iMove project
Lumen is working with ‘iMove’ and other partners during 2010 to produce a series of 8 new site specific artistic commissions around the theme of human movement.
This will comprise a DVD and over ten screenings of the work to audiences, including free public outdoor screenings across the Yorkshire region. imove is Yorkshire’s signature programme ensuring a legacy for London 2012. It is funded by the Legacy Trust. Lumen are co-producing The Body in the City with iMove and will be applying for the project to become officially recognised as part of Yorkshire’s contribution to the Cultural Olympiad.
2010 commissioned moving image artists are:
Bernd Behr
Rachel Goodyear
Emily Richardson
Emma Rushton & Derek Tyman
Matt and Rob Vale
This site specific project will look at Holmfirth, Leeds, Scarborough and Wakefield. It will produce 8 new works, including 4 community projects, free large-scale public screenings of the works across Yorkshire, a free programme of media art workshops and 4 artists’ master classes.
Rachel Goodyear (Manchester), whose intricate pencil drawings secured her a place on the shortlist for the 2009 Northern Art Prize, creates hand drawn stop-motion animation for her work ‘Kissing in Tunnels’ – inspired by the same titled film made by Holmfirth local legends the Bamforth brothers. The Bamforth’s came to prominence during the 1890s for the industrial mass production of magic lantern slides and, after 1904, for their expansion into the international market for postcards and then film making. Rachel’s film is also inspired by the Yorkshire town of Holmfirth and local events including the folk festival, which influenced her drawings that feature mischievous demons dancing an eternal jig and crows stabbing at a tree stump.
