lizhelman: 08.09

Liz Helman is a London-based visual artist and independent curator. In her time-based media works she uses photography and moving image to explore place and memory; journeying between recollection and reality, time and space. Challenging format driven orthodoxies, she fragments and collages the images and sounds that seep into our consciousness on a daily basis, navigating between the dislocation and displacement that lead us to our thoughts and daydreams.

Video Works have been shown in London and abroad including: London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, part of festival shorts with Barbara Hammer, BFI, 2011; FrinGe Gay Film Fest, London, 2011; Wunderland at tactileBosch, Cardiff, 2011; Supermarket Stockholm Art Fair, 2011; Whitechapel Gallery Open Screenings, 2010; Rich Mix Cultural Centre, London, UK, 10; Counted Weekend Festival, Roundhouse, London, 2010; Portobello Film Festival 2008; Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust 2008; Picasso’s Laboratory – St James Cavalier, Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta 2007; WAVE [Hybridity, Identity & the Self] – Ewha Arts Center, M-Post Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 2006.  

Independent curation projects include Roma London in 2010; Before.After.Now – Visions of Iraq – a show on Iraqi Art Deluxe Gallery, Hoxton, London 2003. As an Andy Warhol in Yason Banal’s installation piece, Last Warhol Stand Inn at Tate Modern’s 10th Anniversary Festival of Independents in 2010.

from PLACE: Tacita Dean/Jeremy Millar

For most of us, the city is a backdrop to our lives. Familiar and yet sometimes sinister, the streets are at once the site of social interaction, and something darker, something more violent. But as cities grow they begin to resemble one another, becoming ever expanding mass. What does this do to our sense of place, and our sense of ourselves? Do we connect to them in new ways? Do we live in an accumulated city, the collected memory of all the cities we have known? To live in the city, must we assume the position of the anonymous stranger?

from PLACE: Tacita Dean/Jeremy Millar