LUX Weekly News 16 July - 22 July 2007 EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

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LUX Weekly News 16 July - 22 July 2007
EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

1. Researchers' Tales: David Curtis, BFI National Library, Monday 16  
July, 6.15pm (for 6.30) -8.00pm

2. The Weasel: Pop Music and Contemporary Art, South London Gallery,
     14 July - 29 July,  Tue–Sun, 12–6pm

3. Keith Piper: Artists' talk, PM Gallery & House, Wednesday 18 July,  
7.30pm

4. New Work UK: Curated by Polly Staple, Whitechapel Film Programme,  
Thursday 19 July, 7.30pm, £5

5. Projected Cities: London, Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium, Sunday 22  
July, 1pm, 3pm, 6pm

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.
Monday 16 July, 6.15pm (for 6.30) -8.00pm
Researchers' Tales: David Curtis.
BFI National Library
BFI, 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN
Tel. 020 7957 4824
www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/researchers/tales/

BFI National Library is pleased to welcome David Curtis, of the  
British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection  
www.studycollection.co.uk, author of A History Of Artists' Film and  
Video in Britian (BFI 2007), and curator of the accompanying film  
season at BFI Southbank.
Researchers' Tales is an occasional series of informal discussions  
for library members where leading writers and historians in film,  
television, artists' film and the moving image reflect on past and  
future work.
Places are free to individual library members, however prior booking  
is essential as places are limited.
To book a place, please call the Reading Room Librarian Sarah Currant  
on tel. 020 7957 4824 or use the contact us from at www.bfi.org.uk/ 
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2.
14 July - 29 July
The Weasel: Pop Music and Contemporary Art
South London Gallery
65 Peckham Road
London SE5 8UH
www.southlondongallery.org

For two weeks this Summer the SLG will be transformed into 'The  
Weasel': a music venue showcasing artists working with popular music.  
Presented on a stage specially designed by Assume Vivid Astro Focus,  
'The Weasel' combines artists' film and video with live performances,  
which reflect upon and investigate the cultures and sub-cultures of  
popular music. The project will be documented with a unique 'bootleg'  
of photography and sound.
A specially designed stage and screen by Assume Vivid Astro Focus  
will host films during the day and live performances by night. Films  
by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Maxi Geil! and Wilhelm Sasnal will be  
interspersed with a programme of shorts including work by Charles  
Atlas, Kulwinder Bajar, Johanna Billing, Judith Hopf, Kitsune, Los  
Super Elegantes, My Barbarian, Jason Nelson and Esther Planas.

Films: Tue–Sun, 12–6pm, free

Maxi Geil!: Nausea II, 2005
60 mins, shown daily at 1.30
Maxi Gail’s ‘porn-rock opera’ Nausea II is a humorous musical based  
around the sex industry, and the amusing similarities between the  
glamour and shock of both the art world and porn industry. The film  
combines disenchantment with contemporary desires with a wistful  
return to old-fashioned song and dance routines.

Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard: Make me yours again, 2007
30 mins, shown daily at 3.30pm
Make me yours again is an unscripted portrait of young people talking  
about love and loss, using homemade ‘mixtapes’ as a trigger. Made  
during a residency in New Zealand, this work continues Forsyth &  
Pollard’s Precious Little series.

Wilhelm Sasnal, The River, 2006
Shown daily at 5pm
The River, inspired by Pare Lorentz’s poetic script for a film of the  
same name, began with the commission of several New York bands to  
create music to accompany Lorentz’s poetry. Bands were given a poem  
to interpret musically. The resulting documentary shows gritty  
footage of the studio sessions.

3.
Keith Piper
27 June - Aug 12
PM Gallery & House
Walpole Park
Mattock Lane
London, W5 5EQ
Nearest tube: Ealing Broadway
www.ealing.gov.uk/pmgalleryandhouse

The first public showing of The Perfect City, a major new video  
installation by internationally renowned multi-media artist Keith Piper.
Displayed as a large-scale diptych, the installation comprises a  
series of densely constructed video montages in which an unseen model  
maker constructs an architectural model of what he describes as The  
Perfect City… which embodies the memory of all cities before it.
This memory is compiled through research of historical archives.  
Starting with an examination of the mythical biblical city of Babel -  
the first city of human history in which diversity was introduced  
into the world - an increasingly conspiratorial trail is charted  
through to the catastrophic events of 11 September 2001.

Keith Piper's large-scale video installations have often explored the  
areas of identity and exclusion and for over twenty years his work  
has been acclaimed for its rigorous exploration of issues around the  
construction of racial and cultural difference.

Wednesday 18 July, 7.30pm
Keith Piper: Artists' talk
The artist in conversation with photographer, writer and curator  
David A Bailey covering themes in his video installation 'The Perfect  
City', previous work and black subjectivity.
Free but call to book a ticket on 020 8567 1227

4.
Thursday 19 July, 7.30pm, £5
New Work UK: Curated by Polly Staple
Whitechapel Film Programme
Whitechapel Art Gallery
Angel Alley
80-82 Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX
www.whitechapel.org
The best of recent British film and video selected by independent  
curator Polly Staple. Presented in association with LUX
Booking essential, email tickets at whitechapel.org book online http:// 
www.whitechapel.org/content.php?page_id=3294

Pablo Bronstein, Bonnie Camplin, Keren Cytter, Haris Epaminonda, Jaki  
Irvine, Hilary Lloyd, Lucy Skaer, Cathy Wilkes

The programme consists of a selection of works made between 1996 and  
2007 across a range of film media. A number of the artists are not  
primarily filmmakers and they bring a range of disparate influences  
to their exploration of film and video’s ability to play with space,  
time and sound. Two artists not based in the UK are included - Keren  
Cytter and Jaki Irvine - as evidence of a shared set of concerns that  
construct a dialogue beyond the terms ‘new’ and ‘British’.

The intention with the programme is to create a specific atmosphere,  
a proposal for a cinematic experience. The works eschew easy  
categorisation revealing tensions between documentary and staged  
performance, fictitious narrative and enigmatic portraiture, aura and  
presence, memory and image. The domestic and a low-key approach to  
production characterises the selection. The use of varying linguistic  
registers and editing techniques creates a distinct rhythm and pace:  
a precise choreography focusing on the spaces between people and  
things, an abundance of melancholic posturing and charged silences.  
The programme explores how we construct and communicate personalities  
- both private and public, intimate and absurd - the power of  
iconography, subject-hood, the object-ness of objects, the  
materiality of film, something between the hand and the eye, the gap  
between you and me.

The programme lasts approximately 30 minutes and will be shown twice  
with an interval for discussion.

Polly Staple is an independent curator.

New Work UK is presented in association with LUX.

5.
Sunday 22 July 2007, 1pm,  3pm, 6pm
Projected Cities: London
Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk or call 020 7887 8888

1pm
London, Patrick Keiller, UK 1994, 85 min
Patrick Keiller's first feature-length film, London is an  
electrifying, slyly witty fin-de-siècle portrait of a city in decay.  
Part documentary, part fiction, the film re-imagines London as a  
series of monuments to late nineteenth-century French poets (Arthur  
Rimbaud, Guillaume Apollinaire, Charles Baudelaire) and eighteenth- 
century Romantic English writers (Horace Walpole, Laurence Sterne).  
Through an unnamed narrator, the film’s imaginary protagonist,  
Robinson, speculates that the failure of the English Revolution might  
explain London's decline and its litany of urban ills. Neither  
documentary nor fiction, the film critiques and re-imagines the  
capital, tracking the narrator's journey through the City, along the  
Thames, to the suburbs of Wembley and the arcades of Brixton Market.

3pm
Robinson in Space, Patrick Keiller, UK 1997, 82 min
In this sequel to London, Robinson and the narrator continue to re- 
imagine the state of the nation as they make their way through  
England’s post-industrial landscape. In homage to Daniel Defoe, they  
embark on seven meandering trips over England. The first trip takes  
them along the Thames, west and east of London; the second to Oxford,  
Cambridge, and Bristol; the third to the West Midlands; the fourth to  
Birmingham and Liverpool; the fifth to Manchester and Hull; the sixth  
to Scarborough and Whitby; the seventh to Blackpool and Sellafield.  
The couple ends their journey in Newcastle, where Robinson’s quest  
for Utopia remains unresolved.

6pm
Projected Cities: Patrick Keiller
Patrick Keiller, one of Britain’s most distinctive voices in cinema,  
initially studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture and  
practised as an architect. For this screening and lecture, Keiller  
will present material from Londres, Bombay (2006), his ambitious  
multi-screen video reconstruction of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus  
(formerly Victoria Terminus) in Mumbai, one of the largest gothic- 
revival railway stations in the world.  He will also present The City  
of the Future, his ongoing project researching representations of  
urban and other landscapes in film from the late nineteenth century  
onwards.
Programme duration 90 minutes
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