Event overview
The Contemporary Art Talks programme is organised by the Department of Art
Sebastian Buerkner is one of the most innovative artists working with animation today. Using a dream like and sophisticated visual language, sharply rendered by Flash technology, the artist creates surreal visual narratives which challenge perceptions of space and time, often suggesting a duality between the conscious and subconscious. This process is usually augmented by the use of split screen or multiple, sequential projections, which, combined with his use of repetition and stroboscopic editing create an almost hallucinogenic visual experience. Originally studying as a painter, Buerkner taught himself how to build and create animations using Macromedia Flash. The formal characteristics of Flash’s readymade digital surfaces render the artist’s subliminal narratives with an abstracted flatness – the fluid changes in focus, viewpoint and time begin to articulate the hierarchies and orders of memory, and illustrate glimpses into the subconscious of a suggested protagonist. [Claire Jackson, Tramway].
His most recent film, a stereoscopic animation: The Chimera of M. (2013) won the Tiger Award at the 2014 Rotterdam International Film Festival. Sebastian Buerkner has made projects for Kunsthaus im KunstkulturQuartier Nuremberg, Germany; Tramway, Glasgow; Sketch, London; The Showroom Gallery, London; Whitechapel Project Space; London and LUX at Lounge Gallery, London; Art on the Underground, Screen at Canary Wharf, London. He has also participated in group shows and screenings at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, London; Tate Liverpool; Site Gallery, Sheffield; Barbican, Whitechapel Gallery, South London Gallery, London and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. His film Purple Grey (2006) was broadcast as part of AnimateTV on Channel 4.
Image credit: Sebastian Buerkner 'The Chimera of M.' Stereoscopic Animation, 25 minutes, 2013
http://www.sebastianbuerkner.com
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 19 Feb 2014 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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