About this Event
Offering a unique perspective on evolution and extinction, Deborah Stratman’s Last Things (2023) examines the enduring forms that precede and outlast humanity: minerals and rocks. Oscillating between macrocosms and microcosms, science fact and science fiction, the didactic and the oracular, the film seeks knowledges of existence inscribed across varying scales, modalities, and forms. Traversing the earth’s possible pasts, presents, and futures, Last Things invites critical reflection on humanity’s role within its unfolding histories.
Following the screening, a recorded discussion between Deborah Stratman and art historian Gabe Beckhurst will explore mineral forms as containers of deep time: texts waiting to be read, if we are willing to attune ourselves to them. The conversation delves into geology and science fiction as modes of observation that can decentre the human, and considers the productive potential of their enmeshment in creating layered, polyvocal stories about the earth.
Key Details
Audiences are encouraged to arrive from 6:30 pm, to view the exhibition Joining Doggerland ahead of the screening.
Last Things screening - 7 - 8 pm
Post-screening discussion - 8 - 9 pm
Seating includes chairs, benches, bean bags and large pillows.
APT Gallery is accessible for members of the public who are wheelchair users. If you have any access requirements, please email [email protected].
Bios
Gabe Beckhurst is an art historian and curator who teaches at University College London. Selected curatorial projects include the 8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2022, the co-curated exhibition Currency: Photography Beyond Capture at Deichtorhallen Hamburg–Halle für aktuelle Kunst, 2022, and Dig Where You Stand for the 57th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, 2018–2019. Their writing has been published by LUX, Modern Art Oxford, Copenhagen Contemporary, Another Gaze and Sculpture Journal.
Artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman makes work around issues of power, control and belief, exploring how places, ideas, and society are intertwined. She regards sound as the ultimate multi-tool and time to be supernatural. Her 40+ films and multiple artworks have been exhibited and awarded internationally, and have variously addressed freedom, surveillance, public speech, remote sensing, sinkholes, levitation, orthoptera, raptors, comets, street drag racing, tight rope walking, evolution, extinction, exodus, sisterhood and faith. Stratman is a Fulbright, Guggenheim and United States Artist Fellow, a recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, Sundance Art of Nonfiction Award and grants from Creative Capital, Graham Foundation, Harpo Foundation, Shifting Foundation and Wexner Center for the Arts. She lives in Chicago where she teaches at the University of Illinois.
Image Credit
Still from Last Things (2023), Courtesy of Deborah Stratman and LUX, London
Deborah Stratman’s Filmography
Otherhood (2023), 3:05 min, 16mm xfer to HD
Last Things (2023), 49:34 min, 16mm xfer to HD or 35mm
Laika (2021), 4:33 min, HD video
For the Time Being (2021), 6:45, HD video
Vever (for Barbara) (2019), 11:55, 16mm xfer to video
Optimism (2018), 14:45, S8 xfer to video
Teaching an Alphabet the Plants (2018), 8:31, HD video
Siege (2017), 7:00 min., HD video
Xenoi (2016), 15:18 min., HD video
The Illinois Parables (2016), 59:00 min., 16mm
Second Sighted (2014), 5:05 min., video
Hacked Circuit (2014), 15:08 min., HD video
Immortal, Suspended (2013), 5:50 min., HD video
Musical Insects (2013), 6:30 min., HD video
The Name is not the Thing named (2012), 10:30 min., video
Village, silenced (2012), 7:00 min., video
A Throb (2011), 1:14 min., video
These Blazeing Starrs (2011), 14:15 min., 16mm
Ray’s Birds (2010), 7:07 min., 16mm
Shrimp Chicken Fish (2010), 5:13 min., video
FF (2010), 2:45 min., video
Kuyenda N’Kubvina (2010), 40:00 min., video
O’er the Land (2009), 51:40 min., 16mm
The Memory (2008), 2:00 min., video
Butter and Tomatoes (2008), 4:00 min., video
The Magician’s House (2007), 5:45 min., 16mm
It Will Die Out in the Mind (2006), 3:50 min. video
How Among the Frozen Words (2005), 0:44 min., video
Kings of the Sky (2004), 68:00 min., video
Energy Country (2003), 14:30 min., video
In Order Not to Be Here (2002), 33:00 min., 16mm
Untied (2001), 3:00 min., 16mm
The BLVD (1999), 63:00 min., video
From Hetty to Nancy (1997), 44:00 min., 16mm
On the Various Nature of Things (1995), 25:00 min., 16mm
Iolanthe (1995), 4:30 min., video
Waking (1994), 7:00 min., video
Palimpsest (1993), 3:00 min., 16mm
In Flight: Day No. 2,128 (1993), 2:00 min., 16mm
the train from la to la (1992), 8:00 min., video
Possibilities, Dilemmas (1992), 10:00 min., video
A Letter (1992), 7:00 min., video
Upon a Time (1991), 10:00 min., 16mm
My Alchemy (1990), 7:00 min., 16mm
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Apt Gallery, 6 Creekside, London, United Kingdom
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