Installasjon photo at Atelier Nord during the screening of “Yes to Life”, 2013 by Louisa Minkin at the exchibition Bend It. Photo: Dok Istvan Virag

FRIDAY OCTOBER 13. 8:20 PM Harstad Cinema, SAL 2

>would you die for me?

Happiness stained.

All over

A 30 minute playlist of works made between 2008 and 2021.

List of videos

• Michael Curran & Louisa Minkin:
  The Sun and the Moon [excerpt]
  60 min, 2008

• Louisa Minkin og Francis Summers (LMFS):
  Would You Die For Me.
  7:09 min, 2016

• LMFS:
  How to Accommodate Grief in Your Life.
  5:10 min, 2016:
  Voice: Dead Horsley

• Louisa Minkin:
  Eat Work [excerpt]
  00:15 sec, 2021

• Louisa Minkin:
  I’m Wishing [excerpt]
  00:30 sec, 2017
  Voice: Hausu

• LMFS:
  Conflictual Circulation,
  6:40 min, 2016-2021.
  Voice: Hausu

• Louisa Minkin:
  Yes to Life
  6:30 min, 2013

• Louisa Minkin
  Tiger Lady animation [excerpt]
  for Viralux, Gordon Dawson & Trish Lyons, 2019

The Sun and The Moon is a 60 minute performance to camera piece made by Michael Curran and Louisa Minkin in 2008. The Sun and the Moon keep time, moving back and forth like clockwork. The light changes and their gestures become charged.

Yes to Life was made over 2012 as the military entertainment complex flexed its wings. It’s a supercut glitch-remix of two video covers of Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Call Me Maybe' by the Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders and members of the US Marine Corps stationed in Khandahar, Afghanistan. Native to youtube it is a kind of fan-form of acting out, where gesture and gender are entangled.

Three of the videos in this screening [>would you die for me?, How to Accommodate Grief in Your Life and Conflictual Circulation] are part of the larger Dead End project co-created by LMFS [Louisa Minkin and Francis Summers] who have been ‘making banners sometimes’ since 2012. This work explores the subcultural phenomenon of griefing within online culture, posing modes of image-gathering that grief play has generated in the now ‘dead end’ world of Second Life, a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) environment. Using screen capture alongside photogrammetry we documented a world built and razed digitally by a now dormant group of anonymous gamers called the Yung Cum Bois (YCBs). They read poetry back to us, invoking networked pathologies, image dumps, blockaded communication networks. An imagist and splenetic journey through griefing as counter-protocol in our contemporary digital agora.

The short, animated videos [Eat Work, I’m Wishing and Tiger Lady] use motion capture to apply gesture to 3D characters. Gesture here is the kind of heraldic movement described by Brecht, where action becomes politics, an embodiment of social relationships.

PG 15

Louisa Minkin is an artist based in London, UK. She is a Reader in Visual Art Practices at Central Saint Martins. Her research comprises a number of strands developed within a process-driven methodology that is often collaborative and always transdisciplinary in approach. She is currently working on Prisoners of Love: affect, containment and alternative futures. This project aims to connect UK collection items with their trans-national homes and bring emerging artists from diasporic communities in the UK, curators and researchers into conversation. The idea is to work responsively with complex histories and material practices, opening out extrainstitutional art and archival practices in the form of artwork, story and theory.

Minkin can edit with jog shuttle and is fascinated by frame rates and time zones.