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JERWOOD / FILM AND
VIDEO UMBRELLA AWARDS
TOMORROW NEVER
KNOWS
JVA at Jerwood Space,
London, SE1
14 March – 22 April
2012
Admission
free
Ed
Atkins, Emma Hart, Naheed
Raza and Corin Sworn are four of the
most exciting new talents to emerge on the contemporary art
scene. Picked from a 50-strong nominated shortlist of early to
mid-career artists specialising in the moving-image, Atkins,
Hart, Raza and Sworn were selected last summer, as the first
recipients of The Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella
Awards.
These awards
(consisting of a £4,000 bursary, including production support
from Film and Video Umbrella) were given to each artist to
develop proposals for a ‘project for the future’ – providing a
platform to move their practice forward (and highlight where
their thoughts are heading), while also reflecting on ideas
and images of ‘the future’ and how they resonate in the
present.
These pilot
projects are about to be revealed in the exhibition
Tomorrow Never Knows, curated by
Film and Video Umbrella and Jerwood Visual Arts and taking
place at Jerwood Space, London from 14 March to 22 April
2012.
Ed
Atkins
Material Witness OR A Liquid Cop,
2012
video still, mixed media
As an exhibition,
Tomorrow Never Knows is itself a
different, forward-looking proposition. The pieces on display
have deliberately not been conceived as finished articles but
demonstrations of potential and declarations of intent. During
the exhibition run, two of the featured artists will each be
awarded a £20,000 commission to continue and complete their
projects. The finished works will then premiere at Jerwood
Space in early 2013 before travelling to CCA (Centre for
Contemporary Art) in Glasgow.
The exhibition
theme reflects both on our appetite for making predictions,
and on the uncertainties of ‘futurology’. As well as a
showcase of artists for whom a bright future can confidently
be anticipated, the exhibition considers the theme of ‘futures
past’. Casting its mind back to moments in history when a
particular style or aesthetic was deemed to be the wave of the
future, it will remind us of tomorrows that never quite
happened, whilst also revisiting and re-appraising some of
that untapped potential.
Emma
Hart
TO
DO
Matt's Gallery,
(Installation view), 2011
The speculative,
future-oriented nature of the initiative is further elaborated
in two specially commissioned texts by writers Martin
Herbert and Paul Morley, which
feature in an accompanying publication. Alert to our
increasingly complex, ambiguous feelings about what tomorrow
might hold (its promise overshadowed by growing senses of
stasis or uncertainty), they identify a culture-wide nostalgia
for futures past, or futures lost, while invoking the
challenges, and the pleasures, of continuing to look and think
ahead.
These themes are
extended in a series of talks and events planned at Jerwood
Visual Arts and, later this year, at CCA. More details on
these will be published on tomorrowneverknows.org.uk
Naheed
Raza
2011
Film and
Video Umbrella commissions, curates, produces and
presents film, video and other moving-image works by artists
that are staged in collaboration with galleries and other
cultural partners. The organisation's numerous artists’
projects range from ambitious multi-screen installations to
shorter film and video pieces, as well as numerous online
commissions.
Jerwood
Visual Arts (JVA) is a contemporary gallery programme
of awards, exhibitions and events at Jerwood Space, London,
and on tour nationally. JVA supports and showcases the work of
talented emerging artists, and aims to make connections and
provoke conversations within and across visual arts
disciplines. JVA is a major initiative of the Jerwood
Charitable Foundation.
Corin
Sworn
Mark
1
Film, mixed media,
2012
JVA at
Jerwood Space
171 Union
Street
Bankside
London SE1
0LN
Opening
Hours:
Monday – Friday
10am – 5pm; Saturday & Sunday 10am – 3pm
Closed Bank
Holidays
The Gallery is open
until 8pm on SLAM Fridays, the last Friday of every
month
Admission
free
Nearest tube:
Southwark, London Bridge or Borough
Twitter:
@JerwoodJVA @FilmVidUmbrella #TNK12
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