Trinity: Mark Neville, Berit Hummel, Graham Dolphin

by What's On North East

An unused church in Sunderland is being brought to life with three atmospheric video installations.

The Holy Trinity Church in Hendon, Sunderland, will host Trinity, a series of three video installations on consecutive Thursdays between 22nd January to 5th February, The event is free to all members of the public and will begin at sunset each evening until 8pm.

The Ghost of Stanley Spencer Watches Over Me
Mark Neville, Thursday 22nd January

The film documents the artist, walking through 'Fergusons' shipyard in Port Glasgow, where Stanley Spencer was resident during the second world war. It is filmed with a high-speed film camera, from
directly above the subject..The camera seems to adopt the point of view of a disembodied eye,
floating above the shipyard warehouse. As the camera pans the workfloor,  we lose our sense of scale,  and the space seems transformed into a small maquette. Neville attempts to transform the surface of the shipyard, as Spencer had done, into a painting, with his transformation referencing the reliefs of Ben Nicholson, and the mark-making of British Abstraction.

White Tiger
Berit Hummel, Thursday 29th January

Berit Hummel researches the structures of built human surroundings; architectural arrangements in the city as well as nature cultivated by man.  In that she focuses on an ambiance of artifiality, like it is found in perfectly organized environments.  The video 'white tiger' is part of the project 'Untitled Utopia', a research on utopian ideas and urban space.  A white tiger is sleeping in a stage-like artificial jungle.  The tiger briefly lifts his head, looks around and continues sleeping, since there is nothing to discover.  An audio collage transmits the sounds of a tropical rain forest.  White tigers are the result of specialized breeding techniques and exist only in captivity.  Without having experienced the rythm of nature, these artificail creatures live under artificial conditions in a sort of model situation.

Star Spangled Banner Recurring
Graham Dolphin, Thursday 5th February

Star Spangled Banner Recurring, is a single screen digital projection based on footage taken of
the legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix playing his version of the American national anthem Star Spangled Banner. Here, the film provides both a sonic and a visual experience. The short extract of virtuoso playing is taken from the seminal Woodstock concert of 1969 and is shown repeated across a grid of twelve panels with eachpanel starting half a second after the other. The effect is one of creating an arresting cacophony of noise, of electric guitar and feedback.The original source material is subtly transformed to create something disquieting.

All at Holy Trinity Church, Church Street East, Sunderland SR1 2BE 

Trinity was commissioned by Circa, a non-profit arts organisation.
Contact: circa.uk@gmail.com