[LuxWeeklyNews]LUX Weekly News 19 – 24 March 2007 EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

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LUX Weekly News 19 – 24 March 2007
EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

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

LUX SALON: Power Tripping, LUX office, Dalston Wednesday 21 March,  
7pm for 7.30pm start
Rosso Babele, Grazia Toderi, fa projects, 22 March - 5 May
The Secret Public: The Last Days of the British Underground 1978 –  
1988 ICA, 23 March - 6 May
Saturday 24 March, at 8.30pm, V.O. & ALL MALE MASH UP, London Lesbian  
& Gay Film Festival
Secret Films Presents an Audiovisual Evening, The Roxy, Saturday 24  
March, 8pm - 1am

1.
Wednesday 21 March, 7pm for 7.30pm start
LUX SALON: Power Tripping
LUX OFFICE, Shacklewell Studios
18 Shacklewell Lane
London,E8 2EZ

Admission free. FULLY BOOKED please be on time - no late entry. For  
directions to LUX see http://www.lux.org.uk/about/index.html

Two underground cult films meditating on control and paranoia from  
the LUX Collection selected by Benjamin Cook. Scott and Beth B’s  
‘Letters to Dad’ (1979, 13 min, 16mm) superimposes the power  
relations between Jim Jones and his followers onto the parapunk art  
world of 70s New York and Paul Bartel’s ‘Secret Cinema’ (1966, 30  
min, 16mm), a dark/ funny satire on cinematic manipulation from the  
director of Death Race 2000 and Eating Raoul.

SCOTT B AND BETH B
LETTERS TO DAD
1979, USA, 13 min, super 8 to 16mm
A meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jonestown  
over the relatively fresh faces of the parapunk art world. The B's  
asked two dozen artists and musicians to pick from the letters  
written to Jim Jones by his flock the phrase that he/she could most  
identify with.

PAUL BARTEL
SECRET CINEMA
1966, USA, 30 min, 16mm
"A paranoid fantasy" which hovers in the zone where the cinema merges  
with the subconscious of its audience, telling the harrowing,  
hilarious tale of a woman who believes that her life is secretly  
being filmed and screened to scornful audiences at local movie theaters.

2.
22 March - 5 May
Rosso Babele, Grazia Toderi
fa projects
1-2 Bear Gardens, London SE1 9ED
http://www.faprojects.com

f a projects are pleased to announce an exhibition of new video and  
photographic work by Grazia Toderi.

The double projection work Rosso Babele (Red Babel) will be exhibited  
in the main gallery. Both sides of the diptych represent the Rosso  
Babele, a fictitious location fabricated from a multitude of  
superimposed and layered images of urban views, creating an eerie  
city landscape, an indistinct place, which consists of reddish matter  
that swarms with lights. Toderi calls this distinct colour of the  
works ‘Babel Red’, describing the tone that shines from the sodium  
vapour lamps that illuminate streets at night. The tone also prompts  
profound associations, creating the atmosphere of a contemporary Hades.

Central in both images is the Tower of Babel. The tower rises and  
falls continually, building up and being destroyed in a never-ending  
cycle. This is a modern Tower of Babel, which is intertwined with a  
multitude of indistinct cities, where increasingly the profound  
meaning of language fluctuates between growth, multiplication and  
destruction, between an excess of information and an impoverished  
message.

Rosso Babele (Red Babel) with it’s circling star formations and  
crashing comets furthers Grazia Toderi’s exploration of the  
interlinking of cosmic and terrestrial space as seen previously in  
such works as Il Decollo, 1998 and Centro, 2004.

Rosso Babele (Red Babel) was commission by PAC, Padiglione d’Arte  
Contemporanea, Milan, for Grazia Toderi’s current solo exhibition at  
the museum.

3.
23 March - 6 May
The Secret Public: The Last Days of the British Underground 1978 – 1988
ICA
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AHBox Office: 020 7930 3647 / Switchboard: 020  
7930 0493Exhibition open daily 12pm - 7.30pm (9pm on Thursdays)  
www.ica.org.uk

Featuring: Charles Atlas, Bodymap, Leigh Bowery, Victor Burgin, Marc  
Camille Chaimowicz, Michael Clark, Peter Doig, Duvet Brothers, Brian  
Eno, Cerith Wyn Evans, Gilbert and George, Gorilla Tapes, Richard  
Hamilton, Derek Jarman, Isaac Julien, Tina Keane, Sandra Lahire,  
Linder, Stuart Marshall & Neil Bartlett, John Maybury, Neo-Naturists,  
Julian Opie, Jon Savage, Peter Saville, Mark E. Smith, Wolfgang  
Tillmans, Trojan, Stephen Willats, and others.

A disquieting, playful, and intensely urban exhibition rooted in the  
political landscape of the '80s, The Secret Public examines the dark  
flowering of creativity which took shape in the UK between 1978 and  
1988. From Leigh Bowery's five-night performance, filmed through the  
one-way glass of a London gallery window, to Jon Savage's photographs  
of neglected corners of London and Richard Hamilton's Treatment Room  
(1982) in which Margaret Thatcher's televised image hangs ominously  
over an operating table, this exhibition offers a re-evaluation of  
Britain's recent political past, highlighting the subversive  
tendencies and lasting influence of a group of artists working across  
art, fashion, film, dance, performance, video and music.

A time of heightened political, economic and social change - from the  
recession and civil unrest of Thatcherite Britain, to the advent of  
AIDS - the late '70s and '80s saw a creative energy emerge in the UK  
with its own particular and potent shape: a covert form that sat  
outside established institutional practices of the time, creating its  
own network of activities, events, economies and celebrities. As a  
generational grouping of artists and personalities, it is perfectly  
described by the title of a fanzine created by Linder and Jon Savage  
and published in Manchester in 1978: The Secret Public.

Just as the punk movement of earlier years represented a volatile,  
ambiguous celebration of violence, negativity and protest, the  
artists gathered together in this show responded to a darkening view  
of the world. Finding resonances in the area of performance, but also  
drawing on film, video, fashion and music, these artists fused a  
range of contemporary and historical reference, creating works  
exploring gender, and sexuality, and the use of the body as both  
spectacle and a metaphor for the social 'body'. Arguably, the period  
can be seen as a last outburst of radical experimentation before the  
onslaught of consumerism established an environment in which  
'alternative' culture could immediately be co-opted into the mainstream.

By focussing on the years between the death of punk and the birth of  
the YBA phenomenon, The Secret Public invites a consideration of the  
UK's current artistic and cultural landscape in relation to these  
landmarks, directing attention to the connections between art and  
politics, and to the aesthetics of club and pop culture which figured  
so largely during this period and which continue to influence a wide  
range of artistic practices.

The Secret Public. The Last Days of the British Underground 1978 -  
1988 is conceived and produced by Kunstverein München, and curated by  
Stefan Kalmár & Michael Bracewell. Associate curators are Ian White &  
Daniel Pies. The exhibition was made possible through the support of  
Kulturstiftung des Bundes and The Henry Moore Foundation.

4.
Saturday 24 March 2007, at 8.30pm
V.O. & ALL MALE MASH UP
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
NFT 3, BFI Southbank,
Belvedere Road, South Bank, London, SE1 8XT
Tickets: £8.50 / £6.25 concessions. Box Office: 020 7928 3232
www.williamejones.com www.llgff.org.uk

William E. Jones’s new body of work was inspired by his parallel  
career in the gay adult video industry. In the course of viewing  
hundreds of hours of porn, he has developed a fascination with its  
marginalia: establishing shots revealing urban landscapes of the  
recent past, charmingly inept dialogue scenes, and close-ups of  
performers, many now dead. This material, while of no particular  
commercial use, can be seen as an invaluable document of a lost world  
of eroticism and sociability. (LA Film Forum)

v.o, William E. Jones, USA, 2006, 59 mins

Using his encyclopaedic knowledge of 60s and 70s gay porn and  
arthouse cinema, William E Jones has skilfully edited a compilation  
of non-sexual scenes which offer a unique perspective on gay life.  
Come-hither stares, knowing looks, the prowling walk of a man on  
heat, there is a teasing, gentle build-up to these extracts which is  
almost hypnotic. The title refers to the French practice of releasing  
a film in "Version Originale", but this film is in fact dubbed with  
an extraordinary range of mostly European arthouse classic  
soundtracks. This makes for a surprising juxtaposition of images,  
voices and English subtitles which is often spookily resonant in its  
effect.

All Male Mash Up, William E. Jones, USA, 2006, 29 mins

More sex-free ancient porn but this time it has its own soundtrack.  
That pizza delivery truck is carrying more than just pizza. A wild  
hippy party gets out of control with reefers, sequins and moustaches.  
A retro-erotic delight.

5.
Saturday 24 March, 8pm - 1am
Secret Films Presents an Audiovisual Evening
The Roxy
128-132 Borough High Street (Next to Sainsbury's)
£4 entry (concs. available)
www.roxybarandscreen.com www.secretfilms.co.uk www.exceeda.co.uk www. 
4x4av.co.uk
Or contact Andrew on 07966 161 949
A packed night from Secret Films, with shorts, DVJ sets, film remixes  
and live audio sets.

8pm - [4x4]

A selection of cutting edge film, animation and music videos from  
around the globe, curated by Exceeda. [4x4] will showcase the  
following artists…

Chris Shepherd & David Shrigley, The Light Surgeons, Noriko Okaku,  
Max Hattler, Mox & Louie, UVA & Colder, Big Red Button, HIFANA,  
Ossian Bacon, Mark Taplin Soviet Science, Run Wrake, Howie B & Craig  
Richards, Joe King, Simon Ratigan & Ben Christophers, HFR LAB & Synapsia

9pm -  Exceeda DVJ Set.

Fresh from the Optronica Festival, DVJ X  (aka Xavier Perkins) from  
Exceeda (Diesel U-Music Best VJ winners) will play a new AV set,  
promoting their forthcoming DVD. Romping through graphic styles and  
cultural references, DVJ X will remix film samples and construct  
original beats alongside experimental sounds to create a truly live  
cinematic experience.

10pm – G-Pilot DVJ Set.

DVJ G-Pilot (aka Andrew Gaston) takes us on a journey through cult  
20th Century Cinema. Reworking spy and heist movies from the 60's &  
70's G-Pilot will then travel back in cinematic time to finish with  
some of his recent film noir remixes. Along the way you can expect  
multi-screen experimental video, studies on hypnotism, murder by  
telephone and all remixed live with music by... Lalo Schifrin /  
Herbalizer / Michel LeGrand / Primal Scream /  Ennio Morricone /  
Depth Charge…plus much more. Musically assisted by the Hoxton Creeper.


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