January 29, 2025
Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
An OPC talk with London-based artist, filmmaker, and writer, Morgan Quaintance.
With a multidisciplinary practice incorporating music composition, curating, and writing, centred on the production of moving image (using 16mm and digital video formats), Quaintance’s work ranges through formal explorations of abstraction, personal biography and the human condition, ethnographic studies and the examination of power relations. This is often achieved through the excavation of personal, socio-cultural and political histories, and current states of affairs. Recurring themes include support for egalitarianism, nonconformity and progressive thought and action, coupled with an enthusiasm for avant-garde aesthetics (in image and sound) and the desire to foreground unconventional lifestyles, ideas and modes of composition.
Over the past fifteen years, his critically incisive writings on contemporary art, aesthetics and their socio-political contexts have been featured in publications including Art Monthly, the Wire, and the Guardian, and have helped shape and influence the UK’s new landscape of progressive cultural discourse and debate.
Morgan’s moving image work has been shown and exhibited widely at festivals and institutions including: MOMA, New York; Konsthall C, Sweden; David Dale, Glasgow; European Media Arts Festival, Germany; Images Festival, Toronto; and International Film Festival Rotterdam.