Marc
Atkins and Rod Mengham
Marc Atkins and Rod Mengham will be showing
films from their ongoing 'Sounding Pole' series, and presenting their project
'Fields of England' which consists of texts and still images. Their work is
concerned to respond to, interpret and represent information that is hidden in
the landscape and not straightforwardly visible but which nevertheless controls
the way we see it.
The various esoteric
traditions of the past are of interest to them when they collide with such
concerns, but their work does not seek to continue such traditions into the
present but to replace them with a contemporary re-imagining of our
relationship to landscape.
Rod Mengham is Reader in Modern English
Literature at Cambridge University and Curator of Works of Art at Jesus
College, Cambridge. He has collaborated
with Marc Atkins on Sounding Pole Films and Still
Moving (Veer, 2014). He has also published monographs on Dickens, Bronte
and Henry Green; edited collections of essays on contemporary fiction, violence
and avant-garde art, fiction of the 1940s, Australian poetry; anthologies Altered
State: the New Polish Poetry
(2003), Vanishing Points: New Modernist Poems (2005); poetry, most
recently Chance of a Storm (Carcanet,
2015) and translations, most recently Speedometry
[poems by Andrzej Sosnowski] (Contraband, 2014).
Marc
Atkins is an English artist, photographer, filmmaker and poet. He has lived and
worked for many years in London , but has also
spent extended periods of time in Rome , Detroit , New York , Warsaw and Paris .
Publications include The Prism Walls
(Contraband); Logic of the Stairwell
(Shearsman); The Teratologists
(panoptika); Thirteen (Do-Not Press);
Warszawa [with Tadeusz Pióro &
Andrzej Sosnowski] (Wig-press); Faces of
Mathematics (panoptika); Liquid City
[with Iain Sinclair] (Reaktion);
Still Moving [with Rod Mengham]
(Veer). Atkins has presented his work and ideas on the image at venues such as
the Royal Academy ;
Royal College of Art; UEL School of Architecture; The New York University,
Paris; the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at Cambridge University ;
The Photographers Gallery; and the Université de Liège, Belgium .