An Evening with ... Ben Judd
Date: Wed, 03/03/2010 - 6:30pm
Venue: Swedenborg House, 20 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH
Concerning the Difference Between the Delights of Pleasure and True Happiness
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Wednesday, 3rd March, 2010
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TIME: 6:30-9.00 pm
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VENUE: Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH
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Admission: FREE
Concerning the Difference will explore notions of belief, immersion, ritual and performance by responding to the writing of Swedenborg and incorporating sections of his texts into a series of synchronised movements, phrases and song. Looking at the potentially transformative quality of a ritual, both performers and audience will be immersed in roles which require a level of belief and participation.
Ben Judd
Through video and performance, Ben Judd explores his relationship to specific groups and individuals who have their own rules and belief systems. His performative work explores how the ritualistic activities of these groups and individuals can be extended into an action (one that itself hovers on the border between immersion and a more self-conscious, knowing state), and how, in turn, this action can be interpreted in a moving image work.
Ben Judd has exhibited widely including group exhibitions JAM: Tokyo London, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo and The Barbican Centre, London; The Galleries Show, Royal Academy, London; Strangers: The First ICP Triennial ofPhotography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York; Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Social Creatures, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; Seeing is Believing, The Photographers’ Gallery, London. His solo exhibitions include Vilma Gold, London; Michael Janssen, Cologne; Kunstbunker, Nuremberg. He has recently completed a residency at the Banff Centre, Canada.
This performance is organized as part of Swedenborg House: fourteen interventions, an exhibition curated by Stephen McNeilly to conincide with the 200th anniversary of the Swedenborg Society. For booking information please contact nora@swedenborg.org.uk or call +44 (020)74057986