into the frameless distance – city of (no) memory
Exhibition Events
5 – 22 September 2024

Jack House Gallery, Art Space Portsmouth, Aspex Gallery Studio

Opening times Wed–Sun: 11am–4pm

8 September – MEET THE PAX ARTISTS in ‘looking backwards, moving forwards’

Expanded Cinema & Analogue Experiments

14.00 – 16.00 – PAX Aspex Residency Studio

11 September – ARTIST TALK & IN-CONVERSATION

17.00 – 19.00 – Jack House Gallery

13 September – MEET THE PAX ARTISTS in ‘looking backwards, moving forwards’

Expanded Cinema & Analogue Experiments

18.00 – 21.00 – PAX at Aspex Friday Late

15 September – ASPEX ROUND TABLE – ‘looking backwards, moving forwards’

14.00 – 16.00 – Aspex Gallery

Join us for an open discussion on the enduring appeal of analogue media & technologies, including the use of archival materials (slides, photographs, films, etc.) and analogue filmmaking in the making of new work. In this way ‘Innovation becomes multidirectional and (re)invention often involves looking backwards in order to move forwards’ (Knowles, 2020, p.6).

19 September – JAPAN PHOTOBOOK EVENING with POMPEY DARKROOM – Aspex Gallery

16.00 – 18.00 – Join us to look through a range of photobooks from the JAPAN PHOTOBOOK COLLECTION, held at Arts University Bournemouth (AUB). Specialist subject librarian, Alan Turner, will provide an introduction to the collections held at AUB, including details on how members of the public can access these.

19.00 – 20.30 –  An illustrated talk by Dr Jelena Stojkovic – ‘From Photobook to Installation: Japanese Photography in the 1960s and ’70s’. Jelena Stojković is an art historian and critic and the author of The Impossible Avant-Garde: Surrealism and Photography in 1930s Japan (2020). She is a Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory at the School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University.

PAX (Portsmouth Analogue eXperiments) includes work by Patti Gaal-Holmes, Evagelia Hagikalfa, Frankie Knight, Jane Shepherd and Vicky Smith.