Tuesday 24 October 2023

Somerset House - May The Fox Take You: the latest commission on Channel

 A still from Revital Cohen & Tuur van Balen's May The Fox Take You. A field of bright yellow flowers (maybe rapeseed), with a close up of one individual branch of the plant. In the top left is the Somerset House logo and top right the Channel logo.

The latest from Channel, our online space for art, process and ideas

This month we contemplate the tension between violence and beauty in our latest commission May The Fox Take You, explore the untold stories of Black British fashion and consider how we shape and understand time and the future.

A still from Revital Cohen & Tuur van Balen's May The Fox Take You. A spiky and glistening plant traps a bug in its tendrils.

MAY THE FOX TAKE YOU

May The Fox Take You is a new film from Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, interweaving five vignettes, spanning pogo dance tutorials to military robot dogs.

Commissioned by Somerset House in collaboration with UAL Creative Computing Institute, the film brings together opposing notions – love and heartbreak, security and danger – to summon the energy of life against an underlying sense of harm.

A deep dive into the May The Fox Take You

A still from Revital Cohen & Tuur van Balen's May The Fox Take You. A dancer, dressed in black, is caught mid movement, his arms swinging in the air, one hand thrown behind him, the other in front, by his chest.

FOR RESISTANCE IS MY NATURE

Writer and film critic Caitlin Quinlan unpacks the push and pull of brutality and beauty in Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen’s latest commission for Channel. 

Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen sit in their studio. Revital looks at Tuur, while Tuur looks of into the distance.

REVITAL COHEN & TUUR VAN BALEN: IN CONVERSATION

The artists and Somerset House Studios Experimental Technology Fellowship recipients share their ideas and process behind the new moving image work for Channel with moderator Orit Gat.

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A still from The Missing Thread short documentary. Harris, one of the curators of the exhibition, sits on a chair in a studio space with two racks of clothing behind him. He wears a nicely tailored navy suit and a red and blue checked hat.

EXPLORING THE UNTOLD STORIES OF BLACK BRITISH FASHION

We speak with artists, designers and creatives to investigate the struggles, triumphs, and enduring creativity of Black creatives who have left an indelible mark on the British cultural landscape, as part of our latest exhibition The Missing Thread.

Sonya Dyer on set while filming her artist profile. Sonya looks to a point off camera, and in the background are neatly placed photographs on a wall.

REIMAGINING THE FUTURE WITH SONYA DYER

Coinciding with Somerset House Studios artist Sonya Dyer’s first solo exhibition in London, Three Parent Child, the artist discusses the role of science fiction and speculative worlds in her practice. Catch Sonya Dyer in conversation with artist and researcher Ayesha Hameed this month. 

The words SOFT LIFE are presented typographically. SOFT is presented in grains of sand and LIFE appears in bold black italics.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, SOFT LIFE EXPLORES TIME

How can we make time free? In this episode of our podcast series Soft Life, we contemplate different ways of experiencing time beyond the linear with Studios artist Shenece Oretha, sociologist Judy Wajcman and psychologist Dr Ruth Ogden.

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