[Frameworks] Matchbox.TV | Launch

[Insa Langhorst]

*LAUNCH OF MATCHBOX.TV <http://matchbox.tv/>*

www.mtchbx.tv <http://www.mtchbx.tv/>

Episode 1: Paul Rooney: /Shake It Off/

*Matchbox.TV* is a new online video commissioning and exhibition 
platform conceived and curated by *Nathalie Boobis* (London) and *Insa 
Langhorst* (Berlin) that offers an experimental framework for artists to 
make new work. Invited artists are asked to make a 5 minute video in 
response to a set of 10 questions that have been extracted from various 
DADA writings:

Why?
How do you light a match?
Which way?
Is the human being a priori good?
Did you see the man through the letterbox?
Which deed creates this rage?
Does the horn sound?
Are we because of you?
Eternity?
Of what concern are they to us?

In responding to abstract questions within a fixed framework, artists 
have the opportunity to explore, reflect, challenge or subvert their 
practice and the limits of video as a medium. The resulting videos offer 
fresh insights into each artist’s work.

Matchbox.TV is a free site that aims to bring the work of international 
artists at different stages of their career to a broad, online audience 
and promotes the use of video as an artistic tool.

New videos will be released in monthly ‘episodes’ at 6pm GMT on the 
first Thursday of every month. Past episodes will then be archived on 
the site. Episode 1 is Paul Rooney's(b. & based Liverpool, UK)response 
to the questions, titled /Shake It Off /. Episode 2 will launch on 
Thursday 1 September with work by Jackie Connolly (b. & based NY, USA) 
and Episode 3 will launch on Thursday 6 October with a video by Eloïse 
Bonneviot (b. France, based London, UK).

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Nathalie Boobis(b. Leicester, UK 1984)  is a curator based in London. 
She studied MFA Curating at Goldsmiths and practices independently as 
well as coordinating the Artist Commissions Programme for SPACE gallery 
in Hackney, London. She recently ran the gallery, Green Ray, in 
Deptford, London with Gabriela Acha and Katy Orkisz. She is director of 
the ongoing project, The Shadow Archive, a growing digital archive of 
self-organised art spaces. She runs a collaborative inquiry research 
group, The Future is a Collective Project, that explores perspectives of 
otherness and overlooked knowledge as key tools in future thinking. She 
is currently working towards an exhibition exploring these themes.

*www.greenray.co* <http://www.greenray.co/>*
**www.theshadowarchive.wordpress.com* 
<http://www.theshadowarchive.wordpress.com/>

Insa Langhorst**(b. Hannover, Germany 1985)  lives and works in Berlin. 
She mainly uses film to explore topics surrounding everyday urban life. 
Her work is informed by her studies in visual anthropology. Recently she 
started a series on people waiting, together with Manchester-based 
photographer Jonathan Purcell. She also participated in the Spaces 
Between the Cities Project, working with a team of international video 
artists.

*www.berlinsomnambulator-blog.tumblr.com 
<http://www.berlinsomnambulator-blog.tumblr.com/>*

Paul Rooney (b. Liverpool, UK 1967, based Liverpool) attended Edinburgh 
College of Art. From 1998 to 2000 he released three CD music albums as 
the band ‘Rooney’, featuring in John Peel’s Festive Fifty in 1998. From 
2000 he has made music  for gallery presentation in the form of sound 
and video art works.

Rooney has exhibited widely including at Tate Britain; Tate Liverpool; 
BALTIC; Whitechapel Gallery; and ICA; and has exhibited internationally 
at places such as the Shanghai Biennial; The Russian Museum (St. 
Petersburg); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City); and Centro 
Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville). Other art projects include a 
solo exhibition at Matt’s Gallery, London; a site-specific sound 
‘lecture’ for Leeds Metropolitan University; and a museum object 
‘oracle’ website for University of Cambridge Museums. Rooney’s writing 
has been published by Serpent’s Tail and Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, 
and a collection of his short fiction was published by Akerman Daly/Aye 
Aye Books in 2012. He was the winner of the second Northern Art Prize in 
2008.

*http://www.paulrooney.info/*

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