+Karaoke, 2014-2015
Sound and video installation with curved sound-dampening sculptural walls, diffused light, discreet speakers and analogue black-and-white video. Dimensions variable.
Video still.
This site presents a shifting selection of material drawn from ongoing and past works.
Gail Pickering works across installation, moving image, sound and performance. Her practice develops through an ongoing engagement with specific sites, historical material remains and mediated environments, approaching them as active systems of atmosphere, mediation, resonance and contradiction. Through processes of listening, observation and installation, she constructs spatial situations in which broadcast structures, environmental systems, image cultures and forms of collective organisation are encountered as material, acoustic and perceptual forces. Earlier works explored the performative and political afterlives of community television, moving image archives and collective representation through multi-channel installation, performance and sound. More recent projects increasingly focus on environmental systems, technological infrastructures and resonance, examining how regulation, circulation, maintenance and simulation are registered through vibration, acoustic space and spatial encounter. Across the work, sound, gesture, moving image and spatial construction operate as ways of sensing how bodies, infrastructures and systems are organised, maintained and experienced. Installations, performances and moving image works have been presented internationally at institutions including BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Tate Modern, Tate Britain and the ICA, London. Her work has been included in British Art Show 7, Assembly: A Survey of Artists’ Film and Video in Britain, and the Derek Jarman Award touring programme. Related films and moving image works have premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and been broadcast on Channel 4. Pickering holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London and a practice-based PhD from the University of Westminster. She is Programme Director of the MA Artists’ Film & Moving Image at Goldsmiths, University of London. For enquiries about projects, exhibitions, screenings, mentoring or research conversations, please use the contact form. A selection of Gail's video works are distributed by LUX |