Date: May 20th 2010
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1. 21 May 11am, LUMIN presents: PIANO MIGRATION II: Video responsive instrument at 20 Hoxton Square Projects 2. 21 – 23 May 12pm, Live Weekends: Futures and Pasts at the ICA 3. 21 May 2pm, Conversation Pieces: Alia Syed at Tate Britain 4. 23 May 7pm, LIGHT READING SERIES 10: PASSING THE RAINBOW: SANDRA SCHAFER / ELFE BRANDENBURGER at no.w.here 5. 24 May 6.30pm, Elia Suleiman: The Time That Remains at Tate Modern 6. 24 May 7pm, Public Meeting about a new Moving Image Festival in Norwich 7. 25 May 10am, Tabaimo: Boundary Layer at Parasol Unit 8. 26 May 7pm, LIGHT READING SERIES 10: HELGA FANDERL in discussion with NICKY HAMLYN at no.w.here 9. 27 May 7pm, Helga Fanderl Programme Two at the Goethe Institute 10. 27 May 7pm, Open Screenings at the Whitechapel Gallery 11. 27 May 7.30pm, SERPENTINE NEW MUSIC ACTION: PHYLLIDA BARLOW AND FRIENDS at Café OTO 12. 27 May 8pm, Luna Fringe – MIX3 at the Luna Lounge 13. NEW LUX COURSE: Opening up the Archive – a Guided tour of Artists Moving Image ... 1. LUMIN presents: PIANO MIGRATION II: Video responsive instrument THURSDAY 20TH MAY at 20 Hoxton Square Projects (7pm, free entry) A performance by Kathy Hinde in collaboration with Matthew Olden, Simon McCorry and Nahum Mantra. The inside of an old upright piano, rescued from destruction, is transformed into a light activated instrument. Video projections move across the surface of the piano strings, triggering small machines to twitch and flutter causing the strings to resonate. For one night, this installation becomes a site for performance. Video projections activate the piano strings, and simultaneously provide a graphic score for improvisation. Audio-visual artist Kathy Hinde is joined by laptop musician Matthew Olden, cellist Simon McCorry and multi-instrumentalist Nahum Mantra to present a performance where image through a series of transformations realised through acoustic sound, live sampling, automata and projections. The work will then remain in the gallery as an installation for the period 21st-27th May. 20 Hoxton Square Projects Opening Hours Tuesday – Friday: 11am – 6pm ... 2. Live Weekends: Futures and Pasts Fri 21 May 12:00 – 23:00, 21 - 23 May 2010 With contributions from leading artists, academics and writers in the field, Futures and Pasts is a long weekend of live art at the ICA exploring the diverse pasts and possible futures of live art and performance. Curated by writer, artist and performance maker Tim Etchells with the aid of artist Ant Hampton and Lois Keidan (Live Art Development Agency) this ambitious event combines marathon lecture performance with a rolling scheme of conversations, interviews and archival investigations alongside speculation as to the future of this vigorous and vital area of contemporary art practice. Futures and Pasts culminates in a day long Open Space discussion event or public meeting, framed by Phelim McDermott and inviting practitioners, curators and audiences to identify and explore key questions and ways forward for the live art and performance scene in the UK. Futures and Pasts comprises four main strands. You can join as an audience member or participant anytime over the long weekend, moving between parallel events and discussions. Please note that for Open Space on Sunday 23 May you will need to contact the ICA box office and reserve a place as capacity is limited. More information and running order: Friday 21 – Sunday 23 May: Some of the Pasts Saturday 22 May: Some of the Futures Sunday 23 May: Open Space Discussion and Action Event Friday 21 – Sunday 23 May: Performing Wikipedia Friday 21 – Sunday 23 May: Some of the Pasts Over three days the gallery is transformed as the site of an ongoing investigation on the power of performance, as a succession of invited artists, curators and writers linked to the field frame investigations on the exuberant and influential past of the form. Audiences can arrive anytime, stay, leave and return at any point. Conversations, interviews, slideshows, mini-performances, video-screenings and all kinds of playful hybrid interventions unfold in the gallery as different perspectives on the archive are explored. Personal recollections sit next to attempts at authoritative time lines, inexplicable images and sounds sit next to narratives and interactions of different kinds. http://www.ica.org.uk/24606/Talks/Live-Weekends-Futures-and-Pasts.html Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH ... 3. Conversation Pieces: Alia Syed Friday 21 May 2010, 14.00–15.30 Alia Syed's work embraces a wide range of film practices, eluding a single, definable form. Her art problematises the image particularly in relation to notions of gender and cultural difference. In this talk and gallery visit, Syed explores the multiple histories and hidden rituals that pass underneath the site known as Tate Britain. Tate Britain, Manton Studio £5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended. For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888. Tate Britain, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG ... 4. LIGHT READING SERIES 10: PASSING THE RAINBOW: SANDRA SCHAFER / ELFE BRANDENBURGER no.w.here: 23 May 7-9pm The film deals with performative strategies to undermine the rigid gender norms in Afghan society: on the level of cinematographic stagings, in political work and in everyday life. Life and character collide and overlap, as do playfulness and activism. Marina Golbahari, the lead actress in the Afghan feature film Osama, explains how her role in the film related to her real life. The policewoman Saba Sahar produces action films in which she plays the leading part as a policewoman. She stages increasingly sophisticated martial arts scenes, while simultaneously demanding the binding rule of law. The former teacher and actress Breshna Bahar appears as the spokeswoman of the fictive female president of Afghanistan. In a demonstration scene, the two actresses Hamida Refah and Zobaida Sahar, who play the grandmother and daughter in Osama, demand the improvement of their housing situation. Hamida takes over directing as we stage a scene from a fairy tale. The actresses of the demonstration scene in Osama speak of their current political problems. A girls’ theater group rehearses educative plays about the upcoming elections; the male roles are alternately played by different girls. Sandra Schäfer has made repeated visits to Kabul and Tehran since 2002. She has been involved in different collaborative projects with filmmakers, activists and theoreticians. Together with the Berlin based filmmaker Elfe Brandenburger and in cooperation with actresses, filmmakers and activists from Kabul she made the film Passing the Rainbow. It is a film about actresses and strategies to undermine the rigid gender norms in Afghan society. She is co-curator of the film festival Kabul/Teheran 1979ff: Filmlandschaften, Städte unter Stress und Migration (Kabul/Tehran 1979ff: Film Landscapes, Cities under Stress and Migration) that took place 2003 at the Volksbühne Berlin. She is co-editor of a book with the same title, published in 2006 by b_books, Berlin. 2007/08 she co-curated the film festival SPLICE IN and lecture program on gender and society in Afghanistan, its neighboring countries and Europe. SPLICE IN took place in Kassel, Berlin and Hamburg. The festival was continued in Kabul in May 2008 in cooperation with the artist-group CACA-Kabul, the state-run film organization Afghan Film and the organization Open Asia under the title SECOND TAKE. In 2009 her book stagings. Kabul, Film & Production of Representation got published in the series metroZones/media at b_books, Berlin. Tickets: £5 door / £4 advance. Students and no.w.here members £3 Email: james.holcombe@no-w-here.org.uk no.w.here, First Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 OAG ... 5. Elia Suleiman: The Time That Remains Monday 24 May 2010, 18.30 The Time That Remains (2009, 105 min) is a semi-biographical film by the award-winning Palestinian-Israeli director, writer and actor, Elia Suleiman. The film is inspired by his father’s diaries of his personal accounts, starting from when he was a Resistance fighter in 1948, and by his mother’s letters to family members who were forced to leave the country since then. The narrative unfolds over four historic episodes. Combined with Suleiman’s intimate memories of them and with them, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labelled ‘Israeli-Arabs,’ living as a minority in their own homeland. The screening will be introduced by independent curator and writer Rasha Salti, followed by a discussion moderated by Stuart Comer with Elia Suleiman and architects Eyal Weizman and Sandi Hillal of Decolonizing Architecture, followed by a Q & A session. This screening of The Time That Remains is part of a series of programmes produced by Delfina Foundation and the London/Bethlehem-based practice of Decolonizing Architecture. Founded by Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman, Decolonizing Architecture attempts to articulate the potential of architecture in opening an ‘arena of speculation’ that incorporates varied cultural aesthetic and political perspectives. The programme with Delfina Foundation includes residencies in Bethlehem, Palestine, a panel discussion at Tate Modern on 25 May, and a concurrent exhibition at Delfina Foundation. Tate Modern Starr Auditorium £5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended. For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888 Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG ... 6. Public Meeting about a new Moving Image Festival in Norwich Monday 24th May 7pm LUX is developing a new international festival of artists’ moving image to be based in Norwich. The festival aims to build on the success and profile developed by the Aurora Festival which took place in Norwich from 2007-2009 along with LUX’s experience and profile as the UK agency for the support and promotion of artists working with the moving image. Benjamin Cook, Director of LUX and Adam Pugh, former Director of Aurora Festival will present their plans so far and lead a discussion about the shape and content of the festival. Please come and get involved All welcome, refreshments will be served. Special thanks to OUTPOST for hosting this meeting. OUTPOST, 10B Wensum Street, Norwich, NR3 1HR http://www.norwichoutpost.org Please let us know if you are coming at festival@lux.org.uk If you cant make it but are interested in knowing more or getting involved also send us an email. ... 7. Tabaimo: Boundary Layer Private View 25 May 6.30pm - 9pm 26 May – 6 August 2010 Parasol unit is delighted to present the first solo exhibition in London devoted to the work of the Japanese artist Tabaimo. Since her graduation from art school in 1999, Tabaimo’s innovative and large-scale animated drawings have been extensively shown to major critical acclaim, both in Japan and internationally. Tabaimo is known for her skilfully drawn and disturbing animations that mix imagery from contemporary Japanese life with digital video technique. Throughout her eleven years of practice the artist has created satirical works that often comment on modern life in Japan, and in particular on the way her own generation attempts to reconcile the realities of today with traditional Japanese values. Tabaimo draws inspiration from a variety of sources, not least from the media and her own personal experience. All animations are hand-drawn by the artist. The exhibition at Parasol unit will be comprised of five video installations: Japanese Kitchen, 1999; hanabi-ra, 2003; guignorama, 2006; public conVENience, 2006; and yudangami, 2009. Parasol unit, 14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW ... 8. LIGHT READING SERIES 10: HELGA FANDERL in discussion with NICKY HAMLYN Wednesday 26 May 2010, 7pm Filmmaker and writer Nicky Hamlyn will be in conversation with Helga Fanderl, who will show a programme of Super 8 films in which various kinds of motion; mechanical, human and natural, as well as hybrids of these, prompt a variety of approaches, which reflect the precise interaction between pro-filmic movement and camera strategy typical of all her films. Helga Fanderl is one of a small number of filmmakers who continues to make serious formal innovations with Super 8. She was introduced to film in the mid 1980s and subsequently studied with Peter Kubelka and Robert Breer. Since the mid 1980s she has completed over six hundred short films. Most of them consist of a single roll of Super 8, lasting around three minutes, but many are shorter, and some but a single shot of a few seconds duration. Uniquely, all the films are edited in-camera. Helga Fanderl’s work is characterised by a fascination with grids, meshes and layers and the complex optical interplay between them. Her films arise from intense observation and a honed improvisatory approach that depends on rapid reactions and spilt second timing. £5/ £4 prebooked (£3 members and students contact james.holcombe@no-w-here.org.uk This screening is part of a 3 screening mini retrospective 'Instances of Serendipity' in collaboration with the Goethe Institute on the 27TH AND 28TH MAY. Further information on other screenings in this series can be found at: http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en5782663v.htm no.w.here, First Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 OAG ... 9. Helga Fanderl Programme Two Thursday 27 May 2010, 7pm Many of these 16mm prints of her work demonstrate Fanderl's feel for black and white film, the extreme graininess of which results a pronounced surface texture and thus a merging of foreground and background. The stuffed animals of Ausgestopfte Tiere come to seem like transitory agglomerations of matter, while the busy street scene of Nacht und Wind is rendered as a dancing pattern of car headlights, shop windows and luminous grain pattern. This film screening is part of the Instances of Serendipity series. Goethe-Institut London, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PH Tickets £3 (£5 for Programme Two & Three) Booking +44 20 75964000 ... 10. Open Screenings Thursday 27 May, 7pm Your chance to show and discuss your work with your peers and the Gallery’s Adjunct Film Curator Ian White. To participate contact the Gallery in advance: film@whitechapelgallery.org Free event. Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX ... 11. SERPENTINE NEW MUSIC ACTION: PHYLLIDA BARLOW AND FRIENDS THURSDAY 27th May 2010, 7:30pm An evening of experimental music that responds to the exhibition of Nairy Baghramian and Phyllida Barlow at the Serpentine (8 May - 13 June 2010). MC: Phyllida Barlow and performances by Tom Badley, Alex Baker and Kit Poulson, Anna Barham, Ben Barwise, Dale Berning, Jess Flood-Paddock, Sarah Jones and Eve Peasnall, Eddie Peake, Sam Williams and others. Phyllida Barlow (b. United Kingdom, 1944) is a pioneering English artist whose sculptural installations are characterised by their large scale, often made quickly in the same place that they are to be shown with materials that are subsequently recycled for future use. Their often rough appearance conveys the urgency with which they are produced. In addition to being a practising artist since the 1960s, Barlow has had a long teaching career, tutoring several generations of students who have gone on to become distinguished artists Alex Baker and Kit Poulson have been collaborating for over 10 years producing live works and installations that explore the edges of sound, text, objects and movement. Recent performances and exhibitions include: Open Multiversity, Swedenborg Hall, London, 2009; Event Horizon, GSK Contemporary, Royal Academy of Art, London (with David Burrows), 2008 and Black Cube / White Horse, Hartnett Gallery, Rochester, NY, USA, 2008. Dale Berning is a French/South African musician and artist based in London. She has exhibited and performed in the UK, France, Germany, the US, Israel and Japan. She is represented by Take Ninagawa, Tokyo, and had her second solo show there in January 2009. She has releases on Bo‚Weavil Recordings, UK and flaü, Japan. http://www.takeninagawa.com Jess Flood-Paddock's work is a multi-disciplined sculptural practice. With emphasis on the hand-made, history and the personal memory bank it attempts to question contemporary awareness and what it is that we don‚t realise we‚re doing. Whether the work is a video made on a mobile phone or a wall painting of a cartoon cat it uses a sculptural idea of 'being in the middle of things' to relate these elements to the architectural space they inhabit. Tickets: £4/ £5 http://www.ticketweb.co.uk Cafe OTO, 18 - 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL .... 12. Luna Fringe – MIX3 The Luna Fringe MIX3 is dedicated to bringing together unusual blends of musical style, shown alongside the work of visual artists. composed contemporary jazz from: 1) Inner Space Music plus ‘feralupski’ singing from the inimitable : 2) Phil Minton with the equally inimitable Terry Day and Sharon Gal plus Video works from: Blight 1994-6 14mins Colour 16mm to video The Waste Land 1999 A personal interpretation of the poetry and letters of T S Eliot which explores the ambiguities of language and space in a scenario built around an anagram. Om 1986 Gargantuan 1992 Since 1972 John Smith has made over forty film, video and installation works that have been shown in cinemas, art galleries and on television throughout the world and awarded major prizes at many international film festivals. His solo exhibitions include Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2006), Kunstmuseum Magdeburg (2005), Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool (2003) and Pearl Gallery, London (2003). He regularly presents his work in person and in recent years it has been profiled through retrospectives at the 2007 Venice Biennale and film festivals in Oberhausen, Cork, Tampere, Uppsala, Bristol, Regensburg, Glasgow and La Rochelle. Earlier this year a major retrospective JOHN SMITH SOLO SHOW was staged at the Royal College of Art to wide critical acclaim. Venue: Luna Lounge Venue telephone number: 020 8518 7463 Cost: Admission: £ 5.00/£4.00 concessions myspace: http://www.myspace.com/lunafringe ... 13. LUX EVENING COURSE: Opening up the Archive – a Guided tour of Artists Moving Image Whether sitting on the shelves in LUX’s East London Studio, or in transit to screenings and film festivals across the globe, LUX holds one of the most diverse collections of artists’ film and video in Europe. More than a collection of film cans and video tapes, the LUX archive reflects the rich history and continuing vibrancy of artists’ work with the moving image: from the earliest experiments of the avant-garde to the recent explorations of multiple-screen projection and film performance. The LUX archive provides the starting point for this short summer course. Over six weeks a selection of different films or videos from the collection provides the focus for some of the historical contexts and key debates that have enlivened artists’ moving image from the 1920s to the present day. Led by the film writer and curator Lucy Reynolds, and held in the screening room at LUX, the course will present some of the rarely seen films and videos from the LUX collection in an introduction to, and an insight into, the thriving culture of artists’ filmmaking. Each week, a weekly selection of moving image works traces some of the most significant themes, figures and movements to emerge across more than a century of artists’ moving image: from a cinema of abstraction and Surrealism, to experiments with film’s materiality and recent digital explorations; from political subversion to personal poetics. Each class will be supported with weekly handouts of key texts and further information on the artists and work under discussion. The course runs for 6 weeks from Tuesday June 8th to Tuesday July 13th, 7pm - 9pm at LUX Offices in Dalston, East London. Course fees are £60. Places are limited, to book a place on the course or for further questions please contact Silvia McMenamin silvia@lux.org.uk ... To add your London artists' moving image event to the LUX weeklynewswire and London events calendar please email information to |
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