UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS

1. 28 January 7pm, Goshogaoka & Water Motor at Whitechapel Gallery

2. 28 January 7pm, Heiligabend auf St. Pauli at Raven Row

3. 28 January 8pm, Luna Fringe at Luna Lounge

4. 30 January, A NEW STANCE FOR TOMORROW: PART 3 at Sketch

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1.
Goshogaoka & Water Motor, Babette Mangolte, US 1978, 7mins
Thursday 28 January, 7pm

American artist Sharon Lockhart’s films are an exhilarating act of sustained looking. They propose a radical, minimal cinema that looks back to the pivotal interest in gesture and the ‘everyday’ of the late 1960s and examines contemporary manifestations of ‘work’ through highly crafted, rigorously structured and staged portraits. Goshogaoka, Lockhart’s major early film, is a study of the exercise routines and drills of a girls’ basketball team in suburban Japan. Six ten minute long takes, shot from a fixed camera in the school gymnasium develop into a mesmerising account that hovers between the otherwise opposing impulses of documentary filmmaking and aesthetic formalism.

It is shown here with an early film of the dancer Trisha Brown’s astonishing 1978 solo Water Motor by the acclaimed filmmaker and cinematographer Babette Mangolte, with a series of videos by a younger generation of artists that also propose a reassessment of the relationship between realism and spectacle. Works by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz (featuring Wu Ingrid Tsang and Yvonne Rainer), Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Oliver Husain reinvestigate and renew an interest in choreography as political and personal expression and radical, theatrical artistic practice.

The Film Programme is curated by Ian White, curator, writer, artist and facilitator of the LUX Associate Artists Programme. He has worked on projects including The Artists Cinema at Frieze Art Fair, the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival and Kino Arsenal, Berlin and as an artist has performed at Tate Modern, MoMA, New York and De Appel, Amsterdam.

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2.
Film Screening
Raven Row
56 Artillery Lane
London E1 7LS
T +44 (0)20 7377 4300
info@ravenrow.org

Thursday 28 January, 7pm

Raven Row will show Klaus Wildenhahn's masterpiece of Direct Cinema, Heiligabend auf St. Pauli (Christmas Eve at St. Pauli), 1967/68, as selected by Harun Farocki who will introduce the screening.

These events are free but booking is essential as places are limited. Please email info@ravenrow.org to reserve a place.

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3.
Luna Fringe
Luna Lounge
7, Church Lane
Leytonstone
London E11 1HG

venue telephone number: 020 8518 7463
Cost: Admission: £ 5.00/£4.00 concessions
Date: Thursday 28th January
Start Time: 8.00 pm

The 'Luna Fringe' is returning to the Luna Lounge in Leytonstone with a brand new season and sporting a new-look. The evenings will be made up of a much broader and eclectic mix. Filmmaker Ian Bourn will curate a season of work by UK Video Artists that will occupy the middle set. The music will continue to feature experimental and improvised musicians, but it may also from time to time present bands that are just a little bit off-centre, quirky singer song writers, performances of written contemporary music - anything that is a little unusual.

January's event features:
free improvisation from

'Barrel'
Alison Blunt (violin/voice)
Ivor Kallin (violin/voice)
Hannah Marshall (cello/voice)

plus Video Art from Miranda Pennell. 2 short pieces introduced by Ian Bourn, including the work: 'Tattoo' with score for Brass Band composed by Graeme Miller and the 2002 short film, 'Human Radio'. Both pieces explore music and dance through the eyes of a very singular artist.
http://www.mirandapennell.com

plus the band 'Astrakan'
Friends and followers of the band have likened their sound variously to Soft Machine, Zappa, Gong , Dave Douglas as well as to the newer jazz outfits such as Fraud, Led Bib and Get the Blessing

Transport: nearest tube: Leytonstone (1 minute walk) overland : Leytonstone High Road (6 minutes walk)

map: http://tinyurl.com/acf4oy
myspace: www.myspace.com/lunafringe

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4.
the gallery
sketch

presents

A NEW STANCE FOR TOMORROW: PART 3

Jaime Davidovich & Gordon Matta-Clark
Charles & Ray Eames
Aurelien Froment
Adrian Julia
Matthius Muller
Lucy + Jorge Orta
Mai-Thu Perret

30 January to 13 March 2010
Opening Reception - Saturday 30 January, 2-4pm

Sketch is pleased to present the third exhibition in the series A New Stance for Tomorrow inaugurated in 2008 as a platform for screening programmes and exhibitions that investigate artists imaginings and innovations in response to architecture, design and new ways of living.

A New Stance for Tomorrow: Part 3 will bring together artists’ films, videos and documentation that examine various notions of settlement and community. Spanning proposals from the 1970s to the present, the artists, designers and filmmakers included in the exhibition use various strategies to dissolve the boundaries between art, architecture and design while developing experimental imaginings and explorations into positive propositions for the future.

The exhibition ranges from recently rediscovered footage shot by Jaime Davidovich of Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates project to documentation of Lucy + Jorge Orta’s Antarctic Village. Charles & Ray Eames 1975 historical animation Atlas describes the territorial rise and fall of Roman Empire across Europe, while both Matthias Müller’s imaginings of a deserted Brasilia in Vacancy and Adrià Julià’s Le Réunion weave found and archival footage with their own narratives to create hybrid visions of place and architecture.
Aurélien Froment’s tribute to visionary architect Paolo Soleri’s Arizona settlement The Apse, the Bell and the Antelope examines his life’s work through the ever-evolving architectural project at Arcosanti and Mai-Thu Perret’s short film dramatises the oppositional relationship between pre and post revolutionary books framed in the 1924 agit-prop play An Evening of the Book.


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