Layla Curtis

11 July 2011 - 6pm 

Layla Curtis will present Polar Wandering - an interactive web-based work created during her Arts Council England International Fellowship to Antarctica with the British Antarctic survey in 2005/6. 

The talk will follow a screening of the 1920 documentary film South which follows the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition of 1914-1916.

Environmental Dialogues is programmed by CORE as part of a citywide event to coincide with the11th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences held in Edinburgh, Scotland 10-16th July 2011. www.filmhousecinema.com

Tuesday 23 November 2010
7.30pm

Earlier this year, artist Layla Curtis spent four weeks trekking in the rainforests of Borneo with the semi-nomadic Penan – one of the last surviving hunter-gatherer tribes in South-East Asia and acknowledged masters of tracking and hunting.  The aim was to obtain point of view (POV) video footage of a Penan hunter’s solo journey through dense jungle near Ba Jawi, one of Borneo’s last remaining pristine rainforest wildernesses. 

The artist will talk about her work in progress which attempts to capture a view of the forest from the perspective of the Penan who move incredibly fluidly, gracefully, swiftly and almost silently whilst navigating the tangled

jungle environment and tracking their prey. She will also discuss the Penan's unique visual tracking language, which uses a complex system of folded leaves and bent twigs to convery details of their journeys to other people in the forest.

The artist will also discuss two other works: her collection of films Traceurs: to trace, to draw, to go fast in which she uses a thermal imaging camera to make visible the heat traces left by parkour practitioners as they make their unique journeys across the city, and Polar Wandering, her interactive web based drawing charting her own personal journey to Antarctica.

Please contact Storey Gallery for bookings: bookings@storeygallery.org.uk

Saturday 17 July 2010
10am

Sandi Toksvig interviews Layla Curtis about her recent trip to a Penan community deep in the Borneo jungle where she used point of view cameras to film the journeys undertaken by the nomadic hunter gathers during a hunting trip in the forest.

Listen to interview on BBC Radio4's website

8 - 9 December 2009

Layla Curtis is a keynote speaker at Urban Cinematics - a two day conference exploring the use of cinema & the moving image as a way to investigate the phenomena, experience and narrative of cities.

16 Sep - 5 Dec 2009

Following on from A Picture of You? in Spring 2009, and including selections from some of the artists featured in that exhibition, A Picture of Us? continues The Great British Art Debate at Museums Sheffield.

The exhibition features selections from Wayne Hemingway (designer and co-founder of Red or Ded), Kate Rusby (Mercury Prize-nominated musician), leading art collector, Anthony d’Offay, and artists including Lisa Cheung, Layla Curtis and Hew Locke.

Layla Curtis has been invited to chose a British art work from the Tate and Museums Shefield collections that she felt said something about her own identity.

12 November 2008
6pm

Iain Sinclair, Brian Catling, Richard Grayson and Layla Curtis participate in an event that is part of late artist Ian Breakwell's AHRC fellowship project The Diary Reinvented. The project explores new multi-media forms of his hybrid diaristic work.

Friday 11 July 2008
9pm - 11.30pm

Curated by BFI, London , UK

As part of London Festival of Architecture's Screenings and Performances programme, the British Film Institute are screening a selection of parkour and skater films in Skate City on Friday evening. The Making of Traceurs: to trace, to draw, to go fast, a film by Julie Angel which follows the making of a series of artist's films by Layla Curtis, will be shown along with Channel Four's Jump London.

Saturday 21 & Thursday 26 June 2008 2pm

The Making of Traceurs: to trace, to draw, to go fast, a documentary by Julie Angel following the making of a series of artist's films by Layla Curtis, will be screened at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Featuring Stephane & Johann Vigroux, Forrest, Thomas Couetdic. The screening will be followed by a question and answer session with the artist Layla Curtis.

In association with Westminster City Council and the London Festival of Architecture.

14 March - 3 May 2008

Curator Eamonn Maxwell discusses the work in Layla Curtis's solo show at Ormeau Baths Gallery.

Wednesday 7 March 2007
6.30pm

Writer and critic Sally O'Reilly discusses the work in the exhibition The Opposite of Vertigo at The Drawing Room with artists Catherine Bertola, Layla Curtis & Graham Dolphin.

Curator Emily Marsden discusses work in Layla Curtis's solo show at The New Art Gallery Walsall.

The Habitat symposium, organised and hosted by VIVID during Architecture week 2006, is an exciting opportunity to see new work in progress by artists Richard Billingham and Layla Curtis who are currently working with the organisation.

These public presentations provide a rare opportunity for an audience to engage with the artists at a working stage of production. Guest speakers have been invited to contextualise the broader concerns raised by this newly commissioned work, including curator Jeni Walwin, architect and writer Ben Flatman, and Anthony Hoete and Falk Schneemann of WHAT Architecture.

Related publication: A Congregation of Vapours, David Barret