[LuxWeeklyNews] LUX Weekly News 12th – 17th December 2006 EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

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LUX Weekly News 12th – 17th December 2006

EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

1. animate! artist award and book launch, Curzon Soho, Thursday 14th  
December 6pm

2. Media Burn, Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern, 16 December 2006 – 18  
February 2007

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.
Thursday 14th December 6pm
animate! Artist Award and book launch
Curzon Soho
99 Shaftesbury Avenue
London W1
www.curzoncinemas.com
www.animateonline.org
Tickets £5.50 / £4.50 concessions [15].
Hot from the expanded Encounters Short Film Festival in Bristol (21– 
26 November), the international animate! Artist Award, a new addition  
to the exciting list of Encounters' prizes, is all about refreshing  
animation and the moving image – way beyond live action. Two hundred  
and forty-two films were submitted for the Award. Come and see a  
breathtaking shortlist of works from Germany, Sweden, the  
Netherlands, France, Portugal, Croatia and the UK, including the  
final winner of the £2,000 cash prize.

BRILLIANT NOISE Semiconductor, UK 2006. EMPIRE Edouard Salier, France  
2005.

FILM NOIR Osbert Parker, UK 2006. LEVIATHAN Simon Bogojevic Narath,  
Croatia 2006.

LOS 60 Yolanda de los Bueis, UK 2006. NEVERLIKE THE FIRST TIME Jonas  
Odell, Sweden 2006.

PARK FOOT BALL Grant Orchard, UK 2005. SALLY Luna Maurer & Roel  
Wouters, The Netherlands

2005.SUPER 8 SERIES: SERIE #1Pedro Maia, Portugal 2006.WHIRR Timo  
Katz, Germany 2006.

The animate! Book launch
Just published by LUX, a lavish and inspirational exploration of the  
relationship between art and animation, and the place of animation  
and its concepts in contemporary art practice. The book includes  
interviews with artists who have exploded the traditional  
preconceptions about animation in their commissions for animate!, and  
essays that examine animation and cinema up to and beyond the edge of  
film & video. With 870 full-colour illustrations plus a DVD of ten  
trail-blazing animate! works by Phil Mulloy, Mario Cavalli, William  
Latham, Ruth Lingford, Jonathan Hodgson, George Barber, Tim  
Macmillan, Olivier Harrison, Ann Course & Paul Clark and AL + AL.

Book list price £19.95. On sale at this event for a special  
introductory price of £12 from Wallflower Press  
(www.wallflowerpress.co.uk), who will also be selling other titles  
about animation, digital cinema and artists' film & video on the night.

2.
16 December 2006 – 18 February 2007
Media Burn
Level 2 Gallery
Tate Modern
Bankside
London SE1
Free entry
www.tate.org.uk/modern/level2gallery
Taking it’s title from a 1975 Ant Farm work in which a Cadillac  
drives through a wall of blazing TV screens, Media Burn mixes 1970s  
works with contemporary pieces to examine the blurred boundaries  
between art, politics, protest and the media. The featured artists,  
including Ant Farm, Josephine Meckseper, Valérie Mréjen, Martha  
Rosler, Jens Ulrich, K8 Hardy and Wynne Greenwood, explore a range of  
issues. Martha Rosler’s pungent collages offer a commentary on the  
Iraq war, whilst Valérie Mréjen’s hypnotic essay explores the limited  
horizons of a 1970s French housewife. Jens Ulrich presents  
documentary photographs of demonstrations in which the placards have  
being doctored to become meaningless phrases and Josephine  
Meckseper’s glittering shop window teasingly blurs the relationship  
between culture and consumerism.





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