Location

Night Contact at Brighton Photo Biennial 2014 took place on 18 October 2014 from 6pm – 11pm, projecting film and photographic works across four spaces in central Brighton: Jubilee Square, Jubilee Street, the Basement, and Circus Street market.

• Jubilee Square
• The Basement
• Jubilee Street
• Circus Street Market
• University of Brighton (window screens)

• Jubilee Square

  Time	Artist	Description	More Info
  19:00		Introduction to the evening
  19.15	Various artists	A programme of invited work and the open submissions project.
  An outdoor screen in Jubilee Square showing a programme of invited films and slideshows: Jason Fulford: Caribbean Spirit John Maclean: Hometowns Ben Rivers: Things (Winter) Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs: Chimney, Lamp and Fire, 2014 Isabelle Wenzel: Double Act Melanie Manchot: Dance (All Night, Paris) Aleix Plademunt: Almost There Rick Pushinsky: Songs of Innocence and Experience: A Study Guide The screen also showed the Night Contact open submissions project, in which photographers were invited to submit images in response to four different quotations. Four judges curated the entries into individual slideshows, depicting a visual representation of the texts. Featured photographers: Rebecca Norris Webb: Tell it Slant “You can see beauty only from the side, hastily.” (Tomas Transtromer, from the poem Under Pressure) Adrian Astorga, Ian Jones, Andreas Oetker-Kast, Juliane Krueger, Ruben Martin, James Parkin, Simone Fisher, Andrew Davies, Charlotte Thoemmes, Albertini Giacomo, Miguel Rato, Ida Taavitsainen, Dora Csala, Shanshan Chen, Sharon Boothroyd, Joseph Conway, Julian McKenny, Andre Malerba, Chenille L’Oiseau, Amy Sacka, Calum Simpson, Marcin Lewandowski, Raul Guerrero, Justyna Ptak, Bruno Quinquet, Debi Cornwall, Tabitha Soren, Kirk G Ellingham, Viet Ha, Oana Camilleri, Swee Hoe Lim, Lauren Carter, Ayako Sekine, Tete Silva, Amelia Shivani Hassard, Niko J. Kallianiotis, Yibo Hu, James Parker, Hiko Uemura, Claire Abraham, Marita Pappa Thurston Moore: “Speak to the wild/ Reach for the wire/ Protect your child/ (From) empty empire The king has come to join the band” Hiko Uemura, Mariya Ustymenko, Tabitha Soren, Jana Lohde, Diego Dede, Gabriella Rose, Amy Faulkner, Katie Mccallum, Luis Rubim, Bruna Brandao, Adrian Astorga, Matt Henry, Caroline Douglas, Maja Smiejkowska, Laura Pannack, Gabriella Rose, Letizia Iman, Andrea Colombo, Elisa Ferrari, Dipanjan Mitra, Rebecca Johnston, Darren Goodwin, Daniel Rutter, Allan Dransfield, Miguel Rato, Heather McDonough, Lily Rose Thomas, Beth Rowland, Almuden Aromero, Bethan Highgate Betts, Anna Karoliina Partanen, Lodoe Laura, Dimitra Dede, Florencia Alvarado, Sebastian Reynolds, Teresa Cos, Andrea Colombo Anne Bourgeois-Vignon: “All that is clear is the perfection of what we were given, the unworthiness of our response, and the certainty, in view of our current deprivation, that we are judged.” (Robert Adams, 1986) Romain Forquy, Arnis Balcus, Bruno Quinquet, Stanislav Shmelev, Emma Crichton, Rosie Squires, Jeff Evans, Joan Alexander, Tabitha Soren, Anne Corrance Monk , Matt Henry, Anargyros Drolapas, Laura Pannack, Albert Elm, Isabelle Evertse, Andrew Davies, Lynsie Roberts, Amy Sacka, Alexander Christie, Daniel Hewitt, Nikolas Ventourakis, Dipanjan Mitra, Nikita Shergill, Laura Lodoe, Matteo Malvino, Dipanjan Mitra, Evgeniy Stepanets, Mariya Ustymenko Esther Teichmann:  “As he swam, he pursued a sort of reverie in which he confused himself with the sea. The intoxication of leaving himself, of slipping into the void, of dispersing himself in the thought of water, made him forget every discomfort.”(Maurice Blanchot, Thomas the Obscure, translated by Robert Lamberton, New York: Station Hill Press, 1973 (1941)) Tanya Mitsuko, Amelia Shivani Hassard, Arnis Balcus, Arpita Shah, Claire Abraham, Anne Kathrin Greiner, Anna Lilleengen , Felipe Enger, Eva Voutsaki, Rebecca Najdowski, Heather McDonough, Elizabeth Moran, Sophie Davis, Emma Crichton, Isabelle Dubois, Laura Pannack, Anna Skladmann, Caroline Douglas, Alexandra Lethbridge, Micha Warren, Nicholas White, Olivia Poppy Coles, Izabela Nowak, Sara Hibbert, Sharon Boothroyd , Romain Forquy, Julian McKenny, Joan Alexander, Luke Brown, Katie McCallum, Rebecca Jane Johnston, Jana Koelmel, Claire Laude, Evita Goze The programme looped twice during the evening.

• The Basement

  Time	Artist	Description	More Info
  18:00	ARKA group	EXTRAMISSION: On the research of Professor J. Hillard
  EXTRAMISSION: On the research of Professor J. Hillard, the ARKA group 19:19 minutes, screenings on the hour and half hour. Featuring Rachel Elizabeth Gay Commissioned by Cornerhouse, Manchester. Asking questions that cannot be answered in the laboratory, a scientist takes his beliefs out into the field to test them, where his previously stable world begins to unravel. The film is compiled from video recordings made by a professor of entomology and ornithology as he travelled across the globe as part of his research. The ARKA group attempted to decipher the story of Professor Hillard’s tapes with help from his secretary, Patricia Mayhew. The ARKA group is a collaboration between Ben Jeans Houghton & Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau, producing films, sculptures and sound works about the stranger fringes of scientific and philosophical thought. The ARKA group collaborates with emphatic individuals from various disciplines and institutions relevant to the subject of each new work.

• Jubilee Street

  Time	Artist	Description	More Info
  19:00	Jason Lazarus & Eric Fleischauer	First UK screening of Jason Lazarus & Eric Fleischauer’s feature length silent film twohundredfiftysixcolors.
  twohundredfiftysixcolors, Eric Fleischauer and Jason Lazarus  (Curatorial assistant Theo Darst) 97 minutes What happens when the gif moves from the computer screen to the cinema, frames turn into minutes, and our fame is looped into an infinite abyss? Crafted from over 3,000 animated GIFs, twohundredfiftysixcolors is an expansive and revealing portrait of what has become a zeitgeist medium. Once used primarily as an Internet page signpost, the file type has evolved into a nimble and ubiquitous tool for addressing everything from politics to pop-culture, the labyrinthine multiverse of sub- cultures to the art world’s white cube. The film is a curated archive that functions as a historical document charting the GIF’s evolution, its connections to early cinema, and its contemporary cultural, political, and aesthetic possibilities.

• Circus Street Market

  Time	Artist	Description	More Info
  18:00	Tom Pope and Terrence Smith	Silent Fore to Aft: Night Contact and Photoworks commission by Tom Pope and Terrence Smith
  Silent Fore to Aft: Night Contact and Photoworks commission by Tom Pope and Terrence Smith. Travelling on a tandem bicycle from London to Brighton over the duration of seven days, the artists turn collaboration into a performative event, where a set of rules will be in place that influence the outcome, an experimental film.

• University of Brighton (window screens)

  Time	Artist	Description	More Info
  On rotation	Joanna Piotrowska	FROWST, Joanna Piotrowska Silent slideshows in the windows of the University of Brighton, Grand Parade.
  What does it mean when an individual is not understood in isolation but as a part of bigger entity? Joanna Piotrowska is interested in modes of behaviours within a family, and the mutual bonds that strongly affect who we are. Inspired by different kinds of psychotherapies, and theories that use the body as a main source of information for the mental states, Piotrowska in collaboration with her subjects, examines how the body’s positions and movements reveal the complexity of relationships between people. Piotrowska’s carefully staged images are private performances for the camera, exposing the tensions of self in the family dynamic.
  On rotation	Manuel Fernández	Recognition, Manuel Fernández
  Recognition uses face recognition software to generate a series of animated gifs. Through a struggle to recognize faces in common objects, the work moves this process away from its conventional use and towards the creation of a new kind of image.
  On rotation	Bjørn Venø	The Window, Bjørn Venø
  With the project “The Window” Venø sought to find willing participants to photograph through their windows. The participant could do whatever she or he wanted, but Venø wished to encourage exploration by asking them to do what ever came to mind without inhibition or censor, the resulting portrait aiming reveal something of the subject’s inner personality.