Grit film launch

Grit film launch

Join us for the launch of Grit
18:30 on Thursday 7 March 2024 at Chatham Historic Dockyard.

Grit will be screened for the first time, alongside Phil Coy and Jonny Graham’s Sound Mirror (1999) and followed by a conversation between Phil and William Fowler, writer and Curator of Artists’ Moving Image at the BFI National Archive.

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島 Islands


Theatre Guild Tokyo, Japan
Oct 6th 7pm + Oct 7th 4pm + 7pm  2023

島 Islands – a film by Phil Coy with music by ③⑥ [Yuko Shiraishi and Tadao Kawamura]

Premieres with three screenings across two nights with DJ set’s of associated music.

STEREO PAIR + SOUND WORK

STEREO PAIR + SOUND WORK

STEREO PAIR + SOUND WORK is a new book containing a photo-essay exploring the production of the permanent site-sensitive sound installation Stereo Pair together with a complete catalogue of Coy’s sound works to date.

STEREO PAIR + SOUND WORK includes commissioned essay’s by Jenifer Lucy Allen, Lee Mackinion and Will Self that delve into the broader context of the work and history of the site.

Coy’s collaged photographs, archive images, and working diagrams explore the wide array of references, from the nearby production of HMV Gramophone horns, to the inclusion of concrete from the demolished Mathematics building – once used as a location in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.

Published by Slimvolume – launch Autumn 2023

 

accretion

accretion

Accretion website launch 11th Jan 2023

accretion – live phototropic film shot one frame a day at dawn.

Since spring equinox 2022 a single photograph has been chosen from a dawn shoot and uploaded to become the next frame in this slowly accruing film. The time of sun rise and position dictate when and where the frame is taken. The majority of shots are taken in Ramsgate, situated on the easterly coast of England, where in the summer months Coy is amongst the first people to witness the sun rise in the UK.

accretion.info website allows frames to be viewed individually, in sequence, as a film or as ALT TEXT [image descriptions / closed captions composed at the point of upload].

Read commentary by Kyran Joughin

 

Stereo Pair [switched on]

Stereo Pair [switched on]

Brunel University, London
Sep 28th 2022, 25pm

‘switch on’ event for Stereo Pair – new large-scale sculptural sound installation, at the heart of Brunel University’s Campus.

The event celebrates this new permanent, site-sensitive public sound installation in John Crank Gardens. The two solid-state passive sound amplifiers enhance the ambient sounds of gardens, from passing conversations and aircraft to listless leaves and clicking insects. With the specially designed speaker cabinets bolted on, the conical forms become active amplifiers, transforming the gardens into an egalitarian performance space.

From 2pm, Phil Coy will be joined by the author, journalist and Professor of Modern Thought, Will Self, and Experimental Particle Physicist, Professor Akram Khan. Together they will delve deeper into some of the local influences that shaped the work, including Brunel’s original brutalist architecture (as featured in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange), the sonic boom of nearby airports, the HMV Gramophone factory and the invention of stereo sound.

The event is free but spaces are limited >> please book here

Wordland screening

Wordland screening

Festival of New Cinema, Snape Maltings
Sep 9th 2pm9pm +Sat 10th, 11am10pm 2022

Wordland (2008) is screening at the Festival of New Cinema – A programme of short films, curated by the artist Emily Richardson and The Art Station. Richardson has selected three artists’ moving image works chosen for their connection to East Anglia.

Wordland bears witness to the eroding east coast of England and the devastating effects of floods on North Norfolk. Filmed in and around the villages of Walcott and Cley next the Sea, Coy’s film combines interviews, field recordings, archive footage of the flood of 1953, and a specially commissioned sound score from musician, Alexander Tucker.

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Swete Brethe

Swete Brethe

Matt’s Gallery
Oct 15thNov, 28th 2021
Offsite at United States Embassy, Nine Elms + online at mattsgallery.org

swete brethe – autonomous wind / sun powered installation on boundary of U.S. Embassy, London, that modulates speed of Byron Wallen trumpet solo to wind speed.  swete brethe is comprised of large-scale sculptural elements: a windsock and an anemometer, both tools for measuring wind speed and/or direction, that simultaneously modulate the tempo of Byron’s composition that can be listened to live at mattsgallery.org

Heralding the launch of Matt’s gallery’s new space in Nine Elms Swete Brethe borrows its title from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue (1387-1400) in which the narrative is established amidst the arrival of the allegorical West Wind. The intangible nature of this invisible force, that can be felt but not seen, provides a means to examine the emblematic power and change to the local ecology that the U.S. Embassy brought with it upon its relocation to Nine Elms in 2017.

more info >> Matt’s Gallery

Grain

Grain

Estuary 2021 – No.3 Covered Slip – Chatham Historic Dockyard
May 22ndJun 13th 2021

Grain is a 16 channel generative sound installation designed to create a sonic equivalence to the peculiar shifting landscape of the aggregates industry. Here materials formed over millennia, on a gradual passage to the bottom of the ocean, are dredged up and deposited back onto land. Once there they commence a negentropic journey through the construction industry, rising back up into the buildings and architectures that surround us.

more info >> Estuary 2021

STRATA ROCK DUST STARS

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Substance [a whole history of hollows and reliefs] features in Strata – Rock – Dust – Stars, which showcases ground-breaking moving image, new media and interactive artwork, is inspired by William Smith’s geological map of 1815, which was key in the development of Geology as a science and transformed the way in which we understand the world.

Curated by Mike Stubbs in partnership with York Museums Trust and York Mediale, the exhibition features works by artists: Isaac Julien, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Semiconductor, Phil Coy, Liz Orton, David Jacques, Ryoichi Kurokawa

It examines not only geological strata, but also explores a timely and contemporary poetic layering of human curiosity, exploration and reflection on the universe.

The New Observatory

2017 FACT New Observatory Poster

Substance [a whole history of hollows and reliefs] features in The New Observatory at FACT Liverpool.

Artists: BURAK ARIKAN, JAMES COUPE, RACHEL JACOBS, INTERACTION RESEARCH STUDIO, CITIZEN SENSE, YU-CHEN WANG, JERONIMO VOSS, RADAMÉS AJNA, EVAN ROTH, DAVID GAUTHIER, WAFAA, BILAL, PROBOSCIS, LIZ ORTON, NATASHA CARUANA, STANZA, PHIL COY, KEI KREUTLER, JACKIE KARUTI, JULIE FREEMAN, THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD

Avoiding Green

Avoiding Green

 

Offshore – Feren’s Art Gallery and Hull Maritime Museum
Apr 21st – Aug 28th 2017

Avoiding Green channels the medium of knitting and a hitherto little known history of a small, but global, army of knitters, both at sea and onshore. The work teases out a strong kinship between these largely overlooked cogs in the global economy, and evokes the sea from their wildly different perspectives. Avoiding Green focuses particularly on the Gansey, as a specialized working garment worn by seafarers from around the coastal towns of England, Scotland and Holland.

Artists in Offshore: John Akomfrah, Jonathan Baldock, Bik Van Der Pol, Adam Chodzko, Phil Coy, Tacita Dean, Alexander Duncan, Tania Kovats, Lawrence Lek, Rob Mackay, David Malone, Mariele Neudecker, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Martin Parr, Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Emily Richardson, Shimabuku, Zineb Sedira, John Smith, Badgers of Bohemia, Kasia Molga, John Wedgwood-Clarke and, Ian J Brown and new essay by author China Miéville.

Avoiding Green was commissioned by Invisible Dust

Eastside Projects |  Performance as Publishing | Take One

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Eastside Projects |  Performance as Publishing | Take One
Fri 4 Mar 2016
7pm – 8.45pm

Take One is the first of three live broadcast performance events, with new works by Nicole Bachman, Eddie Peake, Phil Coy and Ruth Beale, and films from the LUX collection by Maya Deren, David Hall and Mark Leckey.