The OpenHand OpenSpace (OHOS) gallery is to host a new exhibition from a Reading-based artist.
Christine Ellison’s Hummingbirds and Hamburgers: call to action, will include the first-ever screening of her documentary short, something is Happening (2023).
The film documents the art research residency led by Ellison in November last year at the Bonotto Foundation in Veneto, Italy, where the artist collaborated with a team of designers, dancers, and musicians, and six local art and dance schools’ students.
Ellison’s exhibition aims to highlight the performative potential of digital screen interfaces, re-contextualizing everyday micro-actions such as scrolling, cropping, and dragging.
Hummingbirds and Hamburgers draws on historic performance and intermedia strategies, specifically Fluxus scores and Allan Kapprow’s Happenings, to challenge and provoke new thinking.
The exhibition is an invitation to reclaim the language of the interface from the homogensing forces of bureaucracy and marketization to generate new agency with the everyday.
The opening and screening of Hummingbirds and Hamburgers will be on Friday, March 31, from 6pm. It then runs until Sunday, April 2, from noon to 4pm.
For more details, log on to: https://ohos.org.uk/
