Lichtspiele:
Charlotte Prodger 
BRIDGIT, 2016

Charlotte Prodger’s new 32-minute video BRIDGIT takes its title from the eponymous Neolithic deity, whose name has numerous iterations depending on life stage, locality and point in history. Exploring the shifting temporal interrelations of name, body, and landscape, BRIDGIT focuses on female attachments—a process of identification that includes friends, shape-shifting deities and other figures of influence.

At one point in the video, the camera pans across the artist’s fingerprint-covered laptop on which a mountain landscape serves as desktop image. The icon of a flash drive comes into view, shown with the filename ‚TURIYA’—a proper noun adopted from a set of recordings by musician Alice Coltrane who also performed under that very moniker.

Later, while quoting virtual systems theorist and pioneer of transgender studies Sandy Stone, Prodger cites Stone’s different names (e.g. Sandy Stone, Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Allucquere Rosanne “Sandy” Stone) as extended embodiments spanning time and space.

Shot entirely on Prodger’s smartphone, BRIDGIT presents the single-user technology as a prosthesis or extension of the nervous system—one which also provides an intimate connection to global social interaction and work. Body and device become extensions of each other, and the work becomes a unified meditation on shifting subjectivity.

Charlotte Prodger lives and works in Glasgow.

Part of project: Lichtspiele

Lichtspiele was KW’s new intimate screening and performance series based at Pogo Bar. Taking place at the beginning of each month, this monographic program presented works in dialogue with the artist and audience.

Curator: Mason Leaver-Yap.

Overview
2017–2018

The Wooster Group:
Rumstick Road
6 December 18

Jamie Crewe:
Bucolic Coda
1 November 18

Leon Filter:
MUMMYTHEDADDY
5 April 18

Kat Anderson’s Episodes of Horror:
Gestures
1 March 18

Kat Anderson’s Episodes of Horror:
Gudo: A Wounded Spectacle, mit Skye Skyetshookii
1 February 18

A Farewell to Progress
7 December 17

Brett Story:
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016)
2 November 17

Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras:
Flag Wars (2003)
5 October 17

Evan Ifekoya:
She was a full body speaker standing tall in the corner of the room, “West ​End ​Angel ​Of L​ove T​eacher ​For ​My ​It ​Girl” plays in the background
6 July 17

Ellen Cantor:
Pinochet Porn
7 June 17

MYSTI:
I might simply drift past you… a hiccup in purple… a careless cocksuck with no contact info… memory without name.
11 May 17

Will Holder
”The activity of framing a performance and the intentions that accumulate around that activity produce a certain anxious kind of mode. and I became bothered by that / by the flurry of activity that tends to make so many things.”
6 April 17

Charlotte Prodger:
BRIDGIT
9 March 17

Jamie Crewe:
Potash Lesson
9 February 17