Closing Performance: Anneke Kampman 'An Endless Archive', San Mei Gallery

Artists Anneke Kampman and Ash Reid present a collaborative performance in conversation with An Endless Archive.

San Mei Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by London-based artist Anneke Kampman. Working as both an artist and a musician, her practice moves between text, sound, music and image, analysing how the culture industries (re)produce personality for profit, addressing issues of standardisation, reproduction and artistic autonomy within the global circulation of pop music.

At San Mei Gallery, Kampman brings together a series of works exploring the formal qualities and politics of contemporary music-video. Interested in how music-video brings together divergent cultural forms – sound, image and commodity – into a single container, Kampman understands the music-video both as a repository for overlapping histories and contradictory forces and as an aperture beyond the sum of its parts, a kaleidoscope of deferred combinations that are brought to life by the spectator.

Artist biographies

Anneke Kampman (b. 1986, Edinburgh) is an artist and musician working across writing, performance, music and moving image. Her recent work explores the politics and multivalent histories of popular music’s global circulation via visual media such as the music-video. She is currently completing a practice-led PhD at the School of Art under the supervision of Jon Thomson, David Burrows, and Benedict Drew. Her work has been presented at LUX Artist Moving Image Festival, Tramway, Glasgow; Pump House Gallery, London; South London Gallery; Glasgow International Festival; Jerwood Space, London; Somerset House, London; La Monnaie De Munt, Brussels; Café Oto, London; Mayday Rooms, London; Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, and BBC Tectonics Festival. Kampman lives and works in London and her work is always in conversation with the dreary vistas of her childhood, growing up in the Scottish borders.

Ash Reid is a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her project researches the histories and presents of feminist film distributor Cinenova, particularly the ways in which video and film production intersect with the narrative of productive citizenship offered by neoliberal funding regimes in Britain.

Reid also makes music, video, performance and text work, usually in conversation with others, focussing on locational histories of protest. Recent shows have taken place at Cafe OTO, London and Kunsthal Gent.

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