Sliding and Unboxing by Adam York Gregory and Gillian Jane Lees
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Unboxing
Adam York Gregory and Gillian Jane Lees will be unboxing some slides and sharing them in real time.
Inviting you to an evening to see their slide collection. Slides of holidays they haven’t been on, houses they haven’t lived in, and people they haven’t met. Join them as they add some new slides to their collection, slides they’ve never seen before.
🗓️ Wed 29 Jul | 6.15pm
💰 Pay What You Decide
🎟️ https://arconline.co.uk/whats-on/unboxing/
Sliding
The reign of 35mm slides lasted between the mid 60s, precipitated by cheap travel package holidays, and reasonably priced film and development, and the mid-90s before the rise of digital imagery took over. Millions of moments captured in 2-inch square frames. And what happened to those slides? Many were boxed up and placed in storage. Forgotten and lost. Finding their way to car-boot sales or just thrown out.
That’s where Adam York-Gregory and Gillian Jane Lees came in as conservators of the discarded memory. For them it is a hobby, a collection, and somewhat of a responsibility. They are archivists by default. Having a collection bordering on 5,000 slides form hundreds of different collections, each one a portal into a past and an image resurrected every time it is illuminated. They would, given the opportunity, share them all with you, but for the sake of brevity and trees, we embarked upon a curatorial process…
🗓️ Wed 29 Jul | 7.30pm
💰 Pay What You Decide
🎟️ https://arconline.co.uk/whats-on/sliding/
Adam York Gregory and Gillian Jane Lees will be unboxing some slides and sharing them in real time.
Inviting you to an evening to see their slide collection. Slides of holidays they haven’t been on, houses they haven’t lived in, and people they haven’t met. Join them as they add some new slides to their collection, slides they’ve never seen before.
🗓️ Wed 29 Jul | 6.15pm
💰 Pay What You Decide
🎟️ https://arconline.co.uk/whats-on/unboxing/
Sliding
The reign of 35mm slides lasted between the mid 60s, precipitated by cheap travel package holidays, and reasonably priced film and development, and the mid-90s before the rise of digital imagery took over. Millions of moments captured in 2-inch square frames. And what happened to those slides? Many were boxed up and placed in storage. Forgotten and lost. Finding their way to car-boot sales or just thrown out.
That’s where Adam York-Gregory and Gillian Jane Lees came in as conservators of the discarded memory. For them it is a hobby, a collection, and somewhat of a responsibility. They are archivists by default. Having a collection bordering on 5,000 slides form hundreds of different collections, each one a portal into a past and an image resurrected every time it is illuminated. They would, given the opportunity, share them all with you, but for the sake of brevity and trees, we embarked upon a curatorial process…
🗓️ Wed 29 Jul | 7.30pm
💰 Pay What You Decide
🎟️ https://arconline.co.uk/whats-on/sliding/
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Where is it happening?
ARC Stockton Arts Centre, 60 Dovecot Street,Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom
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