Doppelgänger Redux – Performance – Visions in the Nunnery – Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts – London

Doppelgänger Redux
Friday 21 October 2016, from 6pm
Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, London

Performance Documentation: https://vimeo.com/190696369

At the 2016 edition of ‘Visions in the Nunnery’ at Bow Arts (London), British video pioneer Elaine Shemilt re-enacted live for the first time her seminal video performance Doppelgänger (1979-1981). Doppelgänger was recovered during the AHRC funded research project REWIND (DJCAD, University of Dundee), led by Prof Stephen Partridge, in 2012.

Doppelgänger is one of the only two surviving videos of Shemilt’s early experimentation with the medium. Shemilt employed video as a tool for introspection by manipulating her image, her face and her body. In Doppelgänger, Shemilt created a phantasmal double of herself exploring key feminist themes such as identity, sexuality, duality, women’s role in society and the status of professional women artists. After three decades, Shemilt re-enacted, reactivated and reacted to the piece, sourcing from research materials from her own archive, and explored a new performative version of these key feminist issues.

Full Video/performance of Doppelgänger Redux https://vimeo.com/190696369

more information at http://ewva.ac.uk/doppelganger-redux-2016.html

Curated by Laura Leuzzi and Adam Lockhart

Programme included selected works from Rotterdam’s Frans Van Lent’s Unnoticed Art Festival:

John Smith We Are All Made of Stars 6.30 PM
Mafalda Miranda Jacinto and Anthi Kougia Asparagus 7 PM
Elaine Shemilt Doppelganger Redux 8.30 PM
Liam Geary Baulch Sea Squad closing performance

More information about Visions in the Nunnery:

http://bowarts.org/nunnery/visions-in-the-nunnery

Interview with Cinzia Cremona, curator of Visions in the Nunnery in Arshake:

http://www.arshake.com/en/visions-2016-intervista-a-cinzia-cremona