Jennifer West: Flashlight Filmstrip Projections

Jennifer West is an American artist known primarily for her manipulations of film-stock. Originally conceived as a swan song to celluloid, Flashlight Filmstrip Projections comprises a screen-less, communal viewing space in which audiences, using handheld torches, will activate film strips suspended throughout the gallery. In addition, a live performances will take place during the opening night and repeat a number of times during the exhibition. Flashlight Filmstrip Projections will transform Tramway into a delirious cinematic playground, one that harks back to pre-cinematic experimentalism, while also imagining an unusual contemporary afterlife for an increasingly obsolete medium.                

About the artist
Jennifer West is an artist based in Los Angeles,  who for over ten years, has gained international recognition for her explorations of materialism in film.  Significant commissions include Turbine Hall at TATE Modern and High Line Art, New York City, among others.  Her work has been shown at Saatchi Gallery, London; Palais de Tokyo, Paris;  Kunsthalle Schirn, Germany; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg; Drawing Center, NY;  Kunstlerhaus KM- Halle, Austria; ICA Philadelphia; Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, FR; ZKM Museum for New Media, Karlsruhe, Germany and Nottingham Contemporary, UK, among others. Selected solo shows include S1 Artspace in Sheffield, UK;  Kunstverein Nuremberg, Germany; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Transmission Gallery in Glasgow and White Columns, NY.   She has been an artist in residence at EMPAC at RPI in Troy, NY and the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, MA.   In addition to this exhibition, in 2016 West presented a commissioned project for Art Night in London presented by ICA London and will present a solo exhibition at Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington.

Photo: Install shot, Kenny Hunter