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The Overbearing Mother



27th August - 18th September 2011

The Overbearing Mother is a temporary sculpture on the east platform of the former St. Leonards Bathing Pool site, beside the beach in front of LIDO. This can be seen at any time.

Seaside Film Trailer is open on Saturdays and Sundays, 12-4pm.

LIDO is proud to announce its first outdoor sculptural commission. Between the gallery and the beach lies the site of the former St. Leonards Bathing Pool, the only remains of this beloved holiday destination being a pair of concrete platforms emerging from its grassed-over silhouette. On the east platform Dylan Shipton has created The Overbearing Mother, a dayglow structure protruding from a beached shipping container. On one side sits a rather superfluous veranda, while on the other is an advertising hoarding for which Shipton has in turn commissioned a sign from Ben Fitton. Barely legible, but carrying the text The gap that has been left by the departure of / will soon enough make itself felt, Fitton's sign acknowledges the vital potential that resides within a gap, a pause, an absence.  

Just as Shipton's extraordinary structure temporarily takes its place among the ruins of this former pleasure site, the space within the sculpture is given over to another temporary resident. For four consecutive weekends The Overbearing Mother becomes host to a micro-cinema for the screening of artists' films. Organised by Christine Gist / Interface, eight artists and curators have been invited to select a programme of films to be screened for one day only.

Sat 27th Aug. selector:
Dylan Shipton (Artist)
Andrew Cross, Barn
Steve Klee, Where We Were When We Bashed The Fash
Henry Darke, The Lobster Trap
Frances Young, Song of Farewell (pictured)
Simon Davidson, Canary Wharf
Sun
28th
Aug.
selector:
David Rhodes (LIDO)
Richard Webb, Arena (pictured)
Sat
3rd
Sept
.
selector:
Sian McMillan (Artist & Independent curator)
Zoe Scoglio, Rock Bodies- V.1
Samuel Williams, Natural Habitat
Bill Leslie, Images of Wonder
Cindie Gottlieb Cheung, One Girl In Office With Coca Cola
Elise/Jürgen, Pressure/Compression (pictured)
Sun
4th
Sept.
selector:
Becky Beasley (Artist)
Hollis Frampton, Nostalgia (16mm), (pictured)
Nick Collins, Claire Scanlon & Paul Grivell, Azimuth (16mm & fibre-based silver gelatin photographic print)
Sat
10th
Sept.
selector:
Christine Gist (Interface)

3 short films created by learning disabled young people from Glyne Gap School, Bexhill; St Mary's College, Bexhill and Autism Sussex (led by Creative Partnerships Sussex & Surrey with funding from Screen South's uScreen programme).
plus
Peter Downsbrough, ] AND HERE (pictured)
Peter Downsbrough, Inter[ POSE

Sun
11th
Sept.
selector:
Christine Gist (Interface)
Johan Grimonprez, Dial H.I.S.T.O.R.Y. (pictured)
Sat
17th
Sept.
selector:
Jacqui Hallum (LIDO)
Andreas Samland, Tag 26 (pictured)
Alison Maclean, Kitchen Sink
Jan Svankmajer, Food
Sun
18th
Sept.
selector:
Nichola Bruce & Rebecca Marshall (Artists)
Nick Snelling, Sea I & II
Nick Snelling, Margate Swim
Rebecca E Marshall, Into the Glitter I, II & III (pictured)
Sam Sharples, At Peace
Nichola Bruce, Unexplained Feelings I-V

all films are shown courtesy of the artists except Hollis Frampton, Nostalgia, courtesy of Lux, London; Johan Grimonprez, Dial H.I.S.T.O.R.Y. courtesy ofArgos, Bruxelles; Alison Maclean, Kitchen Sink, courtesy of New Zealand Film Commission; Jan Svankmajer, Food, courtesy of BFI.

 
To celebrate the launch of the Seaside Film Trailer, Émilien Leroy will perform
Symphony pour Ferrailleurs / Symphony for Scrap Metal Merchants
on Friday 26th August at 6:30pm.