Date: July 8th 2010
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1. 10 July 12pm, JOHN AKOMFRAH: MNEMOSYNE at the BFI Southbank Gallery 2. 10 July 3pm, Saturday Talk: Beatrice Gibson at the Serpentine Gallery 3. 11 July 2pm, Serpentine Cinema: CINACT Laure Prouvost and Cara Tolmie at the Gate 4. 13 July 8pm, American Portraits: STRANDED IN CANTON at the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club 5. 14 July 7pm, Robert Breer at the South London Gallery 6. 15 – 16 July 10.30am, PRESENT TECHNOLOGY A Two-Day Symposium Hosted by the Contemporary Art Research Centre at Kingston University 7. 15 July 6pm, The Portable John Latham at the Whitechapel Gallery 8. 15 July 7pm, Gallery Talk with Professor Dr Suzanne Buchan at Parasol Unit 9. 17 July 3pm, Saturday Talk: Gregorio Magnani at the Serpentine Gallery 10. 20 July 8pm, Close-Up: American Portraits: GREY GARDENS at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club 11. 22 July 7pm, FLAMIN Productions: 1 - Elizabeth Price at the Whitechapel Gallery 12. 23 July 8.30pm, Park Nights: Beatrice Gibson at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 13. 24 July 10pm, GRAHAM PARKER, THE FLITTER at SKETCH 14. 24 July 3pm, Saturday Talk: George Clark at the Serpentine 15. 27 July 8pm, Close-Up: American Portraits: LET’S GET LOST at the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club 16. 29 July 7pm, Open Screening at the Whitechapel Gallery 17. LUX Course, Opening up the Archive – a Guided tour of Artists Moving Image 18. LUX ASSOCIATE ARTISTS PROGRAMME 2010/11
1. JOHN AKOMFRAH: MNEMOSYNE 10 Jul 2010 - 30 Aug 2010 Mnemosyne is a new work by Black Audio Film Collective member and seminal filmmaker John Akomfrah which was created as part of Made in England, a partnership initiative developed by Arts Council England and BBC English Regions. Akomfrah was given access to the BBC's television, film and sound archives for Made in England, a project that reflects how England makes art and art makes England. He chose to focus on the experience of migrant labour in the West Midlands to create Mnemosyne, a poetic essay on the themes of memory and migration. Mnemosyne refers to the mother of the nine Muses, the personification of memory in Greek Mythology. The belief was that those souls who chose to drink from the river of Mnemosyne, rather than from Lethe, would remember everything and attain omniscience. Akomfrah's work questions memory and suggests the possibility for endless re-interpretation of historical events by interweaving archival footage from 1960-1981, with contemporary 'portraits' of Birmingham and extracts of new work filmed in a remote snowy landscape. Often referred to as 'film essays', Akomfrah's work involves the creation of quasi-fictional scenarios, a questioning of the evidence that we find in archival material. For Mnemosyne, he used the BBC archives as a starting point to explore attitudes, assumptions and understandings about life in the West Midlands during a key moment in Britain's immigrant history. Material has also been drawn from MACE (Media Archive for Central England) and Birmingham Central Library; joining up archives in this way is one of the pioneering aspects of the project. BFI Southbank Gallery, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XT 12 - 8pm, free admission. ... 2. Saturday Talk: Beatrice Gibson Saturday 10 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, Kensington Gardens London W2 3XA ... 3. Serpentine Cinema: CINACT Laure Prouvost and Cara Tolmie Sunday 11 July, 2pm Laure Prouvost Monolog 2009, 9 mins, HDCAM, colour, sound Recent winner of the 56th Oberhausen Short Film Principal Prize, Monologue is a playful interrogation of the relationships between director, performer, audience and the architecture of viewing. Experimenting with the notion of a captive cinema audience, its wry humour and fast paced editing directly, whilst not didactically, explore the structures of spectatorship. Laure Prouvost, (1978, Lille, France), is an artist and filmmaker who lives and works in London, UK. She graduated from Central St Martins College of Arts in 2002 and is now completing her MFA at Goldsmiths College. She has been part of the LUX Artist Associate Programme. Her work, includes painting, video, sound and site-specific works has exhibited extensively most recently, at BFI, London, Form Content, London, EAST International, Norwich, MOT Gallery, London, Lighthouse, Brighton, Monika Bobinska London, Pulse NY, Zoo Art Fair, LUX, London, NMFP Bradford, Tate Britain. She won the EAST International Award 2009 in Norwich UK. She is also director of tank.tv, the online platform for artists' work in moving image, since 2003. Her videos are distributed by LUX. Cara Tolmie An evening group and the faceless forefathers 2009, 4:32 mins, video, colour, sound As well as video, Tolmie’s practice also spans installation, performance, music, text and spoken word, constructing fictional narratives that deliberately create an interpretive slippage. In An evening group and the faceless forefathers, the camera pans slowly around a model house, while a questioning voice-over explores the protagonists subjective values of community and belonging, projecting an ambiguous sense of identity onto the empty imagined architecture. Room Studies 2010, 18 mins, video, colour, sound , Camera: Steven Cairns I can tell you now that there will be 1. Sounds 2. Words 3. Actions 4. Rooms Shot by Steven Cairns, Room Studies is new video that again utilises architectural models to create evocative environments upon which she overlays spoken word and music. A series of interior ‘sets’ are projected as images on stage while Tolmie performs corresponding texts and sound tracks for each, creating multiple imagined interpretations and observations. Cara Tolmie was born 1984, Glasgow, and is currently based in London. She graduated in 2005 from Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee, spent two years on the committee of artist-run gallery Transmission between 2006 and 2008 and is currently one of eight artist's participating in the LUX Associate Artist's Programme 2009/10. Recent exhibitions and events include A Midsummer's day dream, Tramway, Glasgow, 2010, Urlibido, Glasgow, 2010, The Voice is a language, Tramway, Glasgow 2010, 21st Century, Chisenhale, London, 2010, October Show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 2009, Grey Matter, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 2009, Event Horizon at GSK contemporary, Royal Academy, London 2008. The Gate, 87 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JZ gate@picturehouses.co.uk Tickets £6/£5 Tickets available from The Gate or http://www.picturehouses.co.uk ... 4. American Portraits: STRANDED IN CANTON Close-Up: American Portraits STRANDED IN CANTON Directed by William J. Eggleston 1974 | USA | 76 mins | B&W “Shot in 1974 with a Sony Porta-Pak, the crazily careering Stranded in Canton documents a cast of hard-drinking Southerners with the intimacy, ease and instability of a seasoned participant. Whifs of Southern Gothic are not new to Mr Eggleston’s work, but here they rise to the surface - fierce, tragic and proud.” — New York Times This pioneering film has been newly restored and reformed by the director and made available for the first time, almost 35 years after it was made. Ticket: £5/FREE to Close-Up members Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB ... 5. Robert Breer Clore Studio 14 July & 25 August at 7pm Curated and presented by Marie Canet, this screening features films by prolific American artist and film-maker Robert Breer who was pivotal in merging cinema and collage, mechanics and sculpture. Robert Breer, 77, 1977, 10min Robert Breer, T.Z, 1979, 8.30 min Robert Breer, Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons, 1980, 6min Robert Breer, Bang!, 1986, 8min Robert Breer, A Frog on the Swing, 1989, 5min The screening will be preceded by Isabelle Cornaro's film Projection, 2009, a series of cinematic sketches of red, yellow and blue paint on cardboard. Bookings recommended. Please call the gallery on 020 77036120 http://www.southlondongallery.org £5/£3 concessions South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH ... 6. PRESENT TECHNOLOGY A Two-Day Symposium Hosted by the Contemporary Art Research Centre at Kingston University The popular motive for users and manufacturers of lens-based technology (photography, film and video) is to transparently record a subject without an awareness of the camera apparatus, film material or pixellated screen. However, technological advances towards ever-more seamless simulations have not prevented radical artistic interventions with equipment and media. This two-day event is being organised by Emma Hart and Dan Hays in connection with their practice-based doctoral research in the Contemporary Art Research Centre. The aim is to bring together artists directly engaged with image-making technology, variously exploring its potential to extend experience of time and space, offering new meanings arising from its limitations, flaws and persistent materiality. Invited artists will screen or present selected works in a large informal studio setting. OUT FROM THE VIDEO Thursday 15th July 2010, 10.30am - 5pm When we watch a video or film, we understand it as coming from the past; someone, somewhere hit a record button and, like the photograph, the moving image becomes a description of something that happened. Yet some video and film works act to complicate, ignore, if not smash, their status as an index. Through facets of the moving image itself their retrospective record aspect is challenged, negated or made irrelevant. The day will include screenings, performances and presentations from an exciting range of artists and writers considering how the tense of moving image work can be pushed out from the past and into the present. A finale panel discussion seeks to bring together the selected works and their makers to explore questions around the experiential impact of a direct address to the viewer and its different forms. We will also consider what happens when the subject of a video is the process of making that video. How does that alter the temporal address to the vi ewer? Ultimately we will investigate how a moving image can act on the world, and not just describe it. Presenting artists: Benedict Drew, Emma Hart, Gil Leung, Laure Prouvost, Lucy Reynolds (who will also chair the discussion) and John Smith. SCREEN AS LANDSCAPE Friday 16th July, 10.30am - 5pm The discoveries of science, and the intrusions of technology within our environment, offer new paradigms, profoundly extending human perception and reach in spatial and temporal dimensions. Is the genre of landscape ideally placed to tackle debates around technology and human subjectivity – its relevance and poignancy heightened through our desire for control over, and consequent separation, from nature? Will humankind be consumed by the technological sublime, lost in a virtual wilderness: prismatic and poetic sensibilities integrated perfectly into code? Or is it vital or reassuring to engage with visual material and processes that reveal the flaws and limitations of technological representation, in a sense humanising it, giving the ubiquitous screen tangible form? Presenting artists: Beth Harland, Andy Harper, Dan Hays, Lizzie Hughes, Malcom Le Grice, and Guy Sherwin. Location: 4th Floor Fine Art Studios, Knights Park Campus, Kingston University, Grange Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2QJ Both days are free. To reserve a place please RSVP, specifying either one day or both, to our contact email: presenttechnology@gmail.com Visit the website for more information: http://www.presenttechnology.info ... 7. The Portable John Latham 15 July 6pm – 9pm To coincide with the exhibition John Latham: Anarchive Occasional Papers - in association with Whitechapel Gallery - is pleased to announce the launch of The Portable John Latham A collection of unpublished or rarely seen documents from the John Latham Archive. Edited by Antony Hudek and Athanasios Velios Funded by Ligatus/Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London With the support of Cassochrome, the John Latham Foundation and the AHRC Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street , London, E1 7QX T +44 (0)20 7522 7888 ... 8. Gallery Talk with Professor Dr Suzanne Buchan Thu 15 Jul 19:00 Professor Dr Suzanne Buchan (Professor of Animation Aesthetics, University for the Creative Arts) will discuss the visual affinities that correspond between Tabaimo's work and the contexts of high/low art economies, animation aesthetics and spatial politics. £5 / £3 concessions . Booking for events is essential due to limited spaces. To guarantee your place please book on 0207 490 7373 or email events@parasol-unit.org Parasol unit, 14 Wharf Road London, N1 7RW ... 9. Saturday Talk: Gregorio Magnani Saturday 17 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. Curator Gregorio Magnani will present a talk about the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. Serpentine Gallery ... 10. Close-Up: American Portraits: GREY GARDENS 20 July 8pm GREY GARDENS Directed by Albert & David Maysles 1976 | USA | 94 mins | Colour High-society dropouts, Big and Little Edie Beale, were the reclusive cousins of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. The Maysles’s documentary captures the mother and daughter at home amid the crazy decay and disorder of their ramshackle East Hampton mansion. This impossibly intimate portrait of the unexpected established Little Eddie as fashion icon and philosopher queen. £5/FREE to Close-Up members Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB ... 11. FLAMIN Productions: 1 - Elizabeth Price 22 July 7pm Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network’s (FLAMIN) Productions Fund award winner Elizabeth Price reflects on her process, showcases her research and the work that has influenced her, prior to showing her completed film in January- March 2011. In association with Film London. The Film Programme is curated by Ian White. Tickets: £6 Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX ... 12. Park Nights Projects - Park Nights: Beatrice Gibson Friday 23 July, 8:30pm Premiere: The Future's Getting Old Like The Rest Of Us (45mins) by Beatrice Gibson, in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 designed by Jean Nouvel. The Future’s Getting Old Like The Rest Of Us is a 16mm film conceived in the format of a TV Play and set in an older people’s care home. Part documentary, part fiction, the script for the film was a collaboration between Beatrice Gibson and writer and critic George Clark, and was constructed from transcripts of a discussion group held over a period of five months with the residents of four of Camden's Care Homes. Taking B.S. Johnson's 1971 experimental novel House Mother Normal as its formal departure point and employing the logic of a musical score, the script is edited into a vertical structure, featuring eight simultaneous monologues. The Future's Getting Old Like The Rest Of Us features actors Roger Booth, Corinne Skinner Carter, Janet Henfrey, Ram John Holder, Anne Firbank, John Tilbury, William Hoyland and Jane Wood. The film is one of five commissions that have taken place as part of the Serpentine Gallery’s Skills Exchange Project in which artists, designers and architects work in collaboration with older people, care workers, young people and activists to develop ideas for social and architectural change. Park Nights Park Nights is an annual series of music, theatre, performances, talks and film screenings stages on Friday nights in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, this year designed by Jean Nouvel. Park Nights culminates on the weekend of 16 and 17 October with Map Marathon, the latest in the Serpentine's series of Marathon events, conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Tickets £5/4 Available from the Gallery Lobby Desk or Ticketweb: (0)8444 771 000 http://www.ticketweb.co.uk Serpentine Gallery Pavilion ... 13. GRAHAM PARKER: THE FLITTER Jul 24 - Sep 18, 2010 New multi-screen installation SKETCH , 9 Conduit St, W1S 2XG 020 7659 4500 Tue-Sat 10-5 ... 14. Saturday Talk: George Clark Saturday 24 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. Writer George Clark will present a talk about Beatrice Gibson’s project at the Serpentine Gallery. Serpentine Gallery ... 15. Close-Up: American Portraits: LET’S GET LOST 27 July 8pm LET’S GET LOST Directed by Bruce Weber 1988 | USA | 120 mins | B&W Let’s Get Lost is Bruce Weber’s stunning documentary about the late jazz great, Chet Baker. Weber and crew filmed Baker on the road from West to East Coast USA to Continental Europe, during the last year of the musician’s life. Amid candid interviews with Baker, fellow musicians, friends, battling ex-wives and children, Weber cuts in footage of Baker’s last recording sessions, excerpts from movies starring the handsome young Chet and rare archive performance footage. £5/FREE to Close-Up members Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB 16. Open Screening 29 July 7pm Your chance to show and discuss your work with peers and a guest host. Take part: film@whitechapelgallery.org Free event. Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX ... 17. 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 ... 18. 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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