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-stavros gangos

The art of looking.

Shot on Super8.  telecine. 

thinking

-Stavros Gangos

Flow - exhibition details

FLOW

Unit B9, Powerhub Business Centre
St Peters Street
Maidstone
Kent ME16 OST

Artists featured : Rodrigo Boro, Stavros Gangos and Sean Malone, Sebastian Edge, Dominic De Vere and Cathy Rogers

Dates

January 22nd until January 29th 16:30-19:30

closed January 25th and January 26th

Please note: there is no parking on site. Maidstone East train station is a 3 minute walk away and there is parking there.

-stavros gangos

cleaning up space two

Train

Shot on super8. Telecine (miniDV).
-Stavros Gangos

Expanded Cinema - BFI Southbank 6th December

This event looks absolutely amazing ;

"Expanded Cinema is a transitory and unpredictable art form. The live act of projection activates the space in front of the screen and explodes the relationship between the audience and the film. This AHRC Central Saint Martins-supported day of screenings, performances and talks will illuminate the history of Expanded Cinema and explore the tensions between the live event and its record. Performers and speakers will include William Raban, Malcolm Le Grice, Guy Sherwin, Maxa Zoller and Duncan White."

There's also a showing of Michael Snow's Triage and a Casing Shelved at 8.30pm
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/expanded_cinema_live_record

Book now!! if it's not too late.

Big Brother (and Sister, for Cathy's benefit) is now watching you...

Ok, so following on from a discussion with Comrades Rogers and de Vere earlier today, I have added a stat reporter to the site. The button is right at the bottom of this page (I removed the code for the one we added earlier Cathy). It's a SiteMeter, I can forward one and all login details and what not, however I think you can just click it and see the majority, if not all relevant stats. It isn't blocking any visits right now, so it is tracking all our visits as well of those of random folk lucky/unlucky enough to have stumbled across this blog by accident.

We can remove the count from the button, so it is just the SiteMeter logo, or whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Anyway, I have some more HTML geekdom to get involved with.

As always, much love and kisses,

Sean

P.S. I promise I will post something more artistic and interesting at some point.

Founders book (?)

Images by George Chiotis

The more I have been thinking abut it the more I feel that a small companion would be a nice addition to my project. A collection of stories and images of this land that would accompany the visual experience I'm trying to make placed in a way that wouldn't impose it self.

-Stavros Gangos

Dymchurch Martellos

On a cold but sunny day in October I shot a test roll of Ektachrome of three Martello towers at Dymchurch. Method: Alternate frames for each tower in sight along the sea wall at Dymchurch. Riding the aperature and focal length of a cannon 7.5-6omm lens.

Darkvan at Dungeness

the Darkvan goes to dungeness

We Drove down to dungeness on Friday night in the Van, so as to be up a good hour before Sun up, to film the rising sun. Filming commenced with manually worked out individual exposures time lapsed every 7 seconds throughout the day, of course it was freezing and so we chose to stay in the van, with a cable release going outside to the camera, whilst watching numerous films and discussing the weather over an 11 hour period.

Seb

The Space.

KITCHEN SPACE

This is the first space we have managed to book for our January show.

We are trying to get a second one.

More news soon.

-Stavros Gangos

Struggling with geekdom and other minor annoyances.

So, Stavros told me I must post on here, or else. So I am, because the thought of else scares me somewhat.

I have just realised it is 3.10 in the morning, which is my first disappointment.

My second is that I've spent about two hours trying to make a website, which validated perfectly fine in the W3C HTML validator (although granted only using Transitional DTD), display in both Internet Explorer and Firefox with anything approaching uniformity.

Now while I have achieved this I did have to cheat. For example, I had to use an align attribute in a table cell, which whilst being fine under 4.01 Transitional, is not the best coding ever. However, it was the only way I could get my table to center ([sic] all HTML and CSS is written with US English so you get things like center, color, and so on) in Firefox. Well actually I think I could of done it with CSS but it came to a point at which I couldn't give a shit anymore.

Now anyway, this brings me to my next Nightmare on Geek Street. The site is based on a myriad of nested tables. Why so sad? Well I'll tell you! Whilst trawling many forum things and whatnot, I saw one comment posted by a fellow in the same position as myself. In fact identical I think. It was when I read a reply which read something like "Well, if you are going to use tables for layout, you might as well use invalid mark-up code." Or something. Anyway, it was a complete hammer blow to my geek esteem.

It would seem since I was last designing websites, (admittedly at least 7 years ago) when nesting tables was common place and you slapped CSS on for a bit of color (just joking, colour) and style, the world has consigned people of my ilk to the dustbin of history. Either that or 're-education' camps where you knit barbed wire into fencing, with no gloves, to make sure you never inflict such retrograde coding on the internet again.

Anyway, long and short of it is, I now have to brush up my CSS. Then at some point in the future I will re-code this website for my project, and my personal website, so that I can avoid being 're-educated'.

However on the plus side, I validated my CSS style sheet with the W3C and it was fully compliant.

-Sean

P.S. In summary Stavros, this is why you shouldn't have made me post on this thing. See what you've done? Do you know how boring what I've just written is? Seriously?

Hoist

Hoist-Matthew Barney

"'Hoist' describes the encounter between the two central characters of the film; the so-called ‘Green Man’ and a fifty-ton deforestation Caterpillar truck under which he is suspended. Following the three acts of traditional film narrative, it is structured according to the three phases of description, situation and condition."-Destricted Website

I watched "Hoist" last night on the Destricted dvd. I found it extremely interesting because f the relation it forms around machines, humans and sexuality.

 It reminded me a story my grandfather used to tell me when I was younger. He was a WWII Veteran and his job was to be in charge of radio transmissions for 20 Churchill tanks. He used to explain the process with which they would hide the tank at night. They would dig a 4X3 meters wide and 2 foot deep space where the tank would sink in. The soldiers would sleep underneath the tank despite the danger of the tank crushing them.

I thought it was an interesting association concerning the relationships we form with machines whether it concerns life, death, war, getting off etc. 

This image of men (or a man in Hoist) underneath a machine just stuck in my mind.

Thought I would share it with you.

-Stavros Gangos

Freezing in the name of Martello Towers

(image courtesy of Peter Hibbs who has an amazing website all about the towers http://www.martello-towers.co.uk/)

Froze my A@*! off today visiting the Pevensey Martello Towers, all in the name of ..

It was a beautiful day and didn't quite head off as early as hoped but still managed to re-film four towers on a strip of coastline between Pevensey and Eastbourne. This re-shoot is an effort to hone my strategy based on the test film I did and which will form one half of my final project for the MA.

I seem to have a penchant for towers and not wishing to psycho-anaylse the whole thing (although I'm sure George could give me a few clues) I'm adopting the position of one that sees them like sentinels, permanent structures a bit like truncated bodies communicating with each other (there were 74, now only 25, dotted along the Kent, Sussex Coastline, built to ward off Napolean who never arrived).

The idea of them communicating kind of reminds me of a piece of work by Pierre Huyghe "Les Grands Ensembles". Bruegel's vision of the tower built to connect society to the heavens, as depicted in The "Little" Tower of Babel (1563), seems to echo the Martellos' grandiose role which was never fulfilled and now seems somewhat redundant.



The journey continues on Thursday pm - to Dymchurch and beyond!


-Cathy

Space Confirmed

We have new space confirmed for the January Show. Waiting on news for a second. 

More info soon!

Here we go.

-Stavros Gangos

Demolition

Demolition of Westoe Mine. South Shields, UK

This is a part of my final project on South Shields, my hometown.

-Stavros Gangos

The difficult task of leaving behind.

Woman talking to herself in a pub. South Shields, UK.

-Stavros Gangos

Website Under Construction // Online Soon.

-Stavros Gangos

In Search of Space.

By the end of this week we will probably have the space (s) in which we will be exhibiting this coming January (more info soon) in Maidstone. We have been looking at industrial spaces and vacant shops. We thought about the possibility of multiple spaces creating a sort of satellite gallery system that would lessen the space restrictions imposed from a single area. 

We will see how that can work in relation to planning the event and the access the public will have to the individual sites. 

More news on this soon.

-Stavros Gangos

Ben Rivers // On Overgrown Paths

      image above / Ben Rivers

Went to see On Overgrown Paths by Ben Rivers last Friday and found the work interesting. I don't want to go into an analysis about the work or criticize it in any way. I recommend seeing it. Its on at the Permanent Gallery (SØRDAL) and The Regency Town House (THIS IS MY LAND and THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES) in Brighton until the 15th of December. 

Plenty of time.

More info here. 

-Stavros Gangos

The first one.

Image above by Stavros Gangos.

Welcome to the Continuously Flowing Thread. We are a group of comrades from the University College for the Creative Arts currently finishing our MA in Artists' Film, Video and Photography. In our minds this blog serves as a platform to discuss, document and share the difficult but creative process of putting up a show and making work at the same time. At least thats what I think we wanted to do. 

-Stavros Gangos // aka butternut