UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS

1. 25 February - 2 May, A History of Irritated Material at Raven Row

2. 25 February - 28 March, Misty Boundaries Fades and Dissolves at Form Content

3. 25 February 8pm, Luna Fringe at Luna Lounge, Leytonstone

4. 26 February - 25 April, Eija-Liisa Antila at Parasol Unit

5. 26 February - 9 May, Mat Collishaw at BFI Galllery

6. 26 - 28 February, Trembling Time: Recent Video from Israel at Tate Modern

7. 1 March 6.30pm, Work and Play: Artists' film and video screening at the Free Word Centre

8. 3 March - 1 April, For the Sake of the Image at Jerwood Space

9. 3 March 8pm, Visual Thinking 1: One’s Own Room at Camden Arts Centre

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1.
RAVEN ROW
56 Artillery Lane, E1 7LS
020 7377 4300
www.ravenrow.org

Wed-Sun 11-6

A HISTORY OF IRRITATED MATERIAL
Feb 25 - May 2, 2010
An exhibition that samples art's relation to politics, alienation and the archive.

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2.
Misty Boundaries Fades and Dissolves
February 25th-March 28th

George Barber, Stewart Home, Linder, Clunie Reid, James Richards, Eva Weinmeyr
Curated by Daniella Saul

“Misty”, a common drag name; “Misty Boundaries Fades and Dissolves” a name taken from the title of a suite of video works by James Richards that changes occasionally. One title; two acts of dissimulation and oscillation. The Contemporary can be described as having a similar set of shifting boundaries within artistic practice, in terms of both content and method. Trajectories within artistic production that seem no longer to plot their histories through the act of naming, distinguish themselves only as being “of the present.” But what marks a work as contemporary?
The exhibition gathers together six British artists? work made during or in reference to the 1980s to the present day. They are all composed of cuts, scraps, shreds and remains, playing on their own syntactical nuances and that of the exhibition. The scrap is the raw material of the work, while its composition determines its script, its articulation. At each point of encounter, the material is also a text. The subjective investment in the work lies not only with the viewer, but also with the artist. Which scraps and pieces do compose the work? What is left behind? The encounter and experience of the cut, the shred and the scrap, pasted and layered, simultaneously marks both an avant-garde and a normalizing, everyday experience.
Contemporaneity is taken as an expanded notion, in an attempt to conceptualise a recent history of practice through an idea of layers rather than through periodicity, difference or negativity. The contemporary is not the effect of a subjective desire to put aside history. It is a condition that is manifested through the process of making and at the moment of encounter with the artwork that signals an idea of having a temporal awareness of the present, of being “with time.” They foreground the primacy of the idea of existing in the present, rather than existing in order to define another temporal moment, future or past. The scrap, remain and the found image manifest this primacy unlike any other material. If the Contemporary can be characterised as a “thickening of the present” (Terry Smith, 2008), the scrap and the layer embody the contemporary. If neither the art object, nor witnessing is sacred any longer, the contemporary can also signal a u nique instance of the return to a present moment that was not witnessed first-hand.

Private View: 25 February, 6 - 9pm
with a screening of Eva Weinmayr's new video I Wonder what the Silence was about (I), 2010 15' 20'' at 6.30pm

- 25th February - 12th March: Linder, Eva Weinmayr, George Barber
- 12th March - 25th March: Clunie Reid, James Richards, George Barber
- 25th March - 28 March: Stewart Home, Linder, Clunie Reid, Eva Weinmayr, James Richards
Finissage: 25 March, 6 - 9pm with a performance by Stewart Home

www.formcontent.org

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

venue telephone number: 020 8518 7463
Cost: Admission: £ 5.00/£4.00 concessions
Date: 25th February, 2010
Doors open: 8.00 pm

About the event:
The second ‘Luna Fringe’ of the new 2010 season at the Luna Lounge in Leytonstone continues with an exciting combination of musicians and visual artists. Filmmaker Ian Bourn will be introducing work by the eminent UK video and sound Artist, Graeme Miller. This month's musicians are internationally recognised talents of the improvised music scene.

February's event features:

free improvisation from
'Arc'
Sylvia Hallett – violin & electronics,
Danny Kingshill –cello
Gus Garside – double bass & electronics

plus, from Sweden/France

'Peeping Tom'
Pierre-Antoine: sax,
Joel Grip: bass
Antonin Gerbal: drums.

plus

Video Art from Graeme Miller. Graeme, an artist with long standing connections to Leytonstone, is showing 4
short pieces, introduced by Ian Bourn :

'Lonesome Way' - digital video 7 mins 2003, 'Crepuscular Manoeuvres' - digital video 5 mins 2006, 'Skin & Bone' - digital video 3 mins 2002 and 'Winkle Wedding' (Ian Bourn/Graeme Miller)- digital video 2005

AboutPeeping Tom:
'On its superb debut album, File Under: Bebop (Umlaut), this clever
French-Swedish trio transforms classic tunes by the likes of Charlie
Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Bud Powell into delivery systems
forloosey-goosey free jazz. Alto saxophonist Pierre-Antoine Badaroux,
bassist Joel Grip, and drummer Antonin Gerbal clearly love and
understand the hijacked standards, and in each performance PEEPING TOM
refer back to abstracted bits of their source material. Their buoyant,
spontaneous improvisations are somehow both craggy and lithe, hurtling
sure footedly along knotty paths—even at its most chaotic the music is
as elegant as it is explosive.
' — Peter Margasak, The Chicago Reader"

About 'Arc' & recent album - the pursuit of happiness
(Emanem 5005, CD - 2009)

"This collection of short improvisations is pure delight". Journal
d'écoute, Canada

"This is beautifully speckled music that can’t possibly be approached
without razor-sharp attentiveness: you must follow its uncertain lines,
evaporating contradictions, corpulent resonances and dissonant
flights…Only through this method one realises how handsome these
creations are".
Touching Extremes, Italy

"teeming with subtle surprises… "
All About Jazz, New York

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.
PARASOL UNIT FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
14 Wharf Rd, N1 7RW
020 7490 7373
www.parasol-unit.org

Tue-Sat 10-6pm, Sun 12-5pm

EIJA-LIISA AHTILA
Feb 26 - Apr 25, 2010
Parasol unit is delighted to present a major solo exhibition by the renowned Finnish film and video artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila. It will include three important video installations never before seen in the UK.
Ahtila’s work concentrates on narratives in human life together with the relationships and primal emotions that underlie them. She describes her films as ‘human dramas’ because they play on the central themes of our existence, such as love, death, sexuality, the difficulty of communication, and individual identity – both its formation and disintegration.

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5.
BFI GALLERY
Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XT
020 7928 3535
www.bfi.org.uk/gallery

Tue - Sun & bank holidays 11-8

undergroundWaterloo undergroundEmbankment

MAT COLLISHAW
Feb 26 - May 9, 2010
British artist Mat Collishaw (b.1966) has been commissioned by the BFI Gallery to explore the work of legendary Georgian/Armenian film director and artist Sergei Paradjanov and create a new commission in response to it. The project fuses sculpture and the moving image in an atmospheric work evoking the spirit of Paradjanov and forms part of 2010’s celebrations of his work and legacy. A season of Paradjanov films in the BFI Southbank cinemas complements the show.

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6.
Trembling Time: Recent Video From Israel
Friday 26 February – Sunday 28 February 2010

This programme surveys recent video work from Israel, examining practices that have emerged within a culture marked by the contested spaces of a militarised society and the complex emotions of life on the brink. Artists Yael Bartana, Guy Ben-Ner, and Roee Rosen will present individual focus screenings of their work.

Additionally, two group screenings focused on both the private and public sphere will include videos by artists including Boaz Arad, Yossi Atia & Itamar Rose, Keren Cytter, Uri Katzenstein, Dana Levy, Shahar Marcus, Roee Menachem Markovich, Avi Mograbi, Miri Segal, Ruti Sela & Maayan Amir, Doron Solomons, Malki Tesler, Lior Waterman & Amit Levinger, and Amir Yatziv.

* Trembling Time: Recent Video From Israel: Guy Ben-Ner Friday 26 February 2010
* Trembling Time: Recent Video From Israel: Programme One Saturday 27 February 2010
* Trembling Time: Recent Video From Israel: Yael Bartana Saturday 27 February 2010
* Trembling Time: Recent Video From Israel: Programme Two Sunday 28 February 2010
* Trembling Time: Recent Video From Israel: Roee Rosen Sunday 28 February 2010

Curated by Sergio Edelsztein, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv.

Supported by Artis - Contemporary Israeli Art Fund; the British Israeli Arts Training Scheme - BIARTS - a British Council initiative in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture and Sport in Israel; The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; Outset Contemporary Art Fund; Wendy Fisher; Guy and Marion Naggar; Vivian Ostrovsky and the Ostrovsky Family Fund. With special thanks to Ayelet Elstein.


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6.
1st March 6.30pm

ARTIST’S FILM AND VIDEO PROGRAMMES AT THE FREE WORD CENTRE

To mark the 30th anniversary of the Women’s Liberation Movement, Free Word has organised two public screenings of artists’ films and videos.

The videos, all by women artists, have been selected to celebrate this anniversary rather than to illustrate the history of the movement. None of the works were made with the political movement specifically in mind but neither could they have been made without barriers being broken down in 1970 and since.

Work and Play looks at women as they undertake repetitive tasks of manual skill, dance, imitate horses, crawl round the room without touching the floor and undertake classes in self-assertion. You and Me contains works that look at some of the roles played by the mother, the daughter, the lover and the self.

Each programme is selected to keep a balance between poetry, wit, tenderness and home truths and the categories are very loose. The artists come from Britain, The United States, Portugal, Norway, Serbia and Beirut but all are based, at least part time, in Britain.

You and Me will be followed by a panel discussion led by the curator Gill Hedley, including some of the artists represented in the screenings and other related speakers including Althea Greenan, Lucy Reynolds and Dr Jean Wainwright.

The Free Word Centre is located at 60 Farringdon Road, opposite 119 Farringdon Road and next to the Betsy Trotwood pub.

WORK AND PLAY

1 March 6.30PM
running time 52 minutes, 3 seconds

1. Carey Young, I am a Revolutionary, 2001, single channel video; colour; sound; 4mins 8 seconds; looped. A Film and Video Umbrella / John Hansard Gallery co-commission
Lent by Arts Council Collection.
The artist is seen undergoing a presentation and communications skills session. She repeats the phrase “I am a revolutionary” in a variety of ways. It is never clear whether she is aspiring to business leadership or, political agitation; making an avant-garde statement or delivering a personal manifesto.
www.careyyoung.com

2. Lucy Gunning, Climbing Round My Room, 1993, Betacam SP video, 7minutes 30 seconds

3. Lucy Gunning, The Horse Impressionists, 1994, VHS, 7 minutes 30 seconds
www.mattsgallery.org
Lent by Arts Council Collection.
Each video tells of nostalgia for childhood and early adolescence. Like a heroine in a fairy tale or for a crazy dare, in Climbing Round My Room the artist does just as she promises, never touching the floor.
For The Horse Impressionists, women impersonate the horses and ponies that they loved or rode, or simply often pretended to be, when they were young.

4. Breda Beban, The Walk of Three Chairs, 2003, DVD, 9 minutes, 53 seconds
A Film and Video Umbrella / John Hansard Gallery co-commission
Lent by Arts Council Collection.
The Serbian born artist as she grows in confidence and prowess dancing from chair to chair on board a boat down the Danube, accompanied and supported by a gypsy band. The joyousness and risk of the dance is underscored by the love song that they play. www.fvu.co.uk

5. Nicola Naismith, Finger Collars, 2003, DVD, 14 minutes

6. Nicola Naismith, Video Triptych, 2003, DVD, 2minutes 30 seconds
The artist writes: “Finger Collars has been called 'tedious' which is the point of the work, with repeated hand movements trying to thread a needle with a progressive number of finger collars on my fingers. I've always really enjoyed it. Often people get the impression I'm trying to make the finger collars but actually I'm just threading a needle and tying an end knot.
Video Triptych focuses on needles, (no hands), performing to camera so to speak. I was really interested if the images were 'produced using human or mechanical means'.”
www.nicolanaismith.co.uk Lent by the artist

7. Tracey Emin, Why I Never Became a Dancer, 1995, Betacam SP video, 6 minutes, 40 seconds
“As naive teenager she thinks she has found in sex a simple way of gaining fulfilment until she discovers her real calling – dancing. Soon, however, she suffers the crucial trauma that explains why she never became a dancer.” [ Source: catalogue International Video Art Award 1997, ZKM Karlsruhe]
Lent by Arts Council Collection. www.whitecube.com

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8.
FOR THE SAKE OF THE IMAGE
Mar 3 - Apr 1, 2010
Curated by Suki Chan.
Part of the Jerwood Visual Arts Encounters series.

JERWOOD SPACE
171 Union St, SE1 0LN
020 7654 0171
www.jerwoodvisualarts.org
Mon - Fri 10-5, Sat & Sun 10-3. FREE entry.

Wednesday 03 March, 7.00 – 8.00pm at Camden Arts Centre
Screening of short films in response to the Eva Hesse exhibition and Virginia Woolf's notion of a room of one's own. Followed by an informal discussion on themes of studio/gallery; process/product, incompleteness and the fragment, the everyday, work and history, the woman and the institution.

features new work by
Catherine Mafioletti
Kristin Lovelock
Mo Throp
Maria Walsh
Jo Bruton
Hayley Newman
Gill Addison
Monika Oechsler