LUX Weekly News 18 - 24 June 2007 EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

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LUX Weekly News 18- 25 June 2007
EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

1. Artprojx & James Putnam present Signal by Simon Tegala, Artprojx  
at Prince Charles Cinema, 19 June, 7pm

2. Wake Work Screening and Talk, LUX offices, Wednesday 20 June, 7.30pm

3. Wake Work, Charlotte Ginsborg and Rose Kowalski, LUX offices, 21 -  
23 June 2007, 11am - 5pm

4. Loren Sears, Light Reading, Wednesday 20 June 2007, at 7pm

5. Interiors, Ursula Mayer, 2 Willow Road, Thursday 21 – Saturday 23  
June, 3 - 5 pm

6. Jennet Thomas: Return of the Black Tower[after John Smith], PEER,  
22 June to 28 July

7. Lynette Wallworth, Bfi Southbank, 23 June - 2 September


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.
19 June, 7pm
Artprojx & James Putnam present
Signal by Simon Tegala
Live music by BENDER
with talk by leading immunologist Dr. Kevin Rigley
Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leicester Place
London WC2
Tickets £7.50, £5 for artists and students.
Box Office: 020 7494 3654 (open 1-9pm)
www.princecharlescinema.com

2.

21 - 23 June 2007, 11am - 5pm
Wake Work
Charlotte Ginsborg and Rose Kowalski
LUX, Shacklewell Studios, 18 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ
Admission free, no booking required

Wake-Work is a 16mm film that explores what it means to work. Its  
subject matter is one building, 18 Shacklewell Lane, a converted  
warehouse, and the people employed there. As a cinematic portrait the  
film cuts across genres of documentary, art and drama to provide an  
intimate social document of the changing working patterns taking  
place in east London at the start of the twenty first century. It  
addresses work as a form of theatre and depicts how the rhythm of  
human activity is affected by the physicality of architecture. The  
sound track is composed of 12 characters testimonies edited together  
to create an imaginary discussion that reflects on role-play,  
identity, and power in the workplace.  Through depicting cigarette  
breaks, generic meetings and office spaces the film draws attention  
to how characters communicate without words, and the potency  
contained within their mundane actions and momentary glances. The  
‘naturalness’ of the voices, combined with the overtly staged but  
restrained dramatisation of people moving through their environment  
present the viewer with an ambiguity as to exactly what they are  
watching. What results is an epic account of the everyday.

3.

Wednesday 20 June 7.30pm
Wake Work Screening and Talk
LUX, Shacklewell Studios, 18 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ
Screening of Wake Work and The Mirroring Cure by Charlotte Ginsborg  
followed by a discussion between the artists, Charlotte Ginsborg and  
Rose Kowalski, Michael Oades,  director of atomikarchitecture, an  
architecture /interior design practice and Gareth Evans, director of  
Vertigo Magazine, both based at 18 Shacklewell Lane. ADMISSION FREE,  
places are extremely limited so booking is essential.
To book a place email salon at lux.org.uk

4.

Wednesday 20 June 2007, at 7pm
Loren Sears
Light Reading
3rd Floor, 316–318 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 0AG
Please note the new East London venue for the 2007 series.
Nearest Tube / Train: Bethnal Green
Tickets: £5 door / £4 advance
Telephone: 020 7372 3925
Email: courses at nowhere-lab.org
Booking is essential as places are limited.
www.nowhere-lab.org

Light Reading’s 2007 series continues with a special screening and
presentation to kick off our own summer of love. Next Wednesday,  
American
film and video artist Loren Sears will show and discuss a selection  
of his
early work, including the HAIGHT-ASHBURY QUARTET.

Each of the four films in the quartet, which dates from 1967 to 1971,  
is a
personal documentary that uses superimposition and complex (home made)
optical printing to portray private and communal life in San Francisco’s
hippie centre. They include footage of the legendary Gathering of the  
Tribes at Golden Gate Park, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, the  
Grateful Dead and the Diggers. On the fortieth anniversary of the  
‘Summer of Love’, Sears made new digital transfers of the films and  
presented them at the Cannes Film Festival and market earlier this year.

Loren Sears began making film in 1965 and was a founding member of  
Canyon
Cinema (which remains one of the oldest surviving film co-operatives)  
and
manager of Canyon Cinematheque in San Francisco; an innovator in film  
and
video technology; artist-in-residence at KQED-TV in San Francisco; and
helped to build the production departments for both the Public Cable  
Access
Center and KLSR-TV in Eugene, Oregon.

As one of the first West Coast artists to begin using video in the late
1960s, Sears was cited by Gene Youngblood, in his seminal book “Expanded
Cinema”, as one of the foremost innovators in the field for the  
psychedelic
video mixes he created at KQED’s experimental video laboratory. Between
1972-74, Sears lived and travelled across the USA in a van outfitted for
video production, shooting personal journals and initiating community  
video
projects. At Light Reading, he will also screen THE PACIFIC LAKE, TRIBAL
VISION as an example of his work from this period.

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. To be included on the mailing list for future events,  
please
contact <courses at nowhere-lab.org>

5.

Thursday 21 – Saturday 23 June, 3 - 5 pm
Interiors, Ursula Mayer
2 Willow Road
Hampstead, London, NW3 1TH Telephone: 020 7435 6166
Admission prices to house (including film): £4.90, child £2.50,  
family £12.30
For visitor information about the house please see
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/ 
w-2willowroad/
Shot to a high finish in the house at 2 Willow Road designed by the  
architect Ernö Goldfinger, the location for its exhibition here, two  
women – one old, one young – move through a set of modernist rooms,  
across hallways and up and down stairs, never meeting, never  
speaking. They variously gravitate towards and linger around what  
looks like one of the British sculptor Barbara Hepworth’s infamous,  
intimate works.
Presented as part of Architecture Week 2007.

6.

22 June to 28 July 2007
Jennet Thomas: Return of the Black Tower [after John Smith]
PEER	
99 Hoxton Street
London N1 6QL
www.peeruk.org
Opening reception: Thursday 21st June from 6 to 8pm
Opening times: Wednesday to Saturday 12 noon 6pm

Jennet Thomas makes hyper-bizarre narrative work that playfully  
combines a variety of filmic languages ranging from soap operas to  
experimental and underground filmmaking, and from sci-fi to musicals.  
Her characters seem to exist in a world where the colour balance has  
been adjusted to ‘bright’, and where the part of their brains that  
controls language has been short-circuited and the meaning of words  
has somehow slipped.

In her work for Peer, Thomas takes as her starting point a work by  
structuralist filmmaker John Smith called The Black Tower, made in  
1987. Although there is a similarly dark absurdist tone and a sense  
of the power and fragility of the imagination that resonates in both,  
Smith’s protagonist is menaced by a quotidian and tangible object – 
the black tower near his home in east London – whereas Thomas’  
characters are afflicted by an unnameable though not unwelcome  
controlling force.

Thomas’ film lasts approximately 15 minutes and will be shown on a  
continuous loop. Each Saturday at 5pm during the exhibition period,  
Thomas’ film will be replaced with a special screening of John  
Smith’s The Black Tower, which lasts approximately 25 minutes.  
Alongside the exhibition will be a free, 16 page, fully illustrated  
booklet with a text by
Sally O’Reilly and stills from both films.

7.

23 June - 2 September
Lynette Wallworth
Bfi Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
Hold: Vessel 1, 2001; Hold: Vessel 2, 2007
Australian artist Lynette Wallworth makes her London debut with a  
hands-on installation that offers a new way of perceiving our fragile  
environment through the moving image




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