LUX INVISIBLE MEND/ Private view/ Wednesday 23rd May 6 - 9pm

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INVISIBLE MEND

24 May – 24 June
Private view: Wednesday 23 May 6-9pm




Lounge, 28 Shacklewell Lane, London E8 2EZ www.lounge-gallery.com

Opening times: Thursday – Sunday 1–6pm or by appointment

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 offsite exhibitions and events throughout May and June

Invisible Mend is curated by Ian White and LUX

A LUX/ Lounge collaboration

www.lux.org.uk/invisiblemend

INVISIBLE MEND OFFSITE

Wednesday 30 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

Thursday 7 June, 7pm for 7.30pm start
INVISIBLE MEND SALON: CAMCORDER DEVOTION
curated and presented by James Richards
A collection of videos which are very much about the camera/editor as  
an off screen character with an ambiguous or subverted relationship  
to the events being depicted in the video. While often awkward or  
obsessive in tone the material shown is also about fantasy, and  
people’s use of lo-tech and simple technology for escapism.  
including work by James Richards, Steve Reinke, Anne McGuire, Matthew  
Probert and Kim Fielding.
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
Plus late night opening at Lounge until 9pm

Sunday 10 June, 8pm, £5
INVISIBLE MEND PERFORMANCE
Arcola Theatre, Arcola Street, London E8.
EMMA HART & BENEDICT DREW, JAMES RICHARDS
An evening of live works that cross between cinema and performance,  
strategies of appropriation and magical formalism. James Richards  
presents a new work of found sound material. In Emma Hart & Benedict  
Drew’s Untitled two a 50-foot length of film with black and white  
frames is projected by running the filmstrip from the projector and  
through the strings of an electric guitar held by Drew who stands in  
front of the screen. The string is plucked each time a splice passes.  
The effect is disconcerting as the increasingly staccato flashing of  
the projector, in tension with the distorting guitar strings, takes  
the viewer into a territory that is immediately personal, sexual and  
mesmerizing.

Friday 15 June, doors 9pm starting at dusk, £3
VALIE EXPORT: INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES (Unsichtbare Gegner)
LUX, 3rd Floor, 18 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ (outdoor rooftop  
screening)
EXPORT’s seminal first feature is a tour-de-force of radical  
paranoia presented in a special rooftop screening overlooking the  
city. Anna wakes to a radio signal that she interprets as an alien  
invasion. Her investigations are an exegesis on the self, mental  
instability, the media and sexual politics. 'as if Godard were  
reincarnated as a woman and decided to make a feminist version of The  
Invasion of the Body Snatchers' Amy Taubin. Presented in  
collaboration with Cinenova www.cinenova.org.uk and with thanks to  
Faction Films. Booking essential as places are limited, email  
salon at lux.org.uk (NB screening subject to good weather, otherwise  
screening will take place inside at LUX). Plus late night opening at  
Lounge until 9pm

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 www.architectureweek.org.uk


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