[LuxWeeklyNews] LUX Weekly News 19th – 25th February 2007 EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

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LUX Weekly News 19th – 25th  February 2007

EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

Ned&Shiva productions present the video installation ‘E. Pluribus  
Unum’ (60mins), Art at the Arts Theatre, Tuesday 20th February –  
Saturday 7th April 2007
LUX SALON: HEY! Work It Out For Yourself, LUX Offices, Wednesday 21  
February 7pm for 7.30pm start, NOW FULLY BOOKED
FLIXATION, The Miller of Mansfield, Wednesday 21st February, 8 pm
Turf Waltz, Sebastian Buerkner, Whitechapel Project Space,  24th  
February - 25th March 2007
To the winged distance: Films by Robert Beavers: Part two, Starr  
Auditorium, Tate Modern, Friday 23rd – Sunday 25th 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.

Tuesday 20th February – Saturday 7th April 2007
Ned&Shiva productions present the video installation ‘E. Pluribus  
Unum’ (60mins)
Art at the Arts Theatre
6-7 Great Newport St, London WC2
Enquiries: 0207 836 2132
Continuous screening: 1.15 – 2.15pm and 6.15 – 7.15pm, Monday – Saturday
FREE. (Press Preview – Wednesday 21st Feb, from 12.45pm, screening  
1.15pm, 60mins)

Art at the Arts is an on-going programme of international visual art.  
The first exhibition is by Ned&Shiva productions  
(www.nedandshivaproductions.com), an acclaimed and widely exhibited  
partnership of two American artists based in NY, Miami, and London  
working in video and still image projection. One of their  
specialities has been "drive-by projection", which combines the  
immediacy and shock tactics of graffiti and street art with the  
narrative values and cinematic associations of video art. Their work  
is a cultural commentary on America today; direct, provocative, sad  
and funny, in which their laconic viewpoint is used to frame  
questions for the viewers to make their own conclusions.

Ned&Shiva showed in the Louvre courtyard in last year’s FIAC, and  
their exhibition history includes major international video  
festivals, fine art and gallery shows and Peter Hook’s (Joy Division,  
New Order) 2005 Return to NY US DJ tour. This specially commissioned  
piece features their best known work and is also the global debut for  
new work. E. Pluribus Unum (60mins) will show in the theatre  
auditorium twice daily except Sunday.

Ned&Shiva's video art left me laughing and disturbed at the same  
time. It's playful, but also wrought with powerful political  
commentary. There are many surprises along the way.
- Daisy Carrington, New York Observer

Concurrrently showing at the Arts Theatre are Matthew Andrews’  
Lenticular Multiple Photographic Studies. A pioneer of the  
application of this innovative medium to fine art, his work is  
exhibited throughout the building, with narrative portraits of the  
careers and lives of classic British actors such as Tim West, Diana  
Quick, George Baker, Geoffrey Bayldon and Peter Benson. (Lenticuar  
screens combine 2D images in a non-holographic viewing system.)

 From February 2007, Art at the Arts is the resident visual arts  
programme operated by Robert Connolly and the Olympian Arts Trust at  
the Arts Theatre, a mere 30 seconds from Leicester Square. It  
complements the theatre’s policy of providing a venue in the West End  
for edgy and innovative work that has both local and international  
appeal and relevance. Olympian Arts is a charity with a strong  
history of large-scale international projects and a particular  
specialisation in live and performance art - areas where fine art and  
contemporary theatre practice increasingly overlap.

2.

Wednesday 21 February 7pm for 7.30pm start
LUX SALON
LUX OFFICE, Shacklewell Studios
18 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ
NOW FULLY BOOKED

The LUX Salon returns with a new monthly series of guest curated  
screenings delving into the vaults of the LUX collection to show the  
classics; known, lost and forgotten…

LUX SALON: HEY! Work It Out For Yourself
Two rarely seen films exploring the authenticity of production and  
interpretation, selected by Jackie Holt. Margaret Raspé’s ‘Oh Death  
How Nourishing You Are (1972-3, Germany, 15 min, Super-8) explores  
issues of personal responsibility and death, through the lens of  
Raspé’s purpose-built ‘camera helmet’. Stephanie Beroes’ ‘Debt Begins  
at 20’ (1980, USA, 40 min, 16mm), a semi-fictionalised record of the  
early years of the Pittsburgh punk scene. ‘Oh Death How Nourishing  
You Are’ will be accompanied with a live musical performance from  
LORD JOHN.

http://www.myspace.com/lordjohnpaulholt3rd


3.

Wednesday 21st February
FLIXATION
The Miller of Mansfield
96 Snowsfields, London SE1 3SS
8pm membership £4/ £3 concs
FLIXATION is back with another night of no-budget underground cinema,  
electronic craft, amateur film Art, performance and music.
Featuring celebrity death cult in Shitlist (Grace Connor 2007),  
extreme piercing in White Blue Air (Inza 2007) and more existential  
glove puppets in Paul and the Badger Part 2 (Paul Tarrago 2006). Also  
new work by Clive Shaw (MyEyeysMyEyes) and a shiny new performance by  
Doctor Reekie.
The compere will be the diabolical Tar Baby and on the wheels of  
steel the infamous DJ Mono.
If you have any work you'd like to show or a performance you'd like  
to do - contact Duncan on 07929876301 or email duncanreekie at yahoo.co.uk

4.

24th February - 25th March 2007
Turf Waltz
Sebastian Buerkner
Whitechapel Project Space
20 Fordham Street, London E1 1HS
Open Sat- Sun 1 - 6pm
Private view - Friday 23rd February, 7 - 9 pm
www.whitechapelprojectspace.org.uk

5.

Friday 23rd – Sunday 25th February 2007
TO THE WINGED DISTANCE: FILMS BY ROBERT BEAVERS: PART TWO
Starr Auditorium
Tate Modern,
Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
Nearest Tube: Southwark / London Bridge / Blackfriars
Tickets: £5, booking recommended
Season Ticket: £25
Box Office: 020 7887 8888
www.tate.org.uk
www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/ 
tothewingeddistancefilmsbyrobertbeavers.htm

Robert Beavers has laboured in relative isolation on works whose goal  
is for the projected film image to have the same force of awakening  
sight a any other great image. His meticulously crafted films are at  
once lyrical and rigorous, sensuous and complex. Whilst communicating  
his response to the landscapes, architecture and traditions of the  
Mediterranean and Alpine countries in which they were filmed, they  
also incorporate deeply personal and aesthetic themes. Rarely seen in  
public, Robert Beavers¹ remarkable body of work is a celebration of  
light, life and colour. Beavers’ personal films occupy a noble place  
within the history of avant-garde film, positioned at the  
intersection of structural and lyrical film-making traditions.  
Exuding a sense of joy for the filmic medium, they seem to embody the  
ideals of the high Renaissance in their fascination with perception  
(both visual and aural), psychology, literature, the natural world,  
architectural construction, musical phrasing and aesthetic beauty.  
Perhaps this work¹s greatest achievement is that it appears  
continually fresh, as timeless art should, both to the newcomer and  
to the fortunateviewer able to savour the richness of these films  
time and time again. (Susan Oxtoby, Cinematheque Ontario)

Curated by Mark Webber in association with Tate Modern. Organised at  
Tate Modern by Stuart Comer, Curator: Film. With thanks to Temenos  
Verein, Cineric Inc. and The Guild of St George.



Friday 23 February 2007, at 7pm
MY HAND OUTSTRETCHED: Programme 1
Early Monthly Segments, 1968-70/2002, 33 min.
Winged Dialogue, 1967/2000, and Plan of Brussels, 1968/2000, 21 min.

Friday 23 February 2007, at 9pm
MY HAND OUTSTRETCHED: Programme 2
The Count of Days, 1969/2001, 21 min.
Palinode, 1970/2001, 21 min.

Saturday 24 February 2007, at 12pm
MY HAND OUTSTRETCHED: Programme 3
Diminished Frame, 1970/2001, 24 min.
Still Light, 1970/2001, 25 min.

Saturday 24 February 2007, at 2pm
MY HAND OUTSTRETCHED: Programme 4
 From the Notebook of Š, 1971/1998, 48 min.
The Painting, 1972/1999, 13 min.

Saturday 24 February 2007, at 5pm
MY HAND OUTSTRETCHED: Programme 5
Work done, 1972/1999, 22 min.
Ruskin, 1975/1997, 45 min.

Sunday 25 February 2007, at 12pm
MY HAND OUTSTRETCHED: Programme 6
Sotiros, 1976-78/1996, 25 min.
AMOR, 1980, 15 min.

Sunday 25 February 2007, at 2pm
MY HAND OUTSTRETCHED: Programme 7
Efpsychi, 1983/1996, 20 min.
Wingseed, 1985, 15 min.
The Hedge Theater, 1986-90/2002, 19 min.

Sunday 25 February 2007, at 5pm
MY HAND OUTSTRETCHED: Programme 8
The Stoas, 1991-97, 22 min.
The Ground, 1993-2001, 20 min.


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