In this combined programme, London-based artist Morgan Quaintance debuts new works unseen in the UK alongside a selection of other spoken word and moving image. The screening centres around work using the devices of repetition, circularity, and inversion to illicit affective and emotional audience responses. Time’s passage, sexuality and sexual expression, employment rights, the dissolution of the body and the disintegration of polar ice caps are explored through incantation, provoked states of expectation, hypnotic sequencing and recursive loops.    

Palace

Morgan Quaintance | 2022 | UK | 3’ | Digital | sound

The castle ruins in London Bridge, the passage of time.

Repetitions

Morgan Quaintance | 2022 | UK | 16mm (digital transfer) | 24’ | sound

An exploration of recursive patterns, a series of repeated sequences, flickering images and looping sounds. On the surface, Repetitions concentrates on inducing retinal excitement and states of anticipation, but telephone messages and speech provide a through line that speaks to physical labour, industrial work and fragile bodies. 

Puerto Rican Obituary (excerpt)

Pedro Pietri | USA | 4’ | Spoken word

Ecce Homo

Jerry Tartaglia | 1989 | USA | 7’ | 16mm | English spoken

Ecco Homo (“behold the man”) employs optically printed footage. In the 1980s, thanks to AIDS hysteria in America, all gay sexuality was once again considered to be essentially pornographic, politically incorrect, sinful or a public health hazard. Ecco Homo is a call to reclaim gay power.

Telephone Booth Number 102

Pedro Pietri | USA | 1’ | Spoken Word

Telephone Booth Number 905 1/2

Pedro Pietri | USA | 1’ | Spoken Wor

Efforts of Nature

Morgan Quaintance | 2023 | UK | 20’ | Digital | sound

Combining low resolution footage, 16mm film and satellite imagery, Efforts of Nature considers the passage of time, processes of change and dissolution from two distant perspectives: the existential level of the body and the planetary level of shifting geological conditions.  

Partners

Morgan Quaintance | 2022 | UK | 4’ | Digital | sound

A solarised drift across country and the unconscious. 

Followed by a conversation between Morgan Quaintance and María Palacios Cruz.