Sam Smith Notes

NOTES is a live video essay/performance in which a constellation of images from cinema are brought together into a stream of collaged audio-visual vignettes. Fragmented scenes draw together key reference points from Smith's practice, including the mediation of object via the camera eye's flattening gaze, the cinematic framing of landscape, and, through architecture, an audience's complicity in the projection image.

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The performance takes place in the context of the exhibition Your Time Is Not My Time, which is part of the Final Project Curatorial Programme, on view at de Appel arts centre from May 23 until June 28. This show revolves around the radical change of the conditions of visuality. How images have shifted from the personal realm to a currency in cybernetic participation, where the value or/and power resides in being seen. This new visual economy has blurred the lines between producers and audience, enlarging the concept of authorship.

Sam Smith (Australia) currently lives and works between London and Sydney. From 2013 to 2014 he was part of the International Studio Programme at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. Upcoming and recent solo projects include ‘The Performative Minute’ at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2014); ’Notes on the Apparatus’ selected by Vdrome for the Artists' Film Biennial, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2014); 'Frames of Reference', a solo exhibition at The Royal Standard as part of their Liverpool Biennial 2014 programme (2014); and 'Form Variations' at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2014). He has participated in numerous group shows including 'Online/Offline. Encoding Everyday Life for Vorspeil Transmediale', Altes Finanzamt, Berlin (2014); 'Oblivion', Zweigstelle Berlin (2014); 'Conquest of Space', COFA Galleries, Sydney, Australia (2014); 'Larger than life', Temporära Konsthallen, Stockholm (2013) and 'Framed Perceptions', Sinne, Helsinki (2013).