UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS

1. 25 June 6.30pm, Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone: Machine on Black Ground at the V&A

2. 26 June 2pm, The Stones of Menace at St Paul’s Bow Common

3. 26 June 2pm, Outsider Films on India: Programme One: Chandigarh at Tate Modern

4. 26 June 3pm, Il Trasloco (Moving out of the future) at Auto Italia South East

5. 26 June 3pm, Saturday Talks: Mark Leckey at the Serpentine

6. 26 June 6pm, Outsider Films on India: Programme Two: Roberto Rossellini/The Otolith Group at Tate Modern

7. 27 June, Outsider Films on India: Programme Three: Fritz Lang/Jack Smith at 12pm, Outsider Films on India: Programme Four: Mark LaPore at 4pm at Tate Modern

8. 28 June 6.30pm, Outsider Films on India: Programme Five: Marguerite Duras/Leslie Thornton at Tate Modern

9. 29 June 7.30pm, Palestine Archive Night at Passing Clouds

10. 1 July 6pm, Private View: Transcode: Video Works by Donald Harding at the Empire Gallery

11. 1 July 7pm, First Thursdays event: Gallery Talk with Gary Thomas at the Parasol Unit

12. 1 July 7pm, The Films of John Latham: Britannica at the Whitechapel

13. Call for Applications. LUX Associate Artists Programme 2010/11

1. Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone: Machine on Black Ground

16mm film installation in the Architecture Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum.

Fri 25 Jun 18:30 – 22:00

Part of Friday Late: Escape . Curated by the Architecture Foundation and the V&A to accompany the exhibition, 1:1 - Architects Build Small Spaces, and as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2010.

V&A, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL

http://www.vam.ac.uk

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2. The Stones of Menace

Sat 26 Jun 14:00 – 17:00

One day art & architecture event at Brutalist church St Paul ’s Bow Common in East London, showcasing work by architects, artists and members of the local community.

The show will explore perspectives on the architecture of New Brutalism and on the role of art in relation to housing and regeneration in order to open up a debate on culture as a source of conflict and criticism. The event will be accompanied by a small publication of texts by architects, artists and writers such as Alan Powers, Ben Seymour and Owen Hatherley.

Charbel Ackermann, Atelier 14, Jack Brindley, Eleanor Vonne Brown, Nim-Jo Chung, Garry Doherty, Sarah Entwistle, Julika Gittner, Liam Herne, Claire Hope, Candice Jacobs, Jane Madsen, Ioana Marinescu, Ruth Oldham, Alan Powers, Jon Purnell, Natasha Rees, Duncan Ross, Nikola Semotanova, William Titley, Stina Wirfelt.  

The architecture of New Brutalism has some severe critics such as the Prince of Wales who famously denounced many of the structures as "piles of concrete". However, John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice faulted all architecture based on Greek or Roman models as "utterly devoid of all life, virtue, honourableness, or power of doing good".

Thus debates about architectural aesthetics usually go hand in hand with convictions about architecture’s ideological foundation and social function. The austere architecture of New Brutalism is often vilified as producing social neglect rather than securing the vibrant community life envisioned by its architects. This view has led to a continuing string of demolitions of landmark buildings from this period.

Contemporary art on the other hand is expected to ‘stir things up’, to be radical, controversial and provocative. Art is often seen as a safe ‘valve’ for the expression of social discontent and criticism. Who could ever dream of destroying a seminal piece of art because it is deemed too radical?

Curated by Scare in the Community (Julika Gittner and Jon Purnell)

http://scareinthecommunity.com

St Paul’s Bow Common, Burdett Road, E3

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3. Outsider Films on India: Programme One: Chandigarh

Sat 26 Jun 14:00 – 16:00

This collection of films demonstrates the varying approaches taken by foreign filmmakers when engaging with India as a subject. These negotiations range from hybrid meldings of documentary and fiction, sensually abstract accounts of memory, and perverse journeys filled with Orientalist imagery. However divergent and antithetical, these captivating and bewildering films all strive towards making sense of the worlds outside of ourselves. Filmmakers include Marguerite Duras, Fritz Lang, Mark LaPore, the Otolith Group, Roberto Rossellini, Jack Smith, Alain Tanner & John Berger, and Leslie Thornton.

Alain Tanner and John Berger, Une Ville à Chandigarh, 1966, 54 min.

The Otolith Group, Otolith II, 2007, 48 min.

Alain Tanner's film is not a mere presentation of Le Corbusier's architecture; it is an evocation of the poetic and ideological possibilities engendered by the urban project in daily human life. Articulating related concerns, by examining India's legacy of 20th century utopian projects, situated in the failure of current day urbanism, the Otolith Group's Otolith II, is an incisive examination of modernity's aftermath in the country.

Tate Modern Starr Auditorium £5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended. An Outsider Series ticket is available £15 (£10 concessions). For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888.

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4. Il Trasloco (Moving out of the future)

Sat 26 Jun 15:00 – 17:00

Il Trasloco (Moving out of the future) is a 1991 independent documentary directed by Renato de Maria, now screened for the first time in the UK with English subtitles. Set in Bologna and retrospectively looking at the history of one of the key places where the Autonomia movement took place during the 1970s, the film is a surprisingly personal and heartbreaking recollection of the emptying of a household and the ending of an era, one that was possibly already dead.

Initially, the protagonist of the documentary appears to be Franco Berardi, aka Bifo, who narrates the story of the Autonomia movement, which was by its nature deeply intertwined with the intimate and personal lives of those whomade it happen. However, the real protagonists of this film are the increasingly empty rooms of the flat in 19 Via Marsili, in Bologna. The silent walls speak through the voices of Bifo and many other ex-dwellers about the simple story of the rise and fall of a different - now almost incredible - way of life.

One of the most influential workerist social movements to emerge in Italy in the 1960s, the terms Autonomia or the Refusal of work have now become somewhat overused shorthand. However, what becomes clear watching thisfilm is that they refer to a practical methodology of life rather than to the sterility of what remains in their theoretisation.

This screening will mark the launch of High performance dropping out (Art workers won't kiss ass), which is a long term project hosted at Auto Italia. This project is a series of events, discussions, group meetings, workshops and screenings which investigate alternative methods of community, collaboration and communion in both art and non-art contexts.This first ever screening of Il Trasloco to an English-speaking audience was made possible through a collaboration of Auto Italia and Through Europe http://www.th-rough.eu. The translation from Italian is by Through Europe member Federico Campagna.

http://www.autoitaliaeast.org

info@autoitaliasoutheast.org

Auto Italia South East , 1 Glengall Road, London SE15 6NJ

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5. Saturday Talks: Mark Leckey

Saturday 26 June

Free talks at 3pm.

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars free to the public.

This summer, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition and Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel.

Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens London W2 3XA

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6. Outsider Films on India: Programme Two: Roberto Rossellini/The Otolith Group

Sat 26 Jun 18:00

Roberto Rossellini, India: Matri Bhumi, 1958, 90 min.

The Otolith Group, Otolith III, 2009, 48 min.

Roberto Rossellini has always been considered a key figure in the broader cutting-edge mode of crossing documentary and fiction; his film India: Matri Bhumi is a supreme example of such experimentation. Satyajit Ray's unmade science-fiction film The Alien is strikingly realised by the Otolith Group in Otolith III.

Followed by a discussion with The Otolith Group.

Tate Modern Starr Auditorium £5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended . An Outsider Series ticket is available £15 (£10 concessions). For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888.

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7. Outsider Films on India: Programme Three: Fritz Lang/Jack Smith

27 June 12pm

Fritz Lang The Tiger of Eschnapur 1959, 100 min.

Jack Smith Flaming Creatures 1963, 45 min.

While camp is certainly part of the enduring appeal of Fritz Lang's Indian epics, they are very much auteur films, further developing the stylistic and thematic preoccupations of his entire career. Their energy and fantasy can be compared to Jack Smith's 1963 masterwork that offers an outrageous gay reworking of Hollywood's Orientalist fantasies.

Outsider Films on India: Programme Four: Mark LaPore

27 June 4pm

Mark LaPore, A Depression in the Bay of Bengal, 1996, 28 min.

The Five Bad Elements, 1997, 32 min.

The Glass System, 2000, 20 min.

Mark LaPore's daring, rarely seen films, shot primarily in South Asia, contain a despair and rage, straddling and uniting the divergent modes of experimental film, ethnographic documentary, diarist travel film, lyrical autobiography and political polemic.

"LaPore's films should be seen by anyone who cares about the cinema and who cares about the way this image machine can display the world we have made and, especially, the aspects we prefer to ignore or forget. Their courage matches their beauty and their growing despair." - Tom Gunning, Film Comment

Tate Modern Starr Auditorium £5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended. An Outsider Series ticket is available £15 (£10 concessions). For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888.

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8. Outsider Films on India: Programme Five: Marguerite Duras/Leslie Thornton

28 June 6.30pm

Marguerite Duras, India Song, 1975, 120 min.

Leslie Thornton, Another Worldy, 1999, 24 min.

By inverting the conventional relation of visual event to verbal narration in India Song, Marguerite Duras created a hypnotically enigmatic film about longing, isolation and haunted memory. Making use of similar mechanisms of disruption, Leslie Thornton pressures dangerously fixed assumptions about the ethnographic gaze in her beguiling Another Worldy.

Tate Modern Starr Auditorium £5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended. An Outsider Series ticket is available £15 (£10 concessions). For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888.

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9. Palestine Archive Night

Tuesday 29 June doors open 7pm, start 7.30pm

Palestine Archive Night In an age dominated by the moving image what would it feel like to never see an image of the place that you came from?     

The Palestinian Film Archive contained over 100 films showing the daily life and struggle of the Palestinian people. The archive was lost in the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982.  

In this programme filmmakers address cinematic portayals of Palestine including from the British mandate period from 1917, and the resistance to Israeli occupation in the 1970's.

With films from: Judy Price, artist (UK); Sarah Wood, filmmaker (UK); Kais Alzubaidi, filmmaker (Iraq/Germany), the Imperial War Museum (UK).

PLUS:  discussion with filmmaker Sarah Wood and artist Judy Price. Sarah Wood is a filmmaker and programmer at the Cambridge Film Festival. Judy Price recently initiated an exchange between Byam Shaw School of Art and International Academy of Art Palestine where she also teaches.

Venue: PASSING CLOUDS, 1 Richmond Road, Dalston, E8 junction with Kingsland Road (behind The Haggerston bar)

Free entry.

CATASTROPHE CLUB : Films from and about Palestine Organised by Hackney Palestine Solidarity Campaign contact 07768 778 606

http://hackneypsc.wordpress.com

Catastrophe Club is on Facebook

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10. Transcode: Video Works by Donald Harding

Private View 1st July 6-9pm, Exhibition 2 - 11 July, Thursday - Saturday 12-6pm

The Empire, Vyner Street, Entrance at 33a Wadeson Street

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11. First Thursdays event: Gallery Talk with Gary Thomas

1 July 7pm

Gary Thomas, Co-Director of Animate Projects will focus on the term ‘Ridding Excess’: looking at the ways artists use the particular properties of animation to engage us in disrupting narratives.

£5 / £3 concessions

Parasol unit, 14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW

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12. The Films of John Latham: Britannica

Thursday 1 July, 7pm

Britannica

UK 1971, 6mins

Speak

UK 1962, 11mins

The films of this important British artist offer radical assaults – or redefinitions - of time and space, art and science, documentation and production. John Latham proposed as his avatars the three brothers from Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov a key literary referent for the artist. His film work is linked with the youngest brother, Alyosha, the most sympathetic of the three characters, whose role is to ameliorate and act as witness.

The abstract film Speak looks back to pioneering work of Len Lye or Tony Conrad and towards a counter-cultural psychedelia. Britannica is exactly that, in its entirety - one frame of film for every page of the encyclopaediaThe films are shown with rare interviews and other documents and contextualised by guest speaker David Toop, the writer and curator.

Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX

www.whitechapelgallery.org

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13. LUX ASSOCIATE ARTISTS PROGRAMME 2010/11 CALL ANNOUNCED

LUX is pleased to announce the call for applications for the fourth year of the LUX Associate Artists Programme.

The LUX Associate Artists Programme (AAP) is a unique 12 month post-academic programme for UK-based artists working with the moving image who have graduated in the past five years . It aims to provide an intensive course of development focused on critical discourse, extending to the practical and infrastructural issues that present challenges for artists working with the medium through seminars, mentorship and a final funded public project. The programme is lead by Ian White, writer, and curator and generously funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

The Deadline for applications is 24th September 2010, the application form is available to download from http://www.lux.org.uk/aap

The programme is managed and facilitated by LUX, an arts agency for the promotion and support of artists’ working with the moving image. www.lux.org.uk

Former LUX Associate Artists include

2009/10 Paul Abbott, Mark Barker, Erik Blinderman, Lucy Clout, Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth, Maria Taniguchi, Cara Tolmie

2008/9 Luke Fowler, Laura Gannon, Duncan Marquiss, Laure Prouvost, Grace Schwindt, Samuel Stevens, Stina Wirfelt and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa

2007/8 Claire Hope, Anja Kirschner, Matthew Noel-Tod, Rachel Reupke, James Richards, James Sweetbaum, Mayling To, Katy Woods

Speakers and mentors on the programme have so far included

John Akomfrah, Robert Beavers, Gregg Bordowitz, Duncan Campbell, JJ Charlesworth, Adam Chodzko, Stuart Comer, Ann Course, Adam Curtis, Stephan Dillemuth, Kodwo Eshun, Cerith Wyn Evans, Harun Farocki, Ryan Gander, Andrea Geyer,Neil Gray, Graham Gussin, Emma Hedditch, Will Holder, Chrissie Iles, Mary Kelly, Mark Leckey, Francis McKee, Daria Martin, Simon Martin, Jeremy Millar, Rachel O. Moore, Jan Mot, Laura Mulvey, Rosalind Nashashibi, Hayley Newman, Uriel Orlow, Maureen Paley, Pawel Pawlikowski, Emily Pethick, Gail Pickering, Josephine Pryde, Steve Reinke, Lis Rhodes, Adrian Rifkin, Lucy Skaer, Polly Staple, Hito Steyerl, Catherine Sullivan, Stephen Sutcliffe, Emily Wardill, Andrew Wheatley.

For more information please contact Silvia McMenamin at LUX on 020 7503 3979 silvia@lux.org.uk

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