Mark Neville

02.11.2006 @ Landmark

Mark Neville –
Port Glasgow Book Project

Mark Neville is a Glasgow based artist whose work has been exhibited recently at Tate Britain, Tramway, Modern Art Oxford, and Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland. His work, primarily film and photo-based,deals with the way in which society disseminates and filters images, often according to class, income, or in response to political or ‘artistic’ frameworks. Mark will talk about several works, including the Port Glasgow Book Project, a book he made of his own social documentary -type images over the course of a year in the town. The book was distributed free to each of the 8000 households in Port Glasgow by the local Boys Football Club, but is not available, commercially or otherwise, anywhere else. He will also talk about his film work, for which he frequently employs high-speed movie cameras normally used in car crash testing by Rolls Royce. The most well known of these, ‘The Jump Films’, showed at Tate Britain as part of ‘A Century of Artists’ Film in Britain’, and features self-performed jumps off bridges in Amsterdam, in reference to heroic male performance artists such as Yves Klein, Bas Jan Ader, and others.