LUX Weekly News 24 July - 29 July 2007 EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

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LUX Weekly News 24 July - 29 July 2007
EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

1. Candice Breitz: New Work, White Cube 25-26 Mason's Yard, July 25 -  
August 28

2. Adria Julia: Home Movies, Associates, 92 Hoxton St, July 26 -  
August 25

3. La Société des Amis de Judex II, Mark Aerial Waller & the Wayward  
Canyon,
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, Friday 27 July, 7 - 9 pm

4. Driven by Cars, film night and artist talk, Selected by Ricarda  
Vidal,
Fieldgate Gallery, 14 Fieldgate Street, Friday 27 July, 6 - 9 pm

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1.

July 25 - August 28
Candice Breitz: New Work
White Cube
25-26 Mason's Yard,
SW1Y 6BU
020 7930 5373, enquiries at whitecube.com
www.whitecube.com
Nearest tube: Piccadilly Circus or Green Park
Open Tue-Sat 10-6 pm

Through her pointed and deftly edited video installations, Candice  
Breitz looks at the stereotypes and visual conventions in film and  
popular culture. These videos often explore the relationship between  
the god-like presence of pop stars and actors, and their awestruck fans.
Shot in screen-test mode and presented as a choral grid over a wall  
of TV screens, these installations are both compelling and toe- 
curlingly difficult to watch, affectionate glimpses into the power  
structures inherent in mass media and its passionate consumers.


2.

July 26 - Aug 25
Adria Julia: Home Movies, 2007
Associates
92 Hoxton St,
N1 6LP
0207 729 8173
www.associatesgallery.co.uk.
Old Street /Bus 67,149, 242, 243
Open: Thur-Sat 11-6
Two film video installations
Extract from an interview between Adria Julia, Ryan Gander & Rebecca  
May Marston
   RMM: You will be the only artist who is never been to the gallery  
before the show. How do you imagine it? By the way, it is funny that  
you have never been with the show you proposed because Associates is  
tiny and has no windows for air and it is going to be August and you  
are blacking the gallery out so I have to sit in a dark, dingy sweat- 
pit for a month.
   AJ: Ouch. Well then now I can picture the gallery much better,  
what with all the sweat and odors. Perfect for summer naps. The last  
time I was in London was in 1988. I stayed for a day or two and I  
recall not much more than the changing of the guards at Buckingham  
Palace. According to the main picture on the Associates website, the  
gallery looks like something similar: guards, horses, and a palace  
for napping.
   RMM: Why do you want to do a show here?
   AJ: I have never shown my work in the UK before. I am looking  
forward to seeing it in that context. I am drawn to the different  
aspects of translation and to its ultimate failure.


3.

Friday 27 July, 7 – 9 pm
La Société des Amis de Judex II,
Mark Aerial Waller & the Wayward Canyon
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk or call 0207 887 8888
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended
The Wayward Canon, founded by artist Mark Aerial Waller in 2001, is a  
shifting platform for the re-evaluation of cinema. La Société des  
Amis de Judex II is a provocative reconsideration of Surrealism. It  
aligns Guillaume Apollinaire's poetry, 1960s Batman, Georges Franju,  
and Louis Feuillade's Judex with a smoke machine and audio  
interruptions by the Istanbul-based artist collective HAZAVUZU.
The event opens with a rarely seen interview between surrealist/new  
wave filmmaker Georges Franju and Marcel Allain, co-author of the pre- 
WWI French thriller series Fantômas. The footage documents a man who  
helped form the beginnings of cinema in dialogue with the missing  
link to the French New Wave.
An excursion into 1960s television follows: The Riddler is making an  
attack on the private view of a prize elephant sculpture, and Batman  
is nowhere to be seen. The Riddler fills the space with nitrous oxide  
gas then presents atrocious jokes, trapping the audience into  
uncontrollable laughter. Then boom! the floor gives way...
The event also includes a screening of the first episode of Louis  
Feuillade's cinema serial, Fantômas. A new soundtrack has been  
recorded with the help of a street musician playing music influenced  
by arcade games, which echoes through the drunken shouts and broken  
glass of the 2 am streets of Istanbul. HAZAVUZU have also created a  
vocal sound work for the event.
La Société des Amis de Judex II also hosts the launch of a  
publication made in response to a weekend screening of Fantomas,  
produced by emerging Istanbul-based artists and writers earlier this  
year.

4.

Friday 27 July, 6-9 pm
Driven by Cars, film night and artist talk
Selected by Ricarda Vidal,
Fieldgate Gallery
14 Fieldgate Street
E1 1ES
http://www.fieldgategallery.com


7.00 – 8.15 pm: Artist-Films - Driven by Cars
The films selected for Driven by Cars all focus on the car and the  
way it changes our perception of nature, of culture, of ourselves.  
They explore the exhilaration of speed and the enchantment of slow  
motion, the crash (the explosion!) and the aftermath of the accident.  
Some of them are serious, others are less so, some are critical,  
others are celebratory - together they form a tableau of contemporary  
driving.

8.15 – 9.00 pm: Driving Artists Talk: Joe Kerr and Andrew Cross
The screening will be followed by a talk about driving, cars and  
culture, between the artist and curator Andrew Cross and Joe Kerr,  
Professor at the Royal College of Art and qualified London bus-driver.
FILM LINEUP:
An English Journey (excerpts), Andrew Cross, UK, 2004/2007, 8 min
Hitchcock, Reuben Sutherland, UK, 2005, 4 min
The Car is Fine, Nikos Leros, Greece /UK 1999, 15 min
Grau, Robert Seidel, Germany, 2004, 10 min
Lucky, Artist: Nash Edgerton, Australia, 2005, 4 min
Action Painting: A Roadtrip, Artist: Ami Clarke, UK, 2006, 2 min
Penrose, Adam Evans, UK, 2005, 12 min
Car Culture (excerpts), David Cotterrell, UK, 2001, 8 min
C’était Un rendez-vous, Claude Lelouch, France, 1976, 9 min
Two Head, Yasu Ichige