itchy scratchy

YOU ARE INVITED TO . . .

An exhibition initiated by Jason Evans

Preview Friday 2 October 6.30 - 9.30pm

Exhibition continues 3 October – 8 November 2009

Permanent Gallery, 20 Bedford Place, Brighton

Open: Thurs/Fri/Sun 1pm - 6pm, Sat 11am - 6pm

"I think of it as the picture/s that you print up, just to a small working size, to get a look at. The ones that interest and trouble you because there is something that you don't fully understand about them, as if you unconsciously did something. These pictures seem to signpost a new direction in a photographer's practice, they are transitional pieces, and precursors to a new phase or project. I think all the best photographers have the guts to move beyond the pictures they already know they can make, and spend time with the itchy scratchy pictures to work out what comes next."

Charlotte Cotton

Itchy Scratchy is an exhibition of photographs. The title is taken from this quote by Charlotte Cotton, where she describes the pictures which break photographers out of familiar ways of working. The exhibition affirms the role that happy accidents and epiphanies play in creative activity.

Itchy Scratchy was initiated by photographer/writer Jason Evans. All exhibitors have been invited to submit a digital file of an itchy scratchy image in a uniform size, to be reproduced on matt paper using an inkjet printer. The exhibition features a broad range of photographers from the emerging to those of international repute.

Visitors to the exhibition are able to purchase a raffle ticket. At the end of the show a draw will determine who has won which unique print. Proceeds from ticket sales will support the realisation of future exhibitions at Permanent Gallery.

Itchy Scratchy photographs will be viewable at http://www.permanentgallery.com soon. Raffle tickets will be available to purchase from the Gallery (during opening times, Thurs/Fri/Sun 1pm -6pm + Sat 11am - 6pm), and from the gallery website, as of Friday 2nd October. Raffle tickets are £50.

List of contributors :

Nik Adam, Marta Bakst, Jason Bascombe, Kevin Beck, Nicola Belson, David Blackmore, Peter Bobby, Michael Bodiam, Mark Bolland, Matt Burgess, Millie Burton, Polly Braden, Thom Bridge, Thomas Brown, Tommi Cahill, Helen Cammock, Sam Collins, Ben Crawford, Jason Evans, Niccolo Fano, Annabelle Fenning, Andrew Ferguson, Victoria Fornieles, Anna Fox, Carl Gent, Ruth George, Phillipe Gerlach, Simon Gilbert & Nik Adam, Nigel Green, Amy Gwatkin, Fiona Harvey, Peter Haynes, David Hendra, Laura Hensser, Todd Hido, Kelly Hill, Jan von Holleben, Mandy Lee Jandrell, Greg Jones, Maria Kapajeva, Shiho Kito, Paul Knight, Ioannis Koussertari, Matthieu Lavanchy, Patrick Lears, Patrick Lee, Wiebke Leister, Chris Linaker, Gordon MacDonald, John MacLean, Craig Mammano, Mike Massaro, Trent McMinn, Sherman McMinn, Shannon Michael Cane, Alexander Milnes, Tim Mitchell, David Moore, Ashima Narain, Luke Norman, Magali Nougarede, Tod Papageorge, Sam Pearce, Sarah Pickering, Oliver Pin-Fat, Oliver Poddar, Augusta Quirk, Milo Reid, Alex Rich, John Rose-Adams, David Rule, Viviane Sassen, Richard Sawdon Smith, Michael Schmelling, Aaron Schuman, Andy Sewell, Alexandria Da Silva, John Spinks, Sandra Stein, Christopher Stevens, Melanie Stidolph, Clare Strand, Kamei Takashi, Andreas Tauber, Kirsti Taylor Bye, George Thomas, Tviga, Nick Waplington, Harry Watts, Ruth Wiggins

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cape farewell : art and climate change

endangered species, siobhan davies

I went to a lecture at the Barbican last night and was extremely impressed with how Ruth Little, Literary Manager at the Royal Court Theatre, and Cheoreographer, Siobhan Davies, described the experience of visiting the arctic with Cape Farewell and being faced with 'not knowing' how to respond or what to think in a place where experience is so far removed from a more familiar environment. Ruth Little in particular described the importance of a need to shift one's quality of attention to 'seeing' rather than falling back on habit to quantify experience. Little recommended looking at Jill Bolte Taylor's TED talk - in which she describes how she experienced the process of having a stroke and realized how the loss of logic enabled her to have a powerful encounter with the sensory realm. It is a very moving talk and a great insight into how the left and right side of the brain respond to experience. Enjoy!

rinko kawauchi

'I am often not sure why I am photographing things, but by the end of the third year I know. When the pictures provide the answer I know it is time to move on.'

Rinko Kawauchi in converstion

with Martin Parr, June 2009

hannes schüpbach

Hannes Schüpbach (b. 1965) creates meditative and lyrical film diaries that explore the power and limits of the single shot and an idea(l) of beauty grounded in a fascination with nature. An accomplished painter and expert on textile art, Schüpbach uses 16mm cinematography to explore cinema’s painterly dimensions, bringing to his films a keen attention to color and light and their effect on mood and tempo.

Schüpbach’s meticulously structured silent films, discover a multi-layered world, often using superimpositions and reflections to explore the hidden depths of the places and people evoked within them.

adam broomberg and oliver chanarin

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin have worked together for over ten years. Their unusual approach to photojournalism has earned them a place amongst the most progressive photographers working on the front-line today

The long term collaborators constantly question the responsibility of the photographer and whether the photographs made will change the situation of the protagonist in the frame. They gain access to situations by researching stories meticulously before they arrive and choose a particular aesthetic for each specific project.

Citing diverse influences, from the music of John Cage to 'The Story of my Death' by the Italian, Lauro de Bosis, who succeeded in humiliating Mussolini by distributing ant-fascist leaflets in a solo flight over Rome before disappearing at sea - Broomberg and Chanarin encourage an audience to work harder and listen more closely to the stories they are told.

'The act of photographing is complicit - you are not a neutral witness.'

Broomberg and Chanarin

Photovoice Lecture Series

susan derges

'The whole night became my dark room,' Susan Derges

richard long

I like the simplicity of walking,

the simplicity of stones

I like the common means given

the simple twist of art.

I choose lines and circles because they do the job.

My art is about working in the wide world,

wherever, on the surface of the earth.

My work is not urban, nor is it romantic.

It is the laying down of modern ideas

in the only practical places to take them.

Richard Long, 1980