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| GILLIAN McIVER |
Gillian McIver started her artistic journey by picking up a camera and shooting bands, and then progressed to underground cinema-making. After a spell at film school, she co-founded the artist group Luna Nera, and spent a decade making large-scale site-specific projects in unusual sites, from a Russian naval base to a derelict grand hotel. She makes installation art, films and videos, photography, and curates exhibitions. Her most recent curatorial project was the exhibition Alchemy! in London, 2022. She has a PhD in art history and cinema studies, and i has written several books on film, art history and scenography. She is the writer and producer of the play Apologia, which premiered at Camden Fringe 2024. Most Recent Into the Sublime the Eidophusikon Reimagined Bloomsbury Festival, Oct 21-28 A reconstruction and reimagining of the iconic Eidophusikon, a milestone in theatre history. Reimagined as five-scene performance incorporating current contemporary art to explore ideas about art and science, the material world and the afterlife. ——————————————————— Talks, spoken word and interviews Spoken Word Performance, Swedenborg House – launch of Swedenborg Review 4 publication 2023 Talk, Emery Walker House London 2023 Interview for SHWEP* podcast with Earl Fontanelle; *SHWEP is the Secret History of Western Esotericism 2022 Podcast for New Books Network 2017; interview by Kirstin L. Ellsworth Profile of Gillian McIver in Stigmart01 Videofocus Summer 2014 Interview on Monocle Radio Sept 2014 ——————————————————— Selected Exhibitions and Exhibition Screenings 2022 Curator and Producer of Exhibition ‘Alchemy!’ London Exhibited video Trans-States group show, curated by Elizabeth Tomos 2021 Exhibited photography “Last Orders” The Steamship PS, London 2020 Exhibited video and spoken word performance “Timeless Thames” The Steamship PS, London 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 Selected Curatorial Projects Alchemy! exhibition The Steamship PS Blackwall, London PSVI #timetoact Film Festival BFI London Studio75 London “Schematic: Eric Raymond” Canada House Gallery, London “Schematic: The Machine that Moves Us (New Media Art from Canada)” SPACE London Luna Nera Publications Art and the Historical Film:Between Realism and the Sublime Bloomsbury 2022 Art History for Filmmakers Bloomsbury 2016 Tarkovsky’s River Parallel Project 2012 Twixt Nant Studios 2012 Residencies Swedenborg House Backup Festival Weimar Kronstadt Island Factory-Berlin Education • PhD, Cinema and Art History, University of Roehampton. Supported by the AHRC. • 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 Personal Grants and Awards Canada Council for the Arts Critics and Curators Award Arts Council of England Grants for the Arts British Council Touring Grant AHRC Postgraduate Award, Master of Fine Arts AHRC Postgraduate TECHNE Award, PhD |