{"id":5969,"date":"2020-04-02T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.mattsgallery.org\/?p=5969"},"modified":"2020-04-08T11:00:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T11:00:13","slug":"april-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.mattsgallery.org\/2020\/04\/02\/april-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a space we would usually dedicate to news and updates from Matt\u2019s Gallery and our represented and associated artists\u00a0over a two-month period. With the temporary closure of arts spaces\u00a0across the globe, artists, galleries and institutions are generously making a huge variety of resources publicly available online.<\/p>\n

This month, we have put together\u00a0a selection of works, projects and content from us and our artists that can be screened, viewed and interacted with digitally.<\/p>\n

MattFlix<\/em><\/h2>\n

Paul Eachus & Nooshin Farhid,\u00a0Variations on a Ballistic Theme<\/em>, online, 3\u201317 April 2020<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Paul Eachus & Nooshin Farhid, Variations on a Ballistic Theme<\/em>, 2020, installation view. Photograph by Nooshin Farhid. Courtesy of the artist and Matt’s Gallery, London.<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the first in a series of digital works, viewable online for two weeks only\u00a0as part of\u00a0MattFlix<\/em>, a fortnightly series of online projects at mattsgallery.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Variations on a Ballistic Theme<\/em> is a video trilogy and sculptural installation by Paul Eachus & Nooshin Farhid, with improvised incidental music by David Ben White. This is an online presentation drawn from the installation presented at Matt’s Gallery in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Central to the installation was a ninety-minute cycle of three video works, which are presented here.<\/p>\n

Full details of the work can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Artists’ Projects<\/h2>\n

Jordan Baseman,\u00a0Radio Influenza<\/em>, 2018-2019<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Jordan Baseman, Radio Influenza<\/em>, 2018, Production Still. Courtesy of the artist and Matt’s Gallery, London.<\/p><\/div>\n

Jordan Baseman<\/a>\u2019s ambitious digital commission,\u00a0Radio Influenza<\/em>, which marked the centenary\u00a0of the 1918 influenza pandemic known as \u2018Spanish Flu\u2019, could hardly seem more prescient than today.\u00a0Radio Influenza<\/em>\u00a0was delivered in the form of a daily broadcast over the full course of a year, beginning on 1 November 2018, and endeavoured to capture\u00a0the everyday experience of how news, rumour and health information and disinformation was shared and experienced through newspaper accounts at the time.<\/p>\n

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The 1918 influenza pandemic was one of the most significant and wide-reaching international health crises of the twentieth century, which killed at least 50 million people worldwide. Radio Influenza was<\/em>\u00a0commissioned by\u00a0Wellcome<\/a>, who marked the centenary by funding a wealth of projects exploring local, national and international responses to the reality and devastation of the Spanish Flu.<\/p>\n

Baseman\u2019s work draws on original source materials from 1918-19 and follows the patterns and rhythms of everyday life over the course of a year. From individual, local stories to national and international responses, the project will represent the devastation of the epidemic through the everyday, exploring how information about it filtered into every aspect of life. Using contemporary reporting from the British Newspaper Archive held by the British Library, it tracks scientific developments and failures, the public\u2019s hopes and fears, and governments\u2019 action and inaction.<\/p>\n