Serpentine Cinema: CINACT - Alexis Marguerite Teplin and Sophie von Cundale
Screenings of films and performances by Alexis Marguerite Teplin and Sophie von Cundale.
Alexis Marguerite Teplin
The Party 2010
HD, colour, sound, 28min
A performance of The Party, a play by American artist Alexis Marguerite Teplin, with texts by Rachel Kushner, Pablo Lafuente and Michael Ned Holte, set design by Noah Sherwood, and costume design by Teplin.
The Party, was conceived as a collaborative project in three acts in the tradition of the Theatre of the Absurd with characters representing an artist, designer, philosopher/critic and ingenue.
Originally commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery as part of the Park Nights series 2009, The Party toured in 2010 to Tramway for the Glasgow International Festival. The theatre at Tramway provided the back drop for this film, produced by the Artist and Mary Mary.
Credits:
THE CAST
(in order of appearance)
LUDOVIC (the critic)
Morgan Thomas
ELSA (artist/ designer)
Olivia Llewellyn
UNDINE (Paul’s younger sister)
Alexis Marguerite Teplin
PAUL (the painter)
Robert Stocks
Act I: The Chorus (P., E., L. and U.)
By Michael Ned Holte
Act II: The Party
By Pablo Lafuente and Alexis Marguerite Teplin
Act III: Cut Off Your Shirt (Undine’s Song)
By Rachel Kushner
Courtesy the artist, Hotel, London + Mary Mary, Glasgow.
Alexis Marguerite Teplin was born in California in 1976, and currently lives and works in London. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include 21 of 24, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL (2011); The Party, Performance for Glasgow International, Tramway (2010) and Serpentine, Park Nights (2009); 5cm higher, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2010); Can You Hear the Sea?, Blanket Gallery, Vancouver (2009); Viaggio in Italia, For Guilietta, Car Projects, Bologna, and Yes Parisol, My Marisol, Hotel, London (both 2008).
Recent group shows include Salon, LAND, Jorge Pardo House, Los Angeles, Paintings from England and America, Crisp, London (both 2010); Tag, Brown Gallery, London, Arrival Inside, Mary Mary, Glasgow, Reframing, CCA Andratx, Majorca (2009).
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Sophie von Cundale
The Garden of Endemol 2011
HD, colour, sound, min
Excerpts from the script will be performed
The Garden of Endemol is a reality TV show born from the utopian aspirations of Joop van der Ende and John de Mol, founders of Endemol, a television production company. It forms the core of a science fiction work currently in pre-production, which expounds the devastating impact of the programme upon humanity; through the eyes of a disfigured archaeologist, who is speaking from a distant future, ravaged by war. He explains the historical lead up to the chaos in which he lives and hopes that in telling us of his fate, we may be encouraged to change ours. The story begins with the colonisation of Endemol by an alternate dimension, created by the Hadron Collider in 2012, for the purposes of their reality TV experiment ‘The Garden of Endemol’.
‘The Garden of Endomol’ is so entertaining that it comes to govern the mentality of a nation before provoking a UN intervention, alongside a reactionary iconoclastic Reformation, a cult religion and ultimately an aesthetically motivated World War that changes the face of humanity. The finished film will be premiered in October as part of the Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon.
Born 1987 in London, Sophie von Cundale is a video artist and science fiction fan who lives and works in Peckham. Previous work has been included in Sketch, London, Kunsthalle Exnergasse at WUK in Vienna, Resovision at Frieze Art fair, published in The White Review and Hannah Barry Gallery publications. She exhibits as part of art group S P A C E C R A F T and makes television with artists Kerri Meehan.
CREDITS
The Garden of Endemol trailer
Special Effects – Levin Haegele
The Garden of Endemol Maquette made by Patrick Cole
Ecologists – Patrick Cole and Joel Furness
Live Editor – Alex Ressel
Soundtrack – Joel Furness and Sophie von Cundale
Voiceover – Anthony Richardson
Writer and Director – Sophie von Cundale
Co-writer and editor – Ben Eastham
Script editor – David Cundale
Live performance
Reading by Nicholas Audsley
Script by Sophie von Cundale
Music composed by James Spinney
Serpentine Cinema: CINACT is a series of monthly artists’ film screenings and events at The Gate Cinema in Notting Hill. CINACT takes its name from American artist Henry Flynt’s 2007 cinema manifesto. In association with sketch and Picturehouse Cinemas
