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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 5-11 November 2007
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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK
1. November 5. Light Reading Series 7: Secret History of the Dividing
Line, A True Account in Nine Parts, David Gatten, Bethnal Green, London
2. November 6. Systems of Nature, Chris Welsby, Lethaby Gallery,
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
3. November 7 & 8. 12 Shooters, Marcia Farquhar, South London
Gallery, London
4. November 7. In Conversation, at Sea: Chris Welsby in Conversation,
BFI Southbank, London
5. November 7. Systems of Nature screening, Chris Welsby, BFI
Southbank, London
6. November 9. Anri Sala, Hauser and Wirth, London
7. November 9. The Nature of our Looking, BFI Southbank, London.
8. November 10. In a World Like This, Jaki Irvine (Talk), Chisenhale
Gallery, London
9. November 10. Rational Rec Goes South, Queen Elizabeth Hall,
Southbank, London
10. November 10. The Nature of Systems, BFI Southbank, London
11. November 10. Passerby Presents...Maya Timonen: Behind God's Back
Any other could be chosen, Guestroom Studio, Dalston, London
12. November 11. LUX EVENT: Hollis Frampton’s Magellan Cycle,
National Maritime Museum, London
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1.
Monday November 5, 7pm
Light Reading Series 7: Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True
Account in Nine Parts, David Gatten
3rd floor 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London E2, OAG
Tickets £5 on the door or £4 advance. Booking is essential as places
are limited. 0207 372 3925 or email courses at nowhere-lab.org
At a time when avant-garde filmmaking leans more toward sensations
and form than intellect and analysis, David Gatten's 16mm cycle
‘Secret History of the Dividing Line’ attempts a rare feat: an
investigation of the borders between word and image influenced
equally by Stan Brakhage and Ludwig Wittgenstein (both veterans of
related pursuits). The results are formidable, Gatten's project
samples from the massive library of colonial Virginia gentleman
William Byrd II, with occasional dips into his daughter Evelyn's
journals, producing artfully composed typographies that suss out an
invisible web of connections and epiphanies. But Gatten also
expresses the indigestible bulk of history's verbiage through a
mobile concrete poetry: Not all his quotes allow for reading; some
words flutter past too quickly to serve as more than compositional
elements, while others appear in negative, close-up and grainy, like
luminous alphabetic windows. Attempting to glimpse a lost world
recorded through texts, Gatten offers the paper-thin screen between
past and present as just one of his project's ultimately ineffable
dividing lines.
“Ed Halter Village Voice 2005”
SECRET HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE (2002, 20 min.)
THE GREAT ART OF KNOWING (2004, 37 min.)
MOXON'S MECHANICK EXERCISES, OR, THE DOCTRINE OF HANDY-WORKS APPLIED
TO THE ART OF PRINTING (1999, 26 min.)
THE ENJOYMENT OF READING, LOST & FOUND (2001, 14 min.)
(All work to be presented on 16mm: all films are silent.)
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2.
Tuesday November 6,
Systems of Nature, Chris Welsby
Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design,
WC1B 4AP
6 November – 13 December 2007 Mon – Fri 10am – 8pm, Sat 10am – 4pm
Recent installations by Chris Welsby
Presented by the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection
The exhibition Systems of Nature presents two recent installations by
Chris Welsby, a British artist who uses moving image technology to
explore the representation of nature, the passing of time and the
forces of the weather in relation to the filming process.
Welsby became known as one of the key figures of British artists’
film through celebrated works such as River Yar (1972, in
collaboration with William Raban) and Seven Days (1974). In his early
films he applied techniques such as using the power of the wind to
control camera movement (Wind Vane 1972) and to alter shutter speed
(Anemometer 1974). More recently, digital technology has enabled
Welsby to create increasingly complex installation work.
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3.
Wednesday November 7 & Thursday 8. 7-9pm
12 Shooters, Marcia Farquhar, South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road,
London SE5 8UH
Tickets £5
Zoë Brown, Nichola Bruce and Rebecca E Marshall, Jem Finer, Judith
Goddard, Dryden Goodwin, Andrew Kötting, Trine Nedreaas, Saskia Olde
Wolbers, Uriel Orlow, Tom Paine, Sarah Pucill, Tal Sterngast, Gary
Stevens.
The SLG presents the premiere of 12 Shooters, a new film project by
Marcia Farquhar. Working in collaboration with 12 artists, Farquhar
dedicates a selection of her live works to the recording eye of the
camera. Some new, some revisited and re-imagined, the resulting films
form a typically sideways look at the work of one of the UK's leading
live art practitioners.
Marcia Farquhar has been a central figure in performance art in the
UK over the past decade. Adopting popular theatrical forms,
characters and techniques including the quick change of the catwalk,
Punch and Judy shows, TV cookery hostesses and slide lectures,
Farquhar narrates personal histories with humour and pathos. Highly
entertaining, her performances are laced with socio-political
commentary touching on gender issues, domestic violence, memory and
nostalgia.
12 Shooters finds Farquhar reflecting on her work, while playfully
bringing into question her role as author by turning over the
responsibility to artists with whom she has had longstanding personal
or professional relationships.
The event is hosted by the artist and films are complemented by live
performances.
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4.
Wednesday November 7. 6.30pm
IN CONVERSATION, AT SEA: Chris Welsby in Conversation, BFI Southbank,
London SE1 8XT
Tickets: £8.60 / £6.25 concessions Joint Ticket for Wed 7 Nov:
£12.50 / £9.25 concessions BFI members pay £1 less www.bfi.org.uk
Seascapes have a long history in filmmaking and continue to fascinate
moving image artists. Chris Welsby has made a number of works that
contemplate the ocean and the inability of the camera, the frame and
the viewer to appreciate its enormity; including At Sea, which is
installed at the Lethaby Gallery, and Drift, which is screened later
tonight. This conversation between Chris Welsby, Catherine Elwes
(artist, writer and Reader in Moving Image Art, Camberwell College of
Arts) and William Fowler (Curator of Artists’ Moving Image, BFI
National Archive) will reflect on the phenomenon of the moving image
seascape from early ‘Rough Seas’ films through to contemporary practice.
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5.
Wednesday November 7. 8.45pm
Systems of Nature screening, Chris Welsby, BFI Southbank, London SE1 8XT
Tickets: £8.60 / £6.25 concessions Joint Ticket for Wed 7 Nov:
£12.50 / £9.25 concessions BFI members pay £1 less www.bfi.org.uk
Welsby’s films are dialogues between the filmmaker and the natural
elements: the wind controls the movements of the camera in Tree and
the film speed in Anemometer. Later films address environmental
concerns, such as the threat of radiation as a Geiger counter
provides Sky Light’s post-Chernobyl soundtrack. Shifting from
environmental structuralism to a more observational mode, the final
film Drift has the viewer literally drifting off into a world beyond
gravity, into an abstract space between sky and sea.
Chris Welsby, Anemometer, 1974, 10 mins
Chris Welsby, Tree, 1974, 5 mins
Chris Welsby, Colour Separation, 1975, 3 mins
Chris Welsby, Stream Line, 1976, 8 mins
Chris Welsby, Sky Light, 1988, 26 mins
Chris Welsby, Drift, 1994, 17 mins
Chris Welsby will introduce the screening and be available for
questions.
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6.
Friday 9 November- 22 December 2007
Anri Sala
Hauser and Wirth London, 196a Piccadilly, London W1J 9DY
Gallery hours Tuesday-Saturday 10 am - 6 pm
Dislocation, re-evaluation, and the fruits of collaborative
intervention run throughout A Second Look, ANRI SALA’s renewed
investigation into the mutability of meaning at Hauser & Wirth
London. The artist has engaged with earlier works, distilling and
dissecting them to create new pieces that recast their predecessors’
qualities and readings. This doubling of artworks is coupled by a
physical division of the main gallery: a temporary ceiling that
slices the space horizontally, and through which light emanating from
video works can be seen.
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7.
Friday 9 November 2007, 8:40pm
The Nature of our Looking, BFI Southbank, London SE1 8XT
Tickets: £8.60 / £6.25 concessions. BFI members pay £1 less
www.bfi.org.uk
Moving from ocean to sky and back to the land, these six films
respond to nature in less programmatic ways. Peter Hutton’s camera
explores the coastal landscape and swirling waters of the Irish West
Coast, whilst David Gatten immerses raw film stock in seawater,
allowing the ocean to inscribe its presence in constantly shifting
abstract patterns. Three films use time-lapse and long exposure to
reveal the celestial mysteries of night-time, and the final work
gently lifts us from our reverie with an ecological warning.
Peter Hutton, Looking At The Sea, 2001, 15 mins
David Gatten, What The Water Said 4-6, 2006, 17 mins
Lucy Reynolds, Lake, 2007, 12 mins
Emily Richardson, Redshift, 2001, 4 mins
Jeanne Liotta, Observando El Cielo, 2007, 17 mins
Michael Robinson, You Don't Bring Me Flowers, 2005, 8 mins
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8.
Saturday 10 November. 3pm
In a World Like This, Jaki Irvine (Talk)
Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ
Talk,
3pm
Lucy
Reynolds, content manager of Luxonline, artist and independent
curator, writer and lecturer discusses themes and concerns emerging
from Jaki Irvine’s recent work. www.chisenhale.org.uk
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9.
Saturday 10 November. 7.30pm
Rational Rec Goes South
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank, London
Tickets £5
The Soft Space is home to The Fundament, a programme of experimental
film and video curated by Mike Sperlinger, Assistant Director of LUX.
In the Front Room, we present a new work by live artist Marcia
Farquhar, and Plus Minus ensemble performs Louis Andriessen’s iconic
‘Workers Union’.
Elsewhere, boundaries between stage and audience are challenged with
the psychedelic spectralism of Fausto Romitelli’s ‘Trash TV Trance’,
ecological redemption brought to you by The Vacuum Cleaner, roaming
one-to-one live art performances by Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre,
hands-on activities and games with a riverside view and a specially
commissioned iPod audio guide to London’s South Bank by London-based
architect Celine Condorelli.
To take advantage of the iPod audio guide, bring your iPod to the
event or download it from this website when its ready.
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10.
The Nature of Systems
BFI Southbank, London SE1 8XT
Tickets: £8.60 / £6.25 concessions. BFI members pay £1 less
www.bfi.org.uk
Technological systems create, fragment and transform landscapes: a
long video monitor stream, digitally mutated coastlines and strange
urban microclimates introduce fascinating artificial worlds, blurring
the boundaries between natural and constructed landscapes. Starting
with documentation of Chris Meigh-Andrews’ video installation Stream
Line and passing through a variety of spellbinding single-screen film
and video environments, the programme also incorporates a
presentation of Susan Collins’ most recent internet transmitted, real-
time reconstruction of Loch Faskally in Perthshire.
Chris Meigh-Andrews, Stream Line (Documentation), 1991, 6 mins
Davide Quagliola & Chiara Horn, Bit-Scapes 135.1_08, 2006, 3 mins
Semiconductor, The Sound of Microclimates, 2004, 8 mins
Thomas Köner, Suburbs of the Void, 2004, 14 mins
Daniel Crooks, Train No.8, 2005, 6 mins
Davide Quagliola & Chiara Horn, Bit-Scapes 135.2_03, 2006, 3 mins
Rachel Reupke, Untitled, 2006, 2 x 90 secs
Rose Lowder, Voiliers et Coquelicots, 2002, 3 mins
Davide Quagliola & Chiara Horn, Bit-Scapes 135.7_13, 2006, 3 mins
Alix Poscharsky, As We All Know, 2006, 8 mins
Susan Collins,
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11.
Saturday 10 November.
Passerby Presents...Maya Timonen: Behind God's Back Any other could
be chosen
Guestroom Studio, 103 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London E8. 0207 275
7856
Private View 8pm. Screening 9pm
Passerby is a billboard and shop window project by Guestroom.
Displays by different artists each month. Each opening will include
performance/ films.
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12.
Sunday 11 November 12.00 midday
LUX EVENT: Hollis Frampton’s Magellan Cycle
National Maritime Museum, London, SE10 9NF
Tickets £5 per day Box Office: 020 8312 8560
The first ever UK screening of Hollis Frampton’s monumental film
sequence. Hollis Frampton (1936-84) uses Ferdinand Magellan’s epic
circumnavigation of the globe as a metaphor for a meditation on the
history and language of cinema, and the phenomena of perception.
Originally intended as a 36-hour sequence in which individual titles
would be shown on specific days in a calendar of one year and four
days, it was left unfinished when Frampton died in 1984. The
surviving 8 hours of material, comprising almost 30 films, will be
screened over two consecutive weekends, as it was presented by the
artist at the Whitney Museum, New York in 1980. Hollis Frampton, one
of the key filmmakers of his generation, was also a noted
photographer and theorist, whose remarkable writing is published
frequently in Artforum and October.
Programme 1 (11 November)
12.00–14.00: The Birth of Magellan
15.00–17.00: The Straits of Magellan I
Programme 2 (18 November)
12.00–14.00: The Straits of Magellan II
15.00–17.00: The Death of Magellan
Curated by Mark Webber, Senior Research Fellow, London College of
Communication.
Film screening presented in association with LUX
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