Works

In December 2020 The Room Projects opened an international call for artists. The selected artworks establish a dialogue between the representation of the human body and the moving images, following three sub-categories: Skin, Biting & Chewing, and Viscera.

Each category includes the work of a contemporary artist selected from LUX, an online film and art-video archive. The screening spreads over three consecutive days, one per each category.

Day 1 | January 8th | Skin
Day 2 | January 9th | Biting & Chewing
Day 3  | January 10th |Viscera

Skin

Skin is the outer shell, the surface of things.
Skin is the flesh of the world. It is steel, dust, gestures.
Skin is an accessory, a vehicle for sensuality, identity, memory.
Skin is a first look at the new flesh.


Daniela Zahlner | for the soft glow ahead | 3’16’
Rowland Hill | Tha-at’s right |11’15’’
Dorothy Allen-Pickard | Material Bodies | 4’22’’
Meghana Bisineer | Dust | 5’15’’
Boris Contarin | La Chair du Monde | 2’’
Max Breakenridge | Enveloped / Ecstatic | 11’58’’
Milva Stutz | My Dear Lover | 9’57’’
Benedito Ferreira | Bestiário | 5’
Benjamin Ivy | A Malady in Stillness | 7’28’’
Daniele Costa | X | 16’44’’
Gina Peyran Tan | Dialectics | 4’35’’
Emelie Wingårdh | What Do You Do When You Can’t Sleep | 3’58’’
Jeremy Hutchison in collab. with Oisin Byrne | Dear Mr Zuckerberg (2020) | 6’20’’


From LUX Archive:
James Richards | Radio At Night | 8’10’’

Biting & Chewing

Biting&Chewing explores a body that eats and grows. It is digital compost, fragment.
Biting&Chewing is soil, nourishment, seeds of a dystopian future in which the machine predominates.
Biting&Chewing is a metaphor for consumption, desire, violence, sexuality.
It is the machine that finally takes its space on the screen.



Sam Williams | Salvage Rhythms | 23’
Céline Fantino | Toutes Les Nuits Tombent | 6’01’’
Miguel Martin | Eat the Rich | 4’32’’
Henry Bradley | Frenulum | 4’05’’
Helen Anna Flanagan | Gestures of Matter | 12’36’’
Eleni Tomadaki | Mum I’m Scurgy | 6’40’’
Pauline Maure | Baby Skin (Aren’t you a sweet pie?) | 2’16’’
Aiman Verma | Diaspora Forensics | 9’06’’
Michel Aniol | Today a Hobo, Tomorrow God | 15’17’’
Shia Jim Conlon | Exalted | 10’37’’


From LUX Archive:
Sarah Pucill | You Be Mother | 6’29’’

Viscera

Viscera is a journey into the cavities of this new body.
Viscera explores beyond the commonly visible.
It is the heart and spirit of the image, an expression of its autonomy.
Viscera, long live the New Flesh.




Agnieszka Mastalerz and Michal Szaranowicz | Primary Swarm | 9’55’’
Anaïs Senli | Linea Fusca | 20’
Andy Sowerby | Enough | 2’26’’
Joseph Santarpia | Flesh Forming | 4’12’’
Yan Wai Yin | Localized Blindness | 19’45’’
Catriona Gallagher | They met under a ceiling of sky | 21’08’’
Akio Yuguchi | Avec | 18’28’’
Guli Silberstein | Somewhere We Live in Little Loops | 5’49’’



From LUX Archive:
Tim Webb | 15th February | 6’41’’