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LUXNEWSWIREmay2007

[LUX NEWSWIRE is a monthly e-newsletter covering UK and international  
artists' moving image news. Contributions are welcome under any of  
the following headings, send information for inclusion to news[at] 
lux.org.uk]

Contents
1. UK/International openings (festivals, gallery shows, screening  
series)
2. Calls (festivals, open shows, competitions, conferences)
3. Opportunities (funding, residences, employment)
4. Publishing (books, online journals, videos, DVD, CD)
5. LUX news


1. UK/INTERNATIONAL OPENINGS

LUX LONDON EVENTS CALENDAR the most comprehensive daily listing of  
artists' moving image events, screenings and exhibitions in London  
http://www.lux.org.uk/resources/calendar.htm

UK

Hobbies and Films, Harry Smith. Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland. 2 May  
– 8 June. http://www.regvardygallery.org

Chinese Video Now, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. 2 May – 16  
June. http://www.hansardgallery.org.uk

TJ Wilcox, Sadie Coles, London. 2 May – 23 June. http:// 
www.sadiecoles.com

Oliver Payne & Nick Relph, Herald Street, London. 12 May – 24 June.
http://www.heraldst.com

Claire Hooper, Sketch, London. 12 May – 23 June. gallery at sketch.uk.com

The 7 Lights, Paul Chan. Serpentine Gallery, London. May 15 - Jul 1,  
2007
http://www.serpentinegallery.org

The House of Mr X, Elizabeth Price. Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston.
http://www.stanleypickergallery.org

Evolution 2007, Leeds. 25 – 27 May.  http://www.lumen.org.uk/ 
evolution2007

Muntean/Rosenblum, Maureen Paley, London. 26 May – 15 July.
http://www.maureenpaley.com

INTERNATIONAL

53. Internationale Filmtage Oberhausen, Germany. 3 – 8 May. http:// 
www.kurzfilmtage.de

Videoex, Experimentalfilm & Video Festival, Zürich, Switzerland. 17  
– 27 May. http://www.videoex.ch

23/05/2007 - 03/06/2007
Loop - Videoart Festival, Barcelona, Spain. 23 May – 3 June.
http://www.loop-barcelona.com


2. CALLS
CALL FOR ENTRIES
* denotes entry fees

Media Forum, ХХIX Moscow International Film Festival, Russia.  
Deadline: 10 May. http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru/index_e.html

DOCSDF, International Documentary Film Festival of México City,  
Mexico. Deadline: 15 May. http://www.docsdf.com/

Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, Canada. Deadline: 15 June  
http://www.nouveaucinema.ca *

Media Art Friesland Festival 2007, Netherlands. Deadline: 1 June.  
http://www.mediaartfriesland.nl

London Film Festival, UK. Deadline: 29 June. http://www.lff.org.uk/ 
content.php?CategoryID=640

Les Inattendus, (very) independent cinema and video festival, Lyon,  
France. Deadline: 30 June http://www.inattendus.com

l’Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Spain. Deadline:  
16 July. http://alternativa.cccb.org


3. OPPORTUNITIES

Space. Site Platform, Site Gallery, Sheffield. Call for registrations  
of interest from UK artists and curators who wish to use the gallery  
to showcase explorative, experimental, in-progress or durational  
work. Deadline: 1 June. http://www.sitegallery.org

Commission. The Great North Run Moving Image Commission, UK.  
Deadline: 11 June. http://www.greatrun.org/movingimagecommission

Fellowship. Berwick Gymnasium Art Gallery Visual Arts Fellowships,  
UK. Deadline: 15 June. More information email BSH.desk at english- 
heritage.org.uk

Research and Development. Bright Sparks, Gunpowder Park, Greater  
London. For new ideas exploring the physical and social aspects of  
open space in the 21st Century. Deadline: 22 June. http:// 
www.gunpowderpark.org/site/60/215.html

Residency. Berlin Residency for London-based Artists. Artquest, in  
partnership with ACAVA, is initiating a new 3-month visual arts  
studio residency in Berlin from September 2007. Deadline: 13 July
http://www.artquest.org.uk/34510.htm


4. PUBLISHING

5 Essential Films, Jordan Belson. DVD published in USA by Center for  
Visual Music. Allures (1961), Samadhi (1967), Light (1973), Fountain  
of Dreams (1984), and Epilogue (2005). http:// 
www.centerforvisualmusic.org/JBDVD.htm

The Films of Hilary Harris. DVD published in USA by Mystic Fire  
Video. Includes Organism [1975], 9 Variations [1966], Highway [1958],  
Longhorn [1951]. http://www.mysticfire.com/


5. LUX NEWS

NEW ON LUXONLINE

Harold Offeh
'At its heart, Offeh's artwork is a practice that is playful and  
deceptively light of touch. He's a dancer, a smiler, a Mammy, and an  
Afrofuturist Angela Davis in drag (aptly named Mangela Davis). And  
these strategies, whether personae or collaborations--allow Offeh to  
consistently be within the work, having a direct engagement to the  
camera, and in turn to the audience.
Kim Dhillon on Harold Offeh, Luxonline profile.
http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/harold_offeh/index.html

Chris Welsby
Chris Welsby's work 'acknowledges our changing relationship to the  
environment, drawing on twentieth century science and art-practice to  
re-define the idea of Landscape with a relevance to our own times.'
David Curtis on Chris Welsby, Luxonline Profile.
http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/chris_welsby/index.html

SCREENINGS AND EVENTS

2 – 30 May
THE SUBJECTIVE CAMERA at Greenwich Picturehouse, London
The Subjective Camera is a series of retrospective film screenings of  
six film artists whose work examines subjectivity with an analysis of  
film language. Emerging within the context of the London Filmmakers’  
Co-op during the ‘80s and ‘90s, these artists each developed an  
independent practice that at once built on and countered the  
principles of the Structuralist film movement of the ‘70s. Their  
films extend anti-illusionist explorations of the materiality of film  
and incorporate investigations of the materiality of the body. With  
their shared history, that situates the artist at the centre of the  
physical process of putting the film together, sometimes as camera  
person as well as editor, these six artists weave into the filmmaking  
process a broad scope of contemporary concerns, from religion to  
psychoanalysis, the spaces of abstraction, voice, language and song,  
to the dialogue between personal and meta-narrative. http:// 
www.picturehouses.co.uk/news_item.aspx?venueId=gnw&id=415
Wed 2 May, 6:45 pm  NINA DANINO
Wed 9 May, 6:45 pm ALIA SYED
Wed 16 May, 6:45 pm MICHAEL MAZIERE
Wed 23 May, 6:45 pm SANDRA LAHIRE
Wed 30 MAY, 6:45 pm SARAH PUCILL

Friday 4th May 8pm
Select: A Night with Rosalind Nashashibi
as part of Late at Tate Britain, Clore Auditorium, Millbank
Admission free, no bookings taken
  Free tickets are available on the night from 18.00 at the Clore  
Foyer desk. Seated on a first-come, first served basis.
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/film/8366.htm
'...the coming together of the elements and apparatus that make film,  
whether sound and picture, projector and screen, or coloured lights  
meeting to make white light; in parallel with the collision of the  
real and everyday against the miraculous that film effects'
Artist Rosalind Nashashibi presents a night of films and  
performances. Including work by Thomas Bayrle, Bonnie Camplin, Morgan  
Fisher, John Smith, Apitchatpong Weerasethakul and performances by  
Sue Tompkins and Will Holder.
Select is a LUX/ Tate collaboration inviting British artists to  
curate a night of film and performance which inspires them

24rd May – 24th June
OPENING Wednesday 23rd May 6 – 9pm
INVISIBLE MEND at Lounge, 28 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ
Chrissy Coscioni, VALIE EXPORT, Emma Hart & Benedict Drew, Jasmina  
Fekovic, Ursula Mayer, James Richards, Jonty Semper, Elizabeth Subrin.
Since the beginning of the twentieth century artists making moving  
images have exploited industrial cinema as ‘found’ images to be  
reinterpreted, manipulated and represented as art. Invisible Mend, a  
group show of mainly young artists, presents a collection of works  
that seem to strategise in a similar way while actually drawing their  
material from radically different sources, simulating the look of  
the ‘found’ or exploring as much a set of radical (over)  
identifications with their subjects as a set of formal, political or  
historical questions. The works vary wildly in their aesthetics but  
what they have in common is an exploitation of the invisible:  
refutations of the permissible in the name of personal or political  
expression, a rewriting of history and to travel through time and  
space, through imaginary forays against and within dominant culture,  
escaping into new landscapes of desire. Criticality is manifested  
through an ebullience that replaces strict analysis with intuition,  
an interplay of emotional registers and often a disarming sense of  
celebration. As well as the exhibition at Lounge, Invisible Mend  
extends into a series of events throughout June. Invisible Mend is  
curated by Ian White and LUX. http://www.lux.org.uk/invisiblemend

Wednesday 23rd May 7pm
Real Institute in association with LUX present 'Shoot, Shoot, Shoot!  
Expanded Cinema' at Wrexham Arts Centre, North Wales.
“Shoot Shoot Shoot” presents historic works of Expanded Cinema,  
for which each screening is a unique, collective experience.
Programme includes Castle Two (Malcolm Le Grice, 1968), Play (Sally  
Potter, 1971), Diagonal (William Raban, 1973), Hand Grenade (Gill  
Eatherley, 1971), Light Music (Lis Rhodes, 1975-77), Line Describing  
a Cone (Anthony McCall, 1973). Curated by Mark Webber. http:// 
www.realinstitute.org

Wednesday 30th May 7pm for 7.30pm start
INVISIBLE MEND SALON: SHULIE
On the occasion of the Invisible Mend exhibition, LUX Salon takes the  
opportunity to screen Elizabeth Subrin’s SHULIE in a female only  
study salon.
Subrin resurrected a little-known 1967 documentary portrait of a  
young Chicago art student, Shulamith Firestone, who a few years later  
would become a notable figure in Second Wave feminism and the author  
of the radical 1970 manifesto, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for  
Feminist Revolution. Subrin’s version re-creates the original, shot  
for shot, and in the process arcs 40 years of feminisim. Using the  
film as a catalyst to form a discussion group we will look at the  
issues that resonate through the film; about identity, the  
construction of histories and how they reflect on the current  
interest in feminist work and assess the significance. Facilitated by  
Jackie Holt and Emma Hedditch. LUX Salon takes place at LUX office,  
3rd Floor, 18 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ. Admission Free but  
places are very limited so pre-booking is required, to book a place  
email salon at lux.org.uk

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