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Beckett’s work has inspired many contemporary visual artists, but in recent years it has been the area of artists’ film that has seen the clearest impact.<\/p>\n

On Friday 23rd<\/sup>\u00a0of June<\/strong> 2023,<\/strong> The Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading will present rarely screened work by several artists. The screenings will be followed by a roundtable discussion and the launch of Samuel Beckett’s Afterlives: Adaptation, Remediation, Appropriation<\/em>, the recent collection of essays edited by Jonathan Bignell, Anna McMullan and Pim Verhulst.<\/p>\n

The programme for the event includes:<\/p>\n

Introduction by Conor Carville\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stan Douglas, <\/span><\/b>Vid\u00e9o<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u202f(2007): Introduced by Pim Verhulst. <\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stan Douglas\u2019 video installation<\/span>\u202f<\/span><\/b>Vid\u00e9o<\/span><\/i>\u202f<\/span><\/b>is a reimagining of both Orson Welles\u2019s film\u202f<\/span>\u201cThe Trial\u201d<\/span>\u202f(based on Kafka\u2019s novel of the same name) and Beckett\u2019s film\u202f<\/span>\u201cFilm\u201d<\/span>.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

John Gerrard<\/span><\/b>, Bone Work (Gulf of Mexico)<\/span><\/i><\/b> (2022): <\/span><\/b>Introduced by John Gerrard (Via Zoom).\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

John Gerrard\u2019s <\/span>Bone Work (Gulf of Mexico)<\/span><\/i> is a simulation centred on sixteen fragments of dead coral found by the artist on the shores of the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula on the Gulf Of Mexico.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Duncan Campbell, <\/span><\/b>o Joan, no\u2026<\/span><\/i><\/b>(2006): Introduced by Duncan Campbell.\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Duncan Campbell\u2019s <\/span>o Joan, no\u2026<\/span><\/i>(2006) is a short film drawing on the lighting directions and effects in Beckett\u2019s <\/span>Play<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Roundtable Discussion on Beckett, Artists\u2019 Film\/Installation and Adaptation.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jonathan Bignell (Reading); Pim Verhulst (Antwerp); Duncan Campbell; David Houston Jones (Exeter); Anthony Paraskeva (Roehampton); Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths); Jivitesh Vashisht (UCD). <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The screenings will begin at 2:00pm in Minghella Studios’s cinema at the University of Reading, with the roundtable discussion beginning at 4:30pm.<\/span>\u00a0The event will be followed by a reception at 6:00pm. <\/span><\/p>\n

The event is free, and all are welcome, but places are limited, so please register here<\/a>. More details of timings and participants to follow.<\/p>\n

Image: Stan Douglas. Vid\u00e9o, 2007. High definition video installation, colour, sound (six musical variations. Courtesy the artist, David Zwirner New York\/London, and Victoria Miro, London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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