Intentional Pauses (and Unforeseen Gaps) | Season 1

For the first season of our new artists’ moving image programme, Hannan Jones and Miriam Mallalieu programme a workshop and screening at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Booking links will be available shortly.

Daytime (time TBC) – Workshop at DCA

Inspired by Gelare Khoshgozaran’s ​‘The Sunset is a Lie’, this workshop invites participants to question how stories are constructed. We will explore how the sequencing of image and text can create a variety of narratives, examining the meanings that emerge and how they might be interpreted. By juxtaposing text and images, participants will work directly with drawing, 35mm slide images and existing film stills to create sequences that open up new possibilities for storytelling.

6 – 8.30pm – Introduction and screening in DCA Cinema

‘Never assume or pretend to understand anything. We all know you don’t, just like we don’t.’

In this screening, moments in history are revisited and revealed, narratives are fractured and pieced together and structures of how things might be understood are challenged. Films have been selected for their uncertainty, introducing unease into what was presumed, what has been said and how things might have unfolded.

About Intentional Pauses (and Unforeseen Gaps)

Between Autumn 2024 and Spring 2025, we will deliver a peripatetic festival in partnership with Dundee Contemporary Arts, the Pier Arts Centre and ATLAS Arts. We have paired six emerging artists to collaboratively programme and co-curate three seasons of screenings and events. These artist-programmers are: Hannan Jones and Miriam Mallalieu; Heather Andrews and Louise Barrington; Aqsa Arif and Hector MacInnes. Working with organisations and artists across Scotland, the programme focuses on collaboration and follows an itinerant model that prioritises sustainability, slowness and access.

‘Intentional Pauses (and Unforeseen Gaps)’ offers emerging artists an opportunity to programme screenings and events as a way to explore and interrogate new ideas in a collaborative and supportive environment. Contextualising concerns within their practices alongside another artist-programmer, the programme will present works by local and international artists to audiences across Scotland. The programme has been supported by programming training sessions by artists Emmie McLuskey and Morgan Quaintance.