Continuum will be scrrening as part of the short films program at the IMERSA Fulldome Summit, Denver, US. There will also be a screening event at Thinktank Planetarium, Birmingham Science Museum.
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Monday, 8 November 2010
Continuum Screenings - Denver, USA & Birmingham, UK
Continuum will be scrrening as part of the short films program at the IMERSA Fulldome Summit, Denver, US. There will also be a screening event at Thinktank Planetarium, Birmingham Science Museum.
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
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Saturday, 26 June 2010
Changeling
Changeling from Paul Grimmer on Vimeo.
A portal to an unspecific place opens to reveal glimpses of a body form that constantly mutates. Changeling explores themes of control, ambiguity and the constructed self, challenging and transforming perceptions of beauty and perfection.
Peer through the looking glass into another world, an unseen world, some things seem familiar, some strange, like a dream. Here, in this other world a body moves, in and out of focus, suspended, opening and closing, forming and re-forming, seeking perfection, struggling to fit between ends always unknown.
Changeling is a gallery adaptation of the fulldome work Continuum and part of a larger body of work Mutations. The work was developed during residencies with the Medical Research Council, Virology Unit, Glasgow (2008), Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland (2009) and Dance City, Newcastle (2009).
Supported by: Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Arts Council England, Dance City, Globe Gallery & Medical Research Council.
After Effects Editor: Andrzej Wojtas
Sound Composition: Nick Able
Continuum
Continuum from Paul Grimmer on Vimeo.
Continuum is an immersive fulldome video work with 5.1 surround soundscape created specifically for immersive planetarium environments. The work is a meditation on notions of beauty, perfection and difference focusing on a body, physically and digitally modified and transformed. As the body moves in and out of focus, suspended, it is glimpsed, not seen, taken apart, re-ordered and replicated into new, exotic forms. The work was developed during residencies with the Medical Research Council, Virology Unit (Glasgow 2008), Allenheads Contemporary Arts (Northumberland 2009) and Dance City (Newcastle upon Tyne 2009).
Mentor/Outside Eye: Fiona Wright
Movement Research/Director of Photography: Wendy Erickson
Camera: Ian Bailey
Camera Assistant: Aaron Blenkin
Grip: Paul Kemp
Lighting: James Froment
Prosthetic and Make Up: Satinder Chumber
Costume Design: Jo Brossman
Technical Support: Daniel Barella
Storyboards: Paul Grimmer
Editor: Andrzej Wojtas
Dome Technician: Chris Hudson (Centre for Life)
Audio Production & Sound Design: Nick Able, Benjamin Freeth
Engineering, Mix and Master: Nick Able
Additional Engineering: Benjamin Freeth
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered: Nick Able Music Studio
Additional Recording: Culture Lab, Newburn Surgery
Filmed at: Dance City
Continuum is an immersive fulldome video work with 5.1 surround soundscape created specifically for immersive planetarium environments. The work is a meditation on notions of beauty, perfection and difference focusing on a body, physically and digitally modified and transformed. As the body moves in and out of focus, suspended, it is glimpsed, not seen, taken apart, re-ordered and replicated into new, exotic forms. The work was developed during residencies with the Medical Research Council, Virology Unit (Glasgow 2008), Allenheads Contemporary Arts (Northumberland 2009) and Dance City (Newcastle upon Tyne 2009).
Mentor/Outside Eye: Fiona Wright
Movement Research/Director of Photography: Wendy Erickson
Camera: Ian Bailey
Camera Assistant: Aaron Blenkin
Grip: Paul Kemp
Lighting: James Froment
Prosthetic and Make Up: Satinder Chumber
Costume Design: Jo Brossman
Technical Support: Daniel Barella
Storyboards: Paul Grimmer
Editor: Andrzej Wojtas
Dome Technician: Chris Hudson (Centre for Life)
Audio Production & Sound Design: Nick Able, Benjamin Freeth
Engineering, Mix and Master: Nick Able
Additional Engineering: Benjamin Freeth
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered: Nick Able Music Studio
Additional Recording: Culture Lab, Newburn Surgery
Filmed at: Dance City
Monday, 7 June 2010
Changeling
I am currently developing a new video work for a show at Globe Gallery, North Shields. Preparation began last week and the work is now being composited in Adobe After Effects by Andrzej Wojtas, who recently edited my fulldome work Continuum. The installation in the gallery consists of rear-projection onto 5' 5" diameter circular screen with a custom built frame by William Oliver & Rodman Russel Ltd. The construction of the circular steel frame is based on the design of an embroidery ring. The work will open next Thursday (17th June) at the gallery, which is located on Howard Street, North Shields. Click here for directions
The work is an outcome from the Mutations project, which looks at traditional notions of beauty, which are often bound up with balance, order and harmony. Alongside this, it considers imperfection, difference the struggle to 'fit', whether physically or psychologically. The ideas that developed out of the various periods of research - however abstracted and ambiguous - deal with transformation of self, image, identity and the potential beauty in imperfection and difference. Changeling, the new work in development for Globe gently approaches some of these ideas.
In Western European mythology a Changeling is the child of a fairy, troll, elf or other mythological creature left behind in place of a human child that has been taken. The term 'Changeling' came to represent the unknown in medieval literature, often being used to describe children with unidentified physical or mental disease or illness.
The research, which fed ideas into the development of the project looked at several very different tranformative processes. During the residency with the MRC Virology Unit I spent time observing the potential and often devastating method by which a virus particle enters and appropriates the human body at a cellular level. The virus manipulates our biology to gain an advantage, every part of the cell structure is utilised in the production of new virus progeny. In contrast, my time in rural Allenheads during the Base Elements residency led me to look at the alchemical opus and the quest for perfection though the transmutation of base metals into gold. Gold has a complex and conflicting role in the mythology of many cultures and still reflects ideas of status. It has been used to symbolise idolatry and the divine, a blessing and a curse.
In the work the body has been altered both physically and through digital editing becoming a hybrid of both traditional and contemporary notions of beauty, perfection and their opposites. We recognise the tail, a symbol of difference, a psychological manifestation, a mutation or a myth? In the early stages of development human embryos develop tail structures however, these recede and though there have been claims, there are no recorded instances of a human child being born with a tail. When ideas emerged for the prosthetic tail I was interested in this idea of an impossible mutation, a representation of the unseen, a physical projection of the unconscious, also a possible bringer of balance.
The work is an outcome from the Mutations project, which looks at traditional notions of beauty, which are often bound up with balance, order and harmony. Alongside this, it considers imperfection, difference the struggle to 'fit', whether physically or psychologically. The ideas that developed out of the various periods of research - however abstracted and ambiguous - deal with transformation of self, image, identity and the potential beauty in imperfection and difference. Changeling, the new work in development for Globe gently approaches some of these ideas.
In Western European mythology a Changeling is the child of a fairy, troll, elf or other mythological creature left behind in place of a human child that has been taken. The term 'Changeling' came to represent the unknown in medieval literature, often being used to describe children with unidentified physical or mental disease or illness.
The research, which fed ideas into the development of the project looked at several very different tranformative processes. During the residency with the MRC Virology Unit I spent time observing the potential and often devastating method by which a virus particle enters and appropriates the human body at a cellular level. The virus manipulates our biology to gain an advantage, every part of the cell structure is utilised in the production of new virus progeny. In contrast, my time in rural Allenheads during the Base Elements residency led me to look at the alchemical opus and the quest for perfection though the transmutation of base metals into gold. Gold has a complex and conflicting role in the mythology of many cultures and still reflects ideas of status. It has been used to symbolise idolatry and the divine, a blessing and a curse.
In the work the body has been altered both physically and through digital editing becoming a hybrid of both traditional and contemporary notions of beauty, perfection and their opposites. We recognise the tail, a symbol of difference, a psychological manifestation, a mutation or a myth? In the early stages of development human embryos develop tail structures however, these recede and though there have been claims, there are no recorded instances of a human child being born with a tail. When ideas emerged for the prosthetic tail I was interested in this idea of an impossible mutation, a representation of the unseen, a physical projection of the unconscious, also a possible bringer of balance.
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Continuum Press Release
Public preview of:
Continuum
A fulldome video art work by Paul Grimmer
Featuring a commissioned 5.1 surround soundscape by Nick Able and Benjamin Freeth
‘Continuum’ will preview at the Planetarium, Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne on Friday 25th June as part of ‘Identity Masquerade’ between 18:30 - 21:00.
Newcastle based artist Paul Grimmer will be premiering his new video work in the unique immersive environment of the Planetarium at Newcastle’s Centre for Life. Grimmer developed the work during artist residencies with the Medical Research Council, Virology Unit in Glasgow (2008) and Allenheads Contemporary Arts in rural Northumberland (2009).
‘Continuum’ has been created specifically for the 10-metre diameter hemispherical screen at Centre for Life’s Planetarium, the largest in the region. Created with support from the development team at Life, ‘Continuum’ uses fulldome technology to create an immersive experience for the viewer, placing them inside of the work. The Centre is currently celebrating 10 years of excellence in the field of genetic research, which has been another influence for Grimmer’s work.
The artist says...
“The work explores the gaps between what we see and understand and what remains unseen and incomprehensible. ‘Continuum’ imagines another world, perhaps a microscopic world, like that of the virus or one that is as unimaginably vast as the universe. These extremes can only be visualised with the help of science and yet retain a sense of wonder and magic, they live in the imagination”
“Certain genetic mutations manifest themselves visibly, others are invisible but are mutations nonetheless. To the virus mutation is key to survival. Viruses are deadly and dangerous, yet highly ordered and beautiful, I am interested in these dualities”
“The Planetarium is designed and best equipped to display astronomical information and 3D animation. Learning how to adapt video for this setting was extremely challenging but also exciting as it offers a unique level of immersion for the viewer”
Complementing the visuals is a 5.1 surround soundscape produced and mixed for the planetarium by composer and musician Nick Able and multi-media artist and musician Benjamin Freeth, both based in Newcastle. The soundscape was created with support from Culture Lab and Newburn Surgery where recordings were gathered from the artist’s body as source material.
During his residency at Allenheads Grimmer contacted prosthetics sculptor Satinder Chumber with a strange request, to make him a tail. This unusual body modification was to be worn during the video shoot for Continuum. The transformation also involved the artist being painted gold from head to foot, creating a body both beautiful and grotesque. Working with movement, researched and developed at Dance City (2009), ‘Continuum’ explores mutation, difference and notions of beauty.
Project supported by:
Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Arts Council England, Centre for Life, Culture Lab, Dance City, Medical Research Council, Newburn Surgery, Newcastle Science Festival 2010
Location:
Life Science Centre, Times Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE1 4EP
For directions see - http://www.life.org.uk/life-science-centre/visit-us
Tickets:
Tickets for the ‘Identity Masquerade’ event cost £5 and are available from Centre for Life, for bookings contact: Niamh on 01912438223
For further information, full resolution images or interviews contact:
Paul Grimmer on 07919568432 or at paul@paulgrimmer.co.uk
image: Colin Davison
www.paulgrimmer.co.uk
Sunday, 18 April 2010
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Distortions
Early experiments for Mutations
Special effects make up - Satinder Chumber
Lighting - James Froment
Camera - Daniel Barella
Monday, 1 February 2010
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Mutations Shoot (Day 1)
Images: Aaron Blenkin
Images: Daniel Barella
Special thanks to everyone who helped out during the preparation and on the day:
Ian Bailey, camera
Daniel Barella, documentation
Aaron Blenkin, assistant (camera) and documentation
Jo Brossman, costume design
Satinder Chumber, special effects make up
Wendy Erickson, movement research and director on the shoot
James Froment, lighting consultant
Jenny, assistant (make up)
Paul Kemp, camera grip
Fiona Wright, movement research and mentoring
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