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Declan Clarke, Emily Wardill & Duncan Campbell Art Now Lightbox Declan Clarke, Emily Wardill & Duncan Campbell
2 September  –  22 October 2006

Emily Wardill, Born Winged Animals and Honey Gatherers of the Soul, 2005. 16 mm film with sound transferred onto DVD, 9 min
Emily Wardill
Born Winged Animals and Honey Gatherers of the Soul 2005
16 mm film with sound transferred onto DVD, 9 min
Supported by the Arts Council England © Courtesy the artist and FORTESCUE AVENUE / Jonathan Vyner, London

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This is the seventh of the Art Now Lightbox series and presents new and recent works by three artists working in Britain. Each presentation runs for two weeks. The complete programme will be shown as a compilation 14–22 October 2006.

2–15 September 2006
Declan Clarke
Mine Are of Trouble 2006
video transferred on to DVD, 15 mins 50 sec
Courtesy the artist

Declan Clarke’s video Mine are of trouble 2006 deftly juxtaposes an account of the life of socialist Rosa Luxemburg against his own personal and haphazard introduction to the revolutionary figure while studying in Berlin. The political activist’s remarkable actions, which culminated in her assassination in 1919, are set in poignant contrast to Clarke’s failed attempts to transfer her political legacy to his own romantic life.

16–29 September 2006
Emily Wardill
Born Winged Animals and Honey Gatherers of the Soul 2005
16 mm film with sound transferred on to DVD, 9 mins
Courtesy the artist and FORTESCUE AVENUE/Jonathan Viner, London
Supported by The Arts Council England

Set within earshot of the Hawksmoor Church, St Annes in Limehouse, Emily Wardill's 16 mm film Born Winged Animals and Honey Gatherers of the Soul is a visual and phonetic translation of a symbol that Nietzsche used to seek understanding of an individual's consciousness – the tolling of a church bell at noon.

30 September – 13 October 2006
Duncan Campbell
o Joan, no... 2006
16mm film transferred on to DVD, approx 10 mins
Courtesy the artist

Described by the artist as a film in which ‘Nothing happens’, Duncan Campbell’s new work is a homage to Samuel Beckett, the Irish playwright who summarised his entire literary output as ‘a stain upon silence.’ Campbell's film opens in a darkness that is both abstract and primordial and that is punctuated by spots of light as the film progresses.

14 October – 22 October 2006
Declan Clarke, Mine Are of Trouble, 2006; Emily Wardill, Born Winged Animals and Honey Gatherers of the Soul, 2005; Duncan Campbell, o Joan, no..., 2006

Programme selected by Gair Boase, Lizzie Carey-Thomas and Katharine Stout, Tate curators.