Doppelgänger Redux

At the 2016 edition of ‘Visions in the Nunnery’ at The Nunnery Gallery (Bow Arts, London), British video pioneer Elaine Shemilt will re-enact live for the first time her seminal video performance Doppelgänger (1979-1981).
Doppelgänger was recovered during the AHRC funded research project REWIND (DJCAD, University of Dundee), led by Stephen Partridge, in 2012.

Doppelgänger is one of the only two surviving videos of Shemilt’s early experimentation with the medium. Shemilt employed video as a tool for introspection by manipulating her image, her face and her body.
In Doppelgänger, Shemilt created a phantasmal double of herself exploring key feminist themes such as identity, sexuality, duality, women’s role in society and the status of professional women artists.
After three decades, Shemilt will re-enact, reactivate and react to the piece, sourcing from research materials from her own archive, and will explore in a new performative version these key feminist issues.
Elaine Shemilt’s Doppelgänger Redux is part of the AHRC funded research project ‘EWVA European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s’, based at DJCAD, University of Dundee.

Doors and Bar open 6.00 PM.
Roaming selected works from Rotterdam's Frans Van Lent's Unnoticed Art Festival
johnsmith We Are All Made of Stars 6.30 PM
Mafalda Miranda Jacinto and Anthi Kougia Asparagus 7 PM
Elaine Shemilt Doppelgänger Redux 8.30 PM
Liam Geary Baulch Sea Squad closing performance