CRD Centre for Research Development Faculty of Arts and Architecture Research Newsletter / Summer 2003 / Edition 6 Liz Aggiss in Anarchic Variations, photos by ‘Motion Control’ has received numerous awards Billie Cowie Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie: including The Czech Crystal at the Golden Prague a Dance for Camera International Television Awards 2002 for the best original dance and music made for Television, the Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie have received one of six Honourable Mention Paula Citron Award for prestigious £50,000 BBC Arts Council Dance for Choreography for the Camera at the Moving Camera 2000 Awards to make ‘Motion Control’. Picture Awards Toronto 2002 and most recently a Gold Special Jury Award at the 36th World The film has been screened nationally during FilmFest Houston 2003. It has been bought and 2002/2003 and most notably internationally at screened by NPS Netherlands and Finnish TV and Ultima Festival Oslo, Archipelago Festival Rome, is held at the Invideo Media Logo Archive Milan. TTV Rimini Italy, VideoDance Athens, VideoDance Thessaloniki, Naples Film Festival, Sitges “The electric movements of the dancer and International Film Spain, Los Angeles Shorts, choreographer Liz Aggiss, converted into a true Toronto Moving Pictures, IMZ Monaco, DFA New audio-visual feast of widely ranging emotions. A York ScreenDance Festival, Constellation Screen superb cinematic experiment that starts out from Change London, Shorts! Amsterdam, St the conventions of video-dance but manages to Petersburg Film Festival, Moscow Museum of go beyond them through an intelligent use of Cinema, WorldFest Houston, Mediawaves editing, colour, sound and music.” Sitges Hungary. Motion Control is one of six featured International Festival. films on the South East ‘Dance Take 7’ DVD touring the UK. Following the success of ‘Motion Control’ Aggiss and Cowie applied for a Capture 2 Award. ‘Motion Control’ specifically and uniquely Capture is an initiative from the Arts Council examines the synergy of camera and performer. Dance Department that seeks to test the market Shot on 35mm, super 8, digibeta and S-VHS at for current and emerging developments in Shepperton Studios, it is unique in its interplay screen-based dance work. The priorities for with different tape stock, use of motion control Capture are projects that aim to build expertise camera and animation techniques. This film and explore the creative potential of the chosen explores, from the camera’s point of view, the medium, develop new relationships with collabo- physical and emotional entrapment of the aging rators across disciplines, research and develop and glamourous dancer in her private and person- the use of new and existing technology in creating al spaces. This truly is a dance for the camera. screen-based dance, and enhance and challenge The film is notable for the hypersound foley work conventional notions and models of dance. There overlaid with text and electro-opera. were four awards of £20,000 and four of £5,000. CRD Centre for Research Development appointed to establish the biennial as an Arts and Humanities and important international event. As photographer and tutor at the University of Brighton, Mark the Science Research In this issue Power has remarked, “I’ve been proud to witness a sustained rise in the profile of photography Investment Fund Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie: a Dance within Brighton over the last twenty years. Now for Camera 1 the city is to host a biennial under the direction The arts and humanities will, for the first time, of an internationally recognised curator, a benefit from a new round of special funding allocated Brighton Photo Biennial 2003 2 measure of just how far we’ve come. With the to institutions to make up some of the past under- Arts and Humanities and the depth of artistic talent that exists here it’s no investment in research infrastructure, and to contribute Science Research Investment more than Brighton deserves. It really is very to its long-term sustainability. This is one of the first Fund 3 exciting indeed.” tangible results of the decision that an AHRC should be established under the aegis of the Office Dr Paul Jobling: AHRB Research The BPB have been developing - and distributing - of Science and Technology (OST). Leave Update 4 a number of projects in advance of the official Modern Alchemy? The Marriage of opening in October. These began with two The second round of the Science Research Science and Art 5 brochures that featured specially-commissioned Investment Fund (SRIF2) is a joint initiative of the work, the first by Brighton-based photographer OST, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) Developing Art and Science 6 Stephen Hughes, and the second including new and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales pictures from Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane’s ‘Folk and Northern Ireland. Their contributions amount in Research Student Day 7 Aggiss and Cowie received a major award of Anderson, Magali Charrier, Billy Cowie, Mim King, Archive’. Last year, the BPB in association with total to over £1 billion, to be allocated by formula to Staff News 8 £20,000 to direct and choreograph ‘Anarchic Annie Lok, Shelly Love, chaired by Director of South Brighton and Hove Council and The Argus higher education institutions over the two years Variations’ a film that aims to confound and dis- East Dance, Linda Jasper. developed a project with Swiss artist Beat Streuli. 2004-05 and 2005-06. The formula is based on Katrin Bohn/Andre Viljoen, Senior orientate the spectator’s reality of space, scale and Streuli’s photographs, taken of some of the city’s each institution’s QR and research grant income in Lecturers, School of Architecture & sound. Shot on digibeta, Super 8 and DV, this work Stop Press: Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie have just inhabitants on its streets, were reproduced as a 2000-2003, and the indicative allocations Design 10 utilised the post production software Commotion. received a £20,000 Arts Council Capture 3 pull-out in The Argus over the period of a three con- announced by the Higher Education Funding Award to make ‘The Men in the Wall’ a 3-D secutive Saturdays, a mass-produced multiple Councils on 11th February range from nearly £64 Student News 11 ‘Anarchic Variations’ was previewed at IMZ Monaco dance screen installation. available to every reader. And this June, a new million for University College London down to New Students 12 2002, premiered at The Place International poster with a photograph taken on Brighton £20,000 for a number of small institutions such as Screenings 2002, and commenced its touring life at beach by Citibank Photography Prize winner the Norwich School of Art. Staff Funding Successes 12 MediaWaves Hungary in April 2003. ‘Anarchic Brighton Photo Biennial Boris Mikhailov will be published to coincide with Funding Opportunities 13 Variations’ is held at The National Film and Television his work being shown in the Tate’s first major The Funding Councils have asked institutions to Archive London and www.ArtsOnline.com will show The Brighton Photo Biennial (BPB), which opens in photography exhibition, ‘Cruel + Tender’. submit proposals for spending their SRIF2 alloca- Subject Centre News 14 clips from the collection. South East Dance will October 2003, will be the most important photog- tions, including a contribution of at least 10 per cent undertake a national and international distribution of raphy event in Britain. With an ambitious programme When it comes to the event in October, however, of the costs of the programme from their own Conferences 14 the collection until 2005. of exhibitions, projects, publications, talks, education the BPB will also use all the major exhibition spaces resources or from other non-SRIF funds. This Louise Purbrick: AHRB Research projects and events, the BPB will bring together the in the city - Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, contribution is reduced from the 25 per cent that Leave Update 15 Following these achievements, Aggiss and Cowie most exciting and important photography from Fabrica, Phoenix, the Gardner Arts Centre and, of was applied in the first round of SRIF funding in have given case study presentations including the throughout the country and around the world to course, the University of Brighton Gallery. The 2000. Institutions have been instructed that the priority Theatre & Gallery Highlights 16 BBC/Arts Council Dance for Camera Still Moving spaces in and around Brighton. This will include an gallery at Grand Parade will host an exhibition enti- should be to promote the long-term sustainability Conference at the University of Brighton 2002 and extraordinary array of works, from historical tled ‘The Inconsiderable Things’, which will bring of their research infrastructure and to address past at The NFT South Bank. Liz Aggiss curated and archives in New York, Paris, and numerous British together new work by the influential British photog- under-investment. Institutional submissions will be Liz Aggiss in Anarchic Variations, photos by Billie Cowie presented with Ross McGibbon BBC Executive Collections, to new commissions from major rapher Peter Fraser, who was subject of a major reviewed by the Funding Councils before funds are Producer, International Screenings at The Place international artists. survey at The Photographers’ Gallery last year, and released; and the presumption is that each institution London and was invited to be on the selection Brooklyn-based artist Rachel Harrison, star of the will receive its full SRIF allocation. panel with the Arts Council for the £5,000 Capture Following discussions between The University of 2002 Whitney Biennial in New York and, according 2003 Awards. Brighton, Photoworks and South East Arts (now to the magazine Artforum, one of the most impor- The position of the arts and humanities in SRIF2 is Arts Council South East), the BPB was seen as a tant artists of her generation.