‘Event for a Stage’ is a 16mm film I made in 2015 with the actor Stephen Dillane. I normally project the work as film inside galleries and museums, and occasionally cinemas. I have always been steadfast about showing my films in the medium with which they were made and were always intended to be shown. I have therefore never allowed them to be streamed online or ever projected digitally. Film is a very different way of making and seeing a work, and over the years, I have campaigned to keep photochemical mediums available to artists and filmmakers, and I have found that I have done this best this by continuing to make and show my works in and on film.

‘Event for a Stage’ is on show in my closed exhibition in EMMA in Espoo, Finland. Because it is a work with an emotional trajectory that is best seen from start to finish, I decided it was the best work to make available online for a week in this special programme during these days of Covid 19 lockdown. Please try and watch it from start to finish and ideally with headphones.

Tacita Dean, April 3, 2020, Berlin.

316MB | 49m 32s | 722×534 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/779103FC5C7298B/Event_For_A_Stage.mkv

Language:English
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