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| Susannah Gent |
| susgent@blueyonder.co.uk |
| http://susannahgent.weebly.com/ |
| Unhomely Street follows a female
protagonist in a state of fugue following a head injury as she wanders an
alienating city underbelly of clubs and free parties. Through recollections
of anti-capitalist conversations, historical information about wartime atrocity,
and human brutality, she searches for hope in an increasingly frightening,
subjective landscape. The narrative explores philosopher Jacques Derrida’s
concept of hauntology, a critical framework that recognises the non-linearity
of thought, and suggests we have a responsibility to the future, to those
dead and not yet born, as well as recognising Mark Fisher’s interpretation,
that we live in a time of mental illness, mourning the lost futures of the
twentieth century. |
| Susannah Gent is an artist filmmaker and
installation artist with over twenty years experience including film work
commissioned by the British Film Institute, BBC, Dance for Camera, Arts
Council of England, National Lottery. Susannah is a Senior Lecturer at
Sheffield Hallam University, currently undertaking a practice based Ph.D.
employing multidisciplinary approaches to understand to uncanny and
hauntology through filmmaking, philosophy, psychoanalysis and neuroscience. |
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| Texas Glory |
| info@texas-glory.com |
| www.texas-glory.com/portfolio/blood |
| Electronic devices can bring the worst
out of human beings. Cyberbullying is one aspect of the idea behind this
photo-series dealing with the social component of electronic devices. All
over the world, smartphones are indispensable. They are tools of power and
ubiquitous. Revolts against political systems are spread via social media
using smartphones as people act fast and flexible using them. Capitalism
wages wars for resources used to build even more electronic devices. People
are driven to evil by power and money. Loving technology or not, one should
never forget its ethical components. |
| Texas and Glory have a lot of experience
with technical stuff. Texas works in online marketing; Glory holds a PhD in
physics and is working on the introduction of 5G. Technology and technical
development are their daily business. But they also notice what it does to
people and how it changes the world – in positive as well as negative
direction. They are very well aware of their work supporting capitalism. They
are part of the system. But they are also very critical. They also often
suffer from their work, although and even more importantly because it feeds
them. Texas and Glory love to be creative working on different mixed media
arts. Their work is being presented all over the world: Their short films
have been screened on numerous film festivals; their photo-series have been
presented in several exhibitions. All information and also many photos as
well as videos can be found on their website. They focus on gender,
sexuality, feminism, and socio-critical art in general. |
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Spectre of the Real 