UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS

1. 12 June 12.30pm, The Assistant #2 at the Bearspace Gallery

2. 12 June 3pm, Saturday Talks: Fergal Stapleton at the Serpentine Gallery

3. 15 June 10am, BREDA BEBAN: MY FUNERAL SONG at the Camden Arts Centre

4. 15 June 8pm, Histoire(s) du Cinema at The Working Men’s Club

5. 16 June 7pm, Contort Yourself: In Conversation at the ACME Project Space

6. 16 June 7.30pm, JUNE SALON – A Celebration of the Salon’s journey so far at The Horse Hospital

1. The Assistant #2

Blue Curry responds to Gordon Cheung

4 June - 19 June 2010

BEARSPACE, in association with Peer Sessions, is pleased to present the second in a series of exhibitions entitled The Assistant. The exhibition seeks to pair up an emerging and an established artist with similar concerns, who enter a process of dialogue and negotiation through which the emerging artist produces an exhibition.

The Assistant aims to explore the practices of both artists through this process of exchange, but also to question ideas around the construction of an exhibition, revealing something about the processes an exhibition may go through before it is realised.

A project blog accompanies the exhibition, documenting the process of exchange and decision-making.

Please view and contribute here:

http://theassistant2010.blogspot.com/

BEARSPACE Gallery,152 Deptford High Street, London, SE8 3PQ

Wednesday—Saturday 12.30—5pm

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2. Saturday Talks: Fergal Stapleton

Saturday 12 June

Free talks every Saturday at 3 pm

This spring, prominent critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Nairy Baghramian and Phyllida Barlow.

Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA

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3. BREDA BEBAN: MY FUNERAL SONG

11 June – 5 September, 2010

A new film installation in Gallery 2 by London-based Serbian artist Breda Beban.

My Funeral Song is Breda Beban’s most recent work – a five-screen video installation that will be presented in Gallery 2 alongside an earlier series of films Little Songs To Cry To (2003) in the Reading Room. Each screen in My Funeral Song focuses on one of Beban’s close friends as they listen to the song they would like to have played at their funeral. The simplicity of each portrait heightens attention to subtle gestures and shifts in expression that chart an inner journey, through psychological states of remembering the past and envisioning a future in their absence.

Continuing her interest in use of sound as a narrative device, the project centres on the power of a well-loved song to compress an outlook on life into a telling moment that is at once emotional and thoughtful, melancholic and full of joy. Little Songs To Cry To were filmed spontaneously as ‘home-movies’. These devoted observations of the people closest to Beban are tributes set against the backdrop of a specific soundtrack. Breda Beban was born in Serbia, raised in Macedonia and Croatia and is now based in London. Her work often invokes human experiences of relationships, observing how these are played out in the performance of life.

CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE, Arkwright Rd, NW3 6DG

020 7472 5500

http://www.camdenartscentre.org

info@camdenartscentre.org

Free admission.

Tue-Sun 10-6, Wed 10-9

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4. Close Up: Histoire(s) du Cinema

Jean-Luc Godard’s video series Histoire(s) du Cinema, consisting of eight episodes made over a period of ten years, is an extraordinary look at the medium through the eyes of this unique filmmaker. Hugely ambitious in scope, the series covers a wide range of topics from the birth of cinema to Italian neo-realism to Hollywood and beyond.

HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA - Part 1/3 1a Toutes les Histoires 1b Une Histoire Seule, Directed by Jean-Luc Godard 1988-98 | France | 92 mins | Colour and B&W

Time: 8pm, Doors open at 7.45pm

Venue: The Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB

Ticket: £5/FREE to Close-Up members

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5. Contort Yourself: In Conversation

16 June, 7.00 – 9.00pm

ACME Project Space, Free Event, limited capacity

A panel discussion centred on identity trends and categories explored in the exhibition. The role of curators, critics and art professionals in relation to how trends are generated and operate in the art world will also be considered. The session will be chaired by Dr Alison Rowley, and moderated by Ulrika Flink, RCA CCA (Inspire) Student.

CHAIR: DR ALISON ROWLEY: Reader in Art and Design, Liverpool School of Art and Design.

Dr Alison Rowley is presently at work on a second single authored book titled Common gestures, class acts: studies in ‘young British art’, an analysis of the return in the 1990s of neglected histories of British social and political life since 1945 in key works by artists grouped under the heading ‘yBa’. Dr Rowley’s research interests centers around modern and contemporary art; feminist history, theory and practice in the visual arts and cinema; psychoanalysis and aesthetics; aesthetics and politics and configurations of social class in British art.

SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHIES:

DR ANTHONY DOWNEY: Programme Director, MA Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s Institute

Dr Anthony Downey completed his PhD and is currently researching a book on ethics, politics and aesthetics and the production of knowledge in contemporary art.  He sits  on the editorial board of Third Text, and is a London correspondent for Flash Art and he has also published essays, criticism and interviews in over twenty different publications and has recently given papers and chaired conference panel.

Prof IRIT ROGOFF: Curator, theorist, and founder of the Department of Visual Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London

Irit Rogoff is  a curator, theorist, and organiser who writes at the intersections of the critical, the political, and contemporary arts practices.  Her work across a series of new “think tank” PhD programs at Goldsmiths (Research Architecture, Curatorial/Knowledge) is focusing on the possibility of locating, moving, and exchanging knowledge across professional practices, self-generated forums, academic institutions, and individual enthusiasms.

DAVID GRYN: Director, Artprojx

David Gryn is the director of Artprojx which has been promoting artists films since 2001, and has recently expanded his activities by opening an art gallery. He has worked with artists and institutions such as Christian Marclay, Mark Wallinger, Susan Hiller, Willie Doherty, the Gagosian Gallery, White Cube, Matts Gallery, Victoria Miro, the Tate, Prince Charles Cinema, and the Frieze Art Fair.

Limited capacity for all free events. To reserve a seat email: info@contortyourself.org

Acme Project Space, 44 Bonner Road, London E2 9JS

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6. JUNE SALON – A  Celebration of the Salon’s journey so far

Doors open at 7, screening begins promptly at 7.30

Come and celebrate the birth of the Salon, reminisce on some of the films we’ve watched and some of the thoughts we’ve shared so far, meet friends old and new alike and toast our first summer together!

featuring moving image work by

Chiara Ambrosio, Rudolf Buitendach, Oliver Cheetham , Veselina Dashinova, Martin Earle , James Rogan, Markus Schroder, Cristoph Steger.

Plus live music by Bird Radio, and spoken word by A.C. Fume

The Horse Hospital , 30 Colonnade, Bloomsbury London, WC1N 1JD

(£5 entry on the door)

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