UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS

1. 17 June 6.30pm, Marine Hugonnier: Screenings and Talk at iniva

2. 17 June 8.30pm, Artists' Film Club: Grace Schwindt at the ICA

3. 18 June 6.30pm, Private View: Gesamtkunstwerk 2012: Debut Salon Show at the Hackney Rose

4. 23 June 10am, JONATHAN MONK AND DOUGLAS GORDON at the Lisson Gallery

5. 23 June 7pm, Private View: Reading a Wave at the Woodmill

6. 24 June 6pm, Private View: BLOW UP: EXPLODING SOUND AND NOISE (LONDON TO BRIGHTON 1959-1969) at the Flat Time House

7. 24 June 7pm, Gallery Talk with Professor Esther Leslie at Parasol Unit

1. Marine Hugonnier: Screenings and Talk

Film screenings investigating geography and politics followed by the artist in conversation with film theorist Rachel Moore.

Screening of films Travelling Amazonia, The Last Tour, and Ariana by Marine Hugonnier which investigate geography and politics, followed by the artist in conversation.

Travelling Amazonia (2006) was shot on the Transamazonia road, a 2,500-miles long highway cutting through Brazil's vast Amazonian region. The film centres on the artist's attempt to construct an ideal straight line re-enacting that of the Transamazonia, a road which was carried out in the 1970s during Brazil's military dictatorship as a route trying to connect the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. Through the making of a "travelling shoot" that represents the illusion behind the idealism of the Transamazonia - now a line broken in holes failing to be mapped out - the film addresses the processes, rather than the pioneering ideas, that prevailed after the heyday of Brazil's aspiration to become "the country of the future".

The Last Tour (2004) takes as a point of departure the laws that increasingly regulate our access to and perception of nature in tourists' visits to national parks. The viewer embarks on a last tour on a hot-air balloon flight over the iconic Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps, suggesting the possibility of a blank space re-appearing on the map, a reference to the world before the Era of Discovery.

Her 2003 film Ariana charts the journey of a western film crew to the Pandjsher Valley in the North East of Afghanistan to investigate how this unique landscape has determined its history. The film is the story of a failed project that prompts a process of reflection about the ‘panorama' as a form of strategic overview.

This event is organised to accompany the Whose Map is it? exhibition. Nine artists provide individual insights that inscribe new, often omitted perspectives onto the map. From 2 June until 24 July 2010.

Admission: Free

bookings@rivingtonplace.org or call 020 7749 1240

http://www.iniva.org

iniva, Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA

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2. Artists' Film Club: Grace Schwindt             

June's Artists' FilmClub features a special presentation of a work by artist Grace Schwindt titled Chapter 01 - the individual account. Through the production of videos, installations and textual works, Schwindt investigates contemporary, personal negotiations of German history. For the ICA she has created a piece that specifically deals with the character and restrictions of the cinema auditorium, involving performance and projected image.

Stemming from an earlier series of works titled Counterpoint, the piece revolves around a series of interviews conducted by the artist with eleven Germans living in New York. Re-enacting these interviews with the help of actors, a relationship is built between physical discomfort and awkwardness, and the representation of social and political constructs.

Grace Schwindt (born Germany, 1979) has exhibited her work internationally in film festivals and galleries, including recent projects at Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen (2010), White Columns, New York (2010) and EAST International, Norwich (2009).

This event is free but booking is required. Please call the Box Office on 0207930 3647 to reserve your tickets.

Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

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3. Gesamtkunstwerk 2012: Debut Salon Show

Private View Friday 18th June 2010, 6.30-late

19th - 27th June, Friday-Sunday 12-6pm

The first exhibition of the Gesamtkunstwerk 2012 project brings together all the artists involved in this ‘total artwork’ which will manifest itself as an artist’s road trip across the United States in 2012.  This international troupe of artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, etc. will be art, make art, and exhibit art and more from the West to the East coast in the summer of 2012.

The practises showcased in the Debut Salon Show come from a range of media, though here they are represented as wall-based work, hung in the style of a Parisian Salon exhibition.  The style of hanging is not in accordance with the Salon’s values, but rather an acknowledgment of the method and aesthetic style of hanging large group exhibitions. This seems particularly appropriate for such a large group show, and as a historic parallel with the idea of the gesamtkunstwerk.

This first exhibit is intended as a launch for the forthcoming project, and an opportunity to view the work of all who are involved—though this group will be evolving and changing in the two year interim. In the two years before its manifestation, curated group exhibitions will happen under the umbrella of the gesamtkunstwerk project. This framework provides a starting point for further exhibitions, events, and enquiries into multi-disciplinary practise. The artists involved come from 12 different countries in total, and the majority of them work in the United Kingdom. When the final troupe embark on this monumental road trip, the different cultures will grant a transient yet lasting contribution to the contemporary landscape of the USA. During the road trip of travelling exhibitions, gigs, and performances in various institutions, the opportunities to engage in cross-cultural artistic debate will be vast. The international mix of cultural and artistic produc tion will demonstrate the contrasts and similarities that exist between modes of production in the US, Europe, and beyond. 

The Debut Salon Show is the only occasion where all participants are seen exhibiting together, until the Gesamtkunstwerk finally happens in 2012. Performances by Charlotte Young and Fredrik Lindberg from 8:30pm.

Artists/musicians/writers/etc:

Aimee Neat - Alistair Wildblood - Angus Braithwaite - Beck Rainford - Neb Poulton - Benedict Drew - Beth Collar - Cai Nyahoe - Charlotte Young - Chooc Ly Tan - Corinne Mynatt - Dagmar Schurrer - Ed Atkins - Elizabeth Gossling - Eugenia Ivanessevich - Fred Lindberg - Gabriel Stone - Gregory Sodergren - James Stringer - Joanna Ageborn Lindberg - Jonathan Batten - Jonathan Entwhistle - Julia Crabtree & William Evans - Jussi Brightmore - Kate Ellis - Kay Watson - Laura McFarlane - Laura Wilson - Maria Theodoraki - Matt Carter - Matthew Giradeau -  Myles Painter - Nathalie Levi - Neesha Champeneria - Nik Colk - Oscar Carlson- Revati Mann- Rudolph Reiber- Sarah Bayliss - Surya Buck - Tessa Power - Tom Wondrag - Tom Clarke - A Human - Factory Floor - Gum Takes Tooth

For more information about the project please contact: gesamtkunstwerk2012@gmail.com

http://www.thehackneyrose.org

The Hackney Rose, 458 Hackney Rd, E2 9EG

Or by appointment 0793 1439942

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4. JONATHAN MONK AND DOUGLAS GORDON

Jun 23 - Jul 31, 2010

Lisson Gallery is proud to present a new exhibition by Jonathan Monk and Douglas Gordon. Double Act Repeated is conceived as a collaborative project and comprises four films, an opening-night performance and a series of new works created especially for this exhibition. Monk and Gordon share an interest in exploring the creative act as an intuitive and conceptual process, rooted in Conceptual Art. As friends they share a passion for found images, football, word-play and the belief that the best ideas are generated around the dining table.

 The Sublimation of Desire, 2008 are four films which record the change of state of a bottle of beer, a glass of champagne, a mug of tea and a cup of coffee from cold to warm and from hot to cold. The films are the re-make of an hour-long video the artists shot in the mid 90s on a very hot afternoon in Budapest of a cold beer getting warm. Again, at the end of the 90s, on an ice-cold morning in Shwaz, Austria, they documented a hot mug of tea becoming tepid. The original video tapes are now lost and the artists decided to re-create these moments on 16mm film. Set on a loop, the static images are obsessive recordings of the elapsing of time and minute observations of subtle changes in state and relentless images of the sublimation of desire: cold beer becomes warm, champagne bubbles go flat, steaming coffee and hot tea become undrinkable.

The artists move effortlessly between formats: in the lower level gallery Monk and Gordon present a series of new works.

LISSON GALLERY, 29 Bell St, NW1 5BY

020 7724 2739

http://www.lissongallery.com

contact@lissongallery.com

Mon-Fri 10-6, Sat 11-5

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5. Reading a Wave

23.06.2010 – 25.07.2010, Private view: 23.06.2010 19:00 – 21:00

Reading a wave’ brings together a selection of works that consider the physical nature of film. It looks at the way that artists have addressed film as a sculptural proposition; through a formal investigation of its intrinsic properties and as a material embodiment of gestures or actions. The exhibition highlights the moments of performance that are implied by the use of physical process to create the film itself, these are set in relation to pieces that use film and video as a way of sculpting and staging space. By weaving together contemporary work with a selection of more historical explorations of the technologies and techniques of film-making the show articulates an experimental, non-narrative engagement with the moving image that is continuously influential.

Exhibition includes works by George Barber, Lis Rhodes, Tony Hill, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Torsten Lauschmann, LoVid, Anabel Nicolson, Laura Buckley, Haroon Mirza & Dave Maclean.

Exhibition curated by Thom O’Nions and Richard Sides.

Supported by LUX.

The Woodmill Neckinger Depot, Neckinger, London SE16 3QN

http://www.woodmill.org

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6. BLOW UP: EXPLODING SOUND AND NOISE (LONDON TO BRIGHTON 1959-1969)

24th June - 25th July 2010

Private View: 25th June 6-8pm

Featuring material from AMM, Better Books, Bob Cobbing, DIAS, Coleridge Goode, Joe Harriott, James Joyce, Jeff Keen, John Latham, Annea Lockwood, Gustav Metzger, John Stevens, Val Wilmer and more.

Flat Time House hosts an exhibition of artworks, archive, movies and sound curated by Tony Herrington (Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, The Wire) and David Toop (musician, curator, long-time collaborator of John Latham).

For a period in the 1960s there was a great creative synergy in the UK between the visual arts, experimental film, free jazz, psychedelic rock, and an energetic poetry scene that formed the UK's so-called Underground. 'Blow Up' will present a visual and aural map of those connections through art works, recordings, archival film and documents.

The artist John Latham, who lived at Flat Time House until his death in 2006, was a central protagonist in this explosion of cross-talk and his film Speak (1962) is one pivot of the exhibition. Speak is a powerfully strobing, paper-disc animation and, although it precedes the psychedelics of the high sixties by half a decade, its physical effect on the viewer is typical of the whole mind and body experiences of the early light show gigs of Pink Floyd (Speak provided the Floyd's light show on more than one occasion) or Soft Machine, or the environments and happenings constructed by artists including Bob Cobbing, Jeff Keen, Latham, Jeff Nuttall, Jeffrey Shaw and others at Better Books on Charing Cross Road. The film's circular-saw soundtrack, which was preceded by rejected recordings for Latham by the Joe Harriott Quintet and Pink Floyd, is indicative of a simultaneously emerging noise aesthetic.

This exhibition begins to write a history of these connections, artistic, personal, or just in the air, and the story of Speak is one of many told in 'Blow Up'.

Flat Time House will publish a poster edition with an essay by David Toop.

Flat Time HO, 210 Bellenden Road, SE15 4BW, Thursday - Sunday, 12 - 6pm.

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7. Gallery Talk with Professor Esther Leslie

Professor Esther Leslie (Professor of Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck College, London) will discuss the themes in Tabaimo's work in relation to how animation can transform the everyday and mobilise surprise.

£5 / £3 concessions

Parasol unit 14 Wharf Road London N1 7RW

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