An exhibition of work in progress, made in collaboration with the rhythmic gymnasts of the Vila Olímpica da Mangueira.
Work shown: 100 projected scans of the gymnastic body in motion, with hoops, balls, and hand sewn leotards. The foundation for future New Order works.
Including I Know What You’re Thinking and Peak.
Including past beneficiaries of Leverhulme Trust Fellowships, and Longhurst’s 2008-2012 Early Career Fellowship at the European Centre for Photographic Research, University of Wales, which supported the development of Other Spaces.
With artists from Birmingham School of Art curated by Grace A Williams: Jivan Astfalck, Sally Bailey, Rachel Colley, Alessandro Columbano, Gregory Dunn, Jodie Drinkwater, Joanna Fursman, Anneka French, Bruno Grilo, Ole Hagen, Hannah Honeywill, Shelley Hughes, Sevven Kucuk, Jo Longhurst, Amy Lunn, Paul Newman, Wendi Ann Titmus, Cathy Wade, Grace A Williams and Rafal Zar.
Work exhibited: Cross, c-print on aluminium
Includes I Know What You’re Thinking
ISSN 2203-5796
Cover image, Cross: Issue 1, Bloomsbury, 2015; Issues 2 & 3, Routledge / Taylor & Francis, 2016
ISBN 9781474251365
Artists: Věra Chytilová, Isaak Fridberg, Elem Klimov, Phil Collins, Laura Horelli, Jo Longhurst, Craig Mulholland, Salla Tykkä.
The final in a series of four events, ‘Sport, Sport, Sport’ is a screening programme event of cinema and artist moving image, curated in collaboration with Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image and with presentations from artist Susan Pui San Lok and curator Tiffany Boyle.
The programme is structured around three Soviet-era cinema works, all of which feature gymnastics: Elem Klimov’s ‘Sport, Sport, Sport’ [1970], Věra Chytilová’s ‘Something Different’ [1963], and perestroika-era ‘Little Doll’ [1988] from Isaak Fridberg. Rarely or never seen before in the UK, translated and subtitled especially for the programme and all early-career works, the programme engages with the lack of critical material surrounding these films. This lack is mirrored in the absence of attention to sporting themes in artist moving image, and the programme as a whole draws upon the long running ties between sport, the body in motion and early experiments in film. Through the juxtaposition of the works, the programme examines the relationship between sport in cinema and artist moving image, and the influence of this particular period of film-making and its aesthetics in contemporary art.
Sport, Sport, Sport : Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, London
Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square | 28 February 2015 | 09:30-18:00
Work screened, Present [excerpt]
Artists: Věra Chytilová, Isaak Fridberg, Elem Klimov, Phil Collins, Laura Horelli, Jo Longhrust, Craig Mulholland, Salla Tykkä
Sport, Sport, Sport : Transmission Gallery / Kinning Park, Glasgow
Glasgow Film Theatre, and Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow, 2014
Work screened, Present
Artists: Laura Horelli, Jo Longhurst, Elem Klimov
In German, edited by K. Knicker and K..Wettengl.
ISBN 392599856X
Front and inside covers, details from The Refusal (Part II)
ISBN 9781873352076
With Jo Longhurst, Beatriz Garcia and Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, programmed by Tiffany Boyle.
On the Verge of Photography: Imaging, Mobile Art, Humans & Computers,
24-25 May 2013, Birmingham School of Art
With AHRC Investigators Daniel Rubinstein and Johnny Golding, in association with the journal Philosophy of Photography
Based on Longhurst’s 2012 symposium On Perfection, held at the Whitechapel Gallery in East London, this book explores the ways in which artists engage with ideas of perfection, drawing on screenings, performances and discussions.
396 pages | 100 color plates | 9 x 9”
With contributions from Mark Durden, Eva Stenram, Clive Cazeaux, Julian Rosefeldt, Catherine Grant, Jo Longhurst, Ray Muller (Leni Riefenstahl), Ceri Higgins, David Evans, Francette Pacteau, Leslie Dick with Audrey Wollen, Jonathan Whitehall, Michal Heiman, Liam Devlin, Oriana Fox, Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno, Dan Hill, Jane & Louise Wilson, and Marco Bohr.
ISBN 9781841507101
A survey of contemporary feminist art featuring a selection of work from the Cass Feminist Society and friends. The show explores the notion of ‘temporal drag’ which forges an active dialogue between contemporary feminist discourse and the strong tradition of feminist art history and criticsm.
Curated by Thessa van der Kuyp, Seana Wilson, Caroline Halliday, Sheila Buckley and co-curated by Mo Throp.
Work exhibited: Cross
Cover image: Peak
Britian’s Jo Longhurst is this year’s winner of the $50,000 Grange Prize for excellence in contemporary photography.
A review of Jo Longhurst, Other Spaces, Oriel Mostyn Gallery for Source, The Photographic Review, Autumn 2012, ISSUE 72
