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LUX Weekly News 4th – 10th December 2006

EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

Research Spaces 3: TOPOS. The Moving Image between Art and  
Architecture, Woburn Square Studios, UCL, Tuesday 5th & Wednesday 6th  
December
ARCLITE 1 THE UNDERGROUND SCENE OF 60s -70s New York and the films of  
Jonas Mekas, The Exhibit, Wednesday 6th December, 7.30pm – midnight
PRIVATE CINEMA: Polish artists' video diaries, curated by Lukasz  
Ronduda, Candid Arts Trust, Sunday 10 December 2006, at 4pm



LUX LONDON EVENTS CALENDAR the most comprehensive daily listing of  
artists' moving image events, screenings and exhibitions in London  
www.lux.org.uk/resources/calendar.htm


1.
Tuesday 5th & Wednesday 6th December 2006
Research Spaces 3: TOPOS
The Moving Image between Art and Architecture
Woburn Square Studios
UCL (University College London)
Woburn Square
London
WC1H 0AB
Nearest Tube: Russell Square / Goodge Street / Euston Square
FREE Admission. Please register, as space is limited.
Email: topos.event at googlemail.com
Full schedule, and information on papers, screenings and contributors :-
www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucftsva/index.html
This two-day symposium of papers, films and panel discussions is the  
thirdin a series of yearly interdisciplinary student-run events,  
organised by the Slade School of Fine Art and the Bartlett School of  
Architecture. Broadly concerned with the determination of  
subjectivity within artist film and architectural practices, this  
event aims to address a range of topics from articulation of identity  
to occupation of space, to film as a spatial construct. While we are  
concerned with how the moving image is utilized in research practices  
across the disciplines of art and architecture, these
investigations are held in an unresolved balance.

SPEAKERS:
Esther Leslie, Jan Verwoert, Nic Clear, Duncan Cook, Emilia Serra,  
Zoe Chatziyannaki, Aris Prodromidis, Lynn Marie Kirby, Soranart  
Sinuraibhan, Gil Doron, Mark Edwards, Ken Wilder, Marina Vishmidt

SCREENINGS OF WORKS BY:
Steven Ball, Natalie Bookchin, Nick Cope & Tim Howle, Thomas  
Comerford, David Crawford, Louisa Fairclough, Alex Haw, Joe King,  
Janis Crystal Lipzin, Lily Markiewicz, Sini Pelkki, Malin Stahl,  
Samuel Stevens, Maija Timonen, Sotiris Varsamis

INSTALLATION BY:
Nic Clear & Unit 15

2.
Wednesday 6th December, 7.30pm - midnight
ARCLITE 1 THE UNDERGROUND SCENE OF 60s -70s New York and the films of  
Jonas Mekas.
The Exhibit
12 Balham Station Road
Balham, London SW12 9SG
Balham tube station - Northern line.
tickets £5
advance bookings sarah at exhibitbars.com
0208 772 6556 or 07894 336 741
Arclite at the Exhibit is a new forum for experimental films,  
luxuriate in a specially designed cinemateque and view the classics  
of underground cinema as well as new works from internationally  
established artists, and up and coming contemporaries. Arclite is  
brought to you by Louis Benassi (spool-pool) Benn Northover and Will  
Hanke.
Featuring: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, Nico, Edie Sedgwick,  
Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground, George Maciunas, Allen Ginsberg,  
John Kennedy jr, Joe Dellesandro, Mick Jagger and many more.

'Award Presentation to Andy Warhol'. Jonas Mekas. 1965 / 16mm / B&W /  
12min.

'Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol' Jonas Mekkas. 1965 -- 1995 / 16mm
/Colour / 36min.

'Happy Birthday John' Jonas Mekas. 1971 --1995 / 16mm presented on  
DVD /Colour / 24min.

+New ARCLITES; A compendium of new short film works by established  
and up and coming artist filmmakers such as Louis Benassi, Benn  
Northover, Brad Butler, Oliver Bancroft, Will Hanke, Damien Rice,  
Karen Mirza. And Julius Ziz.

Contextual sonics selected by Christopher Orr.

3.
Sunday 10 December 2006, at 4pm
PRIVATE CINEMA: Polish artists' video diaries, curated by Lukasz Ronduda
Candid Arts Trust
3 Torrens Street
London
EC1V 1NQ
Nearest Tube: Angel
Tickets: £5 / £3 (concessions)
Contact: info at cogcollective.co.uk
PRIVATE CINEMA is presented by COGCOLLECTIVE www.cogcollective.co.uk
For directions go to www.candidarts.com
Among the recent video works by Polish artists a trend has manifested  
itself that could be dubbed 'private cinema'. This type of cinematic  
activity has a rather long tradition in Poland. It was born among  
Polish artists under communism, made privately in a reaction to the  
impossibility of speaking out freely in the public sphere at the  
time. Even since Miron Bialoszewski's short etudes, 'private cinema'  
had been developing close to the artist's life, focused on recording  
everyday, banal activities and events, fantasies, masquerades, and so  
on. The films themselves were less important than the social effect  
they generated, the effect of strengthening the ties, closeness and  
friendship between the
people meeting to make such a film.

The term 'private cinema' was coined by Jozef Robakowski, an artist who
reached for a new (more narrative, intimate, subjective) cinematic  
formula following a period of disillusionment with the overly  
objectified and rationalised 'structural' cinema. On the  
technological level, the emergence of the formula of 'private cinema'  
was closely connected with the birth of a small, private, portable  
film or video camera, permitting an unprecedented close distance  
between the camera and its operator's life, giving the operator full  
control over the filmmaking process. Robakowski wrote of 'private  
cinema' that it was " ... a way to remember oneself, to record one's  
own mentality, one's gestures. psychic tensions that occur alongside
reality. Private Cinema comes into being when nothing works ...[it  
is] a direct projection of the camera operator's thoughts. Freed from  
all fashions and aesthetical rules and the established linguistic  
codifications, it stands close to the filmmaker's life."

The films comprising this show are very intimate, rooted strongly in  
their authors' existential experience they are an imagination- 
filtered recording of their relations with the world, with the place  
where they live permanently or at the given moment, their loved ones,  
friends, or people that have just met. The artists making such 'video  
diaries' never part with the camera, permanently visualising their  
distribution and redistribution ofreality.

Programme includes :-

WERONICA, Pawel Althamer, Artur Zmijewski
SUCH A NICE BOY I GAVE BIRTH TO, Marcin Koszalek
SELECTED FILMS 1996-2006, Wilhelm Sasnal
FROM MY WINDOW, Jozef Robakowski
SZAMAN, Miron Bialoszewski -
SHORT FILMS 1999-2006, Agnieszka Brzanska

Lukasz Ronduda has run the Archive of Polish Experimental Film at the  
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw since 2000.  
He also teaches art history and aesthetic theory at Warsaw School of  
Social Psychology.



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