Biography
George Clark is an artist, curator and writer.
His work bridges art and curatorial practice with particular focus on film, exploring the history of images and how they are governed by culture, technology and socio-political conditions. His solo exhibition A Planter's Art featured new film works and garden installation at Soulangh Cultural Park, Tainan, June-July 2016. Recent works include his feature film A Distant Echo which premiered in competition at Jihlava Film Festival 2016 and his short film Sea of Clouds / 雲海 (2016) made in Taiwan and structured around interview with the artist Chen Chieh-jen. Prior to this he collaborated with various artists including Luke Fowler and Beatrice Gibson.
His curatorial projects have focused on expanding histories of film and video practice globally. He has curated retrospectives of Ute Aurand, Julian Dashper, Lav Diaz, Camille Henrot, Miklós Jancsó, Mike Kuchar, Luis Ospina and Chick Strand among others. During 2016 he worked with Circuit Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand commissioning contemporary artists to produce new works and co-curating the exhibition and symposium Phantom Topologies. He was assistant curator, film at Tate Modern (2013-2015) where he worked on the film and video collection and curated numerous retrospectives and the thematic seasons Throwing Shadows: Japanese Expanded Cinema in the time of Pop (with Julian Ross and Go Hirasawa Jan 2016 Tate Modern & IFFR) L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (April 2015), Embeddedness: Artist Films and Videos from Korea 1960s to Now (Sept 2015) , Magiciens de la Terre: Reconsidered (April 2014) and Assembly: A Survey of Artist Film and Video in Britain 2008-2013 (Nov 2013-March 2014). He was a member of the advisory board for the BEFF / Bangkok Experimental Film Festival and one of the curators of BEFF 6 (2012), he curated the Lav Diaz focus at the AV Festival (2012) and curated INFERMENTAL for Focal Point Gallery with Dan Kidner & James Richards (2010) and co-edited the book A Detour Around Infermental (2012).
He has written various catalogue essays and contributed to publications including Afterall, Art Monthly, Mousse, Sight and Sound and Senses of Cinema. He has been a jury member at various festivals including 25 FPS Festival (2016), International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2015), CPH DOX Festival (2013) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2009).
