LUX: Live Cinema: Talk and Performance, 17 & 20 April 2008

[luxweekly at lux.org.uk]


Cinema Piece, Riccardo Iacono

Thursday 17th April 7pm
Live/Expanded Cinema Talk
Illustrated discussion between Thomas Beard editor of a new  
anthology, Live Cinema: A Contemporary Reader  and Lucy Reynolds  
exploring contemporary and historical artists work at intersections  
of performance, film, and electronic art, and the evolution of  
expanded cinema and projector performance.

Thomas Beard is a founder and director of Light Industry. From  
2005-2006 he was Program Director of Ocularis, a series for artists'  
film and video in Brooklyn, New York. He also served as a programmer  
at Cinematexas as well as a programming consultant at the  
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, and has organized screenings  
and exhibitions at Art in General, Aurora Picture Show, the New York  
Underground Film Festival, Mass Art Film Society, the Museum of  
Modern Art, and the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and  
Pacific Film Archive.

Lucy Reynolds is an art writer, curator and Content Manager at  
Luxonline, she is currently completing a Phd on expanded cinema.

this talk takes place at LUX, 3rd Floor, Shacklewell Studios, 18  
Shacklewell Lane, London E8 2EZ. ADMISSION FREE but places are  
limited so booking is essential. to book a place email salon at lux.org.uk

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Sunday 20th April 8pm
Live Cinema Performance
To mark the launch of its new publication, Guy Sherwin: Optical Sound  
Films LUX presents a night of new film performances curated by artist  
Guy Sherwin. Live Cinema will include new film/video and sound  
performances by:

Nicky Hamlyn & Conor Kelly
Emma Hart & Benedict Drew
Riccardo Iacono
Sebastiane Hegarty
Lynn Loo, Samantha Rebello & Olivier Rodriguez

Tickets: £5, booking highly recommended (Arcola box office 020 7503  
1646)
Guy Sherwin: Optical Sound Films will be available to buy on the  
night for a special launch price of £15 (usual price £20)

Arcola Theatre, 27 Arcola St, London, E8 2DJ
Boxoffice: 020 7503 1646
http://www.arcolatheatre.com


PERFORMANCES

UNTITLED #4
Emma Hart and Ben Drew
Working with two 16mm projectors and feeding them both the same piece  
of film (so they look like they are having a tug of war) the film  
will move materials around on a table, which they will also project  
on to. The projectors will be miked up.

Emma Hart and Benedict Drew began their collaboration in 2005 at the  
invitation of the LUX for the "Soundtrack" event in London. Their  
work explores and  destabilizes moving image, sound and performance.  
Central to their work is the inverting of technologies to create  
anarchic systems,  making  their processes explicit and their  
performances electric.

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Something Other Than IT
mo(nu)ment: live vinyl edition | 2005  2008
Sebastiane Hegarty

At 12pm on January 5th 2005 during the three-minute silence held in  
memory of the Asian Tsunami, I made an audio recording from my  
bedroom window. A limited edition 7² vinyl record of this original  
recording was posted, without the protection of cover or envelope.  
Recipients were requested to play, record and return the record,  
together with their own recordings.
The last un-played record will now be played and recorded. This  
recording will then be integrated into a live re-mix of the original  
and returned recordings.
With thanks to Patrick McGinley (London), Matt Rogalsky (Canada);  
David Luff (France) and Jane Cheadle (London: recorded from Resonance  
FM broadcast)

Sebastiane Hegarty is an artist and lecturer.  His creative practice  
is primarily time-based and includes sound, installation,  
photography, drawing and text.

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S[I]GNS
Lynn Loo, Samantha Rebello, Olivier Rodriguez
A multi-projection and sound performance intent on destabilising the  
relationship between sign and signified.

Lynn Loo is a filmmaker originally from Singapore and currently based  
in London. Her films have been included in numerous international  
festivals as well as gallery exhibitions.

Samantha Rebello is a London based artist working in both moving  
image and sound.
Her visual work uses predominantly 16mm film for single screen work  
as well as multi-screen performances.

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FILM SOUND
Nicky Hamlyn and Conor Kelly
This work involves a microphone, celluloid, water, lighting, a  
projector and EQ, not necessarily in that order, as part of a process  
of processing, recording, presenting.

Nicky Hamlyn is a filmmaker and writer. He teaches on the Video Arts  
Production and Visual Theory courses at University College for the  
Creative Arts at Maidstone. His book Film Art Phenomena (2003) is  
published by the BFI.

Conor Kelly is an installation artist/composer who explores ideas  
using sound and video as material.  Recent solo exhibitions playfully  
refer to connections between off screen sound and narrative and  
invert the traditional hierarchies between sound, music and the image.

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SQUASHED HAT
Riccardo Iacono
Man plays catch with sewing machine. A freeform improvised jamming  
session.
People ducks scratch mirror. Peas, camera, light-bulb.
No camera, nipples.
With contributions from artists and audience members.

Riccardo Iacono’s works range from abstract film to video collage,  
performance and installation. His current project Chucky is an  
expanding body of over 20 video performances and interventions  
created in private and public spaces using the techniques of video  
recording and throwing objects.



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