Screening: Tacita Dean, Event for a Stage (2015)
Published: 12 October 2017
Wednesday 1 November 2017
Wednesday 1 November 2017
6.00pm - 7.00pm
Andrew Stewart Cinema
Admission free - booking required
Tacita Dean’s Event for a Stage (2015) sees this acclaimed artist rework her first foray into live theatre into a rich and complex 16mm film. Dean was commissioned by the 2014 Sydney Biennial to make a project in a theatre, and the result was
 a fierce interplay with the actor Stephen Dillane, culminating in four performances over consecutive evenings. Dean filmed the performances, and Event for a Stage uses that material to make dazzling plays with time, with fiction and artifice, and with the relationships between art, film and theatre. Having often focused on individuals (especially other artists), Dean here attempts to film, as Event for a Stage’s script suggests, ‘a process, a craft, a profession.’
This screening is part of the exhibition A Synchronology: the contemporary and other times at the Hunterian Art Gallery (27 October 2017 - 28 January 2018) and is a collaboration between The Hunterian and The Common Guild, Glasgow.
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Andrew Stewart Cinema
Gilmorehill Halls
University of Glasgow
9 University Avenue
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Image: TACITA DEAN, Event for a Stage 2015, 16mm colour film, optical sound, 50 minutes. COURTESY THE ARTIST, FRITH STREET GALLERY, LONDON AND MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK / PARIS.
First published: 12 October 2017
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