Date: July 2nd 2010
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1. 2 July 11am, ROOM DIVIDER at Wilkinson Gallery 2. 2 July 6pm, Private View: So That I may Come Back at Danielle Arnaud contemporary art 3. 3 July 12pm, PAUL SIETSEMA at Cubitt Gallery 4. 3 July 3pm, Saturday Talks: Stuart Comer at the Serpentine 5. 3 July 3.50pm, Acoustic Images at the BFI Southbank 6. 3 July 7.30pm, ICARUS AT THE EDGE OF TIME at the Royal Festival Hall 7. 6 July 1pm, Shortends: Film Production Degree Show 2010 at Cine Lumiere 8. 6 July 8pm, American Portraits at Working Men’s Club 9. 7 July 7pm, Tracing the Line at the South London Gallery 10. 8 July 8pm, THE WIRE SALON: BLOW UP: THE LEGACY OF BOMB CULTURE at Café Oto 11. 8 July 9.30pm, Kilburn Festival - Fiesta 2010 at Kingsgate Community Centre 12. LUX Course, Opening up the Archive – a Guided tour of Artists Moving Image 13. LUX ASSOCIATE ARTISTS PROGRAMME 2010/11
1. ROOM DIVIDER Curated by Michael Bracewell 2 July- 15 August 2010 Wilkinson Gallery is pleased to announce their Summer Exhibition curated by Michael Bracewell. ‘Room Divider’ is a group exhibition which celebrates the relationship between Romanticism and the machine aesthetic. At its centre is a response to the cyclical phenomenon of modernity appearing to reach critical mass. A contemporary audit, therefore, on the enduring concerns of Twentieth Century Modernism, the exhibition combines the aesthetic languages of computers, furnishing, pop styling, film, interior design, comic books, dance, technology, collage, electronic music, Post-industrialism, the Bauhaus, advertising, Memphis design and punk. The exhibition pursues a thesis proposed by two fragments of text, written nearly forty years apart but conveying a similar notion of temporal disorientation and, vitally, the amalgamation of American Mass Age glamour and European intellectualism. The first is from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel of 1934, ‘Tender Is The Night’, during which two of the characters attend a cocktail party in an aggressively modernist Parisian mansion: “No one knew what this room meant because it was evolving into something else, becoming everything a room was not...” The second is taken from Simon Puxley’s sleeve note for the first release by Roxy Music (self-titled Roxy Music), in 1972. Slipping into a Beat interpretation of a society reporter’s breathless prose, Puxley (an academic, specializing in Victorian poetry) reports from a mythic cocktail hour: “...what’s the date again? (it’s so dark in here) 1962.... or twenty years on...” ‘Room Divider’ thus essays cultural historical connections between Twentieth Century iconography and contemporary art. It engages with allegory and symbol to articulate the psychology of Post-industrial folklore. Throughout there are held tensions: between machine and sensuality, nervousness and languor, seriousness and jest, nostalgia and futurology, chaos and order. The seductively bewildering, mythic interiors described by Fitzgerald and Puxley are at once concerned with glamour and disquiet; they are spaces that both enchant, and seem to promise disenchantment. They dazzle, yet are inscrutable in their super-modernity; at the same time, they appear possessed of covert knowledge and foresight. They mark a fissure in time, perhaps, through which intimations of the past and the future become fluid and questioning – joke or prophecy. In this they are the terrain of the Dandy and the Exquisite, and the art form as aphorism. And as such the values of surface and depth, face and mask, decoration and icon, become ceaselessly self-reversing. The artists included in the exhibition are: Nicolas Ceccaldi, Richard Hamilton, Tim Head, Gareth Jones, Linder, Simon Martin, Pet Shop Boys, Bauhaus artist, Xanti Schawinsky, Christoph Schellberg, Hanna Schwarz and Ettore Sottsass (for Memphis design). Michael Bracewell is the author of six novels and three works of non-fiction, including ‘The Conclave’ and ‘Re-make/Re-model’. He writes extensively on modern and contemporary art and was co-curator of ‘The Secret Public: Last Days of the British Underground, 1978 – 1988’ at Kunstverein, Munich and I.C.A. London, and ‘The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity and in British Art’ at Tate St Ives. Wednesday to Saturday: 11:00 - 18:00 Sunday: 12:00 - 18:00 Wilkinson, 50-58 Vyner Street, London E2 9DQ ... 2. So That I may Come Back Charbel Ackermann, William Cobbing, Oona Grimes, Tony Grisoni, James Ireland, Tania Kovats, Albert Leonard, Sarah Woodfine. 2 July- 1 August 2010, Private View Friday 2 July 6 - 9 pm The title of the exhibition, So That I May Come Back, is taken from words written in 1968 by Mary Bell. Her hand written note stated: ‘I murder so that I may come back’. Peter Suchin writes “Just how exactly one might ‘come back’ through the act of murder remains unresolved, a vampiric fantasy-claim perhaps. This presumption that the scribbled text of Bell’s note refers to a return after death is possibly unfounded; but at any rate, for a ten-year old to generate such an oddly encoded utterance, brazenly depositing it at the scene of yet another crime, suggests a rather complicated commingling of reason, fantasy, desire and of straining for effect. There are many different kinds of return; indeed the using of Bell’s phrase as an exhibition title is itself a textual reappearance of its author. All of the works in this show deal, in one way or another, with forms of return, reiteration or haunting, in some cases with what is an arguably predatory or (negatively) ‘proactive’ component or approach.” Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, 123 Kennington Road, London SE11 6SF ... 3. PAUL SIETSEMA Jul 3 - Aug 8, 2010 CUBITT GALLERY, 8 Angel Mews, Islington, N1 9HH 0207 278 8226 Wed-Sun, 12-6 http://www.cubittartists.org.uk ... 4. Saturday Talks: Stuart Comer Saturday 3 July 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 ... 5. Acoustic Images Saturday, July 3, 2010, 3:50pm - 5:30pm, NFT3 - British Film Institute - Southbank Following the success of last year's event, the British Film Institute welcomes back the Royal College of Art group Acoustic Images, who encourage experimental and commercial application of innovative visual and sonic arts. Since its inception on the MA in Communication Art & Design course, it has continually produced striking work, from such graduates as Karen Mirza (No.w.here Lab) and Sophie Clements (winner of Jerwood Moving Image Award). This programme will comprise new work and live performances by graduating students, and from tutors Jon Wozencroft (Touch), Nicky Hamlyn, Jennifer Nightingale and Russell Mills, in an afternoon of provocative audio-visual suprises. Please note - the show starts at 15.50 and will be followed by a small reception and drinks in the bar. Tickets are available through the BFI box office and is in co-ordination with SHOW 2 at the Royal College of Art - 25th June to the 4th July http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/events/acoustic_images BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT ... 6. ICARUS AT THE EDGE OF TIME London Philharmonic Orchestra, Brian Greene, Philip Glass, Al and Al & Marin Alsop 3rd July, 7.30pm 4th July, 2pm & 4pm Icarus at the Edge of Time is a futuristic reimagining of the classic Greek myth set in outer space, based on a stunning book by the world-renowned physicist Brian Greene. Featuring a brand new score by Philip Glass, this European premiere is performed live by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by MarinAlsop with a cutting-edge film by Al and Al. Discover the boy who challenges the awesome power of a black hole and the unyielding forces of Einstein's general relativity. The first half of the concert features John Adams' Doctor Atomic Symphony, an orchestral distillation of Adams' powerful opera about the life of Dr J Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who developed the atomic bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Narrated by David Morrissey New score by Philip Glass Performed live by London Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Marin Alsop Film by Al + Al Story by Brian Greene Story adapted by Brian Greene and David Henry Hwang Commissioned and produced by World Science Festival (New York) and Southbank Centre (London) with the Royal Society. Co-commissioned by Associazione Festival dell Scienza, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Glasgow Concert Halls. Co-presented by Southbank Centre and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Scottish Arts Council and Arts Council England through the Sustain fund. Tickets: £30 £22 £17 £13 £10 Royal Festival Hall, Southbank ... 7. Shortends: Film Production Degree Show 2010 A collection of short films by Film Production Graduates of the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. Tue 6 Jul 13:00 – 18:00 Cine Lumiere, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT ... 8. Close-Up: American Portraits Tuesday 6 July 2010 - 8pm From gay hustler Jason Holliday to jazz legend Chet Baker, this series compiles four unique films portraying the lives of eccentrics, artists, bank robbers, musicians, transvestites, whether unknowns or icons of American culture. PORTRAIT OF JASON, Directed by Shirley Clarke, 1967 | USA | 99 mins | B&W Portrait Of Jason is the raw record of a confessional conversation with gay African-American hustler Jason Holliday about his life and times. A disturbing and fascinating document, it unflinchingly observes Holliday conversing, performing, confessing, dissolving. Shirley Clarke was a key figure in the American avant-garde and has been an influence on filmmakers and video artists over the last 40 years. Portrait Of Jason is a counter-culture classic and a landmark in American independent cinema. Time: 8pm, Doors open at 7.45pm Venue: Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB Ticket: £5/FREE to Close-Up members ... 9. Tracing the Line Experimental film and video works exploring the relationship between film and drawing practice are brought together in a screening complementing the current exhibition Nothing is Forever. Ranging from early animation through to contemporary video made with computer manipulation, the featured works embrace a broad spectrum of techniques including drawing directly on celluloid and the use of chance as a creative process. Includes works by George Barber, Sebastian Buerkner, Oskar Fischinger, David Haxton, Takahiko Iimura, Joan Jonas, Len Lye, Stan Vanderbeek and Lawrence Weiner. Films: David Haxton, Drawing Cubes, 1982, 16mm, 10 min. Len Lye, Colour Cry, 1952, 16mm, 3min 52 Joan Jonas, Brooklyn Bridge, 1988, video, 6min Amy Granat, Ghostrider, 2006, 16mm transferred on DVD, 3min Oskar Fischinger , Koloraturen, 1932, 16mm, 2min Oskar Fischinger, Alegretto, 1936, 16mm, 3min George Barber, Automative Action Painting, 2007, video, 6 min Takaiko IImura, Kiri, 1970, 16mm, 5 min Laurence Weiner, Blue Moon Over, 2001, video, 5min Stan Vanderbeek, Mankinda, 1957, 16mm, 10 min Sebastian Buerkner, Peak Project, 2005, video, 6min
This screening is supported by LUX and Lightcone, Paris. This screening is also shown on 18 August, 7pm £5/3 conc Bookings recommended. Please call the gallery on 020 77036120 South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH ... 10. THE WIRE SALON: BLOW UP: THE LEGACY OF BOMB CULTURE THURSDAY 8th July 2010 Times : 8pm Tickets : £4 Ticket on the door only A monthly series of salon events, hosted by The Wire magazine, and dedicated to the fine art and practice of thinking and talking about music. The evenings, which take place on the first Thursday of each month, will consist of readings, discussions, panel debates, film screenings, DJ sets and even the occasional live performance. The series continues in July with an event that examines the collision of auto-destructive art, proto-psychedelia, free jazz, noise and sound poetry that occurred at the fringes of the UK's swinging 60s counterculture. Author/musician David Toop, curator Mathieu Copeland, and Syd Barrett biographer Rob Chapman, author of A Very Irregular Head, will lead a discussion on the practices and philosophies that linked such quintessential underground figures as artists John Latham and Gustav Metzger, free jazz pioneer Joe Harriott, Pink Floyd, improvisors John Stevens and AMM, composer Annea Lockwood, and sound/text poet Bob Cobbing. The panel will also debate how their work continues to impact on today's radical artists and musicians. Plus, screenings of the original 16mm prints of films by 60s experimental film maker Jeff Keen, including the legendary Marvo Movie; and Edwin Pouncey spinning Othersounds of the 60s. This event is part of Blow Up: Exploding Sound And Noise (London-Brighton, 1959-69), a new exhibition which investigates the crosstalk between underground artists from different disciplines who were active in the south of England in the 1960s, including John Latham, Joe Harriott, Syd Barrett, AMM and Bob Cobbing. The exhibition, which has been curated by The Wire's David Toop and Tony Herrington, runs at Flat Time House, John Latham's former home and studio in South London, between 24 June-25 July. In addition, on 1 July David Toop will give a talk on John Latham's life and work at London's Whitechapel Gallery. Flat Time House http://www.flattimeho.org.uk Cafe OTO, 18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London E8 3DL ... 11. Kilburn Festival - Fiesta 2010 Rare artist films and videos from Mexican and Spanish artists will be shown at the Films at Kilburn Festival -Fiesta 2010, con sabor latino americano -on Thursday 8 July. The programme begins at 4.30pm with an introduction from Mexican artist Javier Calderon, and, after Cascabel (1976) a moving film about the descendants of the Mayas , there is an evening full of artist films including Joyeria de Fantasia from a Mexican artists' collective, Voices without sound, about London , Foxes by Hector Castell and The Door (Leonardo Machado). 4.30 pm 8 July (donations). Kingsgate Community Centre, 107 Kingsgate Rd., London NW6 2JH. Also our annual programme from the Kingsgate Workshops Trust on Friday July 9th with the theme of beauty, transience and sensuality. This is curated by artist Nicola Lane and features a rare screening of a Frida Kahlo documentary accompanied by short films by Kingsgate artists Tereza Stehlikova, Kaz Takabatake and others. 6 p.m. 9 July. (donations) Kingsgate Community Centre, 107 Kingsgate Rd., London NW6 2JH. ... 12. LUX EVENING COURSE : Opening up the Archive – a Guided tour of Artists Moving Image - back by popular demand! 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 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 every Tuesday night from September 21st to October 26th 2010, 7pm - 9pm at LUX Offices in Dalston, East London. Course fees are £80/£60 concessions To book a place on the course or for further questions please contact Silvia McMenamin silvia@lux.org.uk ... 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 ... To add your London artists' moving image event to the LUX weeklynewswire and London events calendar please email information to |
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