There is lots of great theoretical baggage attached to this show, but whether you want to absorb
Adorno's
theory of the shudder or not, it's a cracking idea to make a drawing show that is entirely
stop-motion animation. The space has been subdivided into separate rooms for individual pieces.
Matt Mullican has a 32 second clip
Dying Stick Figure at the entrance to the space, which is exactly that.
Ann Course dubs a dialogue between a man and a woman over a
series of drawings that seem to barely stutter in to being animation, while delineating an ordinarily dysfunctional relationship.
Raymond Pettibon contributes a video with images that work as a sort of reprise or chorus with voice over, at one with his more usual drawing installations.
Elsewhere Barry Doupe's out of focus digital animation has a character looking oddly like Princess Diana; and Naoyuki Tsuji presents a charcoal line animation that, along with Makiko Takanashi's laid back electric guitar soundtrack, is lyrical in the manner of a Frans Masereel story without words. Edwina Ashton's Mr Panz At Lake Leman is a more obliquely eccentric narrative, at once sad, funny and disturbing. Go after dark if you want to catch the full effect of Markus Vater's silhouetted projection outside in the yard. Spending part of an afternoon in this exhibition feels a bit like watching cartoons on daytime TV, only ten times more rewarding.
NB: runs till 14/03.