Anja Kirschner & David Panos
8 May – 21 June 2009
64 Chisenhale Road
London E3 5QZ
+44 (0) 20 8981 4518
mail [at] chisenhale.org.uk
A critical costume drama constructed from a patchwork of historical, literary, and popular sources, the film’s fragmented narrative structure explores the connections between representation, speculation and the discourses of high and low culture that emerged in the early 18th century and remain relevant to the present day.
Filmed in the Chisenhale Gallery space, The Last Days of Jack Sheppard is presented within an installation fabricated from elements of the original set and a display of archival material including prints and popular cultural artifacts relating to Jack Sheppard and the ‘South Sea Bubble’. This laying bare of the film’s structural elements plays on the notion of the ‘historical construct’ and provides clues on how to interpret the many references contained within the film.
A publication incorporating Kirschner & Panos’s script and research material co-published by Chisenhale Gallery & CCA, Glasgow accompanies the exhibition. Kirschner and Panos are also producing a limited edition print which will be on sale from the gallery.
This will be Kirschner and Panos’s first major solo show in the UK and is the first commission in the new programme by Chisenhale Gallery’s recently appointed director Polly Staple. The exhibition will be presented at CCA, Glasgow from 8th August to 26th September 2009.
Anja Kirschner (b.1977, Munich) and David Panos (b.1971, Athens) live and work in London. Their recent film, Trail of the Spider (53mins, UK, 2008), a ‘western’ filmed in Hackney and Essex, premiered at Tate Modern followed by a week-long show as part of ‘Nought to Sixty’ at the ICA and a LUX screening at Chat’s Palace in Hackney. Polly II – Plan for a Revolution in Docklands (30mins, UK, 2006), a dystopian pirate adventure, has been screened widely both in the UK and abroad. Venues included Tate Modern, BFI Southbank, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, NAi, Netherlands and the Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany.
Talks
Sunday 10 May, 2pm
Writer Marina Vishmidt leads a tour of the exhibition.
Saturday 23 May, 2pm
Anja Kirschner and David Panos discuss the exhibition with Mike Sperlinger, Assistant Director, LUX.
Thursday 4 June, 7pm
Benedict Seymour, Lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University, discusses representation, value, finance capital and primitive accumulation as refracted in The Last Days of Jack Sheppard.
Opening hours
Wednesday – Sunday 1 – 6pm
Thursday 4 June until 9pm
Chisenhale Gallery is a registered charity no. 1026175
