LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 11 February -
17 February 2008
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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK
1. February 13th. Cornelia Parker. Whitechapel, London.
2. February 13th. Vertigo Launch, Curzon Soho, London
3. February 14th. The Browning of Britannia, Faisal Abdu'allah, BFI
Southbank Gallery, London
4. February 15th & 17th. The Cool School - The Story of the Ferus Art
Gallery, Tate Modern, London
5. February 15th . EXPLODING CINEMA, The Half Moon, Herne Hill, London
6. February 16th. Alfredo Jaar. South London Gallery, London
7. February 16th. Light Reading - Lovid. Bethnal Green, London
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1.
Wednesday February 13th.
Cornelia Parker.
Whitechapel, Angel Alley Entrance, 80 -82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
Feb 13 - Mar 30, 2008, Wed-Sun 11-6
Turner Prize nominated artist Cornelia Parker's filmed interview with
Noam Chomsky.
www.whitechapel.org
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2.
Wednesday February 13th. 6pm
Vertigo Launch
Curzon Soho, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue London W1D 5DY
Tickets £5.50 from the Curzon Box Office on 0871 703 3988
Vertigo (www.vertigomagazine.co.uk) will be launching its new issue
with the London Premiere (and only the 2nd screening in the UK) of
John Gianvito's Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind.
Profit Motive is a visual meditation on the progressive history of the
United States as seen through cemeteries, plaques and historic
markers, inspired by Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United
States.' A review of this important film can be found online at
http://www.cinema-scope.com/cs32/int_sicinski_gianvito.html.
The screening will last for one hour followed by drinks and
conversation at the bar.
www.curzoncinemas.com
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3.
Thursday February 14th.
The Browning of Britannia, Faisal Abdu'allah
BFI Southbank Gallery BFI Southbank Belvedere Road London SE1 8XT
Feb 14 - May 18, 2008. Tue - Sun 11-8 and Bank Holiday Mondays
Admission free
The Browning of Britannia is a major new BFI commission that explores
questions of truth and self-perception. An intriguing and
controversial hall of mirrors, it continues and develops artist Faisal
Abdu?Allah?s investigation of cultural identity.
www.bfi.org.uk
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4.
Friday February 15th at 7pm & Sunday 17th at 3pm
The Cool School - The Story of the Ferus Art Gallery
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended call 020 7887 8888. Book
tickets online at www.tate.org.uk/modern
The Ferus Gallery initiated a seismic shift in the beat-era Los
Angeles art scene, transforming a ?cultural wasteland? into a thriving
hub for the radical 1950s avant-garde. It was home to Andy Warhol?s
first solo exhibition and to the origins of the city?s renowned ?Light
and Space? movement. Morgan Neville?s lively documentary (Morgan
Neville, USA 2007, 86 min) rewinds to a time when a boisterous
fraternity of artists, architects, curators and other scene makers
such as Edward Ruscha, Edward Kienholz, Walter Hopps, Irving Blum,
John Altoon, Frank Gehry, Robert Irwin, Ed Moses, Dennis Hopper and a
host of other luminaries came together to create a fervid crucible for
a major emerging art metropolis.
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5.
Friday 15th February
EXPLODING CINEMA
at the Half Moon in Herne Hill
The Half Moon, 10 Half Moon Lane , Herne Hill SE24 9HU
explodingcinema at hotmail.com or the Half Moon: 0207 274 2733
London?s most experimental OPEN ACCESS folk cinema returns to the
satellite suburbs !
Mend that broken/lonely heart with our evening of underground
aphrodisiacs. Animations, documentaries, sci-fi, dada and radical
rants: Our irregular round up of the latest lo-budget/no-budget work
from some of the best film-makers around is sure to set your pulse
racing and your endorphins pumping. As if that isn't enough you'll
also be able to sit back and relapse during the intermissions while
James III and the Puritan lure in all sorts of amorous creatures with
their merciless pheremones.
OFTEN IMITATED BUT NEVER APPROPRIATED !
http://www.explodingcinema.org
http://www.myspace.com/theexplodingcinema
http://www.halfmoonpub.co.uk
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6.
Saturday February 16th
Alfredo Jaar
South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Rd, SE5 8UH
ALFREDO JAAR Feb 16 - Apr 6, 2008
New York-based Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar presents five works born of
his enduring interest in Africa. Jaar has exhibited extensively
internationally, featuring most recently at the 2007 Venice Biennale,
and is represented in the permanent collections of major institutions
around the world including MOMA and Tate Modern, but this will be the
first opportunity in fifteen years to see a significant body of his
work in London.
The exhibition brings together the extraordinarily powerful
multi-media installation The Sound of Silence (2006); the artist?s
first film, Muxima (2005); and three photographic works: The Power of
Words (1984), Searching for Africa in Life (1996) and From Time to
Time (2006). These five works provide a fascinating insight into
Jaar?s 25-year long engagement with Africa and his contribution to the
ongoing debate among art and cultural critics about documentary
photography?s contested relationship to suffering.
Housed in an austere zinc-clad light-box, the 8-minute silent film in
The Sound of Silence exposes the social history around a single image
of a young victim of the 1990s Sudanese famine, overlooked by a
vulture. The image won a Pulitzer Prize, but the South African
photographer Kevin Carter committed suicide after being vilified by
the public for not having intervened to save the child?s life. Jaar?s
poetic but hard-hitting work highlights the problematic issues
surrounding the image ? from personal history to copyright law ? to
unearth some of the broader socio-political concerns related to the
West?s responsibility to Africa and the developing world.
A sensitive and uplifting counter to the imagery and silence of the
works in the main gallery space, Muxima (2005), is rooted in Jaar?s
love of African music and the belief that music can resonate with, and
therefore help communicate, the experiences of the people. Muxima,
(meaning ?heart? in Kimbundu, an indigenous language of Angola), looks
at the history of Angola through a series of different renditions of a
traditional folk song of the same name. The work traces a sense of
Angola?s colonial past and maps its present, touching on issues such
as the aftermath of civil war, AIDS and oil production. Recently shown
to great acclaim within the African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in
2007, Muxima exemplifies the intellectual rigour and poetry which
pervades Alfredo Jaar?s practice.
www.southlondongallery.org
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7.
Saturday 16th February 6pm
Light Reading - Lovid
316 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 OAG
Tickets are £4 if pre booked or £5 on the door, places are limited so
booking is recommended.
Please RSVP to James at courses at nowhere-lab.org or call 02073723925
LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus) will present their work with
analog audio/video synthesizers and discuss their conceptual,
technical, and aesthetic interests. The focus of the presentation will
be LoVid's approach to technology as an extension of the human body
and gesture as well as the development of man-machine interaction in
the context of technological advancement. Some themes will include
hardware video, Wireful aesthetics, and retro-futurism, as well as
historical and contemporary artists working with similar techniques
and ideas. LoVid will perform with their wearable A/V synthesizer,
Coat of Embrace: Created in 2006, the instrument is inspired by early
experimentation with image processing as well as current trends in DIY
and hacker culture. Coat of Embrace is functionally related to LoVid's
previous A/V synth, Sync Armonica, and draws on concepts and feel
developed in the VideoWear, while getting middle ages preliterate,
real old school. The instrument transforms raw electric current into
mesmerizing colors and patterns with an enveloping sound.
LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus) overwhelms the senses with new
media in their performances, videos, objects, and installations.
LoVid has toured the US and Europe extensively performing, exhibiting,
and lecturing at PS1, The Neuberger Museum, The Butler Institute of
American Art , Exit Art, Evolution Festival (UK), The Kitchen, RISD,
Massachusetts College of Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Chicago Art
Institute, Cincinnati Art Institute, Oberlin, University of Wisconsin,
FACT, Futuresonic Festival (UK), The New Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ocularis, and Institute of Contemporary Art London among many others.
LoVid has been artist in residence at Eyebeam, Harvestworks, iEAR, and
Alfred University, has received grants and awards from Experimental TV
Center, NYSCA, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, turbulence.org and
Greenwall Foundation, and is a free103Point9 transmission artist.
www.nowhere-lab.org
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