LUX: UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 3 December - 9 December 2007

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK

1. December 4th. LUX EVENT: Rational Rec. Three Winter Potatoes.  
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, London

2. December 6th. In a World Like This, Jaki Irvine (Talk). Chisenhale  
Gallery, London

3. December 7th. Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of  
Occurring. Camden Arts Centre, London

4. December 7th. Passerby Presents...Clare Glasson: Into The Melting.  
Guestroom Studio, London

5. December 8th & 9th. LUX EVENT: The World of the Self/ Our World.  
The Films of Adam Curtis. Whitechapel Gallery,  London

6. December 9th. Scolt Head Screenings (Series 2) The Scolt Head, London



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1.
Tuesday 4th December 8pm
Rational Rec.Three Winter Potatoes.
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club,  
44 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB
Doors open 8pm, first act 8.30pm £5 on the door. www.rationalrec.org.uk

John Snijders performs UK piano music: Richard Ayres - No.8 /  
Cornelius Cardew - Three Winter Potatoes / Luke Stoneham - Carmen /  
Michael Finnissy - Gershwin Arrangements. John Snijders (The  
Netherlands) is one of the leading pianists internationally  
specializing in contemporary classical music.  He is the artistic  
director of the Amsterdam based Ives Ensemble. Somehow, we've managed  
to persuade him to provide the piano accompaniment to our Fucked Up  
Karaoke.

The Ivalo River Delta (Patrick Beveridge, 2007, 17min, 16mm) -  
selected by LUX. Shot within the Arctic Circle in northern Lapland,  
the film documents the landscape and lively night sky of an icy  
wilderness. The Aurora Borealis and other extraordinary phenomena are  
captured through long exposures and stunning time-lapse photography,  
with live music by Hanna Tuulikki.

Patrick Beveridge was born in Madrid in 1967 and studied sculpture at  
Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal College of Art. His research  
on the light artist James Turrell was published in the journal  
Leonardo and he showed with this artist in Northern Lights, a group  
exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery.

Hanna Tuulikki is a musician and artist living in Glasgow who uses  
the voice as a tool to respond to environmental, social or emotional  
landscapes, both within musical forms of lyrical song and  
improvisation, and as a material in making sound based art-works. She  
is a member of the bands 'Nalle' and 'The Family Elan'.  
www.hannatuulikki.com

Bingo and Fucked Up Karaoke 3 with super prizes




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2.
Thursday 6th December 7pm
In a World Like This, Jaki Irvine (Talk).
Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, E3 5QZ

Michael Newman in conversation with Jaki Irvine. Organised in  
collaboration with Double Agents.



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3.
Friday 7th December.
Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring.
Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG
Open 07 December - 10 February 2008, Tues-Sun 10am-6pm, Weds 10am-9pm.

Following acclaimed artist-curated shows at Camden Arts Centre,  
artist Steven Claydon has selected “objects and things” for this new  
exhibition. It examines the relationship between the art object and  
the institutions that display them.

The exhibition takes its title from a quote by fictional 1930s  
detective Charlie Chan and contains a peculiar British Modernism. It  
includes sculpture from the start of the 20th-century by Jacob  
Epstein and Alberto Giacometti and 1940s paintings by Francis Picabia  
to films by contemporary London-based artists Bonnie Camplin, Mark  
Lecky and Simon Martin.

Claude Cahun’s photographs from the 1930s are shown alongside  
ceramics from the 1970s by Hans Coper. Iconic sculptures by Elisabeth  
Frink and Lynn Chadwick provide a context for other artists working  
in the 1970s. A new sculpture by the American artist Charles Simonds  
has been commissioned by Camden Arts Centre.



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4.
Friday 7th December.
Passerby Presents...Clare Glasson: Into The Melting.
Guestroom Studio, 103 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London E8.
Private View 8pm 0207 275 7856

Reading in 4 parts 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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5.
Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th December.
LUX EVENT: The World of the Self/ Our World. The Films of Adam Curtis
Whitechapel Gallery,  80-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX  
www.whitechapel.org
Programmes start at 4pm on both days
Tickets £5 per screening £15/12* day £25/16* weekend * concs and  
Whitechapel Members. Free for Patrons & Associates.


Adam Curtis is one of the best-known documentary filmmakers in  
Britain. His films have won numerous awards including 6 Baftas and  
have been shown at festivals around the world. They fuse together  
hard critical journalism with techniques borrowed from a wide-range  
of experimental film and video techniques.
Out of this he has created a body of work that examines how power  
functions in modern society – not just in politics but also in many  
of the institutions and activities that permeate our lives today –  
from science to consumerism, modern psychology and the way our  
society fights terrorism.
Over this unique weekend programmed by Adam Curtis a cross-section of  
episodes from various series that span his career propose a stunning  
argument. Considered together these works tell a bigger story than  
that of their specific subjects. It is the story of our time. How we  
have moved into a world that is dominated and driven by the ideas,  
the dreams and the emotional needs and cravings of the individual self.

NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT TODAY THAN THE INDIVIDUAL SELF AND ITS  
FREEDOM TO DO, TO FEEL AND TO GET WHAT IT WANTS. THIS IS THE BELIEF  
THAT GUIDES OUR POLITICIANS, ALL THOSE WHO RUN MARKETING AND  
ADVERTISING, AND ALL OF OUR MEDIA.
AND IT IS WHAT WE ALL BELIEVE.

Over two days Adam Curtis will show how episodes from four of his  
series can be re-conceptualized equally as the story of the rise of  
this ideology and a critical examination of how it has come to limit  
and trap both us and our leaders into a narrow and static universe.


Programme
The screenings range from one episode of the early series Pandora’s  
Box to The Century of the Self, which describes how Freud’s ideas of  
the inner irrational drive inside human beings came to shape the rise  
of modern public relations, consumerism and the way we feel about  
ourselves – and how this view eventually took over politics itself.
In The Power of Nightmares two groups who could not be more different  
in their aims – the Neo-Conservatives in America and the Islamists –  
are united in a belief that the unbridled self is corrupting  
society.  The series examines how both of them set out to stop this,  
but how in the process they in fact helped create today’s world of  
paranoia and fear.
Finally in The Trap the subject becomes the death of the self – how,  
behind the dream of individual freedom, is actually a very narrow and  
peculiar idea of freedom and human nature that has come to enslave  
both us and our leaders. Such a freedom is actually a simplistic  
model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic creatures who  
constantly watch and monitor each other suspiciously. The Trap shows  
how in this idea of freedom lay the seeds of new forms of social  
control – not imposed from outside of us, but constructed by the ways  
in which we monitor ourselves.


Saturday 8 Dec
4pm
Pandora's Box: To The Brink of Eternity
1992, 60’
5.30pm
The Century of the Self, Part One: Happiness Machines
2002, 60’
7pm
The Century of the Self, Part Three: There is a Policeman Inside All  
Our Heads He Must Be Destroyed
2002, 60’
Following the screening Adam Curtis will be in conversation with  
artist Josephine Pryde and Mike Sperlinger, Assistant Director of  
LUX, independent writer and editor.


Sunday 9 Dec
4pm
The Power of Nightmares, Part One: Baby Its Cold Outside
2004, 60’
5.30pm
The Trap, Part 2: The Lonely Robot
2007, 60’
7pm
Adam Curtis on The World of the Self
Adam Curtis presents an illustrated talk on the ideas behind this  
unique series and the things that link these episodes together,  
looking at both the extraordinarily wide range of source material  
that the films employ and their structure of modern collage as form  
of contemporary journalism.



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6.
Sunday 9th December 7pm
Scolt Head Screenings (Series 2)
The Scolt Head,107a Culford Road, London N1 4H
Screenings begin at 7pm, and are free. Seats are allocated on a first  
come, first served basis.

SCOLT HEAD SCREENINGS (Series 2) invites artists to present a  
selection of their works on film or video alongside a feature film of  
their choice, irrespective of its influence upon their practice.  
These Sunday evening screenings at The Scolt Head aim to encourage an  
open dialogue about artists' works on film and  
video.www.thescolthead.com

Sunday 9th December
Allsopp&Weir present "Amplification Device", "Nudge Nudge Wink Wink  
Say No Fucking More" and one new work (all 2007) followed "The Great  
Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner" (1974) directed by Werner Herzog



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