LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK

Fri Sep 14 17:54:24 CDT 2007

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK

1. 19 September. Writing Histories. BFI Southbank, London.

2. 19 September - 18 October. Sarah Morris. Whitechapel Gallery, London.

3. 19 September & Sat 22. The Body and Identity. BFI Southbank, London.

4. 20 September – 11 November. Matthew Barney. Serpentine Gallery,  
London.

5. 20 September. David Lamelas’ London Films. Spruth Magers, London.

6. 21 September- 26 October. Tacita Dean. Frith Street Gallery, London.

7. 21 September. LUX EVENT: Basement Basement. basement gallery,  
Candid Arts, London.

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1.
19 September, 6.15PM.
Writing Histories
BFI Southbank, London.
NFT3  Tickets £8.60, £6.25 (BFI Members pay £1 less).

Ripped-off, forgotten, marginalised, undocumented. How would we know  
who made waves experimenting with film and video if the stories  
remained untold? Yet the histories now emerging are passionately  
contested. As we approach the end of this historical survey of  
artists' film and video in Britain, we examine the process of making  
a history and ask what we can learn from the past that will shape our  
future histories. Contributors include Gareth Evans, Cate Elwes and  
David Curtis.

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2.
19 September. 6.30-9pm
Sarah Morris
Whitechapel Gallery, 80 - 82 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1 7QX
www.whitechapel.org
Preview  19th September 6.30-9pm. Dates 19 Sept – 18 Oct, 2007.

The London premiere of American artist Sarah Morris’s sixth film,  
Robert Towne, is a portrait of the legendary Hollywood writer,  
director, producer and actor. Awarded an Oscar for his screenplay for  
Chinatown, he also wrote or advised on scripts for Shampoo, Bonnie  
and Clyde, The Parallax View and The Godfather. He couples the  
dazzling surfaces of modern America’s economic and cultural success,  
with the darkness of conspiracy and individual and corporate corruption.
Morris’s film is part of an ongoing series including a painted mural  
of intersecting lines and circles. Also titled Robert Towne it is  
installed in the Lever Building in Manhattan, a 1948 glass walled  
skyscraper that is an icon of corporate power. Since the mid 1990s  
Morris has gained renown for her panoramic portraits of American  
cities through abstract paintings and 35mm films.
Supported by White Cube

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3.
19 September, 8.50PM. & Sat 22 Sep3.40PM
The Body and Identity
BFI Southbank, London.
NFT2 Tickets £8.60, £6.25 (BFI Members pay £1 less).

Clapping Songs (Tina Keane 1981); Pedagogue (Stuart Marshall 1988);  
Manao Tupapau (Amanda Holiday 1990); You Be Mother (Sarah Pucill  
1990); The Attendant (Isaac Julien 1992); Turas (Fran Hegarty  
1991-4); Absence She Said (Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatic 1994); Why I  
Never Became a Dancer (Tracy Emin 1994); Amami se Vuoi (Michael  
Curran 1994); The Watershed (Alia Syed 1995); The Reunion (Jayne  
Parker 1997). Total c83min
In the 70s and 80s, feminism and gender politics reclaimed the body  
as a potent vehicle for expression in film, as it had been in  
painting and sculpture for millennia. The century's last two decades  
added individual elegies to loss, displacement and 'not belonging',  
songs of protest, essays in self-definition and attempts to retrieve  
overlooked histories, and in common with art-cinema, works that  
explored the construction and function of memory.

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4.
20 September – 11 November. Daily 10-6
Matthew Barney
Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gdns, London W2 3XA. 020 7402 6075  
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/

Matthew Barney is one of the most celebrated artists of his  
generation. Born in San Francisco in 1967, Barney studied Fine Art at  
Yale University in the late 1980s and on graduating and entering the  
art world, his controversial and challenging work quickly received  
critical acclaim. Barney’s practice encompasses a diverse array of  
media including drawing, sculpture, performance, film and  
installation, which are presented in exhibitions that are conceived  
by the artist as a gesamtkunstwerk or total work.Barney is perhaps  
best known for the Cremaster cycle, a series of five feature-length  
films, produced from 1994–2002. Epic in scope, the series combines  
high production values with spectacular locations, props and  
costumes. This parallel mythological world is rich and complex in its  
symbolism.For this exhibition the Serpentine Gallery is working  
closely with the artist to realise an ambitious exhibition and series  
of screenings focusing on Matthew Barney’s most recent film DRAWING  
RESTRAINT 9, 2005. The exhibition will also include works from each  
of the Drawing Restraint series from 1 through to 15.

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5.
20th September, 7 PM.
David Lamelas’ London Films.
SpruthMagers, 7A Grafton Street, London W1S.

In conjunction with the current David Lamelas exhibition at Monika  
Sprüth Philomene Magers, this film screening presents Lamelas’ early  
London films. Working on the brink of the ‘swinging ‘60s’ and the  
beginning of the new information age, Lamelas’ work is based on  
conflicting oppositions: his films are both engaged and distanced,  
analytic and frivolous. It is his light touch and his ability to see  
the political in the banalities of every-day life that make his films  
so intriguing to this day.
‘A Study of Relationships Between Inner and Outer Space’ (1969)
‘Cumulative Script’ (1971)
‘How to Pour a Glass of Milk’ (1972)

This screening has been curated by Maxa Zoller, who will give a brief  
introduction of the films.

6.
21 September - 26 October
Tacita Dean.
Frith Street Gallery, 17-18 Golden Square London W1F 9JJ. http:// 
www.frithstreetgallery.com/

Solo exhibition.

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7.
21 September. 7.30PM
LUX EVENT: Basement Basement.
basement gallery, Candid Arts, 3 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ
FREE ADMISSION

A celebration of the artist run space Ayton Basement, Newcastle  
through work by some of the artists who showed there.

In 1976 a few month after artists run space 2B Butler’s Wharf opened  
in London, Ayton Basement opened on the quayside in Newcastle Upon  
Tyne.  ‘A space run by artists for contemporary work in video, film,  
and live performance’. It would present work by Kevin Atherton, Eric  
Bainbridge, Paul Burwell, Nicolas Collins, Stuart Marshall, David  
Critchely, Roland Miller and Shirley Cameron, Jenny Okun, Stephen  
Partridge, Alison Winckle, amongst others including the five founder  
members Keith Frake, Nigel Frost, David Killen, Peter Todd, Margaret  
Warwick. Many of these artists would also be active in other  
organisations including, London Film Makers Co-op, London Musicians  
Collective, and London Video Arts. In due course Ayton Basement would  
become Basement Group and move to a new venue in Spectro Arts  
Workshop, and then continue to evolve with a new group of artists  
taking on Basement Group which would become Projects UK and continues  
today in Newcastle as Locus +. Curated by Peter Todd.

Programme.

Pea Soup. Nicolas Collins.
1974-76, sound. 16 mins. A self-stabilizing network of circuitry  
nudges the pitch of audio feedback to a
different resonant frequency every time the feedback starts to build.  
The familiar shriek is replaced with unstable patterns of hollow  
tones, a site-specific raga reflecting the acoustical personality of  
the room. These architectural melodies can be influenced by moving in  
the space, making other sounds, or even by letting in a draft of cold  
air.

Clouds. Jenny Okun. (16mm silent)
1975, Color, 3 Minutes, Silent, 16mm. This film contrasts the  
concepts of relative motion and absolute motion. The speed and  
direction of the car and clouds, the spiralling motion of the camera,  
and the stationary factory chimneys all combine to produce the  
illusion of space within the frame.

Still Life. Jenny Okun.
1976, silent, colour, 6 mins, 16mm and video.
Still life explores the transformation of an image from colour  
negative to colour positive on one film stock. The still life was  
painted its colour negative during filming and then the exposed film  
was processed and then printed on colour negative printstock.

Pedagogue. Neil Bartlett and Stuart Marshall.
1988, 10mins, video.
A short performance to camera by solo performer/dramatist Neil  
Bartlett. PEDAGOGUE explores in comic style the possible implications  
of Clause 28. Through Clause 28, the British Government took powers  
to outlaw the 'promotion of homosexuality' in education and local  
government.

Three Pieces Performed at the  Robert Self Gallery Newcastle 1976.  
Peter Todd.
Reformatted from original stills in 2006. 2.5 mins. DVD. Three pieces  
presented during One Artist One Day at the short lived but  
influential Newcastle branch of the Robert Self Gallery.

Pieces I Never Did. David Critchley. new expanded performance version
1979, 35 mins, video. “Talking to camera, I described ideas that had  
never got beyond a note in a sketchbook. Paradoxically, I was able to  
resurrect on video these items of personal performance that had been  
edged out by the structuralism of early video art, such as shouting  
the words "Shut Up!" until I lost my voice, having objects thrown at  
me until I changed colour, and proposing to end the piece by blowing  
myself up. I intended the piece to be colourful and action packed -”.

Idiophonics. Stuart Marshall.
1971-72. re-staged performance Duration – variable. A performance for  
three people with castenets and portable foghorns.

Basement Basement marks the publication of THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN  
WITHOUT YOU From the Collective Archive of The Basement Group,  
Projects UK and Locus+ (1977-2007), and follows on from a number of  
events, exhibitiong and documentation covering this period including  
the exhibitions, ‘fast and loose (my dead gallery) London 1956 – 2006  
and the online exhibition 2B Butler’s Wharf www.studycollection.co.uk/ 
2B/index.html.

THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN WITHOUT YOU From the Collective Archive of The  
Basement Group, Projects UK and Locus+ (1977-2007) will be on sale on  
the night.

Presented in association Locus + http://www.locusplus.org.uk and The  
Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle. http://www.starandshadow.org.uk