{"id":1496,"date":"2009-10-25T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2018-01-25T14:53:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T14:53:46","slug":"my-absolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2009\/10\/25\/my-absolution\/","title":{"rendered":"My Absolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"top\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p><strong>MY ABSOLUTION<br \/>\nSunday 25 October 2009, from 12-7pm<br \/>\nLondon BFI Southbank Studio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alimpiev\u2019s work imbues the simplest gestures with mystery and consequence. An actress performs a sequence of enigmatic actions towards the nape of a second woman\u2019s neck in a performance that creates an almost sculptural tension which is never quite released.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MY ABSOLUTION<br \/>\nVictor Alimpiev, Russia-Netherlands, 2008, video, colour, sound, 8 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>Victor Alimpiev\u2019s videos are experiments in controlled spontaneous behaviour. Whether providing a close-up view of a singing exercise in which one woman instructs another on proper breathing techniques (<em>My Breath<\/em>, 2007) or juxtaposing a group of schoolgirls rapping on their desks with the ragings of a summer storm (<em>Summer Lightnings<\/em>, 2004), Alimpiev reveals our concomitant proximity to and distance from the natural world. The desperation implicit in his attempt to align the rational and the irrational is echoed in the camera\u2019s tight frame and abrupt interruptions. The resulting tension derives from both the exhilarating effort to master nature\u2019s rhythms and the manifest impossibility of achieving this task. (Claire Gilman)<\/p>\n<p>Victor Alimpiev was born in Moscow in 1973 and is represented by Regina Gallery Moscow and Galerie Anita Beckers Frankfurt. He has recently exhibited at the Moscow and Berlin biennales, SMAK Ghent, Modern Art Oxford and Impakt Festival Utrecht. His solo show \u201cTo Trample Down an Arable Land\u201d is currently on display at the Ikon Gallery Birmingham until 15 November 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alina Rudnitskaya\u2019s humanistic approach to documentary filmmaking often brings out the humour in her chosen subjects. As an introduction to her work, this programme depicts three diverse groups of contemporary Russian women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london-film-festival-2009","tag-london-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}