UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS

1. 12 February 2pm, Artist's talk. Grace Ndiritu, Questions from the Past

2. 12 February to 6 March, Family Tree, Tal Rosner, Tenderpixel Gallery

3. 12 February, The Badger Series - Episodes 5-8, Paul Tarrago, Horse Hospital

4. 13 February 1.30pm SLG at RIO Cinema, Dalston: Michael Landy Film Programme

5. 18 February 7pm, Goshogaoka & Salomania, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz

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1.
ARTISTS TALK: TATE BRITAIN
QUESTIONS FROM THE PAST

Friday 12 February 2010, 14.00–15.30
Artist Grace Ndiritu works at the intersection of film and performance. This talk uses performance video art from her Still Life and Responsible Tourism series to dialogue with paintings from the Orientalism movement and Henri Matisse, examining how these works influenced Western ideas of Africa in the late nineteenth century. Grace Ndiritu's videos are distributed by LUX.

Tate Britain
Duffield Room
Millbank
London

£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

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2.
February 12th to March 6th, 2010

Family Tree
Tal Rosner

Tenderpixel Gallery is pleased to present the first solo London exhibition Family Tree by BAFTA award winning video artist Tal Rosner.

Tuesday- Saturday: 1pm to 7pm

Address: 10 Cecil Court, Soho, London WC2N 4HE
Phone: 02073799464
Email: mail@tenderpixel.com

Family Tree, is a seven channel video installation, where a display of family photographs is transformed into a digital wall of pulsating rhythms and bundled/scattered flashbacks. Family Tree deals with personal recollections and the perception of memory re-learnt, interlacing performance and moving image. The installation synthesizes a microcosm of relationships between the abstract and the real, pieces of land and body-parts, interiors and exteriors, colours and shapes.
Combining synced monitors, and projectors, Rosner creates a double-layer of image perception: one coming from within the screens and another via projector juxtaposed on top. Exploring and widening the possibilities of combining these existing forms of technology, the show elevates them to a new, unique and highly kinetic level of co-existence.
The installation is produced by B&W Films Ltd (Rosa Bosch & James Pout) with the support of Patron Jenny Hall and Arcadi, and features a poem by Rozalie Hirs (from: "Charm", Amsterdam, Querido, 2008).

Tal Rosner was born in 1978 in Jerusalem, and lives and works between London and Los Angeles. He obtained a MA in Graphic Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2005. Influenced by modernism, abstraction and architecture, Rosner is determined to turn slow-paced video art on its head, creating dynamic, ever changing motion graphics art. Born in 1978 in Jerusalem, Rosner now lives and works between London and Los Angeles. He obtained an MA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2005. Recent work video by Rosner includes the BAFTA award winning title sequence for the first Skins TV series (2007), and Without You (2008-2009), a video for Animate Projects that has screened at over 25 festivals and events worldwide. In Seven Days (2009-2011), a collaboration with Thomas Ades, originally commissioned by the London Sinfonietta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic association, has premiered at London's Royal Festival Hall, and in the US at Walt Disney Concert Hall. In Seven Days has also traveled to Amsterdam (Muziegebouw), Stockholm (Konserthus) and Zurich (Tonhalle), continuing a three-year world tor it will also be projected and peroformed in New York (NY Philharmonic), Cologne, Lisbon and Melbourne in 2010/11. In addition to his 2007 Bafta, Rosner has also recently won the Jury Award in the London Film Festival under the Abstract Panorama category as well as the Cinephilia Award for Best Experimental Film at the London Short Film Festival. His work has been broadcast internationally by Canal + in France as well as other channels and territories. A retrospective was dedicated to Rosner's work at the Forum des Images in Paris, as part of the Nemo Festival in April 2009. Tal Rosner's work is distributed by LUX.

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3.
Friday February 12th **For one night only**

The Badger Series - Episodes 5-8

is screening at the Horse Hospital

You are warmly invited to the premiere of the latest episodes in the Badger Series, a video project that straddles gallery, underground cinema and domestic viewing inclinations alike.

This is happening at:

The Horse Hospital
Colonnade
Bloomsbury
London WC1N 1HX
(Russell Square tube)

Doors open: 7.00pm

Screening starts at 7.45pm

Total programme time: just under an hour

Refreshments will be available
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Earlier episodes in the series have shown widely, as a block and individually, including at Anthology Film Archives, Triangle France, Alma Enterprises, the Rencontres Internationales, ArtSway, Aurora Picture House, etc.
Along the way the series has been variously described as 'compelling, funny, clever', 'startlingly odd, humorous and honest' and 'one of the superlative half hours of video art watching this reviewer has done all year'

I haven't seen episodes 1-4 - will this be a problem?
Certainly not - the narrative for the latest episodes is self contained. Though if you wish to see the earlier episodes, they're currently up on a preview site just here along with exhibition history, film stills and a whole lot of contextual information.

What is this screening in aid of?
Consciousness raising, sense making + an act of celebration. The project has just reached its final 8 episode form and, as 2010 begins, the complete series is ready to be wheeled out and about. This is practice, a stretch, a shucking off of winter sloth.

Is entry free?
Yes. There'll most likely be a competition and prizes too.

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4.
SLG at RIO Cinema, Dalston:
Michael Landy Film Programme
Saturday 13 February 2010
1.30pm

The South London Gallery presents a programme of films selected by artist Michael Landy in conjunction with his solo exhibition 'Art Bin'

ELEPHANT
(UK 1988) dir. Alan Clarke, 39min.

Alan Clarke's landmark 1988 BBC film is a bleak, almost wordless, depiction of eighteen murders at the height of the Norther Ireland 'Troubles'.

BIG BUSINESS
(US 1929) dir. J. Welsey Horne 19min.
Laurel and Hardy, Christmas tree salesmen.

H2NY
(UK 2009) dir. Michael Landy, 27min.

Landy's documentary shows his fascination with Swiss artist Jean Tinguely. It devotes special attention to Tinguely's early career, tracing the development of his work from the late 1940s up to his 'Homage to New York' (1960), his most famous and influential 'auto-destructive' art work.

The programme will be introduced by Michael landy and followed by open discussion.

For bookings call the Rio cinema on 020 72419410

RIO Cinema
107 Kingsland High Street
E8 2PB
Tel: 020 72419410
www.riocinema.org.uk
Buses: 67,76, 149,24

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5.
Goshogaoka & Salomania, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, US/Germany 2009, 17mins

Thursday 18 February, 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.