GILLIAN McIVER |
Currently based in London UK Selected Film-video-graphy (as artist or director) Clipper 2020 Reading Baudelaire in Montparnasse 2020 Taking Over the King’s Land 2014 Photographing Richard Serra 2014 Image Matters 2012 (as film producer) The Landscape of Pleasure 2011 Project Gagarin (A Cold War Nostalgia) 2011 Tarkovsky’s River 2010 Postindustrial Baroque 2009 The Falcon Works 2007 (remix 2015) No Empty Place (is ever empty) 2006 Places – A Collection 2005 Mosti: The Bridges of St Petersburg 2003 Passenger 2003 The Bride 2002 ——————————————————— Most Recent Exhibition “Last Orders” The Steamship PS, London October 2020 Exhibition “Invisible Cities” The Steamship PS, London 2021 Exhibition “Timeless Thames” The Steamship PS, London October 2020 Exhibition “Invisible Cities” The Steamship PS, London 2019 Curator and Producer of Exhibition and Film Festival, British Film Institute, PSVI Film Festival 2018 Exhibition “Bon Collage” at Kottishop Berlin, 2018 ——————————————————— Podcast for New Books Network 2017; interview by Kirstin L. Ellsworth Several Video works were featured at Casablanca Bienniale autumn 2016 catalogue excerpt Art History for Filmmakers published! Profile of Gillian McIver in Stigmart01 Videofocus Summer 2014 Interview on Monocle Radio Sept 2014 ——————————————————— Selected Exhibitions and Exhibition Screenings 2019 Invisible Cities, The Steamship PS London 2018 Bon Collage, KottiShop Gallery Berlin PSVI Film Festival, British Film Institute, London 2016 Casablanca Bienniale, Morocco 2014 Sheffield Docfest Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, Exeter Teatro Alexandria, Egypt Trispace Gallery London Portobello Film Festival London The Mayflower, Rotherhithe Nightpiece Film Festival, Edinburgh Fringe 2013 Espacio Enter, Tenerife, Canarias 2012 Whitechapel Gallery, London. Film screening Tarkovsky’s River. Digital Landscape – Espacio Enter, Tenerife, Canarias. CeC’12 India – Parallel Visions | Global Art Video, Uttarakhand, India 2011 * Co-founded Studio 75 artist run space in London* Intervalos Lúcidos – Espacio Enter, Tenerife, Canarias “Keeping Afloat – Gallery La Clinica Mundana, Valencia ARTSIDE Southend on Sea (a Parallel Project production) Revolution Now and Forever – Gallery Mavena, Croatia HOST 02 – Art Funkl Manchester Unfolding sequences – Montreal CeC’11 India Global Art Video – Uttarakhand, India 2010 dokumentART European Film Festival for Documentaries, Szczecin EdgeLogue – New Delhi Topolski Century Gallery, South Bank Centre, London «PI five» Performance & Intermedia Festival, Szczecin Southend -on-Sea Film Festival, Fringe; TAP 2009 Optica Festival of Video Art, touring Photocinema – Format Festival of Photography Prospero’s Library – Accademia di Belle Arte, Catania, Italia The Irresistible District – Helsinki TINAG Festival – London 2008 Postindustrial Baroque – Globe Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne Digital Media 1.0, Valencia CCA Glasgow Menier Gallery, London 2007 Prospero’s Library – Central House of Artists and NCCA, Moscow In SITU – La Farinera del Clot, Barcelona Cold Store – Kuhlhaus in Gleisdreieck, Berlin Lighten Up – Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge Climatic Conditional – Divadlo Alfred ve dvoře, Prague 2006 Vidifestival 06, LaSalaNaranja, Valencia 2005 “Places: 5 Films” – The Collection, Lincoln. Volgatronika – Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. 0130 Gallery Helsinki Street Archaeology – PS2 Gallery, Belfast Art/Concept: Dostoyevsky Museum St Petersburg Titanic HQ – and The Urban Playground – Gallery PS2 & site-specific, Belfast L’età nomade – Ex Mattatoio, Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Rome 2004 Interconnection – Kronstadt, Russia Champ Libre Media Art Festival, Montreal Tiefenrausch Ost – Factory-Berlin 2003 Cross Encounters – Kronstadt, Russia. The Derelict Sensation – Midland Grand, St Pancras, London. The Derelict Sensation Film and Video – Institute of Contemporary Arts London Evil Art – 291 Gallery, London Cybersonica – Institute of Contemporary Arts London Dada Festwochen, Zurich La Fabrik, Berlin Wasserstadt – Literaturhaus, Berlin Paracrafts – Touring exhibition, Russia Into the deep blue – Factory-Berlin Dialogues Festival: St Petersburg, Russia 2002 Vancouver New Music Festival, Video In, Canada Helden der Arbeit – Kunstfabrik, Berlin LoungeLab – Strassenbahn Depot, Bauhaus University, Weimar Spider & Mouse Gallery, Moscow Other Than English – Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Canada 2001 ART MOSCOW Moscow Art Fair (collaboration with Dirizhable) DNA Gallery, Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden. Deboshir Film and Video Festival, St Petersburg, Russia Dialogues Festival, St Petersburg City Without Frontiers – Atelier des artistes, Alexandria Egypt. 2000 Present Perfect – Centre for Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Poema Vremenyi/Floodplain of Time – Spider & Mouse Gallery, Moscow The Thames-Oka Project – The Foundry & The Tactical Cafe, London. Selected Commissioned Publications about art Art History for Filmmakers Bloomsbury Press 2016 “Overflow: Ima Pico and the digital mural” Milton Keynes Contemporary 2009 Review: “Frieze London – a good education in how the art market works” A-N 17 Oct 2013 “I Am Here ” Critical Cities vol. 2 ed. Deepa Naik & Trenton Oldfield, Myrdle Court Press 2010 “Over site? Site Specific Art Today” Arts Professional Jan. 2010 “Playing with Light and Time” Review of Nam June Paik Retrospective, Tate Liverpool Feb. 2011 “Altermodern”, Tate Britain, London A-N March 2009 “Voice of the Artist: Urban Intervention and Artistic Experiment” in Generalized Empowerment, Johan Moyerson, Saskia Sassen, Ana Betancour et al., ed. Jim Segers. Bruxelles, City Mined: 2006. “Interconnection: life and art in a forgotten Russian town” Crosswalk (RI, USA) 1.2. 2005 “Collaboration as Practice” in DIY Survival ed. C6 Collective, Metamute: 2005 “Art as Collective Cultural Action” Contexts autumn 2003 “Artists Initiatives in Moscow” Variant 15 Summer 2002 Selected Curatorial Projects Studio75 London 2010 – 2013 “Schematic: Eric Raymond” Canada House Gallery, London 2008 “Schematic: The Machine that Moves Us (New Media Art from Canada)” SPACE London 2008 Luna Nera – to 2009 Education • PhD, Cinema and Art History, University of Roehampton • Master of Arts, MA by Project, Visual Art; Sir John Cass School of Art at London Guildhall. Supported by the AHRC. • Bachelor of Arts, Film and Contemporary Media Practice. University of Westminster • Master of Arts, History, University of Toronto • Bachelor of Arts, History and Literature, University of British Columbia Personal Grants and Awards Canada Council for the Arts Critics and Curators Award Arts Council of England Grants for the Arts AHRC Postgraduate Award, Master of Fine Arts AHRC Postgraduate TECHNE Award, PhD |