Artist Commissions Programme for SPACE gallery
in Hackney, London. She recently ran the gallery, Green Ray, in
Deptford, London with Gabriela Acha and Katy Orkisz. She is director of
the ongoing project, The Shadow Archive, a growing digital archive of
self-organised art spaces. She runs a collaborative inquiry research
group, The Future is a Collective Project, that explores perspectives of
otherness and overlooked knowledge as key tools in future thinking. She
is currently working towards an exhibition exploring these themes.
*www.greenray.co* <http://www.greenray.co/>*
**www.theshadowarchive.wordpress.com*
<http://www.theshadowarchive.wordpress.com/>
Insa Langhorst**(b. Hannover, Germany 1985) lives and works in Berlin.
She mainly uses film to explore topics surrounding everyday urban life.
Her work is informed by her studies in visual anthropology. Recently she
started a series on people waiting, together with Manchester-based
photographer Jonathan Purcell. She also participated in the Spaces
Between the Cities Project, working with a team of international video
artists.
*www.berlinsomnambulator-blog.tumblr.com
<http://www.berlinsomnambulator-blog.tumblr.com/>*
Paul Rooney (b. Liverpool, UK 1967, based Liverpool) attended Edinburgh
College of Art. From 1998 to 2000 he released three CD music albums as
the band ‘Rooney’, featuring in John Peel’s Festive Fifty in 1998. From
2000 he has made music for gallery presentation in the form of sound
and video art works.
Rooney has exhibited widely including at Tate Britain; Tate Liverpool;
BALTIC; Whitechapel Gallery; and ICA; and has exhibited internationally
at places such as the Shanghai Biennial; The Russian Museum (St.
Petersburg); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City); and Centro
Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville). Other art projects include a
solo exhibition at Matt’s Gallery, London; a site-specific sound
‘lecture’ for Leeds Metropolitan University; and a museum object
‘oracle’ website for University of Cambridge Museums. Rooney’s writing
has been published by Serpent’s Tail and Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press,
and a collection of his short fiction was published by Akerman Daly/Aye
Aye Books in 2012. He was the winner of the second Northern Art Prize in
2008.
*http://www.paulrooney.info/*
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