Adam Patterson – Looking for Looking for Langston, 2018
About this work
Adam Patterson has made a performative video work in search of Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston (EDGE 89).
A captain dreams of setting sail, in search of a mysterious, intangible, comforting vision, that rests at the edge of the horizon. An exploration of desire and distance, pleasure and disappointment, secrets and surprise, “Looking for ‘Looking for Langston’” is a cruise of poetic correspondence, queering sailors and transgressing horizons.
References
Langston Hughes, “Passing,” in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes (Volume 15: The Short Stories), ed. R. Baxter Miller (University of Missouri Press: USA, 2002), 47.
Langston Hughes, “Sailor”; “Silence”; “Seashore through Dark Glasses (Atlantic City)”; “Trumpet Player”, in The Collected Poetry of Langston Hughes, ed. David Roessel & Arnold Rampersad (Vintage Books: NY, 1995), 139, 234, 322, 338.
Looking for Langston, directed by Isaac Julien, (UK: Sankofa Film & Video Productions, 1989).
Filmed by
Adam Patterson
Syanne Patterson
Koes Staassen
Written and Directed by
Adam Patterson
Biography
Adam Patterson is a Barbadian visual artist and writer based in London and Rotterdam. He completed his BA (Hons) Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London, in 2017. He is currently enrolled in the Masters Education in Arts programme at the Piet Zwart Institute. Using masquerade, performance and characterisation, his work is interested in the transformative capacity of the gaze and how particular ways of seeing, fear and desire may affect the emergence of self-image and self-determinacy. His work has been exhibited at Tate Exchange at Tate Modern, the Live Art Development Agency and Jerwood Space, London. In 2017, he participated in “Sonic Soundings / Venice Trajectories,” a sound art project coordinated with the Diaspora Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. He has contributed to panel presentations at the “Caribbean Diasporic Dialogues” conferences at Goldsmiths University and the British Library. In August 2018, he participated in the group residency programme, Caribbean Linked, at Ateliers ’89, Aruba. He has written for Fresh Milk Arts Platform, ARC Magazine and Sugarcane Magazine.
www.adampatterson.co.uk
Adam Patterson – Looking for Looking for Langston, 2018
About this work
Adam Patterson has made a performative video work in search of Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston (EDGE 89).
A captain dreams of setting sail, in search of a mysterious, intangible, comforting vision, that rests at the edge of the horizon. An exploration of desire and distance, pleasure and disappointment, secrets and surprise, “Looking for ‘Looking for Langston’” is a cruise of poetic correspondence, queering sailors and transgressing horizons.
References
Langston Hughes, “Passing,” in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes (Volume 15: The Short Stories), ed. R. Baxter Miller (University of Missouri Press: USA, 2002), 47.
Langston Hughes, “Sailor”; “Silence”; “Seashore through Dark Glasses (Atlantic City)”; “Trumpet Player”, in The Collected Poetry of Langston Hughes, ed. David Roessel & Arnold Rampersad (Vintage Books: NY, 1995), 139, 234, 322, 338.
Looking for Langston, directed by Isaac Julien, (UK: Sankofa Film & Video Productions, 1989).
Filmed by
Adam Patterson
Syanne Patterson
Koes Staassen
Written and Directed by
Adam Patterson
Biography
Adam Patterson is a Barbadian visual artist and writer based in London and Rotterdam. He completed his BA (Hons) Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London, in 2017. He is currently enrolled in the Masters Education in Arts programme at the Piet Zwart Institute. Using masquerade, performance and characterisation, his work is interested in the transformative capacity of the gaze and how particular ways of seeing, fear and desire may affect the emergence of self-image and self-determinacy. His work has been exhibited at Tate Exchange at Tate Modern, the Live Art Development Agency and Jerwood Space, London. In 2017, he participated in “Sonic Soundings / Venice Trajectories,” a sound art project coordinated with the Diaspora Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. He has contributed to panel presentations at the “Caribbean Diasporic Dialogues” conferences at Goldsmiths University and the British Library. In August 2018, he participated in the group residency programme, Caribbean Linked, at Ateliers ’89, Aruba. He has written for Fresh Milk Arts Platform, ARC Magazine and Sugarcane Magazine.
www.adampatterson.co.uk