BIO
Outcasting started as an online moving image gallery in 2007 by artist Michael Cousin. Based in Cardiff, this is an organisation that offers an international platform for experimental practitioners. Now in its sixth year it will be looking at representing new media practice in any form, audio, digital imagery and web-based projects as well as moving image practice.

Outcasting aims to present exciting work in online and offline venues, support the production and distribution of work through new commissions and distribution networks plus represent moving image talent on an individual basis. Outcasting also assists artists in production of new work.

Throughout 2012 - 2013 Outcasting has funding from the Arts Council of Wales.
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OPPORTUNITY

O:4W Film Festival Final Call


Deadline:
Fri Aug 31, 2012 20:55

Location:
Cardiff, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Outcasting: Fourth Wall Festival

1 October – 30 November 2012, Cardiff.

Outcasting: Fourth Wall (O:4W) is the first artists’ moving image festival for Cardiff, Wales. O:4W aims to take artists’ moving image to a wider public through a number of different platforms, venues and opportunities both virtual and physical using traditional screenings, installations and site specific commissions.

It is timed to coincide with a lot of activity in Cardiff over the two-month programme, including Artes Mundi 5, Cardiff Design Festival, Soundtrack Festival, Swn Festival and Made in Roath to attract maximum exposure for the participating artists.

After a hugely positive first round of submissions we are now placing a final deadline for commissioning new work / installations of 31 July and for screening existing work the deadline is 31 August.

Please send by email only to michael@4wfilm.org

If you are interested in screening or installing existing work please send a brief (200 words max) outline of your practice with up to 5 jpegs and / or a link to your work online.

All artists selected will receive a screening fee and there are no registration or submission costs for this event.

The festival is funded by the Arts Council of Wales Festivals fund, with support from Cardiff Council. The festival will be curated by Michael Cousin (Outcasting, g39) and Ruth Cayford (St David’s Hall).

www.outcasting.org


OPPORTUNITY

Outcasting: Fourth Wall Film Festival (O:4W)


Deadline:
Sat Sep 01, 2012 21:00

Location:
Cardiff, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Outcasting: Fourth Wall Festival

1 October – 30 November 2012, Cardiff.

Outcasting: Fourth Wall (O:4W) is the first artists’ moving image festival for Cardiff, Wales. O:4W aims to take artists’ moving image to a wider public through a number of different platforms, venues and opportunities both virtual and physical using traditional screenings, installations and site specific commissions.

It is timed to coincide with a lot of activity in Cardiff over the two-month programme, including Artes Mundi 5, Cardiff Design Festival, Soundtrack Festival, Swn Festival, Experimentica and Made in Roath to attract maximum exposure for the participating artists.

At this stage artists, local, national and international are invited to register their interest for the festival by email only to michael@4wfilm.org

This call has a rolling deadline.

If you are interested in screening or installing existing work please send a brief (200 words max) outline of your practice with up to 5 jpegs and / or a link to your work online.

If you are interested in being commissioned for a new site-specific work please send as above with an additional commissioning proposal (500 words max).

The commissioning process will be based on a dialogue between the artist, the programmers and the venues. If you have an idea we will try to find a suitable space for it.

All artists selected will receive either a commission or a screening fee and there are no registration or submission costs for this event.

The festival is funded by the Arts Council of Wales Festivals fund, with support from Cardiff Council. The festival will be curated by Michael Cousin (Outcasting, g39) and Ruth Cayford (St David’s Hall).

http://www.outcasting.org


EVENT

A Century of Artists' Film


Dates:
Sat May 21, 2011 10:00 - Sat Jul 02, 2011

Location:
Cardigan, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Curated by Michael Cousin in partnership with Oriel Mwldan
A Century of Artists' Films
The ability to understand and bestow importance to moving images is
embedded in the cultural psyche. From cinema, television and the
Internet there is an endless stream of content to view, one that we can
never hope to keep up with. A hundred films to see before you die. A
thousand. A hundred thousand. But the beauty of this is choosing your
own hundred, your own thousand. You make your own list.
For this show Outcasting, the online moving image gallery is
screening a hundred films from those that it has screened in three years
of programming. The films come from a variety of genres and styles and
hopefully reflect the full breadth of artists engagement with this
medium. Over the course of the 43 days that the show will be running
audiences will be able to see a truly international range of work with
the 100 films being rotated throughout that time.
Many of the selected artists were also
asked to submit a text describing a single film or moving image that has
had a significant effect on their practice. These texts will be
displayed in the gallery in addition to the films.
Featuring
Edward Adam, Louise Adkins, Simon Aeppli, Beard & Ferguson, Beck
& Calvo, Birkbeck & Duffy, Andrew Bucksbarg, Dana Cooley,
Leandro Cordova, Anne-Marie Creamer, Herve Constant, Boldi Csernak,
Gordon Culshaw, David Cushway, Ron Diorio, Sarah Doyle, Antonello
Faretta, Kim Fielding, Hondartza Fraga, Rabab Ghazoul, Dave Griffiths,
Henry Gwiazda, Anton Hecht, Tetsushi Higashino, Richard Higlett, Sam
Holden, Stephanie Hough, Neale Howells, Ronee Hui, Olga Koroleva, Yaron
Lapid, Derek Larson, Lemeh 42, Rebecca Lennon, Lauren Moffat, Patrizia
Monzani, Kika Nicolela, Daniel & Marianna O'Reilly, Stephen Palmer,
Robert Pearre, Guilherme Pedreiro, Yannick Puig, Nicolas Ramel, Giulia
Ricci, Liz Rodda, Henrique Roscoe, Jennie Savage, Selina Shah, James
Snazell, Lisa Stansbie, Alysse Stepanian, Jacki Storey, Jennie Thwing,
Katri Walker, Kim Walker, Anders Weberg, Christopher Webster, Jessica
Westbrook, Rachel Wilberforce, Tina Willgren and Dawn Woolley.
http://www.outcasting.org/


EVENT

Further Tales from Everywhere


Dates:
Tue May 24, 2011 20:00 - Tue May 24, 2011

Location:
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Selected by: Michael Cousin (UK)
Participating: Andrew Bucksbarg (US), Bryant Dameron (US), Angelo Picozzi (UK), Richard Powell (UK), Janis Rafailidou (GR/UK), Gregor Rozanski (PL/D), Alysse Stepanian (IR/US), Adam Trowbridge (US)
About the selection
The trouble with most films is that there’s always someone directing
the action. They edit, they shoot, they point, and they direct us to
look, to see a certain thing at a certain time, to hear a sound, to
understand some words or some movement. Nothing is wasted, all is
significant. There is certainty in this storytelling, always a starting
point, always an ending even if they don’t start at the beginning and
finish at the end.
When those films come from the ideas of an artist then you’re even less
sure where you are and what you should be doing. There is still
direction. Still there is shooting, pointing, looking and hearing. But
the significance? Where is the significance? It is sometimes absent,
behind you, out of shot by miles. Sometimes it is erased or twisted,
wrung out to the last drop of meaning. Often it was never there at all.
There isn’t a single truth in any of it. Just many truths and lies, many
facts and fictions, mixed together so you don’t know which is which.
Even when you think you know and understand based on the evidence of
your senses; you don’t really understand a thing do you?
History was never and will never be truly captured on film in all its
awful truth. There are only moments, stories of experience, and stories
of fantasy. It doesn’t really matter which is which.

About Outcasting
Outcasting is an online moving image gallery founded
in 2007 by artist Michael Cousin. Based in Cardiff, this is a voluntary
organisation that offers an international platform for practitioners.
Artists, filmmakers, animators and documentary makers are selected for
screenings of their work in bimonthly Seasons and are then archived on
the site. Outcasting also organises screenings in physical environments.
www.outcasting.org

About the curator
Michael Cousin is a moving image artist based in
Wales, UK. He is currently a recipient of a Creative Wales Ambassador
Award. He is currently producing a series of truthful lies using found
footage and archive material.
He is the Founder and curator of Outcasting an online moving
image gallery and is currently Freelance Curator at g39 in Cardiff. He
is also an Artist Member of the Contemporary Art Society, London and is
represented by Mermaid & Monster, Cardiff.
www.michaelcousin.co.uk

Production: Kolektiva Institute
Co-production: Association/Gallery Photon, Outcasting
Sponsor: Center Projekcije

Photon Gallery
Photon Association
Festival Photonic Moments
Križevniška 10, 1000 Ljubljana
t: +386 1 2302071
www.photon.si
www.mesecfotografije.si
Opening time: Mon.-Fri.: 11am - 6pm


EVENT

twoscore April


Dates:
Fri Apr 01, 2011 12:00 - Sat Apr 30, 2011

Location:
Cardiff, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Chapter
Arts Centre is forty years old this year and to celebrate that fact
Outcasting and Chapter Cinema have joined forces to screen experimental
moving image work from around the globe amongst the main programme of
the best of World Cinema, film classics and a sprinkling of Hollywood
fayre. Selected films will be screened before the main feature. This
programme aims to offer the wider public a taste of experimental film in
the intimacy of a cinema setting. This April the work of Anthony
Shapland (The Life of Raymond C. Cook (Title Sequence) screened with The
Wasteland), Huw Andrews (Kezar screened with True Grit) and Erica
Scourti (Trailer Truths III screened with Never Let Me Go) will be
shown.
Times of screenings and booking details here: http://www.chapter.org/cinema/index.html