Amy Dickson

Women Artist Filmmakers and Environmental Activism Wednesday 19th March 4.30-6pm LICA A36, Lancaster University Join us tomorrow for a symposium looking at Eco-feminism, activism, and film making in the context of the current national touring survey exhibition 'Women in Revolt' (@tate @nationalgalleriesscot @whitworthart ) The event includes a keynote lecture from Dr Lucy Reynolds (Westminster University) @afeministchorus drawing on her work as curatorial advisor on Moving Image works for ‘Women in Revolt’ and curator of the accompanying programme Through a Radical Lens, a six-part screening and conversation series featuring the film and video practices of UK-based feminist artists and collectives, bringing together historic and rarely seen films and video works with those by contemporary moving image artists. The keynote will be followed by a presentation and short film screenings with artist-researcher-filmmakers @denizjhns (LICA, Film), @a.c.dickson (LICA, PGR). We will also screen Fire Film (1981) by Annabel Nicolson, Nan Sewing, stitched film (2024) by Amy Dickson and Sewing Café Lancaster, and Women's Call (2018) by @birch_rebecca which followed the protesters against fracking at Preston New Road, Lancashire. Drawing on her expertise in feminist film scholarship, Dr Dalila Missero (LICA, Film) will act as respondent to the presentations before event culminates in a panel discussion with all speakers, chaired by @jensouthern_ (LICA, Fine Art), at which point there will be opportunity for questions. Lucy Reynolds is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for MRES Creative Practice at University of Westminster. She has lectured and published extensively, examining questions of the moving image, feminism, political space and collective practice through her writing, curating and art projects. As an artist, her films and installations have been presented in galleries and cinemas internationally, including her ongoing sound work A Feminist Chorus. Image: Nan Sewing, stitched film (2024) by Amy Dickson and Sewing Café Lancaster

Textile Cinema: Amy Dickson, Jennifer Nightingale and Mary Stark at Close-Up, 8:30, Thursday 25th July. Expect films, performance and light.

Textile Cinema is happening this Thursday @closeupfilmcentre with some work from Jennifer Nightingale, Mary Stark and myself. July 25th, 20:30h - Close-Up Cinema, London Thank you to Contact: Simon Payne and Andrew Valance for facilitating it. And to @closeupfilmcentre and to their lovely projectionist Camille. tickets/more info link in bio

Amy Dickson and I will be sharing a new piece — this Saturday 4pm @ Frieze No.9 Cork Street — in dialogue with Rachel Carson’s book The Edge of the Sea (1952) 🐚 Ticket link in bio

Very late #Repost but maybe today is appt 🕯 @millennium_film_journal • • • • • • "Framing may be seen as durationally rather than spatially defined, since the screen doesn’t have a hard border but rather functions as a field within which the candles become visible and whose edges dissolve into the surrounding darkness. Contingency is embraced in the unpredictability of the behaviour of the candles and the screen."⁠ ⁠ Thank you @nickyhamlyn for discussing my video & performance practice in 'Dissolving the Frame' #MFJ75⁠ ⁠ 📸: Amy Dickson, Light Time, live performance, Horse Hospital, London, 2013, Documentation by Alexandros Pissourios (cropped). Courtesy the artist.⁠ ____⁠ #mfj #millenniumfilmjournal #artistsmovingimage #artreview #videoart #performanceart #videoartist #artistfilm #artistcinema Image ID: viewed from the side a figure in a red jumper with short hair and stands behind a dark screen with one arm outstretched. On the screen there are glowing patches and there's a glow from the screen radiating on the figures face and the walls behind.

End of a era... Clarence Road 2008-2022 @annakolesen @ @tgcalverley @tasostamou @tamaratahhan @harrydickson1989 @littlegdickson @karolinaraczynski @denizjhns #MiaGubby #ClaudelGoy @camilaperma @lizzy_gilbert_ @nickolaypenev @cooperloves @jamie_jenkinson_ @philgoss1 #Noemi Zajzon #Evelina Linkute ..... Image ID: 1. Photo of the front of a victorian semi detached house at twilight. Light on attic window. 2. Photo from inside a room - arched window with plants and flowers surrounding it. Bright white light coming in from outside staturating the image. 3. Still from video 'Double Exposure' 2017 - pitch black room, low light back lights arched window and casts faint light on a double bed. 4. Still from video 'Hannah's Room' 2012 - light from window projects into room onto chunky gold framed mirror. A photo frame sits above the mirror and the curve of an appolstered chair to the left below. Outside of the projected frame is in shadow. 5. Pen and watercolour drawing (white, green, brown) of arched window with plants around it. A bare tree can be seen through the window. 6. Phoyo- a candle on a toilet seat illunmates a toy saxophone being played in a bathroom by @TasosStamou for an visual art & performance event In House 2016 7. Still from video - Light and shadow projection from Patterned Glass window, a portrait 8. Still from video - Multiple light patterns filtering in through trees in through a square window, the frame is divided by a frosted glass panel. 9. Photo - snow scene, taken from the second floor looking onto backgardens and backs of surrounding buildings 10. Black and white photo collage of friends and family (past tenants).

Thank you to Nicky Hamlyn @nickyhamlyn for writing about my video & performance practice and @millennium_film_journal for featuring it in the latest MFJ issue 'Boundaries'. Image descriptions: 1 MFJ layout page featuring 3 spreads from the magazine all off centre and cutting out of frame on a black background and a 4:3 image of hundreds of pink balloons flying past a biege apartment block. 2 MFJ cover page for Boundaries issue. Multiple layers of showdy bodies, shards of light stream through from the background. 3 Forget-me-nots on mid-blue background in dappled light. 4 album cover: Boundaries by @harryjaysteele . Cynotype of 8 pieces of sea glass.

Few more recent pics (Lakes) Descriptions of image:1Frosted grassland with small tree. Mountains sunlit in the background, wooden gate to the right hand side. 2. Video paning left, mountains and lake meandering, mirror reflections, strong light and cast shadows, autumnal colours. 3. Brown-yellow grassland with shallow river curving through. 4 Brown-yellow mountains with tiny deer on top looking directly at you and bright blue sky over head. 5. Inversion, moutain peaks sorrounded by thick fog. 6. Looking out of a front car window at night, little viability (fog), tiny dream catcher hanging from rear view mirror, red tail lights of car in front.

Moonlit Morecambe Description of images:1 rocky beach in forground, Heysham Nuclear Power Station in the background, sky is pinky/yellow with sunset + light pollution. 2 Sunset Morecambe Bay Area, 3 A clif face with moon above, beach in the forground with rock-pool and moon reflection, everything is bathed in purple-red-pink hues. 4 Close up of tyde rippled beach - purple with highlights.

Very happy to finally have a copy of this in hand. Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema produced and edited by #Contact (Simon Payne & Andrew Vallance) - which includes many favorite filmmakers. A series of events accompanies the book - the first one is this Sunday with Cathy Rogers @cathy.s.rogers & #Vicky Smith. .uk/event/film-talks-live-cathy-rogers-vicky-smith @luxmovingimage Image descriptions: 1 a red book held in left hand with background of autumn leaves. 2 screen shot of LUX film talks event page. 3. A group of yellowy-white mushrooms growing on a mossy tree stump amongst fallen leaves. 4. A group of straggling and decaying yellowy-brown mushrooms that look like whilted daisy's amongst fallen leaves.

Such a lovely day getting to know the Phytology garden in Tower Hamlets. Thank you @phytologyuk and facilitators @cymbalhands @karolinaraczynski Images: 1 Dappled light shining through branches and leaves, 2 looking through a tarpaulin canopy from underneath with shadows of leaves and back lit by the sun. 3 two people in undergrowth using camera phones to look at vegetation, 4 group of 6 people surrounded by trees and vegatation one person is pointing something out, 5 video of back lit leaves - a fly comes and sits on a leaf.

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