Jordan Baseman : Dark is the Night

UK based film artist Jordan Baseman has made new work in and around Soho interviewing inhabitants who range from the notorious to the anonymous, including hedonists and faded actors. The interview process is at the heart of Baseman's work. He heavily edits this recorded material, juxtaposing the finished interviews with film footage taken in and around Soho, to construct narratives that mimic and yet subvert the traditional documentary film format. The end product is a series of films that are at once semi-narrative, poetic and revealing. The works will create a portrait of a place that is both constant and fleeting.

Dark is the Night is an ArtSway and The Photographers' Gallery, London co-commission and will be presented at The Photographers' Gallery, London between 24 April - 14 June 2009.

Jordan Baseman Biography

Jordan Baseman received a BFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and an MA from Goldsmith's College, University of London. Baseman is currently the Reader in Time Based Media at Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts, London, and is also a Lecturer at the Royal College of Art Sculpture School. He has a long history of carrying out projects in collaboration with various public institutions. These have included residencies and commissions for: Arts Council England; Papworth Hospital (Heart and Lung Transplant Unit), Cambridge; The Science Museum, London; Dundee Contemporary Arts; Grizedale Arts; London Arts; Camden Arts Centre; The Serpentine Gallery; Book Works; National Sculpture Factory (Cork, Ireland); British School at Rome; the Wellcome Trust, London; Monash University, (Melbourne Australia); University of Tasmania, (Hobart, Australia) and The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Jordan Baseman has received grants from the Arts Humanities Research Council, the British Council, the Henry Moore Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and London Arts Board.

Jordan Baseman
Dark is the Night

Stationen:
21.02.09 - 05.04.09 ArtSway, Hampshire
24.04.09 - 14.06.09 The Photographers´ Gallery, London