Screening: Peggy Ahwesh - presented by Erika Balsom

Film scholar Erika Balsom presents a screening of 1990s films by Peggy Ahwesh, a major influence on filmmakers Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer. Since the early 1980s, Ahwesh has forged a distinctive moving image practice in the ruins of originality and authority, embracing improvisatory strategies that prove the critical potential of play.

This screening coincides with Ahwesh’s first UK retrospective at Spike Island, and will serve to launch Ahwesh's first UK monograph co-edited by Erika Balsom and Robert Leckie and published by Spike Island and Mousse Publishing. https://www.spikeisland.org.uk/programme/exhibitions/peggy-ahwesh/

Programme:

The Color of Love, 1994. 10 min, colour, sound, 16mm film on video.

The Scary Movie, 1993. 8 min, b&w, sound, 16mm film on video.

The Deadman, 1989. 35 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video.

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This event accompanies Nosferasta, the first UK commission by Brooklyn-based filmmakers Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer in collaboration with Oba. https://gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/nosferasta/

It's part of the European Cooperation project 4Cs: From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture, co-funded by Creative Europe and the Royal College of Art.