LUX Weekly Newswire

LUX Weekly Newswire 30 July - 7 August

2010-07-30T04:06:19Z

LUX Weekly Newswire

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS

1. 30 July 12pm, AN OVERLOADED TRANSMISSION FROM A QUASI-PERSONAL STELLAR SOURCE at the Flat Time House

2. 30 July 8.30pm, Sleepover at the V&A and Serpentine Pavilion

3. 31 July 3pm, Saturday Talk: Sophie O’Brien at the Serpentine Gallery

4. 1 August 2pm, Serpentine Cinema: CINACT, Claire Hooper NYX 2010 at the Gate

5. 7 August 3pm, Saturday Talk: Beatrice Gibson at the Serpentine Gallery

6. LUX Course, Opening up the Archive – a Guided tour of Artists Moving Image

7. LUX ASSOCIATE ARTISTS PROGRAMME 2010/11

1. AN OVERLOADED TRANSMISSION FROM A QUASI-PERSONAL STELLAR SOURCE

29th July—1st August '10

A live, long form radio broadcast from Sound Threshold in collaboration with Resonance 104.4fm with a new installed work by William Furlong.

30 July - 1 August 2010, Flat Time House

Live broadcast 1 August 6.30 pm to 12 midnight Resonance 104.4fm

A three-day event of conversations, readings and site interventions exploring Flat Time House as a broadcast unit and meeting place, extended in time.

With the participation of Adam and Jonathan Bohman, Daniela Cascella, Lucia Farinati, William Furlong, Ken Hollings, Elisa Kay, Roberta Kravitz, Noa Latham, Richard Thomas, Athanasios Velios, Patrick Wildgust and Mark Peter Wright.

For An overloaded transmission... artists, writers, academics, practitioners, musicians and archivists have been invited to inhabit Flat Time House and discuss distinct notions of time in their various practices. Prompted by John Latham's 1975 essay Time-Base and Determination in Events and his 'Time-Base Theory', An overloaded transmission... will respond to the conceptual structure of Flat Time House as a living object and the event as a transmission. The relationship between archive, time and sound embodied by Latham's archive will be looked at, as well as concepts of time that bring together literature, art, music and science.

In Latham's 1975 essay, he describes how the obscure literary style of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake allows the work to function, portraying the book as a 'quasi-personal stellar source'. In response, each room and part of Flat Time House will be used for recording conversation on site and broadcast on Resonance 104.4fm. In addition, Sound Threshold have specially commissioned two new audio-event pieces: Not Speaking the Language, an outdoor sound installation by artist William Furlong with the recorded voice of John Latham and, Re-Ear a new composition by sonic artist Mark Peter Wright using recordings before and during the event, mixed and played live with the conversations.

http://www.flattimeho.org.uk

Flat Time House, 210 Bellenden Road, London SE15 4BW

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2. Sleepover

Friday 30 July

20.30 – 21.45: V&A Twilight bar and registration

22.00 – 08.00: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

Last admittance: 22.30, Serpentine Gallery

The Serpentine Gallery and the V&A stage a unique overnight event of talks, films, experiments and a midnight feast in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 designed by Jean Nouvel.

Artists, architects and musicians amongst others will host activities throughout the night, exploring ideas of mapping sleep and the psychedelic qualities of insomnia.

Participants include: ÅBÄKE, Charles Arsène-Henry, BEC, Dale Berning, Bompas & Parr, Karl Burke, Eileen Carpio, Celine Condorelli, Heinz Emigholz, Mark Garry, Francesca Grilli, Melissa Gronlund, Darian Leader, John Morgan Studio, Cesare Pietroiusti, Alex Rich, Dr Angelica Ronald, Simon Popper, Lewis Rowland, Laure Prouvost among others.

20.30 - 21.45

• The Sleepover will begin at the V&A with a special Twilight Bar. Enjoy specially created night-cap cocktails and take part on special Twilight tours of the V&A collection. Register and collect your tickets to gain entry to the rest of the event held at the Serpentine Gallery.

• At 21.45, participants will walk from the V&A to the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 designed by Jean Nouvel.

22.00 – 02.00

• A series of artists’ films screened throughout the event.

• A talk by psychoanalyst Darian Leader on sleep disorders, dreams and art.

• A performance by Heinz Emigholz, Sentimental Bombast – Some Panels from the Basis of Make-Up (2010), exploring dreams.

• A mid-night feast by Bompas & Parr, experimenting with the psychedelic qualities of food.

• A performance of sound and lullabies by artist Dale Berning.

02.00 – 05.00

• A series of Insomnia Labs throughout the night, featuring talks, workshops, lectures and discussions on professional insomniacs, the night, dreaming, sleep and the productivity of sleeplessness.

• Insomnia Lab 1: Writer Melissa Gronlund and artist Laure Prouvost will explore the relationship between insomnia and literature

• A music performance of Sending Letters to the Sea, a project by visual artist Mark Garry with composer Karl Burke and musician and vocalist Eileen Carpio.

• Insomnia Lab 2: Psychologist Dr Angelica Ronald and artist Lewis Rowland will run a participatory seminar on why we sleep and the concept of sleep debt.

• Insomnia Lab 3: Dreamed Lecture No. 1 by editor and writer Charles Arsène-Henry, which will use the texture and logics of dreams to address content.

• A breakfast by graphic designer Alex Rich and ÅBÄKE, with an accompanying screening of dream sequences from films and videos.

• Non-Existent Objects (1997-2010), durational installation and participatory project by artist Cesare Pietroiusti, will be installed in the pavilion throughout the night.

• The evening will be documented in a hand made book, collated and designed throughout the night by John Morgan Studio. The book will be hand crafted and will be delivered to participants in the morning. Content for the newspaper will be gathered in workshops run by the Sleepover’s participants and performers throughout the night.

Tickets £35/25

Available from the Gallery Lobby Desk or Ticketweb: (0)8444 771 000

http://www.ticketweb.co.uk

http://www.serpentinegallery.org

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3. Saturday Talk: Sophie O’Brien

Free talk 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 Exhibition Curator Sophie O'Brien will present a talk about the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.

Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA

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4. Serpentine Cinema: CINACT

Claire Hooper NYX 2010

Sunday 1 August, 2pm

Serpentine Cinema presents the UK premier of the Baloise Prize-winning film NYX by Claire Hooper.

Shot on location across Berlin’s modernist U-Bahn network, the film examines the Ancient Greek concept of ‘the night’ to interrogate the semiotic relationships between sleep, death, hallucination and oblivion. Following on from her 2008 film Nach Spandau—a nocturnal architectural lament on the U7 line—NYX uses the same location as a set to represent the underground domain of Nyx, the goddess of the night. Hallucinating and disorientated, the film follows a drunken young man as he is caught in the cross-fire of her aggressive encounters with related gods Hypnos, Nemesis and The Erinyes (Furies).

Claire Hooper was born in 1978 and lives and works in London. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and screenings internationally and recent and forthcoming shows include Time Machine and Anywhere Door, IT Park, Taipei; Art Statements, ArtBasel 41, Basel; Nach Spandau, Hollybush Gardens, London; The Blessing, Sketch, London; An Archaeology, Zabludowicz Collection at 176, London; Galerie Kamm, Berlin; A New Stance for Tomorrow, Sketch, London, Bidoun Artists Cinema, Dubai & Tribeca Grand Screen, New York; Claire Hooper & Mahomi Kunikata, LARM Gallery, Copenhagen. She is the 2010 winner of The Baloise Art Prize 2010, that honours two young artists every year and is presented at the ‘Art Statements’ sector of the International Art Basel fair by a jury of renowned experts.

Tickets £6/£5

Tickets available from The Gate or http://www.picturehouses.co.uk

The Gate, 87 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JZ

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5. Saturday Talk: Beatrice Gibson

Free talk 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.

Artist’s Studio: Beatrice Gibson

The Future's Getting Old Like The Rest Of Us (2010, 45mins)

24 July – 19 September at Sackler Centre of Arts Education
Serpentine Gallery

Screened on the hour

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, Annie 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. Camden Council has co-commissioned the film with the Serpentine Gallery. In addition to the film, stills and scripts will be installed in the new care home, due to be completed in 2012 at Maitland Park.

The Future's Getting Old Like The Rest Of Us will be screened in the Sackler Centre for Arts Education from 24 July to 19 September.

Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens London W2 3XA

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6. 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. Places are limited and only a few places are left. To book a place on the course or for further questions please contact Silvia McMenamin silvia@lux.org.uk

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7. 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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LUX Weekly Newswire 10 - 29 July

2010-07-08T06:01:57Z

LUX Weekly Newswire

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS

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.

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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

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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.

http://www.laureprouvost.com

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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

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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

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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

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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

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17. LUX EVENING COURSE : Opening up the Archive – a Guided tour of Artists Moving Image - back by popular demand!

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

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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 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

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

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LUX Weekly Newswire LUXNEWSWIREjuly2010

2010-07-02T10:24:50Z

LUX Newswire July 2010

Artists' moving image news>>

Contents

1. UK openings
2. Calls
3. Opportunities
4. Publishing
5. LUX news

1. UK OPENINGS

LUX LONDON EVENTS CALENDAR the most comprehensive daily listing of artists' moving image events, screenings and exhibitions in London http://www.lux.org.uk/calendar you can also subscribe to the calendar in any software that uses the ical format (such as apple ical and windows calendar) by entering http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/calendar%40lux.org.uk/public/basic.ics

Following Bauhaus, Artur Zmijewski, A Foundation, Liverpool. 2 July - 14 August. www.afoundation.org.uk

Manual Non Manual Manual, Lucy Clout, International Project Space, Birmingham. 3 - 31 July www.internationalprojectspace.org

Paul Sietsema, Cubitt Gallery, London. 3 July - 8 August. www.cubittartists.org.uk

Early Works, Tony Sinden, Picture This, Bristol. 3 July - 7 August www.picture-this.org.uk

Mnemosyne, John Akomfrah, BFI Gallery, London. 10 July - 4 September www.bfi.org.uk/gallery

Dead Star Light, Kerry Tribe, Arnolfini, Bristol. 17 July - 12 September www.arnolfini.org.uk

Infermental, Focal Point, Southend. 19 July - 4 September www.focalpoint.org.uk

The Flitter, Graham Parker, Sketch, London. 24 July - 18 September victoriab@sketch.uk.com

Hito Steyerl, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh. 29 July - 19 September www.collectivegallery.net

Staged, Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh. 30 July - 15 August www.collectivegallery.net

2. CALLS

CALL FOR ENTRIES
LUX Calls and Opportunities deadline calendar available at www.lux.org.uk/calendar Or subscribe with any calendar programme which uses the ical format (such as apple ical or windows calendar) by entering http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/q9b2oejc8tun8n7vibtnk8vcn0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Madrid/Berlin Deadline: 10 July www.art-action.org/call

Clemont-Ferrard Short Film Festival, France. Deadline: 15 July www.clermont-filmfest.com

Holland Animation Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands. Deadline: 15 July www.haff.nl

New York Film Festival, USA. Deadline: 16 July www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm

Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany. Deadline: 19 July www.filmladen.de/dokfest

Going Underground 9th International Subway Film Festival Berlin, Germany. Deadline: 25 July www.interfilm.de

"Leuven Kort" International Short Film Festival, Belgium. Deadline: 30 July www.shortfilmfestival.org

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland. Deadline: 31 July www.kurzfilmtage.ch/

YouTube Play, A Biennial of Creative Video, YouTube/Guggenheim. Deadline: 31 July www.youtube.com/play

The Swedenborg Short Film Festival, London, UK. Deadline: 31 July www.swedenborg.org.uk

Transmediale Awards 2011, Berlin, Germany. Deadline: 31 July www.transmediale.de/en/node/12942/

3. OPPORTUNITIES

Call for Proposals for Public art commission, La Noche en Blanco, Madrid, Spain. Deadline: 6 July. http://lanocheenblanco.esmadrid.com/call-for-proposals/?lang=en&lang=en

Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival commission, UK. Deadline: 9 July www.berwickfilm-artsfest.com/commissions

Residency: 3 months in Berlin, UK. open to artists based in London, UK. Deadline: 27 July www.artquest.org.uk/projects/three-months-in-berlin.htm

Residency: Fogo Island Arts Corporation, Canada. Deadline: 31 July. www.artscorpfogoisland.ca

Artist in Residence programme for young animation creators (20-35 years old), Tokyo, Japan.
Deadline: 10 September. http://japic.jp

4. PUBLISHING

Postwar: The Films of Daniel Eisenberg. Book published in UK by Black Dog. http://blackdogonline.com/film/postwar.html

Patrick Keiller Boxset. DVD published in France by E.D. Distribution. Includes London, Robinson in Space and the short films www.eddistribution.com

FLUX FILM ANTHOLOGY. DVD published in France by Re:Voir. 37 films by Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins, George Maciunas, Chieko Shiomi, John Cavanaugh, James Riddle, Yoko Ono, George Brecht, Robert Watts, Pieter Vanderbiek, Joe Jones, Eric Anderson, Jeff Perkins, Wolf Vostell, Albert Fine, George Landow, Paul Sharits, John Cale, Peter Kennedy, Mike Parr, Ben Vautier. www.re-voir.com

5. LUX NEWS

Call for Applications. LUX Associate Artists Programme (AAP) 2010/11
Applications are invited for the LUX AAP a 12 month post-academic development course for artists working with the moving image starting in November 2010. Open to artists who are currently resident in the UK and who have graduated from a relevant course of graduate or post-graduate education in the last five years. Deadline: 24th September 2010. for more information and application see www.lux.org.uk/aap

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 from Tuesday September 21st, 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

LUX Artists' Moving Image Survey 2010. The results are now in at http://lux.org.uk/news/results-lux-moving-image-survey-2010

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LUX Weekly Newswire 2 - 8 July

2010-07-02T03:44:45Z

LUX Weekly Newswire

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS

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

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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

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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

info@cubittartists.org.uk

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

http://www.cafeoto.co.uk

Cafe OTO, 18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London E8 3DL

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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.

http://www.kilburnfilms.co.uk

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12. LUX EVENING COURSE : Opening up the Archive – a Guided tour of Artists Moving Image - back by popular demand!

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

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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 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

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

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To add your London artists' moving image event to the LUX weeklynewswire and London events calendar please email information to

newswire@lux.org.uk

LUX Weekly Newswire 25 June - 1 July

2010-06-24T03:23:15Z

LUX Weekly Newswire

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 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

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

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LUX Weekly Newswire 17 - 24 June

2010-06-17T03:12:37Z

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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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LUX Weekly Newswire 12 - 16 June

2010-06-11T03:46:20Z

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS

1. 12 June 12.30pm, The Assistant #2 at the Bearspace Gallery

2. 12 June 3pm, Saturday Talks: Fergal Stapleton at the Serpentine Gallery

3. 15 June 10am, BREDA BEBAN: MY FUNERAL SONG at the Camden Arts Centre

4. 15 June 8pm, Histoire(s) du Cinema at The Working Men’s Club

5. 16 June 7pm, Contort Yourself: In Conversation at the ACME Project Space

6. 16 June 7.30pm, JUNE SALON – A Celebration of the Salon’s journey so far at The Horse Hospital

1. The Assistant #2

Blue Curry responds to Gordon Cheung

4 June - 19 June 2010

BEARSPACE, in association with Peer Sessions, is pleased to present the second in a series of exhibitions entitled The Assistant. The exhibition seeks to pair up an emerging and an established artist with similar concerns, who enter a process of dialogue and negotiation through which the emerging artist produces an exhibition.

The Assistant aims to explore the practices of both artists through this process of exchange, but also to question ideas around the construction of an exhibition, revealing something about the processes an exhibition may go through before it is realised.

A project blog accompanies the exhibition, documenting the process of exchange and decision-making.

Please view and contribute here:

http://theassistant2010.blogspot.com/

BEARSPACE Gallery,152 Deptford High Street, London, SE8 3PQ

Wednesday—Saturday 12.30—5pm

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2. Saturday Talks: Fergal Stapleton

Saturday 12 June

Free talks every Saturday at 3 pm

This spring, prominent critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Nairy Baghramian and Phyllida Barlow.

Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA

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3. BREDA BEBAN: MY FUNERAL SONG

11 June – 5 September, 2010

A new film installation in Gallery 2 by London-based Serbian artist Breda Beban.

My Funeral Song is Breda Beban’s most recent work – a five-screen video installation that will be presented in Gallery 2 alongside an earlier series of films Little Songs To Cry To (2003) in the Reading Room. Each screen in My Funeral Song focuses on one of Beban’s close friends as they listen to the song they would like to have played at their funeral. The simplicity of each portrait heightens attention to subtle gestures and shifts in expression that chart an inner journey, through psychological states of remembering the past and envisioning a future in their absence.

Continuing her interest in use of sound as a narrative device, the project centres on the power of a well-loved song to compress an outlook on life into a telling moment that is at once emotional and thoughtful, melancholic and full of joy. Little Songs To Cry To were filmed spontaneously as ‘home-movies’. These devoted observations of the people closest to Beban are tributes set against the backdrop of a specific soundtrack. Breda Beban was born in Serbia, raised in Macedonia and Croatia and is now based in London. Her work often invokes human experiences of relationships, observing how these are played out in the performance of life.

CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE, Arkwright Rd, NW3 6DG

020 7472 5500

http://www.camdenartscentre.org

info@camdenartscentre.org

Free admission.

Tue-Sun 10-6, Wed 10-9

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4. Close Up: Histoire(s) du Cinema

Jean-Luc Godard’s video series Histoire(s) du Cinema, consisting of eight episodes made over a period of ten years, is an extraordinary look at the medium through the eyes of this unique filmmaker. Hugely ambitious in scope, the series covers a wide range of topics from the birth of cinema to Italian neo-realism to Hollywood and beyond.

HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA - Part 1/3 1a Toutes les Histoires 1b Une Histoire Seule, Directed by Jean-Luc Godard 1988-98 | France | 92 mins | Colour and B&W

Time: 8pm, Doors open at 7.45pm

Venue: The Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB

Ticket: £5/FREE to Close-Up members

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5. Contort Yourself: In Conversation

16 June, 7.00 – 9.00pm

ACME Project Space, Free Event, limited capacity

A panel discussion centred on identity trends and categories explored in the exhibition. The role of curators, critics and art professionals in relation to how trends are generated and operate in the art world will also be considered. The session will be chaired by Dr Alison Rowley, and moderated by Ulrika Flink, RCA CCA (Inspire) Student.

CHAIR: DR ALISON ROWLEY: Reader in Art and Design, Liverpool School of Art and Design.

Dr Alison Rowley is presently at work on a second single authored book titled Common gestures, class acts: studies in ‘young British art’, an analysis of the return in the 1990s of neglected histories of British social and political life since 1945 in key works by artists grouped under the heading ‘yBa’. Dr Rowley’s research interests centers around modern and contemporary art; feminist history, theory and practice in the visual arts and cinema; psychoanalysis and aesthetics; aesthetics and politics and configurations of social class in British art.

SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHIES:

DR ANTHONY DOWNEY: Programme Director, MA Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s Institute

Dr Anthony Downey completed his PhD and is currently researching a book on ethics, politics and aesthetics and the production of knowledge in contemporary art. He sits on the editorial board of Third Text, and is a London correspondent for Flash Art and he has also published essays, criticism and interviews in over twenty different publications and has recently given papers and chaired conference panel.

Prof IRIT ROGOFF: Curator, theorist, and founder of the Department of Visual Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London

Irit Rogoff is a curator, theorist, and organiser who writes at the intersections of the critical, the political, and contemporary arts practices. Her work across a series of new “think tank” PhD programs at Goldsmiths (Research Architecture, Curatorial/Knowledge) is focusing on the possibility of locating, moving, and exchanging knowledge across professional practices, self-generated forums, academic institutions, and individual enthusiasms.

DAVID GRYN: Director, Artprojx

David Gryn is the director of Artprojx which has been promoting artists films since 2001, and has recently expanded his activities by opening an art gallery. He has worked with artists and institutions such as Christian Marclay, Mark Wallinger, Susan Hiller, Willie Doherty, the Gagosian Gallery, White Cube, Matts Gallery, Victoria Miro, the Tate, Prince Charles Cinema, and the Frieze Art Fair.

Limited capacity for all free events. To reserve a seat email: info@contortyourself.org

Acme Project Space, 44 Bonner Road, London E2 9JS

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6. JUNE SALON – A Celebration of the Salon’s journey so far

Doors open at 7, screening begins promptly at 7.30

Come and celebrate the birth of the Salon, reminisce on some of the films we’ve watched and some of the thoughts we’ve shared so far, meet friends old and new alike and toast our first summer together!

featuring moving image work by

Chiara Ambrosio, Rudolf Buitendach, Oliver Cheetham , Veselina Dashinova, Martin Earle , James Rogan, Markus Schroder, Cristoph Steger.

Plus live music by Bird Radio, and spoken word by A.C. Fume

The Horse Hospital , 30 Colonnade, Bloomsbury London, WC1N 1JD

(£5 entry on the door)

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LUX Weekly Newswire 4 - 11 June

2010-06-03T04:59:39Z

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS

1. 4 June 12pm, Contort Yourself: Works by Harold Offeh, Jan Hendrickse and David Blandy at Acme Project Space

2. 4 June 6pm, Mulberry Tree Press Event #4: Emma Hart at SE8

3. 5 June 1.30pm, Film Screenings as part of the exhibition CONTORT YOURSELF at the Rio Cinema

4. 6 June 2pm, Serpentine Cinema: CINACT Adria Julia and Samuel Stevens at the Gate

5. 10 June 7pm, Gallery Talk with Adam Pugh at Parasol Unit

6. 10 June 7pm, The Films of John Latham: EXPRMNTL at the Whitechapel Gallery

7. 11 June 10am, BREDA BEBAN: MY FUNERAL SONG at Camden Arts Centre

8. 11 June 6.30pm, Private View: Gossip, Scandal and Good Manners: Works by Ulises Carrión at the Showroom

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1. Contort Yourself: Works by Harold Offeh, Jan Hendrickse and David Blandy

Curated by the first year MA Curating Contemporary Art (Inspire), Royal College of Art

Private View: Thursday 3 June, 6.00 – 9.00pm Exhibition: 4 June – 27 June, 2010

Open Thurs - Sun, 12.00 - 6.00pm

Contort Yourself brings together the work of three UK based artists who twist, stretch, and reappropriate notions of the construction of the self, through performance, digital video and sound. In exploring the theme of self-realisation, these works playfully critique processes of identity formation and re-formation. The title of the show is inspired by the 1979 underground punk rock classic of the same name by No Wave group James Chance and the Contortions, which imagines the body in an abstract space, where thought and matter become enmeshed. In borrowing this title, the exhibition alludes to multiple categorisations and the warping of cultural specificities.

In Alien Communication Harold Offeh (b. 1977) utilises a variety of lenses to distort his features, magnifying his eyes, lips and teeth to exaggerated proportions whilst referencing historical representations of the ‘other.’ Thus he interrogates the ever- contested site of the body, and latent or forgotten memory.

David Blandy (b. 1978) appropriates humour in The White and Black Minstrel to pose questions about the degree to which the self is formed through immersion in the culture of records, films and television. His clown-like white minstrel figure appropriates a sub- cultural formation and simultaneously explores the inverse of modes of popular cultural stereotyping.

Current Acme Tower Hamlets Studio residency holder Jan Hendrickse (b. 1966) makes work that exists across the boundaries of performance, improvisation, installation and socially engaged practice. Trained initially as a musician, Hendrickse's new commission, Self Portrait, is an interactive sound installation which examines notions of categorisation through visitor participation, making use of the telephone both as generator and transporter of immediate sound and as a self-referential object. Alongside these works additional research documentation offers fragments from the artists’ creative processes: sketches, notes, documents and supplementary material provide a rich frame of reference. The material questions and explores a multitude of influences within perceived spheres of national, popular and personal identities.

An accompanying series of events includes a panel talk discussion at the Acme Project Space on 16th June 2010, with Dr Anthony Downey, Professor Irit Rogoff and David Gryn, as well as the UK film premieres of Guest of Cindy Sherman and My Babushka on 5th June at Rio Cinema, Dalston. Additional information about talks and events held during the exhibition can be found on the following websites: http://www.contortyourself.org & http://www.acme.org.uk/projectspace.php.

Acme Project Space is located in the heart of East London's gallery district at 44 Bonner Road, Bethnal Green, London E2 9JS Tube: Bethnal Green, Central Line Train: Cambridge Heath Buses: D3, D6, 8, 106, 253 & 309

For more information please visit http://www.acme.org.uk.

The exhibition is curated by the first year students on the MA Curating Contemporary Art (Inspire) Royal College of Art. It is a structured two-year course whereby students undertake a professional work placement at a leading contemporary visual arts institution in England alongside their studies. For press queries please contact Amanprit Sandhu or James Neil, amanprit.sandhu@network.rca.ac.uk; james.neil@network.rca.ac.uk.

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2. Mulberry Tree Press Event #4: Emma Hart

Mulberry Tree Press

EVENT # 4 - 4th June 6-9pm

EMMA HART PROJECTS THE FUTURE #1

The performance will start at 8.00pm and will last for approximately 20 minutes. Please note there will be no admittance 'during' the performance time, please arrive early to avoid disappointment.

Emma Hart has made a video that predicts the future. Emma Hart will project what happens next. Emma Hart’s practice is a course of action. Through video and performance she devises anarchic processes for the moving image, rethinking its mode of address and reception. The camera and projector are rejected as passive apparatus and become performative catalysts that inject uncertainty into the notion of original and copy. Based in London, Hart exhibits videos, installations and performs internationally. Her work has been presented at institutions including Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Camden Arts Centre, Battersea Arts Centre, Dundee Contemporary Art Centre and Cell Project Space. Hart also collaborates often with Benedict Drew and their work was part of Nought to Sixty at the ICA, Performa 2009, New York and recently shown at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art.

at SE8 - 171 Deptford High Street, London, SE8 3NU

http://www.se8.org.uk

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3. Film Screenings as part of the exhibition CONTORT YOURSELF

1.30 – 4.45pm, Rio Cinema, Dalston

The first event in the programme will be film screenings of My Babushka (2001) and Guest of Cindy Sherman (2008), with an introduction by a guest film curator.

Both films selected deal with the exhibitions central theme of identity and notions of the self. They also explore wider issues of popular and cultural identity and how these affect notions of the self.

FILMS:

My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities (15) (US 2001) Dir: Barbara Hammer. 52 min. Digital.

This story of the director’s personal journey in search of her ethnic roots, identity, and family history in Ukraine is set against an investigation of civil liberties and cultural difference in a society on the verge of opening itself to the world in the post-glasnost era. Visually compelling and politically incisive, Hammer’s portrait of a nation becomes a deeply personal and socially revelatory document.

Guest of Cindy Sherman (15) – UK PREMIER (US 2008) Dirs: Paul Hasegawa-Overacker & Tom Donahue. 88 min. Digital.

This film takes an eye-opening look at what happens when a sceptical outsider finds himself romantically involved with the ultimate insider. Filmed over 15 years and including interviews with a veritable who’s who of the art and entertainment world (including Ingrid Sischy, John Waters, Robert Longo, Carol Kane, David Furnish, Danny DeVito, and Molly Ringwald), the film paints a vivid picture of the New York art scene that is also a witty, illuminating look at celebrity, male anxiety, and art.

Price: £4, £3 concessions. For further information on film screening email: jareh.das@network.rca.ac.uk

Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High Street, London E8

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4. Serpentine Cinema: CINACT Adria Julia and Samuel Stevens

2pm

Screenings that focus on artists who experiment with the medium of cinema.

Presented in association with Sketch and Picturehouses.

The Gate, 87 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JZ

Tickets £6/5

Available from The Gate 08741 704 2058 http://www.picturehouses.co.uk

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5. Gallery Talk with Adam Pugh

7pm

An independent curator based in Norwich, Adam Pugh was previously Director of Aurora, an annual festival in Norwich which focused on artists who work with moving images. He will discuss the ability of animation to transcend the quotidian and literal, and its growing importance to artistic practice in the wider art world.

Tickets £5 / £3 concessions.

Parasol unit, 14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW

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6. The Films of John Latham: EXPRMNTL

Thursday 10 June, 7pm

EXPRMNTL :

Jud Yakult, UK 1967, 20mins

Unedited Material from The Star, UK 1960, 12mins

Talk Mr Bard, UK 1961, 7mins

The abstract film Talk Mr Bard looks back to pioneering work of Len Lye or Tony Conrad and towards a counter-cultural psychedelia and Unedited Material From The Star is a time-lapse documentation of Latham’s changing book-painting Film Star. The films are shown with rare interviews and other documents and contextualised by guest speakers Anthony Hudek and Athanasios Velios, developers of the Latham Archive.

Tickets: £6/£4

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

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org

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7. BREDA BEBAN: MY FUNERAL SONG

Jun 11 - Sep 5, 2010

A new film installation in Gallery 2 by London-based Serbian artist Breda Beban.

These devoted observations of the people closest to Beban are tributes set against the backdrop of a specific soundtrack. Breda Beban was born in Serbia, raised in Macedonia and Croatia and is now based in London. Her work often invokes human experiences of relationships, observing how these are played out in the performance of life.

CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE

Arkwright Rd, London, NW3 6DG Tel.: 020 7472 5500

http://www.camdenartscentre.org

info@camdenartscentre.org

Free admission.

Tue-Sun 10-6, Wed 10-9

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8. Gossip, Scandal and Good Manners: Works by Ulises Carrión

Private View Friday 11 June 2010, 6.30 – 8.30pm Exhibition continues 12 June - 26 June 2010

Gossip, Scandal and Good Manners is the first solo presentation in the UK of the work of Mexican artist, writer and publisher, Ulises Carrión (1941-1989), curated by the first year MA Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art in collaboration with Martha Hellion. Comprising an exhibition, series of events and publication, the project will invoke the spirit of Carrión’s practice through the activation of his provocative propositions and methodologies.

Incorporating concrete and visual poetry, mail art, videos, sound works and ‘bookworks’, Carrión’s diverse practice focused on language as a raw material and the exploration of alternative forms of distribution and communication. Gossip, Scandal and Good Manners, the video work from which the exhibition takes its title, is built around marginal patterns of everyday information exchange, or gossip.

Carrión’s practice emerged from literary and concrete poetry circles in Mexico before he moved to Europe in the mid-1960s, at which point his work also became associated with Fluxus. He promoted a transnational dialogue with his mail art projects and initiatives such as Other Books and So, active as a bookshop in Amsterdam (1975-1978) and subsequently as an archive. Apart from hosting exhibitions, performances and the making and publishing of artists’ books, the shop also functioned as an informal meeting point for artists and publishers.

Informed by the structure of Other Books and So, The Showroom’s exhibition space will double as a flexible platform for performances, seminars, talks, screenings, and a display of the different elements of Carrión’s practice alongside rare archival material. This material will be presented in a modular display system conceived by Fay Nicolson and Oliver Smith, which takes its inspiration from the cardboard vitrines designed by Martha Hellion for the Fluxshoe exhibition that toured the UK in the early 1970s. The display structure will also house a range of contemporary artist books that continue in the spirit of the ‘bookwork’, as well as re-editioned versions of Carrión's own ‘bookworks’ and contextual material on his practice.

An accompanying publication designed by Fraser Muggeridge Studio will provide documentation of the exhibition project and events programme, together with newly commissioned texts setting Carrión’s work in context. This will be launched on Friday 2 July 2010 at KALEID Editions.

The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ

Opening hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 6pm

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LUX Weekly Newswire LUXNEWSWIREjune2010

2010-06-01T10:41:07Z

LUX Newswire June 2010

Artists' moving image news>>

Contents

1. UK openings
2. Calls
3. Opportunities
4. Publishing
5. LUX news

1. UK OPENINGS

LUX LONDON EVENTS CALENDAR the most comprehensive daily listing of artists' moving image events, screenings and exhibitions in London http://www.lux.org.uk/calendar you can also subscribe to the calendar in any software that uses the ical format (such as apple ical and windows calendar) by entering http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/calendar%40lux.org.uk/public/basic.ics

Mémoire, Sammy Baloji, Dilston Grove, London. 2 June - 4 July. www.cafegalleryprojects.com

Off Ground He, Andrew Kotting, Sketch, London. 5 June - 17 July

My Funeral Song, Breda Beban, Camden Arts Centre, London. 11 June - 5 September www.camdenartscentre.org

Haris Epaminonda, Site Gallery, Sheffield. 11 June - 21 August. www.sitegallery.org

Dead Star Light, Kerry Tribe, Arnolfini, Bristol. 17 June - 12 September. www.arnolfini.org.uk

Persistence of Vision, FACT, Liverpool. 18 June - 5 September. www.fact.co.uk

Jonathan Monk and Douglas Gordon, Lisson Gallery, London. 23 June - 31 July. www.lissongallery.com

2. CALLS

CALL FOR ENTRIES
LUX Calls and Opportunities deadline calendar available at www.lux.org.uk/calendar Or subscribe with any calendar programme which uses the ical format (such as apple ical or windows calendar) by entering http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/q9b2oejc8tun8n7vibtnk8vcn0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Ourense International Film Festival, Spain. Deadline: 15 June www.ouff.org

5th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany. Deadline: 15 June www.literaturwerkstatt.org

Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montreal, Canada. Deadline: 15 June http://nouveaucinema.ca/nouvelles/en/2010/04/call-for-entries-39th-edition/

Lausanne Underground & Music Festival, Switzerland. Deadline: 15 June www.luff.ch

Optica - Festival de Video Arte de Gijon, Spain. Deadline: 18 June www.opticafestival.com

INVIDEO, Milan, Italy. Deadline: 25 June www.mostrainvideo.com

London Film Festival, UK. Deadline: 25 June www.lff.org.uk/

Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden. Deadline: 30 June www.shortfilmfestival.com

L’Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Spain. Deadline: 1 July http://alternativa.cccb.org

3. OPPORTUNITIES

Commission: 2011 Great North Run Moving Image Commission, Newcastle, UK. Deadline 7 June. www.greatnorthrunculture.org/moving-image

Residency: Two Fire Station Residencies, Dublin, Ireland. Deadline: 9 June. www.firestation.ie

Residency: Residency at Physics department, Queen Mary University, London. Deadline: 15 June. The department is now searching for a contemporary artist to be resident for a three month period to produce art inspired by the work of the department and in collaboration with Dr David Berman. A background in fine art with an interest in contemporary conceptual art would be ideal. The artist will have an office in the department during the residency and there are funds to cover costs for materials. The stipend is between £8000 and £6000 depending on the experience of the artist. Send a CV with any weblinks and samples of past work, along with a statement of interests to d.s.berman@qmul.ac.uk

Residency: AIR Taipei, Taiwan. Deadline: 12 June. www.artistvillage.org/en_artist_apply.php

Funding: Film London Artists Moving Image Network Productions. Deadline: 1 July. NB open to artists base in London http://flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=1182

4. PUBLISHING

By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume 2. DVD released in USA by Criterion. www.criterion.com

Resistance(s) 3. DVD published in France by Lowave. The third installment in Lowave's anthology series Resistance(s), presenting experimental films and videos from the Middle East and North Africa. www.lowave.com

5. LUX NEWS

Events

Thursday 3rd June 7pm
New Work UK: Luke Fowler's A Grammar for Listening
Whitechapel Gallery, London. www.whitechapelgallery.org tickets, £6

The series that presents the best of new British work returns with three screenings that focus on the work of a single artist and its context. This screening features the London premiere of Luke Fowler's new film A Grammer for Listening (2009, 60 minutes)

‘Over the centuries, Western culture has relentlessly attempted to classify noise, music and everyday sounds… Ordinary noises and the mundane sounds that are not perceived as either annoying or musical are of no interest.’

How to create a meaningful dialogue between looking and listening? Luke Fowler’s film cycle A Grammar for Listening (parts 1-3) attempts to address this question through the possibilities afforded by 16mm film and digital sound recording devices. In part 1, Fowler furthers his on-going dialogues with the sound artist Lee Patterson (Manchester, England). Parts 1 and 2 evolved from filming and recording trips, whose locations were chosen based on a number of geographic and acoustic possibilities.

Silence dominated “experimental film” of the 1960’s. Sound or musical accompaniment was often dismissed as illustrative, manipulative or redundant. Instead, a return to the experiments of early cinema, concentrated on rhythm, structure and material and thereby considered film’s potential as an art form with its own unique grammar.

Prior to this tendency in film, composer John Cage had foregrounded “silence” within his 1953 composition 4’33. Purging concerts of conventional musical content, he allowed the sounds from outside to come inside and become the focus of the audience’s attention. These foundational ideas, (in parallel with conceptual frameworks outlined by music-concrete pioneer Pierre Schaeffer in France, and latterly with the introduction of the R. Murray Schafer’s world “Soundscape” movement), have led to a burgeoning music scene focused on environmental sound and field recording.

Pierre Schaeffer’s early use of music created entirely with tape recorders and found sounds, posited the concept of the “acousmatic” (or reduced listening). He suggested that sounds should be perceived in and of themselves, stripped of instrumental and cultural contexts, in order to develop a language of purely sonic descriptions. These attempts to cultivate a focused and more thoughtful listening practice frequently supplanted a dominant visual order.

Part 1
Lee Patterson has been making recordings of various forms of underwater life (fish, aquatic plants, insects etc) using homemade hydrophones: “I’ve come to regard such places as special, self contained acoustic spaces with very specific sonic and biological qualities”. Within the film these environmental recordings are complimented by performances to camera involving found objects amplified by contact microphones. Patterson evokes complex, harmonic overtones in electro-magnetically “excited” springs (often found in discarded lighters) to the exploding and shifting micro-sound of burning walnuts.

Part 2
Eric La Casa often consults maps, not in order to locate the habitat of specific species or significant sights but more prosaically to calculate proximity to traffic noise. The aeleatory nature of the routes taken often suggests a drift with the character of an “open investigation” and a broad appreciation for all sound. “The whole of my work consists in finding a center, a listening point in relation to everything which is taking place. The microphones, then, amplify everything that this listening area transmits, that is to say, all the living substances in motion, from the interior of the body to the geophonic exterior”.

Part 3
Toshiya Tsunoda develops an on-going philosophical line of enquiry regarding the art of field recording, as a conceptual act, and that of the relationship between the “field”, the recordist and the audience. During these investigations, he came to think about the meaning of choosing an object to focus on; drawing the conclusion that “perhaps it is similar to a hunter who becomes more interested in shooting the bow than the prey itself”. His recent method of recording begins by fixing a stethoscope with built-in microphones to his and another’s temples: “the two of us sat side by side and made a recording whilst focusing on the landscape in front of us. In this way two people create one stereo sound image. It is about capturing one image with two inputs, which is normally what our eyes and ears do. From the spatial information that is sent to our two ears from our brains, we cannot distinguish the sound which only one of us hears.&rd quo; He concludes: “Recorded material is like a map. It is not a perfect reproduction of the information in the space.”

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LUX Weekly Newswire 29 May - 3 June

2010-05-27T04:10:40Z

LUX Weekly Newswire

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS

1. 29 May 10am, Haris Epaminonda, VOL. VI at Tate Modern

2. 29 May 10.30am, Instances of Serendipity: A Super 8 workshop with Helga Fanderl at no-w-here

3. 29 May 2.10pm , BFI Filmstore Event: Resistance(s) III at BFI Southbank

4. 29 May 3pm, An afternoon with Khalil Joreige and T.J. Demos at Gasworks

5. 30 May 2pm, Centre for Possible Studies: We’re Open! at the Centre for Possible Studies

6. 2 June 6.30pm, Renzo Martens: Episode 3 - 'Enjoy Poverty' at Tate Modern

7. 3 June 7pm, New Work UK: Luke Fowler's A Grammer for Listening at the Whitechapel Gallery

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1. Haris Epaminonda, VOL. VI

29 May – 30 August 2010

In the latest Level 2 Gallery series, Tate Modern's dedicated strand for emerging art, Cypriot artist Haris Epaminonda creates a new installation responding specifically to the architecture of the space. Using layers of imagery and sculpture to create a false history or new journey through time, Epaminonda will transform the gallery into a three-dimensional collage using the gallery space and walls to juxtapose found objects, such as vases and statues, paper collage and video projection.

Free entry.

Tate Modern

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2. Instances of Serendipity: A Super 8 workshop with Helga Fanderl

Sat 29 May 10:30 – 18:00

Helga Fanderl is one of a small number of filmmakers who continues to make serious formal innovations with Super 8. She was introduced to film in the mid 1980s and subsequently studied with Peter Kubelka and Robert Breer. Since the mid 1980s she has completed over six hundred short films. Most of them consist of a single roll of Super 8, lasting around three minutes, but many are shorter, and some but a single shot of a few seconds duration. Uniquely, all the films are edited in-camera. Helga Fanderl’s work is characterised by a fascination with grids, meshes and layers and the complex optical interplay between them. Her films arise from intense observation and a honed improvisatory approach that depends on rapid reactions and spilt second timing.

This workshop is aimed at artists and filmmakers with an empathy to Super 8 as it is an opportunity to hear one of the greatest exponents of Super 8 as a medium, discuss the many themes and concerns arising from her practice and the poetics of her Super 8 filmmaking.

Saturday May 29th 2010, 10:30 – 6pm, £75 per person. Please note that the price includes admission to a screening and discussion between Helga Fanderl and Nicky Hamlyn at no.w.here on the 26th May, 7pm, and film screenings at the Goethe-Institut on Thursday 27 & Friday 28 May, at 7pm. For more information please see http://www.goethe.de/london and http://www.no-w-here.org.uk

no.w.here, 316 - 318 Bethnal Green Road , London E2 0AG

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3. BFI Filmstore Event: Resistance(s) III

29 May 14:10 NFT3,

We mark the release of a new DVD collection of experimental film and video art from the Middle East and North Africa.

To celebrate the release of RESISTANCE III the third volume of a DVD collection of experimental film and video art from the Middle East and North Africa by French DVD label Lowave, we are thrilled to present a programme curated by Silke Schmickl and Christine Sehnaoui. The programme will feature films by artists from a variety of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, showing challenging works that witness the region's complexity, vitality and diversity of creative energies.

The programme will be introduced by Silke Schmickl and we hope to have some of the artists present for a Q&A after the screening. DVD launch reception at the Filmstore after the programme.

Full screening programme:

Fabian Astore & Mireille Astore 3494 Houses + 1 Fence Australia/Lebanon / 2006 / 6'

Basma Alsharif We began by measuring distance Palestine / 2009 / 19'

Larissa Sansour Run Lara Run Palestine / 2'

Ismail Bahri Résonances Tunisia / 2008 / 7'

Halida Boughriet Les illuminés Algeria / 2007 / 1'37

Danielle Arbid This smell of sex Liban-France / 2008 / 20'

Waheeda Malullah Play Bahrein / 2005 / 2'40

Khaled Hafez Revolution Egypte / 2006 / 4'

Nazim DjemaÏ La parade de Taos France/Algeria / 2009 / 19'

BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XT

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4. An afternoon with Khalil Joreige and T.J. Demos

Saturday 29th May 2010, 3pm

An afternoon with Khalil Joreige and art historian and critic T.J. Demos, including a lecture performance, a screening and a conversation.

3pm : LECTURE PERFORMANCE: Aida, Save Me Taking as a starting point an extraordinary incident that took place during the Beirut premiere of Hadjithomas and Joreige's second feature film A Perfect Day (2005), Aida, Save me explores the artists and filmmakers' relationship to the 'latent image'. Accompanied by film samples and visuals, the lecture performance takes the viewer through several of their works, placing the image and its potential at the centre of a discussion about representation and recognition, fiction and documentary.

4pm: SCREENING: The Lost Film (2003, 42 min) A copy of the filmmakers's first feature film disappeared in Yemen on the day of the tenth anniversary of the reunification of North and South. A year later the artists returned, following the track of the lost film. The Lost Film is an enquiry that takes Hadijthomas and Joreige on a personal quest focusing on the image and on their status as filmmakers in this part of the world.

5pm : CONVERSATION: T.J. Demos talks to Khalil Joreige about the themes approached in Aida, Save Me and The Lost Film and opens up the discussion to the public.

Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall Street, London SE11 5RH

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5. Centre for Possible Studies: We’re Open!

Sunday 30 May, 2–8pm

Celebrate the opening of the Centre for Possible Studies in its new location. View excerpts of the Free Cinema School archive and artists in residence Hiwa K, Rania Stephan and others.

Centre for Possible Studies, 64 Seymour Street, London W1H 5BW

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6. Renzo Martens: Episode 3 - 'Enjoy Poverty'

Wed 2 Jun 18:30 – 20:30

Dutch artist Renzo Martens's provocative film Episode 3 - 'Enjoy Poverty' (2009, 90 min) critically investigates the representation of Congolese poverty by pressuring the contradictions of humanitarianism, photojournalism, and concerned contemporary art.

The film asks 'who owns poverty?' and examines the ethics and economics surrounding images of post-colonial suffering.

Following the screening, Martens will be joined in conversation by T.J. Demos and Tamar Garb, both of UCL's Department of Art History.

With support from UCL's Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art, and Wilkinson Gallery

Tate Modern Starr Auditorium £5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended. For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888.

Tate Modern, Bankside, London

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7. New Work UK: Luke Fowler's A Grammer for Listening

Thursday 3 June, 7pm

NWUK is a LUX/Whitechapel series that presents the best of new British work returns with three screenings that focus on the work of a single artist and its context:

The London premiere of Luke Fowler's new film A Grammer for Listening (2009, 60 minutes).

Part 1

Lee Patterson has been making recordings of various forms of underwater life (fish, aquatic plants, insects etc) using homemade hydrophones: “I’ve come to regard such places as special, self contained acoustic spaces with very specific sonic and biological qualities”. Within the film these environmental recordings are complimented by performances to camera involving found objects amplified by contact microphones. Patterson evokes complex, harmonic overtones in electro-magnetically “excited” springs (often found in discarded lighters) to the exploding and shifting micro-sound of burning walnuts.

Part 2

Eric La Casa often consults maps, not in order to locate the habitat of specific species or significant sights but more prosaically to calculate proximity to traffic noise. The aeleatory nature of the routes taken often suggests a drift with the character of an “open investigation” and a broad appreciation for all sound. “The whole of my work consists in finding a center, a listening point in relation to everything which is taking place. The microphones, then, amplify everything that this listening area transmits, that is to say, all the living substances in motion, from the interior of the body to the geophonic exterior”.

Part 3

Toshiya Tsunoda develops an on-going philosophical line of enquiry regarding the art of field recording, as a conceptual act, and that of the relationship between the “field”, the recordist and the audience. During these investigations, he came to think about the meaning of choosing an object to focus on; drawing the conclusion that “perhaps it is similar to a hunter who becomes more interested in shooting the bow than the prey itself”. His recent method of recording begins by fixing a stethoscope with built-in microphones to his and another’s temples: “the two of us sat side by side and made a recording whilst focusing on the landscape in front of us. In this way two people create one stereo sound image. It is about capturing one image with two inputs, which is normally what our eyes and ears do. From the spatial information that is sent to our two ears from our brains, we cannot distinguish the sound which only one of us hears. ” He concludes: “Recorded material is like a map. It is not a perfect reproduction of the information in the space.”

Luke Fowler (1978, Glasgow) is an artist and musician based in Glasgow. He is a former LUX Associate Artist and his films are distributed by LUX.

Tickets: £6.00

box office +44 (0)20 7522 7888

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

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org

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LUX Weekly Newswire 21 - 27 May

2010-05-20T04:23:28Z

LUX Weekly Newswire

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS

1. 21 May 11am, LUMIN presents: PIANO MIGRATION II: Video responsive instrument at 20 Hoxton Square Projects

2. 21 – 23 May 12pm, Live Weekends: Futures and Pasts at the ICA

3. 21 May 2pm, Conversation Pieces: Alia Syed at Tate Britain

4. 23 May 7pm, LIGHT READING SERIES 10: PASSING THE RAINBOW: SANDRA SCHAFER / ELFE BRANDENBURGER at no.w.here

5. 24 May 6.30pm, Elia Suleiman: The Time That Remains at Tate Modern

6. 24 May 7pm, Public Meeting about a new Moving Image Festival in Norwich

7. 25 May 10am, Tabaimo: Boundary Layer at Parasol Unit

8. 26 May 7pm, LIGHT READING SERIES 10: HELGA FANDERL in discussion with NICKY HAMLYN at no.w.here

9. 27 May 7pm, Helga Fanderl Programme Two at the Goethe Institute

10. 27 May 7pm, Open Screenings at the Whitechapel Gallery

11. 27 May 7.30pm, SERPENTINE NEW MUSIC ACTION: PHYLLIDA BARLOW AND FRIENDS at Café OTO

12. 27 May 8pm, Luna Fringe – MIX3 at the Luna Lounge

13. NEW LUX COURSE: Opening up the Archive – a Guided tour of Artists Moving Image

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1. LUMIN presents: PIANO MIGRATION II: Video responsive instrument

THURSDAY 20TH MAY at 20 Hoxton Square Projects (7pm, free entry)

A performance by Kathy Hinde in collaboration with Matthew Olden, Simon McCorry and Nahum Mantra.

The inside of an old upright piano, rescued from destruction, is transformed into a light activated instrument. Video projections move across the surface of the piano strings, triggering small machines to twitch and flutter causing the strings to resonate. For one night, this installation becomes a site for performance. Video projections activate the piano strings, and simultaneously provide a graphic score for improvisation. Audio-visual artist Kathy Hinde is joined by laptop musician Matthew Olden, cellist Simon McCorry and multi-instrumentalist Nahum Mantra to present a performance where image through a series of transformations realised through acoustic sound, live sampling, automata and projections.

The work will then remain in the gallery as an installation for the period 21st-27th May.

20 Hoxton Square Projects
20 Hoxton Square
London
N1 6NT

Opening Hours

Tuesday – Friday: 11am – 6pm
Saturdays: 12pm – 6pm
Sunday, Monday: Closed

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2. Live Weekends: Futures and Pasts

Fri 21 May 12:00 – 23:00, 21 - 23 May 2010

With contributions from leading artists, academics and writers in the field, Futures and Pasts is a long weekend of live art at the ICA exploring the diverse pasts and possible futures of live art and performance. Curated by writer, artist and performance maker Tim Etchells with the aid of artist Ant Hampton and Lois Keidan (Live Art Development Agency) this ambitious event combines marathon lecture performance with a rolling scheme of conversations, interviews and archival investigations alongside speculation as to the future of this vigorous and vital area of contemporary art practice.

Futures and Pasts culminates in a day long Open Space discussion event or public meeting, framed by Phelim McDermott and inviting practitioners, curators and audiences to identify and explore key questions and ways forward for the live art and performance scene in the UK. Futures and Pasts comprises four main strands. You can join as an audience member or participant anytime over the long weekend, moving between parallel events and discussions.

Please note that for Open Space on Sunday 23 May you will need to contact the ICA box office and reserve a place as capacity is limited.

More information and running order:

Friday 21 – Sunday 23 May: Some of the Pasts

Saturday 22 May: Some of the Futures

Sunday 23 May: Open Space Discussion and Action Event

Friday 21 – Sunday 23 May: Performing Wikipedia Friday

21 – Sunday 23 May: Some of the Pasts

Over three days the gallery is transformed as the site of an ongoing investigation on the power of performance, as a succession of invited artists, curators and writers linked to the field frame investigations on the exuberant and influential past of the form. Audiences can arrive anytime, stay, leave and return at any point. Conversations, interviews, slideshows, mini-performances, video-screenings and all kinds of playful hybrid interventions unfold in the gallery as different perspectives on the archive are explored. Personal recollections sit next to attempts at authoritative time lines, inexplicable images and sounds sit next to narratives and interactions of different kinds.

http://www.ica.org.uk/24606/Talks/Live-Weekends-Futures-and-Pasts.html

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

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3. Conversation Pieces: Alia Syed

Friday 21 May 2010, 14.00–15.30

Alia Syed's work embraces a wide range of film practices, eluding a single, definable form. Her art problematises the image particularly in relation to notions of gender and cultural difference. In this talk and gallery visit, Syed explores the multiple histories and hidden rituals that pass underneath the site known as Tate Britain.

Tate Britain, Manton Studio £5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended. For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888.

Tate Britain, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG

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4. LIGHT READING SERIES 10: PASSING THE RAINBOW: SANDRA SCHAFER / ELFE BRANDENBURGER

no.w.here: 23 May 7-9pm

The film deals with performative strategies to undermine the rigid gender norms in Afghan society: on the level of cinematographic stagings, in political work and in everyday life. Life and character collide and overlap, as do playfulness and activism. Marina Golbahari, the lead actress in the Afghan feature film Osama, explains how her role in the film related to her real life. The policewoman Saba Sahar produces action films in which she plays the leading part as a policewoman. She stages increasingly sophisticated martial arts scenes, while simultaneously demanding the binding rule of law. The former teacher and actress Breshna Bahar appears as the spokeswoman of the fictive female president of Afghanistan. In a demonstration scene, the two actresses Hamida Refah and Zobaida Sahar, who play the grandmother and daughter in Osama, demand the improvement of their housing situation. Hamida takes over directing as we stage a scene from a fairy tale. The actresses of the demonstration scene in Osama speak of their current political problems. A girls’ theater group rehearses educative plays about the upcoming elections; the male roles are alternately played by different girls.

Sandra Schäfer has made repeated visits to Kabul and Tehran since 2002. She has been involved in different collaborative projects with filmmakers, activists and theoreticians. Together with the Berlin based filmmaker Elfe Brandenburger and in cooperation with actresses, filmmakers and activists from Kabul she made the film Passing the Rainbow. It is a film about actresses and strategies to undermine the rigid gender norms in Afghan society. She is co-curator of the film festival Kabul/Teheran 1979ff: Filmlandschaften, Städte unter Stress und Migration (Kabul/Tehran 1979ff: Film Landscapes, Cities under Stress and Migration) that took place 2003 at the Volksbühne Berlin. She is co-editor of a book with the same title, published in 2006 by b_books, Berlin. 2007/08 she co-curated the film festival SPLICE IN and lecture program on gender and society in Afghanistan, its neighboring countries and Europe. SPLICE IN took place in Kassel, Berlin and Hamburg. The festival was continued in Kabul in May 2008 in cooperation with the artist-group CACA-Kabul, the state-run film organization Afghan Film and the organization Open Asia under the title SECOND TAKE. In 2009 her book stagings. Kabul, Film & Production of Representation got published in the series metroZones/media at b_books, Berlin.

Tickets: £5 door / £4 advance. Students and no.w.here members £3

Email: james.holcombe@no-w-here.org.uk

no.w.here, First Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 OAG

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5. Elia Suleiman: The Time That Remains

Monday 24 May 2010, 18.30

The Time That Remains (2009, 105 min) is a semi-biographical film by the award-winning Palestinian-Israeli director, writer and actor, Elia Suleiman. The film is inspired by his father’s diaries of his personal accounts, starting from when he was a Resistance fighter in 1948, and by his mother’s letters to family members who were forced to leave the country since then. The narrative unfolds over four historic episodes. Combined with Suleiman’s intimate memories of them and with them, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labelled ‘Israeli-Arabs,’ living as a minority in their own homeland.

The screening will be introduced by independent curator and writer Rasha Salti, followed by a discussion moderated by Stuart Comer with Elia Suleiman and architects Eyal Weizman and Sandi Hillal of Decolonizing Architecture, followed by a Q & A session.

This screening of The Time That Remains is part of a series of programmes produced by Delfina Foundation and the London/Bethlehem-based practice of Decolonizing Architecture. Founded by Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman, Decolonizing Architecture attempts to articulate the potential of architecture in opening an ‘arena of speculation’ that incorporates varied cultural aesthetic and political perspectives. The programme with Delfina Foundation includes residencies in Bethlehem, Palestine, a panel discussion at Tate Modern on 25 May, and a concurrent exhibition at Delfina Foundation.

Tate Modern Starr Auditorium £5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended. For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888

Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG

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6. Public Meeting about a new Moving Image Festival in Norwich

Monday 24th May 7pm

LUX is developing a new international festival of artists’ moving image to be based in Norwich. The festival aims to build on the success and profile developed by the Aurora Festival which took place in Norwich from 2007-2009 along with LUX’s experience and profile as the UK agency for the support and promotion of artists working with the moving image.

Benjamin Cook, Director of LUX and Adam Pugh, former Director of Aurora Festival will present their plans so far and lead a discussion about the shape and content of the festival. Please come and get involved

All welcome, refreshments will be served.

Special thanks to OUTPOST for hosting this meeting.

OUTPOST, 10B Wensum Street, Norwich, NR3 1HR http://www.norwichoutpost.org

Please let us know if you are coming at festival@lux.org.uk If you cant make it but are interested in knowing more or getting involved also send us an email.

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7. Tabaimo: Boundary Layer

Private View 25 May 6.30pm - 9pm

26 May – 6 August 2010

Parasol unit is delighted to present the first solo exhibition in London devoted to the work of the Japanese artist Tabaimo. Since her graduation from art school in 1999, Tabaimo’s innovative and large-scale animated drawings have been extensively shown to major critical acclaim, both in Japan and internationally.

Tabaimo is known for her skilfully drawn and disturbing animations that mix imagery from contemporary Japanese life with digital video technique. Throughout her eleven years of practice the artist has created satirical works that often comment on modern life in Japan, and in particular on the way her own generation attempts to reconcile the realities of today with traditional Japanese values. Tabaimo draws inspiration from a variety of sources, not least from the media and her own personal experience. All animations are hand-drawn by the artist.

The exhibition at Parasol unit will be comprised of five video installations: Japanese Kitchen, 1999; hanabi-ra, 2003; guignorama, 2006; public conVENience, 2006; and yudangami, 2009.

Parasol unit, 14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW

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8. LIGHT READING SERIES 10: HELGA FANDERL in discussion with NICKY HAMLYN

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 7pm

Filmmaker and writer Nicky Hamlyn will be in conversation with Helga Fanderl, who will show a programme of Super 8 films in which various kinds of motion; mechanical, human and natural, as well as hybrids of these, prompt a variety of approaches, which reflect the precise interaction between pro-filmic movement and camera strategy typical of all her films.

£5/ £4 prebooked (£3 members and students contact james.holcombe@no-w-here.org.uk

This screening is part of a 3 screening mini retrospective 'Instances of Serendipity' in collaboration with the Goethe Institute on the 27TH AND 28TH MAY. Further information on other screenings in this series can be found at:

http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en5782663v.htm

no.w.here, First Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 OAG

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9. Helga Fanderl Programme Two

Thursday 27 May 2010, 7pm

Many of these 16mm prints of her work demonstrate Fanderl's feel for black and white film, the extreme graininess of which results a pronounced surface texture and thus a merging of foreground and background. The stuffed animals of Ausgestopfte Tiere come to seem like transitory agglomerations of matter, while the busy street scene of Nacht und Wind is rendered as a dancing pattern of car headlights, shop windows and luminous grain pattern. This film screening is part of the Instances of Serendipity series.

Goethe-Institut London, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PH

Tickets £3 (£5 for Programme Two & Three) Booking +44 20 75964000

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10. Open Screenings

Thursday 27 May, 7pm

Your chance to show and discuss your work with your peers and the Gallery’s Adjunct Film Curator Ian White.

To participate contact the Gallery in advance: film@whitechapelgallery.org

Free event.

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

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11. SERPENTINE NEW MUSIC ACTION: PHYLLIDA BARLOW AND FRIENDS

THURSDAY 27th May 2010, 7:30pm

An evening of experimental music that responds to the exhibition of Nairy Baghramian and Phyllida Barlow at the Serpentine (8 May - 13 June 2010).

MC: Phyllida Barlow and performances by Tom Badley, Alex Baker and Kit Poulson, Anna Barham, Ben Barwise, Dale Berning, Jess Flood-Paddock, Sarah Jones and Eve Peasnall, Eddie Peake, Sam Williams and others.

Phyllida Barlow (b. United Kingdom, 1944) is a pioneering English artist whose sculptural installations are characterised by their large scale, often made quickly in the same place that they are to be shown with materials that are subsequently recycled for future use. Their often rough appearance conveys the urgency with which they are produced. In addition to being a practising artist since the 1960s, Barlow has had a long teaching career, tutoring several generations of students who have gone on to become distinguished artists

Alex Baker and Kit Poulson have been collaborating for over 10 years producing live works and installations that explore the edges of sound, text, objects and movement. Recent performances and exhibitions include: Open Multiversity, Swedenborg Hall, London, 2009; Event Horizon, GSK Contemporary, Royal Academy of Art, London (with David Burrows), 2008 and Black Cube / White Horse, Hartnett Gallery, Rochester, NY, USA, 2008.

Dale Berning is a French/South African musician and artist based in London. She has exhibited and performed in the UK, France, Germany, the US, Israel and Japan. She is represented by Take Ninagawa, Tokyo, and had her second solo show there in January 2009. She has releases on Bo‚Weavil Recordings, UK and flaü, Japan. http://www.takeninagawa.com

Jess Flood-Paddock's work is a multi-disciplined sculptural practice. With emphasis on the hand-made, history and the personal memory bank it attempts to question contemporary awareness and what it is that we don‚t realise we‚re doing. Whether the work is a video made on a mobile phone or a wall painting of a cartoon cat it uses a sculptural idea of 'being in the middle of things' to relate these elements to the architectural space they inhabit.

Tickets: £4/ £5 h ttp://www.ticketweb.co.uk

http://www.cafeoto.co.uk

Cafe OTO, 18 - 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL

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12. Luna Fringe – MIX3

27th May, 8pm

The Luna Fringe MIX3 is dedicated to bringing together unusual blends of musical style, shown alongside the work of visual artists.

May’s MIX3 event features :

composed contemporary jazz from:

1) Inner Space Music
Loz Speyer (flugelhorn/composer)
Olie Brice (double bass),
Chris Biscoe (sax/alto clarinet)
Graham Fox (percussion)

plus ‘feralupski’ singing from the inimitable :

2) Phil Minton with the equally inimitable Terry Day and Sharon Gal

plus Video works from:

3) John Smith

Blight 1994-6 14mins Colour 16mm to video
Blight was made in collaboration with the composer Jocelyn Pook. It revolves around the building of the M11 Link Road in East London, using images and sounds of demolition and road building in conjunction with the spoken words of local residents.

The Waste Land 1999
5mins Colour Video

A personal interpretation of the poetry and letters of T S Eliot which explores the ambiguities of language and space in a scenario built around an anagram.

Om 1986
4mins Colour 16mm
A film about haircuts, clothes and image/sound relationships.

Gargantuan 1992
1min Colour 16mmA newt is the subject of a humorous study of scale.

Since 1972 John Smith has made over forty film, video and installation works that have been shown in cinemas, art galleries and on television throughout the world and awarded major prizes at many international film festivals. His solo exhibitions include Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2006), Kunstmuseum Magdeburg (2005), Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool (2003) and Pearl Gallery, London (2003). He regularly presents his work in person and in recent years it has been profiled through retrospectives at the 2007 Venice Biennale and film festivals in Oberhausen, Cork, Tampere, Uppsala, Bristol, Regensburg, Glasgow and La Rochelle. Earlier this year a major retrospective JOHN SMITH SOLO SHOW was staged at the Royal College of Art to wide critical acclaim.

Venue:

Luna Lounge
7, Church Lane
Leytonstone
London E11 1HG

Venue telephone number: 020 8518 7463

Cost: Admission: £ 5.00/£4.00 concessions

myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/lunafringe

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13. LUX EVENING COURSE: Opening up the Archive – a Guided tour of Artists Moving Image

The LUX archive provides the starting point for this short summer 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 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 from Tuesday June 8th to Tuesday July 13th, 7pm - 9pm at LUX Offices in Dalston, East London.

Course fees are £60.

Places are limited, to book a place on the course or for further questions please contact Silvia McMenamin silvia@lux.org.uk

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