[LuxWeeklyNews] EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

Wed Jun 7 19:13:53 CDT 2006

EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK
1. 7 June - 17 July, TAMY BEN-TOR: EXPLORATION IN THE DOMAIN OF  
IDIOCY at Cubitt
2. 8 June, OMNIOMSK at JAMM
3. 9 June, A NEW KIND OF PORTRAITURE: THEODORE ZELDIN and ANDREW  
KOTTING at National Portrait Gallery
4. 10 June, MAGNETIC MEMORY: A DAY LONG TRIBUTE TO NAM JUNE PAIK at  
Tate Modern
5. 12 - 15 Junem Without Boundaries at ICA

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7 June - 17 July
TAMY BEN-TOR: EXPLORATION IN THE DOMAIN OF IDIOCY
Cubitt
8 Angel Mews, London N1 9HH
Opening hours: Wed-Sun, 12-6pm
Tel: 020 7278 8226
www.cubittartists.org.uk
Cubitt Gallery is proud to present `Exploration in the Domain of  
Idiocy', the first European solo exhibition by young New York-based  
Israeli artist Tamy Ben-Tor (b. Jerusalem, 1975), and the first  
exhibition in curator Tom Morton's Cubitt programme `The Fortress of  
Solitude'.
Ben-Tor's funny, alarming videos and live performances are populated  
by fictional characters that make Sisyphean attempts to communicate  
certain truths (about history, about politics, about art) but find  
themselves failing and flailing in a domain of idiocy. For these  
characters, saying the wrong thing, the very worst thing, is perhaps  
the only way to right the world.
Showing at Cubitt, Ben-Tor's best known work, the video `Women Talk  
About Adolf Hitler' (2004) features a series of women, played by the  
artist, who offer up absurdist diatribes about the Nazi dictator,  
among them a New York Jewish academic who discloses the Führer's  
struggles with bad digestion, a phobia of dentists, and ugly knees -  
an all-too-literal take on the banality of evil, seemingly intended  
to prove that the devil is indeed in the most prosaic of details.  
Screened alongside this piece is Ben-Tor's new video `The End of  
Art' (2006), in which she casts herself as what might be a hybrid of  
the artist Rirkrit Tiravanija and the political thinker Francis  
Fukuyama, as though to point out that relational aesthetics and  
liberal triumphalism share much of the same self-satisfied cultural  
and political DNA. Elsewhere in the gallery, a monitor shows three  
portrait videos - `Alejandra' (2005), `The Contractor' (2005) and  
`The Artist in Residence' - in which loneliness, powerlessness and  
self-delusion work their cruel witchcraft on a trio of lost souls.

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2.
OMNIOMSK
video/film * live art * sound * intervention

Jamm
261 Brixton Road London SW9
ThORsday June 8th 8pm -1am
(Tube: Brixton/Oval. Buses: 133, 333, 159)  Five Quid

OMSK is eleven years old. Our unruly and itinerant childhood thus far  
has involved forty hybrid platform events where hundreds of emerging  
artists have tested ideas in diverse contexts. We've made a bed for  
ourselves in squatted banks, boats on the Thames, railway arches,  
textile warehouses, more railway arches, in Tokyo, along a cobbled  
east end street, and other illegitimate spaces. OMSK has captivated  
thousands of critically engaged and/or progressively drunk audience  
members, combining challenging ideas and art forms with the revelries  
of a long night out. The works are experimental, and so is the  
audiences' attitude towards them. Nothing goes to plan and everyone  
has a good time. Featuring:

Film/Video:
Polly II: Plan for a revolution in Docklands (Anja Kirschner)
Doctor Phallus' Theatrics (Zohar Manor-Able)
Lighthouse (Tom Wolseley)
Your task will fail to be realised (I'll do what I can) (Claire Hope)
Enthusiasms of the affluent (James Hellings)
SoundBomb and Start with the beginning and the end Toby Clarkson)
Standing: Part Two (Wai Yan Chan)
Wood vs wood (Aoife Collins)
London (Jim & Heinz)
...and more
Live:
Fox (Sam Hacking & Edward Peake) an erotic, violent and comic clothes  
swap
Bill Aitchison attempts to juggle by numbers using tape players, a  
table and 25 mins
Hilary Koob Sassen THE ERRORISTS: Game Theory/Tit for Tat Danceable  
Pizzicato syntax frolic in the landscape of Culture's Elaboration in  
Time
Talkaoke speak-off featuring three eager contenders for the round  
table chat throne
Plus Robin Mahoney, Mary Hurrel and what is Quiztest?
Sound:
They Came From The Stars, I Saw Them playmobil court jests with rumba  
plonk
Electric Assembly The Velvet Underground plays Boards Of Canada
produced by Kevin Shields arranged by Sun Ra (Syd Barrett in audience).
Scrag End disparate but far from dispirited found and made sounds.
Mic shaw cut 'n' paste DJying, literally, as Mic plays hand carved  
vinyl film tracks.
The Comet project  laptop knob twiddling produces semi improvised ear  
mince.
Plus - the eponymous DJ OMSK and DJ MissintheMix

For details go to: www.omsk.org.uk
Email: omskorganisation at hotmail.com

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3.
A NEW KIND OF PORTRAITURE:
THEODORE ZELDIN and ANDREW KOTTING
National Portrait Gallery, London
Friday 9 June 2006
14.00-18.30

In 1968 John Berger sounded the death-knell for conventional painted
portraits writing “It seems to me unlikely that any important  
portraits will
ever be painted again … I can imagine multi-medium memento-sets  
devoted to
the character of particular individuals. But these will have nothing  
to do
with the works now in the National Portrait Gallery”.

Taking 'portraiture' - a form of art which has changed remarkably little
over time - as a point of departure, this event will look at the  
potentials
of new kinds of portrait.  Experiments have already started in adding  
film,
audio and the written word to conventional media, and in enabling  
people to
create what could become a new form of passport, produced by themselves,
saying what they want the world to know and understand about them.

Introduced by Gideon Koppel and Theodore Zeldin, the event will be in  
two
parts. The first will be led by Andrew Kotting, one of the most  
innovative
film makers working in Britain, who will screen extracts from his films,
including Gallivant and two previously unseen shorts, and discuss his  
work
in the context of Portraiture.

In the second part, Theodore Zeldin, the eminent historian and author  
of An
Intimate History of Humanity, President of the Oxford Muse, will outline
what this Foundation has been doing in creating self-portraits, and will
lead a discussion to explore the possibilities of making different  
kinds of
portrait - reflecting the complexity of modern individuals and giving  
them
the possibility of expressing the full diversity of their aims,  
ambitions
and desires. The springboard for this discussion will be the  
screening of
six short self portraits made by young film makers who have studied  
under
Gideon Koppel in the MA Documentary by Practice Course at Royal  
Holloway,
University of London.

Tickets: £15/£10 (concessions) – Students Free
To book call 020 7306 0055

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MAGNETIC MEMORY:
A DAY LONG TRIBUTE TO NAM JUNE PAIK
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium
Saturday 10 June 2006
10am to 10pm

Visionary artist Nam June Paik died earlier this year at the age of  
73. Over the course of 12 hours, this screening features more than 40  
of Paik's extraordinary video works dating from 1965 to 2000.

Works to be screened include his classic television collages, which  
feature collaborations with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Allen  
Ginsberg, Joseph Beuys and Charlotte Moorman. Highlights include his  
earliest video-film experiments and a rare screening of 9/23/69  
(1969), Paik's stunning 80-minute opus of electronic synthesis.

Paik's works in performance, electronic music, sculpture and  
multimedia installation were groundbreaking and influential, and his  
seminal body of videotapes helped to radically redefine the role of  
moving image media in contemporary art.

This screening is organised by Electronic Arts Intermix, New York,  
www.eai.org.

www.paikstudios.com

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Starr Auditorium
Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
Nearest Tube: Southwark / London Bridge / Blackfriars

Tickets: £10 (£8 concessions), booking recommended
Box Office: 020 7887 8888

www.tate.org.uk

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MAGNETIC MEMORY: A DAY LONG TRIBUTE TO NAM JUNE PAIK
Programme and Approximate Screening Times

10am

Analogue Assemblage, 2000, colour, sound, 2:08 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=4337>

Tiger Lives, 1999, colour, sound, 45 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=717>

11am

"Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman, 1995, colour, sound, 29 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=4197>

A Tale of Two Cities , 1992, colour, sound, 1 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=1569>

MAJORCA - fantasia, 1989, colour, sound, 4:52 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=4249>

Living with the Living Theatre, 1989, colour, sound, 28:30 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=2483>

Butterfly, 1986, colour, sound, 2:03 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=663>

12pm

Vusac - NY , 1984, colour, sound, 27:10 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=3435>

Good Morning Mr. Orwell, 1984, colour, sound, 30 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=581>

1pm

Allan 'n' Allen's Complaint, 1982, colour, sound, 28:33 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=3747>

My Mix '81, 1981, colour, sound, 24:50 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=3401>

Lake Placid '80, 1980, colour, sound, 3:49 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=3645>

2pm

You Can't Lick Stamps in China, 1978, colour, sound, 28:34 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=2369>

Merce by Merce by Paik, 1978, colour, sound, 28:45 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=2669>

3pm

Media Shuttle: Moscow/New York, 1978, colour, sound, 28:11 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=575>

Documenta 6 Satellite Telecast (Excerpt), 1977, colour, sound, 12 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=2723>

4pm

Guadalcanal Requiem , 1977/79, colour, sound, 28:33 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=4229>

Nam June Paik: Edited for Television, 1975, b/w & colour, sound,  
28:14 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=613>

Violin Dragging, Brooklyn, NY, 1975, colour, sound, 1:37 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=3411>

5pm

Suite 212, 1975/77, colour, sound, 30:23 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=3263>

A Tribute to John Cage, 1973/76, colour, sound, 29:02 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=2865>

6pm

Global Groove, 1973, colour, sound, 28:30 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=3287>

Electronic Opera #2 (From Video Variations, WGBH)
1972, colour, sound, 7:30 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=2177>

Electronic Yoga, 1972-92, colour, sound, 7:30 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=1675>

Waiting for Commercials, 1972, colour, sound, 6:45 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=1675>

TV Bed, The Everson Museum of Art, 1972, colour, sound, 1:10 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=2435>

TV Cello Premiere, 1971, colour, sound, 7:25 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=4059>

7pm

Video Commune (Beatles from Beginning to End) (excerpt)
1972/92, colour, silent, 8:36 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=4059>

9/23/69: Experiment with David Atwood, 1969, colour, sound, 80 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=3271>

Electronic Opera #1 (From The Medium is the Medium, WGBH)
1972, colour, sound, 4 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=1443>

Electronic Moon No. 2 , 1969, colour, sound, 4:30 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=1675>

Cinéma Metaphysique: Nos. 2, 3 and 4, 1967-72, b/w, sound, 8:39 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=7794>

Video Tape Study No. 3, 1967-69, b/w, sound, 4 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=1675>

9pm

Film Video Works #3, 1967-69, b/w & colour, sound, 5:36 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=501>

Beatles Electroniques, 1966-69, b/w & colour, sound, 3 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=1675>

Digital Experiment at Bell Labs, 1966, b/w, silent, 4 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=653>

Electronic Fables, 1965-72, b/w & colour, sound, 8:45 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=1675>

Early Colour TV Manipulations, 1965-71, colour, silent, 5:18 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=4059>

Button Happening, 1965, b/w, silent, 2 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=779>

Hand and Face, 1961, b/w, silent, 1:42 min
<http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=3411>

http://www.eai.org/eai/02_06_paik_pr.html
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/5580.htm

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Mon 12 June, 6.30pm & Sat 17 June, 4.45pm
WITHOUT BOUNDARIES: SHORTS PROGRAMME 1 - WEIGHT OF HISTORY
ICA
The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
Tickets: £6.50 / £5.50
Tel: 020 7930 3647
www.ica.org.uk
Without Boundaries is a season of artists’ film and video, features  
and documentaries that explore what Europe means now. We need to look  
beyond the EU to grasp what Europe means in the 21st Century, our  
definitions need to shift and borders need to be crossed. In this  
season, contemporary artists’ work is gathered together to challenge  
pre-conceived conceptions of culture, place, identity and history.  
This short season looks into the past and towards the future with  
work from over 15 different countries. The specially curated artists  
film and video programmes, first shown at Brief Encounters Festival  
in Bristol, are complimented by acclaimed feature length work by  
Chantel Akerman and Ulrich Seidl, a programme of two key Hungarian  
found footage films including Peter Forgacs masterly Danube Exodus  
and the celebrated essay film The Istar. As a whole this season  
offers a rare and expansive chance to reflect on modern day Europe  
and the many currents that colour its social, political and cultural  
life.
www.encounters-festival.org.uk
Artists look to the past as a source of new ideas. Images, sounds and  
recollections are reassembled to create new forms and meanings. Works  
reflect on individual and collective identity. Studies of self- 
definition sit alongside explorations of how we exist in increasingly  
diverse communities.
Featured Works:
REMINISCES - Christina von Greve (Germany)
THE INFLUENCE OF OCCULAR LIGHT PERCEPTION ON MAN AND ANIMAL - Thomas  
Draschan & Stella Friedrichs (Austria)
ET CETERA… Andrei Osipov (Russia)
ESSENTIAL CURRENT AFFAIRS Dan Acostioaei (Romania)
THE GUARD - Tomasz Partyka (Poland)
IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS - Martin Blazícek (Czech Republic)
OVERTURE - Tatia Shaburishvili (UK/Georgia)

Mon 12 June, 6pm & Sat 17 June, 2pm
WITHOUT BOUNDARIES: LES RENDEZVOUS D'ANNA
ICA
The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
Tickets: £6.50 / £5.50
Tel: 020 7930 3647
www.ica.org.uk
“A quietly moving odyssey” Time Out
Akerman's modernist, painterly visual and narrative style is nowhere  
better expressed or more accessible than in this semi- 
autobiographical work. We follow film director, Anna (Aurore  
Clément), crossing Europe to show her film. Anna's world is a  
fragmented universe of silent train stations and hotel rooms. Anna  
becomes the silent audience for personal stories of old friends,  
lovers and total strangers. Taken together these tales telegraph a  
half-century of European history, its social transformations and  
upheavals. Aurore Clément's performance is haunting, and terribly  
sympathetic; in her we see the loneliness of the artist-as-cypher  
absorbing and traversing the wounds of Europe.
Dir Chantel Akerman
Belgium/France/West Germany, 1978 (127 mins) subs.

Mon 12 June, 8.30pm, Wed 14June, 6.30pm & Sun 18 June, 3pm
WITHOUT BOUNDARIES: THE DANUBE EXODUS
ICA
The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
Tickets: £6.50 / £5.50
Tel: 020 7930 3647
www.ica.org.uk
The Danube Exodus immerses the viewer in opposing historical  
narratives. One tells of Eastern European Jews fleeing Nazi  
persecution in 1939, trying to reach safety in Palestine. The second  
story, set in 1940 tells of Bessarabian Germans abandoning their  
adopted land to return to the ’safety’ of the Third Reich. Both  
groups, each heading in the opposite direction, were transported  
along the Danube by Captain Andrásovits, an amateur filmmaker. In  
this award-winning film, Peter Forgács uses Andrásovits’s original  
footage to create a study of the river that has interwoven many  
cultures throughout Central Europe’s stormy history.
Dir Peter Forgacs
Hungary, 1999 (60min)
plus
Private History / Privát történelem
This pioneering work uses private archival material (8 mm home films)  
to bring together contradictory and unseen histories: domestic  
occurrences are juxtaposed with war and Holocaust footage.
Dir Gabor Body (with Peter Timar)
Hungary, 1978 (25min)

Tue 13 June, 6.45pm & Sun 18 June, 4.45pm
WITHOUT BOUNDARIES: SHORTS PROGRAMME 2 - IN DIFFERENT SPACES
ICA
The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
Tickets: £6.50 / £5.50
Tel: 020 7930 3647
www.ica.org.uk
Borders, travel and relationships between cultures are explored in  
this program. Transformation is an integral element of these works,  
from seasonal shift, change in environments, to personal meditations  
of loss and renewal. Works move from the coast of Portugal to snowy  
Finland, from the poetic to the ethnographic, from Europe unseen  
communities to its place in the world.
Featured works:
GREY - Minna Parkkinen (Finland)
PAISAGEM / LANDSCAPE - Renata Sancho (Portugal)
MALUS - Dominique Gonzalez-Forester & Ange Leccia (France)
THRESHOLD OF TRANSIENCE - Gyula Nemes (Hungary)
ARIADNE - Barbara Meter (Holland)
DIES IREA - Jean-Gabriel Périot (France)
WE THE PEOPLE - Ben Rivers (UK)

Tue 13 June, 6.15pm & Sun 18 June, 2pm
WITHOUT BOUNDARIES: LOSSES TO BE EXPECTED
ICA
The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
Tickets: £6.50 / £5.50
Tel: 020 7930 3647
www.ica.org.uk
Ulrich Seidl's award-winning film is portrait of two villages on the  
Austrian-Czech border that despite their proximity are worlds apart.  
As a relationship blossoms, or tries to, between residents on either  
side of the border, Losses to Be Expected takes a turn from  
insightful examination of the East/West gap to a more universal story  
of loneliness and unfulfilled longing. Seidl's camera infiltrates his  
protagonists' lives and living rooms, revelling in the everyday tasks  
and minutiae of their world with beautifully framed long takes, where  
even this faltering attempt at love shines like a long–awaited sun.
Dir Ulrich Seidl
Austria 1992 (118 mins)

Tue 13 June, 7pm
EXPLODING THE FRAME: LANDSCAPE IN CONTEMPORARY FILM
The Gallery
77 Cowcross Street, London EC1
Tickets: £4, LAN and Ocatillo members: £2
Tel: 020 8446 6849
Email: ocatilloartsgroup at yahoo.com
Most films involve some sort of human interaction. What happens when  
this interaction is with the landscape? Editing patterns, camera  
angles, camera distances, framing, which are largely based on the  
ways we interact with others, are exploded. Here these human-based  
methods are totally re-configured, and music and sound take on a new  
level of equality with the visual.
In this international selection of films, urban and rural landscapes,  
as natural as each other, are projected directly into the eyes and  
ears of the audience, a stream of ideas and impulses uninterrupted by  
the dominant presence of others.
After highly successful screenings at the Utopia Film Festival,  
Maryland, and at the Nowuno Gallery in Washington DC, Ocatillo  
returns to London for this event, in association with the Landscape  
and Arts Network.

Thu 15 June, 7pm & Sat 17 June, 1pm
WITHOUT BOUNDARIES: THE ISTER
ICA
The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
Tickets: £6.50 / £5.50
Tel: 020 7930 3647
www.ica.org.uk
A search for the foundations of Western civilisation in the company  
of celebrated philosophers Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler and  
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and the controversial German artist and  
filmmaker Hans-Jurgen Syberberg: ‘A journey up the Danube river, from  
the Black Sea delta in Romania to its Black Forest source in Germany,  
inspired by a lecture course delivered by Martin Heidegger at  
Freiburg University in Germany in 1942, the year the Nazis settled on  
the ‘Final Solution’. The lecture course focused on a poem by  
Freidrich Holderlin: ‘The Ister’. Marrying a sweeping philosophical  
narrative with a classic European pilgrimage, the film invites its  
audience to participate in some of the most provocative questions of  
contemporary philosophy. These questions – of nature, technology and  
politics - are first articulated through mythology and continue to  
haunt humanity to this day.’
Dir David Barison, Daniel Ross
Australia, 2004, 189 mins (102mins & 87mins, w/15min interval), subs 
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