Date: March 11th 2010
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4. 13 March 1pm, Luis Ospina: Director in Focus at Birkbeck Cinema 5. 13 March 2pm, Symposium: ‘Considering the work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila’ at BSG House 6. 13 March 3pm, PhotoFilm Programme Five: The Photo Novel at Tate Modern 8. 13 March 7pm, PhotoFilm Programme Six: The Plasticity of the Moment at Tate Modern 10. 14 March 10am, Workspaces: Ali Cherri, recent video works at the Delfina Foundation 11. 17 March 7pm, 'Visions, Divisions and Revisions: Political Film and Film Theory in the 1970s and 80s': Deux Fois (1969) by Jackie Raynal, Screening and discussion with Marina Vishmidt and Nina Power at Raven Row ... 1. Ben Rivers at Kate MacGarry Private View Thursday 11 March 2010, 18.00 - 20.00 12 March - 2 May 2010 For his first exhibition at the gallery Ben Rivers has assembled a dwelling from discarded and reclaimed building materials. Inside, his film Origin of the Species (2008) offers a clandestine portrait of an elderly man living in a ramshackle cottage in the wilderness of the Scottish highlands. The man devises his own technologies for day-to-day subsistence while pondering the workings of the universe and the scope of human knowledge. Although there seems a vast discrepancy between Big Bang theory and animal trapping, the voiceover forays into such grand universals as evolution and epistemology, bridging this gap through ruminations on the experience of nature. Rivers’ film is made using an old Bolex camera, which imparts a quality that cannot be digitally constructed. At times the blissed-out end of a reel is left apparent as errant bursts of yellow and orange light obliterate the image. Scratches similarly draw us back to the film’s surface and emphasise the mechanical nature of its coming into being. Just as the man wonders at the destructive results of the too-quick evolution of the human brain, the near-obsolescence of film confirms this pace of change; and as his retreat from civilisation takes on the characteristics of an idyll, Rivers’ own shack reminds us of the awkward reality of this. Origin of the Species is unflinchingly beautiful, without irony or sentimentality. As an artist working with film, though, Rivers is careful to put its nostalgic qualities to more testing use. His studies of the contingent lives of others are as much to do with investigative anthropology, as they are utopian escapism. Ben Rivers born Somerset 1972 lives and works in London. Rivers’ previous solo exhibitions in the UK include: A World Rattled of Habit at A Foundation, Liverpool, 2009; Slow Action/Origin of the Species, Picture This, Bristol, 2009; On Overgrown Paths, Permanent Gallery, Brighton and The Regency Town House, Hove, 2008. In 2008 his work was screened as part of Nought to Sixty, at the ICA, London and at the 52nd BFI London Film Festival. Rivers won the Tiger Award at the 2008 International Film Festival Rotterdam and is recipient of the London Artist Film and Video Award (LAFVA). Origin of the Species was funded by Arts Council England, with the support of Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network. Thanks to Measure, http://www.measure.org.uk and A Foundation, Liverpool. Kate MacGarry, 7a Vyner Street, London E2 9DG For more information please contact the gallery: mail@katemacgarry.com or 020 8981 9100. ... Private view: Friday 12 March 2010, 6.30-10pm 13 March - 11 April 2010 Anna Baumgart, Florian Wüst, Gerda Leopold, Łukasz Ronduda, Ştefan Constantinescu, Tereza Bušková, Karen Mirza and Brad Butler Florian Wüst, Oberwasser, 2009 All that remains... The Teenagers of Socialism presents a young generation of artists from Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania and the UK exploring ‘all that remained’ once the political system of their childhood had disintegrated. In relation to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the exhibition seeks to address the complexities of the effects of the decline of Socialism in Eastern Europe, which has been disruptive - if not traumatic - for a generation of artists who were in their mid and late teens when the first bits of crumbling concrete sparked an avalanche of revolutions in Eastern Europe. This young generation of ‘Socialists’ had to transform into ‘Capitalists’ in the midst of their adulthood. For some of them socialism became a ghostly figure linked to childhood memories, social relations and oral history - living images glued into memory like photographs in a family album. The exhibition will showcase works, many of them previously unseen in the UK, from a variety of artists based in both the East and West countries: Anna Baumgart (Poland), Florian Wüst (Germany), Gerda Leopold (Germany), Łukasz Ronduda (Poland), Ştefan Constantinescu (Romania and Sweden), Tereza Bušková (Czech Republic and UK) and Karen Mirza and Brad Butler (UK). Exhibition curated by Maxa Zoller. Waterside Project Space Unit 8, Waterside 44-48 Wharf Rd, London N1 7UX Thursdays - Saturdays: 12-6pm Sundays: 12-4pm , other times by appointment More information at http://www.watersideprojectspace.org, wps@watersideprojectspace, 02071935440. ... Friday 12 March 2010, 19.00 This programme, including films by Hollis Frampton, Silke Grossmann, Shelly Silver, Esaias Baitel and Sean Snyder, focuses on the image, the process of finding and conceiving it, the act of taking and then describing it. Film requires the linear sequencing of photographs, which these filmmakers use to develop an analytical discourse. Programme duration 90 min .,Tate Modern Starr Auditorium £5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended. A season ticket is available for the Photofilm series, £20/£15 concessions. Please tel. 020 7887 8888 to book. ... Sat 13 Mar 13:00 – 21:00 Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina has been directing films for over 40 years. His documentary work has focused on the exploration of the genre as a subjective one in which fiction and non-fiction intermingle. By resorting to humour as a strategic language to communicate the contradictions inherent in a society structured according to the heritage of colonial hierarchies (which are forcibly racist and elitist), Ospina together with Carlos Mayolo, was able to reflect on his situation as an outsider in the scope of the stunted Colombian film industry, but also, in the even larger scope of the society that generated it. Programme and Q&A: Cali as the scenario: Mayolo-Ospina Films Oiga vea by Carlos Mayolo and Luis Ospina, 1972 Cali: de película by Carlos Mayolo and Luis Ospina, 1973 Agarrando pueblo (The Vampires of Poverty) by Carlos Mayolo and Luis Ospina, 1978 Andres Caicedo: unos pocos buenos amigos by Luis Ospina, 1986 Un tigre de papel by Luis Ospina, 2007 Q&A: 6.30-7.45 pm, with Luis Ospina, chaired by Rory O’Bryen The event is free but places are limited. Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD ... Saturday 13 March, 2-5 pm Location: BSG House, 226-236 City Road, London EC1V 2TT, nearby to Parasol unit. £12/£9.50 concessions (includes refreshments) This symposium, moderated by Ziba Ardalan de Weck, Director of Parasol unit and Curator of this exhibition, will explore the implications of the work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila. Speakers: Steven Bode is Director of Film and Video Umbrella, London, a curatorial and production agency that has been active in the UK since 1988, developing film, video and electronic media projects with British and international artists, in collaboration with a broad range of exhibition venues throughout Great Britain. In recent years FVU has facilitated projects by artists including Isaac Julien, Tacita Dean, Ergin Cavusoglu, Gillian Wearing, and others. He has worked with Tate, Ikon Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, BFI Southbank, and the Hayward Gallery, as well as many other venues.Maeve Connolly is a Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts, Institute of Art, Design & Technology, and Dublin. Her research focuses on concepts of public space in contemporary art and culture and her publications include The Place of Artists' Cinema: Space, Site and Screen (Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 2009) and a co-edited collection of texts and artists' projects entitled The Glass Eye: Artists and Television (Project Press, 2000). Her writing on art and film has appeared in journals such as Afterimage, Artforum, Art Monthly, CIRCA, Contemporary, Frieze, Screen, Third Text and Variant. Taru Elfving is an Associate Tutor in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths University of London. She is currently curating Contemporary Art Archipelago, an international exhibition project as part of the program of Turku 2011, European Capital of Culture. Elfving is regarded as an expert on Ahtila’s practice and has written extensively on her work. Isaac Julien is a British artist and filmmaker whose work incorporates different artistic disciplines, including film, dance, photography, music, theatre, painting and sculpture, and uniting them to create a unique poetic visual language in film installations. His 1991 film Young Soul Rebels won the Semaine de la Critique prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Julien was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001 for his films The Long Road to Mazatlán (1999) and Vagabondia (2000). In 2008 Julien collaborated with Tilda Swinton on a biopic about Derek Jarman, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival the same year. Booking is essential due to limited spaces. To book, contact Asha Burchett on 020 7490 7373 or email: events@parasol-unit.org ... Saturday 13 March 2010, 15.00 The narrative photofilms in this programme are time crystals in which different worlds appear next to, or even inside each other. Films by Raul Ruiz, Elfi Mikesch, Katja Pratschke and Gusztáv Hámos are photo novels that quote the history of cinema and experiment with narrative forms. Programme duration 90 mintage, Tate Modern Starr Auditorium £5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended. A season ticket is available for the Photofilm series, £20/£15 concessions. Please tel. 020 7887 8888 to book. ... Saturday 13 March 2010, 7pm - 9pm Michael Brynntrup, Ditte Haarløv Johnsen, Bernhard Dörries, Ştefan Constantinescu, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim, Zuzanna Janin Ditte Haarløv Johnsen, One Day, 2007 (still) Ditte Haarløv Johnsen, One Day, 2007 (still) This film programme presents a broad selection of short films that focus on the meaning of language beyond its verbal articulation. Six international filmmakers explore the way in which language relates us to the world: language is a means of communication, a matrix of behavioural codes and cultural values, an extention of the body and integral to our identity. But what happens to language when it is displaced? Migration can result in the mutation, or mutilation and even muteness of language. Displacement - geographical, social, or gender-related - creates phoney languages, counterfeit codes that negotiate the gap between the familiar and the foreign. Phoney Language also refers to the central role the telephone (the ‘far sound’) plays in some of the films. The screening is curated by Florian Wüst and Maxa Zoller and accompanies All that remains... the Teenagers of Socialism which runs at Waterside Project Space from 12 March to 11 April 2010. Screening programme: Algier Report, Bernhard Dörries, BRD 1963, 15' Troleibuzul 92, Ştefan Constantinescu, SE 2009, 8' A Shred of Identity, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim, Ghana 2009, 4'30'' Majka from the Movie: Episode ‘Before or After’, Zuzanna Janin, PL 2009, 13' Love, Jealousy and Revenge, Michael Brynntrup, D 1991, 7' One Day, Ditte Haarløv Johnsen, DK 2007, 30' The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Ştefan Constantinescu, Nana O Ayim, Zuzanna Janin, Florian Wüst and Maxa Zoller. The screening will take place at no.w.here 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, E2 0AG Tickets £2, allocated on a first-come basis. ... Saturday 13 March 2010, 7pm – 9pm In an era marked by the capacity to capture an infinite number of pictures in the same instant, we are able to see a moment from many different perspectives. This programme brings together films by Jean Eustache, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Tim Macmillan, that allow us to encircle and enter into a moment. Programme duration 90 min ., Tate Modern Starr Auditorium £5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended A season ticket is available for the Photofilm series, £20/£15 concessions. Please tel. 020 7887 8888 to book. ... Artprojx presents : ‘W.O.W. Noumenon Dilation: Reduced to 3’, a performance by Tai Shani. Sat 13 Mar 23:45 – Sun 14 Mar 2010 00:45 This fantastical new project consists of a re-working of ‘World on a Wire’, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s television adaptation of Daniel F. Galouye’s science fiction novel, ‘Simulacron 3’. To mark the dimensional, space-time shift phenomenon due to occur that night ‘W.O.W. Noumenon Dilation: Reduced to 3’ is a live teleportation of Fassbinder’s anti-hero from ‘The New Orpheum Theatre’, a fictional cinema, to the magnificent, art deco auditorium of the Rio Cinema in Dalston. Travelling through degrees of fiction and temporality, he will materialise into three time machines, three body doubles, collapsing, colliding and forever reproduced. The performance incorporates a specially commissioned film by LA based artist Damon Packard, CCTV footage, animations, a Fassbinder Chorus Line and a Greek chorus. This piece continues on from a series of large-scale, cinematic performances that contain science fiction themes, such as time travel and parallel universe realities. Tai Shani’s work explores the structure of fiction, the cinematic memory and its corruption of innate memory as well as the relationship between various mediated and simulatory channels, the limits of their agency and the ‘real’. "But Tai's work isn't just a fun mix of all the cool 60's sci-fi look; she's also interested in presenting some of the forgotten or overlooked areas of sci-fi, questioning what writers chose to document and what history chooses to remember. I like the idea that Tai's interest in science fiction allows her to create a non-linear narrative thread scooped out from historical material that reflects alternative notions of the future. It's as if she's merging these versions together to create her own hybrid image and narrative." - Gemma De Cruz, Art and Music "There is also a certain humility in works such as 'Empire & Daughter Isotope' since Shani does not remove herself from the league of fantasists: she too might be subject to the aspirations for a thrilling desire that never quite delivers when implemented. But even if the subject matter talks of a certain loss in enacting desire, a kind of absurd anti-climax then, in contrast, her performances often afford the audience exactly the opposite experience. They deliver a riveting thing to live through that we rarely associate with performance art." - Ken Pratt, Wound MagazineTickets £7.50 (£5 concs, artists, students, curators, critics) Rio Cinema, Dalston, 107 Kingsland High Street, London E8 Tel. 020 7241 9410 ... Mon 15 Mar 10:00 – 18:00 Workspaces 10 - 19 March 2010 A collaboration with Visiting Arts With participants in Artist-to-artist 2010: Doa Aly, Volkan Aslan, Ali Cherri, Robin Deacon, Delta Arts, Iz Oztat, and the Western Alliance. What is an artist studio today? Artist-to-artist participants explore ideas around collaboration, mobility and site-specifity in relation to their working environments. The space where artists work often represents an interface for their professional practice, in which four components play an important role: social architecture, spatial architecture, peer exchange and cultural context. Workspaces proposes to look atartists’ relationships to their working environment, considered both in a spatial and interpersonal sense. How are artistic workspaces reshaped by international mobility? How does the place where one lives influences one’s practice? Have identification and contextualization remained the main two modes through which artists relate to the place where they live and work? Ho w do international artistic networks alter artists’ perception of their immediate environment? How can we update the late 20th century fantasy of an ultra-mobile artistic community, who envisions the ‘world as its studio’, in the light of a new geo-political and environmental order? How are artistic practices, networks and support structures responding to this change? Ali Cherri, recent video works Un Cercle Autour du Soleil (2005), Slippage (2007) and Untitled (2006) 15 - 17 March, 10:00 -18:00 A dialogue between Ali Cherri and Robin Deacon 16 March, 19:00 - 20:00, Arts Bar & Cafe, Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London, E1 6AB All events are taking place at The Delfina Foundation (unless otherwise stated) All events are free. Limited capacity, early rsvp essential: info@delfinafoundation.com The Delfina Foundation 29 Catherine Place, London, SW1E 6DY ... 11. 'Visions, Divisions and Revisions: Political Film and Film Theory in the 1970s and 80s': Deux Fois (1969) by Jackie Raynal, Screening and discussion with Marina Vishmidt and Nina Power. Wed 17 Mar 19:00 – 21:00 Deux Fois (1969) by Jackie Raynal Screening and discussion with Marina Vishmidt and Nina Power. Visions, Divisions and Revisions' revisits the idea of ‘film as a political practice’, as it was conceived, practiced and theorized in the 1970s and 80s in the UK. Over the course of six events we will look at some of the key debates that enlivened these years: the limits of auteur theory and issues around authorship; the use of psychoanalysis in film; the role of the audience; the relation of theory to practice; and different ideas of collectivity. The screening of Deux Fois (1969) by Jackie Raynal will provide another point of access to some of the debates that were circulating during the 70s. Although it was made in 1969, and in France, Deux Fois was screened at the EIFF in 1975. The film constitutes a markedly different approach to film and politics than that practiced by both the Nouvelle Vague and the ‘left bank’ filmmakers (Chris Marker, Agnes Varda, and Alain Resnais). It is also distinct from Godard’s political films of the late 60s. Instead the film looks forward to performance art recorded on film and video, and to political films made by women in the 70s. Raynal described Deux Fois as a film “against editing”, a job which at that time was one of the few open to women in the film industry. The screening will be followed by a discussion on women and labour, and the fate of the women’s movement, with Nina Power and Marina Vishmidt. This programme takes place during the exhibition 'A History of Irritated Material', 25 February to 2 May 2010. Events are free but booking is essential as space is limited. Please emailinfo@ravenrow.org to reserve a place. Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane London, E1 7LS
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