Intrusive Images took the theme of access, through creative practice, to technology and physical and institutional space.
We mean access in its broadest senses, from challenging social, cultural and material barriers to inclusion, to experimental and critical approaches to opening up technology and architectural or institutional space for creative expression.
By invoking the intrusive, we shift attention to the cultural politics and guerrilla tactics of effecting access and presence, and the unsettling possibilities of art in dominant mindsets and practices.
In addition to this screening, the festival includes interventions on screens across the Winchester School of Art and Avenue campuses of the University of Southampton from 12-30 May. Each venue shows a different selection of work by Danny Aldred, Ian Dawson, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Teresa Dillon, Seth Giddings, Ellen Gillett, John Gillett, Zhiyu Guo, Adam Procter, Rabia Raja, Yuan Ren, Sara Roberts, Louise Siddons, Nick Stewart, Jodie Tomkins, Julia Vogl, Zhang Weigan, and Yang Zhiyu.