[LuxWeeklyNews] LUX Weekly News 29th January – 4th February 2007

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LUX Weekly News 29th January – 4th February 2007

EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

Light Reading Series 6: Further 2 Residency Artists, HELENE MARTIN /  
JENNIFER NIGHTINGALE / RUTH PROCTOR, Kingsgate Gallery, Wednesday 30  
January, at 7pm
GRACE NDIRITU, Still life and responsible tourism, Chisenhale  
Gallery, 31 January– 18 March
ARIANE MICHEL  /  TOM ACKERS /  RASTKO NOVAKOVIC, Recent videos,  
Whitechapel Project Space, Friday 2nd – Sunday 4th February
To the Winged Distance: ROBERT BEAVERS, Tate Modern, 2 - 25 February
JOHN PORTER & ONE TAKE SUPER 8 EVENT, Candid Arts Trust, Sunday 4  
February 2007, at 4pm

1.
Wednesday 30 January, 7pm
Light Reading Series 6: Further 2 Residency Artists
HELENE MARTIN / JENNIFER NIGHTINGALE / RUTH PROCTOR
Kingsgate Gallery
110-116 Kingsgate Road,
West Hampstead, London NW6
Nearest Tube / Train: West Hampstead
Tickets: £4 door / £3 advance
Telephone: 020 7372 3925 Email: courses at nowhere-lab.org

Booking is essential for this event, as places are  
limited.www.nowhere-lab.org
FURTHER 2 is a three month, part time, moving image residency for three
London-based visual artists interested in developing film based  
projects.
The residency provides a period of research, experimentation and
development, without the pressure of having a fixed outcome. It includes
bespoke workshops, a materials budget and year-long membership of  
no.w.here
artists' film and video lab.


Helene Martin studied History at the Universite du Maine, Le Mans,  
France
(1992-96), completed her MA at the Royal College of Art in 2005. She has
exhibited and taken part in film festivals both nationally and
internationally. Helene was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in
2005 and will showing work as part of 'Starting from Scratch’ in  
Rotterdam
this February.

Jennifer Nightingale explores the relationships between the control  
of the
filmmaking process and the gestures of the filmmaker. She studied for  
her BA
from KIAD in Canterbury, and graduated with an MFA from the Slade  
School of
Fine Art. During the residency Jennifer's practice has dealt with the
privileging of formal units to elude, to signify, or take the place of
movement as an expressive gesture, where whole sequences of movement  
have
been reduced to several precise parts or poses.

Ruth Proctor's practice spans installation, drawing and photography,  
and she
has recently started to use film in relation to these. Her work deals  
with
ideas coming from music, performance, and the spectacle of sporting  
events.
Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2005, Ruth has had  
solo
shows at Hollybush Gardens, London, and Center project space in Berlin.

Light Reading is an on-going series of critical dialogues that engage
artists, writers and curators in conversation around a selected artist's
body of work. The series is taking a February break but will restart in
March 2007. To be included on the mailing list please contact
courses at nowhere-lab.org

2.
31 January– 18 March 2007
Grace Ndiritu
Still life and responsible tourism
Chisenhale Gallery
64 Chisenhale Road
London, E3 5QZ
www.chisenhale.org.uk 020 8981 4518
Gallery opening times Wednesday - Sunday, 1:00pm - 6:00pm

Chisenhale Gallery presents a new multi-screen video work by Grace  
Ndiritu. Still Life and Responsible Tourism, comprises two video  
quartets that will be projected onto four large-scale screens within  
the gallery.
Still Life includes four large-scale videos, projected  
simultaneously, that use West African textiles in a sensual and, at  
times, unnerving physical performance by the artist to camera.  
Ndiritu wraps, conceals and reveals her body, creating and  
controlling tensions within the fabric to provoke different emotional  
responses.

Responsible Tourism comprises four large-scale videos, projected in  
sequence, that explore aspects of a complex relationship between the  
artist’s performance as a western tourist, behind the camera, and a  
nomadic African population as they go about their everyday business  
and lives. Ndiritu captures unstaged moments that focus on the daily  
acts of the local population, such as cooking outdoors and camel racing.


3.
Friday 2nd – Sunday 4th February
ARIANE MICHEL  /  TOM ACKERS /  RASTKO NOVAKOVIC
Recent videos
Whitechapel Project Space
20 Fordham Street London E11HS
tel 07748235428
www.whitechapelprojectspace.org.uk
info at whitechapelprojectspace.org.uk
London premieres, one weekend only
Preview Fri 2 February 19:00 - 21:00
Saturday 3 February 13:00 - 18:00
Sunday 4 February 13:00 - 18:00
Free admission: screenings 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm & 5pm

ARIANE MICHEL   Reve de Cheval (Horse Dream) (2004) 11 minutes
Here they are, sleeping. From one leg onto the other, strong and  
quiet, hidden in the winter. From far away, a rumour comes up. Ears  
straighten-up: all of them have heard. In their secret language, they  
all come to an agreement: they are scared and have to run away. A  
weird animal will appear in their panic, hybrid, worrisome like an  
enigma.

TOM ACKERS   Adult Education (2006) 16 minutes
A series of scenarios present Cognitive Behavioural Therapy as a site  
for different levels of performing. Actors devise a range of  
roleplaying characters, and in various presentations of themselves  
arouse confusions of perception, self-knowledge and self-alteration  
around their use or avoidance of cliché.

RASTKO NOVAKOVIC Sundays in Majdanpek: Tri u dva ne ide (2006)
Sundays in Majdanpek: Twice Shy (2007) 32 minutes total

Five shots of the town’s disused cinema present a fleeting document  
of the social space and history of Majdanpek, a devastated mining  
town in Eastern Serbia. The cyclical gesture of entering the cinema,  
the expectations in starting afresh, tracing the same route, but each  
time with different images and sounds, creates an accumulative  
intermingling of textual and visual historical records. They present  
simultaneously two contradictory conceptions of history: history as a  
narrative and history as that which is recorded in a particular medium.

A single uninterrupted shot of Majdanpek’s open mine in 4:3 aspect  
ratio is tilted so that its diagonal fits the 16:9 format -  
stretching the tension between home video and cinema, the public and  
private, the lived and the represented, off-screen space and the  
proscenium. The contradiction between place and sound, and the  
structurally warped projection of this industrial landscape, elicits  
an archaeological texture that shifts between dialectical materialism  
and spiritual meditation.

4.
2-25 February 2007
ROBERT BEAVERS
Tate Modern
www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/tothewingeddistancefilmsb
yrobertbeavers.htm
www.secretcinema.co.uk
Do not miss this extremely rare opportunity to see the remarkable  
films made
by Robert Beavers. The retrospective comprises six curated programmes
followed by Beavers' complete cycle of eighteen films. The filmmaker  
will be
present on the first and last weekends, and P. Adams Sitney (the  
legendary
author of "Visionary Film") will introduce the screening on Sunday 4
February 2007.

5.
Sunday 4 February 2007, at 4pm
JOHN PORTER & ONE TAKE SUPER 8 EVENT
Candid Arts Trust
3 Torrens Street, London, EC1V 1NQ
Nearest Tube: AngelTickets: £5 / £3 concessions
Email: info at cogcollective.co.uk
www.cogcollective.co.uk
www.super8porter.ca
Canada's foremost Super 8 filmmaker John Porter will present a  
selection of his films and a selection of films from the annual One  
Take Super 8 Event. John Porter has been a filmmaker, performer,  
photographer and writer since 1968. Known in his native Toronto as  
the king of Super 8, he has made morethan 300 short films, mostly  
Super 8, and has performed more than 70 soloshows internationally.  
Many of his films are silent, made in series (Camera Dances, crowd  
portraits, local histories, rituals, toy stories), and he shows his  
camera originals (no copies). Often while projecting he performs live  
in the audience, in front of the screen, or while hand-holding the  
small projector for 'surround Super 8' in galleries and for  
projecting onto passing people and vehicles while 'film-busking' on  
the street at night. His films are dynamic, humorous and revealing,  
enjoyed by people of all ages. John will be showing a selection of  
films from his Europe 2007 Tour Programme. www.super8porter.ca/ 
Europe07Show.htm. The One Take Super 8 Event began in 2000 and has  
been showcased across Canada, the United States and in a number of  
international festivals. In 2006 it was held in Regina, Saskatchewan.  
The event invites filmmakers to shoot a single reel of Super 8 film  
which are then collectively screened at a public venue. All films are  
shown as shot, no cuts, no splices, and without the filmmakers having  
seen their work beforehand. To date more than 200 films have been  
created for the event. www.myspace.com/onetakesuper8event


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