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Exhibitions

27 March, 12:00 – 17:00 • 28 – 30 March, 10:00 – 17:00

One of Eadweard Muybridge’s earliest contributions to the photographic image were stereographs commissioned by the U.S. Army, capturing their war against the Modoc Tribe in Northern California. These stereographs, many of which were staged, are revisited here through violent collisions of image and sound – generating entangled histories of visual technology, genocide and expropriation of Indigenous populations.

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6 mins

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2024
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27 March, 12:00 – 17:00 • 28 – 30 March, 10:00 – 17:00

‘If every person on the planet could make a love tape, then you’d really know what it’s like to be human’ ~Wendy Clarke

Endless Love Tapes (United Kingdom, 2025) is a pilot project by Wendy Clarke (US) and Kim Coleman (UK). Artist Wendy Clarke’s participatory video project, Love Tapes – which she began in 1977 – is an incredible collection of over 2,500 three-minute videos where people discuss what love means to them.

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98 mins

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2025
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27 March, 12:00 – 17:00 • 28 – 30 March, 10:00 – 17:00

A critical look at the evolution of Irish psychiatric institutions across the 20th century, examining the confluence of carceral, therapeutic and socioeconomic incentives that determined their influence.

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20 mins

Year

2024
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27 March, 12:00 – 17:00 • 28 – 30 March, 10:00 – 17:00

Over 100 filmmakers and artists from around the world have formed Some Strings, an ensemble of unreleased filmic gestures rooted in Palestine, where poet and teacher Refaat Alareer was targeted by Israeli strikes along with seven members of his family.

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300 mins

Year

2024
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27 March, 12:00 – 17:00 • 28 – 30 March, 10:00 – 17:00

A film, installation, and exhibition by artist and filmmaker Harry Lawson, created in collaboration with young inner-city horse riders from Stepney Bank Stables in Newcastle. Reimagining Byker as the Wild West, the project blurs the line between fact and fiction, weaving together recontextualised iPhone footage shot by the riders, archival material from the North East Film Archive, and Lawson’s own cinematography.

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40 mins

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2025
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