[LuxWeeklyNews] LUX Weekly News: 26th February – 4th March 2007 EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

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LUX Weekly News: 26th February – 4th March 2007
EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

1. London premiere of Andrew Kötting’s Offshore (Gallivant)
NFT 1, Tuesday 27th February, 6.30pm

2. Pervasive animation Symposium Tate Modern, 2nd – 4th March

3. Momentary Momentum, Parasol Unit, 3rd March – 15th April

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 27th February, 6.30pm
London premiere of Andrew Kötting’s Offshore (Gallivant)
NFT 1
National Film Theatre
Belvedere Rd, South Bank
London, SE1 8XT
www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film/7186

Beginning in the pitch-black early hours of a September morning,  
Offshore follows a 14hr 17min cross-channel relay swim by film-maker  
Andrew Kötting, his brothers, friends and family.

The attempt was witnessed by Iain Sinclair and is narrated by Eden  
Kötting. Ten years on from completion of the coastline road-movie  
Gallivant, this film starts with Kötting's coincidental discovery and  
hire of the light vessel 'Gallivant', and revisits the original film.

Flotsam and jetsam in the form of conversations, field recordings and  
sea debris are gleaned from both the new and old. (Warning: the film  
shows scenes of explicit vomiting). Offshore was supported through  
the London Artists' Film and Video Awards, and will be accompanied by  
a selection of Kötting's radical and highly original short films.

Following the screening Andrew Kötting will be in discussion with  
writer Iain Sinclair.

2.

2nd – 4th March 2007
PERVASIVE ANIMATION
Tate Modern
Starr Auditorium
Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
Nearest Tube: Southwark / London Bridge / Blackfriars
Conference Tickets: £25 / £15 concessions, booking recommended
Screening Tickets: £5 each, booking recommended Box Office: 020 7887  
8888
www.tate.org.uk

Animation has an unlimited potential to visually represent events,  
scenarios and forms that have little or no relation to our experience  
of the 'real' world. Implemented in many ways in many disciplines, it  
is increasingly influencing our perception and experience of the  
world we live in. This timely and groundbreaking international  
conference unites speakers from a wide range of research agendas and  
creative practices. It facilitates much-needed dialogue centred on  
the ubiquitous and interdisciplinary nature of animation, its  
potentially radical future development, and its ethical  
responsibilities for spatial politics in moving image culture.

Contributors include Norman Klein, Michael Snow, Vivian Sobchack, Tom  
Gunning, Anthony McCall, George Griffin, Suzanne Buchan, Beatriz  
Colomina, Edwin Carels, Siegfried Zielinski, Lisa Cartwright, Johnny  
Hards taff and Esther Leslie.
Especially since the digital shift, the uses of animation are no  
longer exclusive to cinema, and animation's origins in pre-cinematic  
optical experiments through avant-garde experimental film continue to  
evolve in fascinating ways. Artists increasingly incorporate  
animation in installations and exhibitions, architects use computer  
animation software to create narratives of space in time, and  
scientists use it to interpret abstract concepts for a breadth of  
industries ranging from biomedicine to nanoworlds. Pervasive  
Animation will provide a dynamic international forum to explore  
animation's myriad forms and applications across a wide band of  
creative and professional practice.

The opening panel discussion on Friday 2 March is followed by a  
special presentation of Anthony McCall's celebrated 1973 "solid  
light" film event Line Describing a Cone.

PERVASIVE ANIMATION is a collaboration with the Animation Research  
Centre, University College for the Creative Arts. Funded by Arts  
Council England, University College for the Creative Arts and Brunel  
University West London.

3.

3rd March – 15th April, 2007
MOMENTARY MOMENTUM
Parasol Unit
14 Wharf Road, London, N1 7RW
www.parasol-unit.org
Private view: 2 March, 6 – 8 pm
MOMENTARY MOMENTUM: an exhibition devoted to animated drawings,  
comprising a dozen installations and a film loop with the  
participation of Francis Alÿs, Robert Breer, Paul Bush / Lisa Milroy,  
Michael Dudok de Wit, Brent Green, Takashi Ishida, Susanne Jirkuff,  
William Kentridge, Avish Khebrehzadeh, Jochen Kuhn, Zilla  
Leutenegger, Arthur de Pins, Qubo Gas, Christine Rebet, Robin Rhode,  
Georges Schwizgebel, David Shrigley, Tabaimo, Naoyuki Tsuji & Kara  
Walker


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