A circulated YouTube clip can become a conversational spectacle overnight in an age when millions of viewers have access to the Internet, video cameras and home-editing suites; the public en masse has been enabled to become not only viewers but creators.

As the creative process itself has become more democratic with accelerating digital technology, the traditional gulf between cinematic and lo-fi film production values has narrowed.

TestBed 1 reflects popular practice by commissioning six new digital screen-based works, to be made through readily available modes of production but supported by the context of a professional art space.

From March to late July commissioned artists will use Beaconsfield as a creative base in a series of residencies. During this time the public is invited to witness the act of making art as our galleries turn laboratories, turn performance and production sites. FlatScreen will provide a continuous interface with a programme of artists' films and linked material screening in Canteen Gallery 2 throughout the period.

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Residency Dates:

Anthony Gross, 3 - 21 March

Michael Curran and Lucy Gunning, 23 March - 11 April

Pil and Galia Kollectiv (virtual residency with screenings), 13 April – 9 May

Joseph Walsh, 20 April - 30 May

Lilli Hartmann, 4 May – 4 June

Dafna Talmor, 22 June - 18 July
 

The full programme of new commissions produced for TestBed 1 will be screened on 18 and 19 September during Open House weekend

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TestBed 1 is produced as part of Beaconsfield’s curatorial mentoring scheme for emerging artist-curators. Mentees: Dafna Talmor and Joseph Walsh.