Revital Cohen & Tuur van Balen, photo by Liz Seabrook
Talk
Channel Commission

Revital Cohen and Tuur van Balen: In Conversation

Wed 08 Nov 2023
18.45 - 20.30
£6
Lancaster Rooms
New Wing

Join Experimental Technology Fellowship recipients Revital Cohen and Tuur van Balen along with moderator Orit Gat as they share their ideas and process behind their latest digital commission May The Fox Take You.

Developed over the duration of a unique five-month residency in partnership with UAL Creative Computing Institute, nominated artists Revital Cohen and Tuur van Balen present a new film for Channel, Somerset House's online platform for art, ideas and the creative process.

A journey through a field of mustard within the cavities and digestive fluids of carnivorous plants, to a moth that looks like twin snakes nodding in the wind; a robot dog is being kicked, a dancer is rehearsing a choreography taken from a pogo dance tutorial – in this in conversation event the artist duo screen and talk through their new experimental moving image work May The Fox Take You, a film that sits within the ambivalence of an ending, attempting to accept anger, fear, love and hope as one.  

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Revital Cohen and Tuur van Balen, still from May The Fox Take You

The CCI x Somerset House Studios Experimental Technology Fellowship offers recipients a development and commission opportunity to incorporate new technology within their work, providing access to workspace, labs, technical and academic expertise along with curatorial, producer support and studio facilities.

About Orit Gat 

Orit Gat is a writer and art critic living in London. She is a contributing editor at The White Review and at Art Papers and has written about contemporary art, culture, digital culture, and football for magazines including frieze, Artforum, ArtReview, e-flux journal and e-flux criticism, Jacobin, the World Policy Journal and many others. She is a winner of the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and is currently working on her first book, titled If Anything Happens, an essay about football, love, loss and a sense of belonging.

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