Big Screen Southend

X 308: Space, Site and Screen, Big Screen Southend

Curated by James Ravinet

Peripheral was shown at Big Screen Southend, outside Focal Point Gallery, alongside artists

John Lawrence and Yuri Pattison | 9 Feb - 8 March 2016 |

The programme was viewable between 8.00-10.00am, 12.00-2.00pm, 4.00-6.00pm 7 days a week.

Big Screen Southend

The Forum

Elmer Square

Southend-on-Sea

SS1 1NB

About Big Screen:

Big Screen Southend is a purpose-built display screen in the heart of Southend-on-Sea designed for the presentation of artist commissions, live transmissions and short or feature films relative to the cultural context of Southend, South Essex or further afield. Located at the centre of Elmer Square, the screen is a hundred yards from Southend Central Station. (Trains every fifteen minutes from London Fenchurch Street. Journey time fifty minutes.)

Big Screen Southend is a partnership project between Focal Point Gallery, Southend Borough Council, University of Essex, South Essex College and The Forum.

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Peripheral began in 2015 as a collection of videos of recorded gestures encountered in everyday life, on my phone or a Mini-DV camera, whatever was to hand at the time.

I’m interested in moments that punctuate the experience of ones daily landscape, interjections into our periphery, be it our vision or imagination. A sort of homage to daily happenstances, hence the name of this study.

This project has since led to a screening and conversation in Stuttgart (2016) with curatorial collective Anorak about perpheral, duration, the incidental, the uncanny, unfolding and slowness, both on-screen and off.