LUX: UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 25 February - 2 March 2008

Fri Feb 22 17:29:25 CST 2008

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK

1. Tuesday 26th February. As if...a programme of Artists’ film.  
Greenwich Picturehouse, London

2. Thursday 28th February. Harold Offeh presents Damn! I Wish I’d  
Done That!! Artist’s Works I Wish I’d Made. 176 Gallery, London

3. Thursday 28th February. LUX EVENT: New Work UK: The Sensible  
Stage. Whitechapel, London

4. Friday 29th February. LUX EVENT: Dyn Amo, Steve Dwoskin. Birkbeck  
Cinema, London

5. Sunday 2nd March. imagine art after: Satellite Screening.  
E:ventGallery, London

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1.
Tuesday 26th February. 8pm
As if...a programme of Artists’ film.
Greenwich Picturehouse, 180 Greenwich High Rd, London SE10 8NN
Tickets: £6 (£5 concessions & members). Tickets limited. Advance  
booking recommended.
Information and bookings: 0871 704 2059 www.picturehouses.co.uk

Greenwich Picturehouse presents three short films that take as their  
premise the adoption of an alibi, a persona or a pretense. The films  
ask to be watched as if they were something other than what we know  
them to be; a documentary seems like a science fiction film, a  
contemporary film resembling a ‘70’s home movie, religious  
iconography that can be seen as cinematic melodrama. This sleight of  
hand allows the subject to be seen through the idea of something  
else, to lure us into the complications, the beauty or the  
strangeness of the otherwise overlooked.

Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck
Emily Wardill (UK, 2007, 10:00 mins. 16mm)
Images of English stained glass windows are echoed in staged  
scenarios of love, faith and betrayal, steeped in the emotions and  
artifice of cinematic melodrama.

A Fairy Tale (Extended Mix)
T.J. Wilcox (USA, 2007, 15:00 mins, 16mm)
A trilogy of short films that tell stories about the spectrum of  
innocence through the viewpoints of a child, a princess and an  
ambitious beauty.

Proposal for an unmade film (set in the future)
Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone (UK, 2007, 21:00 mins, 16mm)
Shot on the island of Lanzarote to weave together its otherworldly  
volcanic landscape with the utopian, visionary architecture of artist  
César Manrique.

There will be an informal Q and A with some of the artists at the end  
of the screening.
With thanks to T.J Wilcox and Sadie Coles HQ, London.

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2.
Thursday 28th February. 7pm
Harold Offeh presents Damn! I Wish I’d Done That!! Artist’s Works I  
Wish I’d Made.
176 Gallery, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London NW5 3PT

Admission free to members. Annual Membership £5.
Booking recommended. Contact info at projectspace176.com

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3.
Thursday 28th February. 7.30pm
LUX EVENT: New Work UK: The Sensible Stage.
Whitechapel, Angel Alley Entrance, 80 - 82 Whitechapel High Street,  
London,E1 7QX www.whitechapel.org
£5, booking essential +44 (0)20 7522 7888 Info at whitechapel.org

New Work UK presents the best of British film and video. Following  
and open call for curatorial proposals, Bridget Crone’s programme was  
chosen from a diverse number projects to be realized as the next in  
our series of screenings.

The Sensible Stage explores the idea of staging. Throughout the  
programme there is a play between the staging of the self and staging  
as a theatrical device. The programme takes its title from Jacques  
Rancière’s ‘common sensorium’, in order to explore the idea of the  
‘stage of the sensible’; that is, the staging of a common ‘moment’.  
Using the real and metaphorical frames of the stage and the camera,  
The Sensible Stage treads the ground between the possibility and  
impossibility of this ‘common moment’. Blurring the frame of the  
stage and the frame of the camera opens up questions around  
participation and spectatorship as the immediacy of the live  
experience is restaged. In some works, the restaging of historical  
and avant-garde references acts to provide a stop point within the  
constant flow of information. And in others, there is a framing (or  
staging) of a quiet or personal moment that places the viewer in a  
very particular relationship with the camera.

PROGRAMME

Lucienne Cole, Hi Fidelity Hi, ca 10-15 minutes
Gail Pickering, Hungary! And Other Economies (2006), extract 15 minutes
Lousia Fairclough, Bring in Daylight (2007), 22 minutes
Sebastian Buerkner, Realms Pin (2007), ca 6-8min
Lucienne Cole, She La La, 1 minute, 30 seconds
Clare Gasson, The Ballad of Albatross Way (2007), 6 minutes, 01 second
Mikko Canini, The Life and Death of (2005-7), 1 minute
Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Better Future, Wolf-Shaped (2008), 14 minutes

Total running time: c.80mins

Bridget Crone is director of Media Art Bath.
Presented in association with LUX.

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4.
Friday 29th February. 7.30pm
LUX EVENT: Dyn Amo, Steve Dwoskin.
Birkbeck Cinema, 41 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD  
www.birkbeckcinema.com

Special screening presented by LUX and Re:Voir, Paris to mark the  
launch of the DVD of Steve Dwoskin's seminal 1972 film Dyn Amo.  
following the film Steve Dwoskin and the film's producer, Maggie  
Pinhorn of Alternative Arts will be in discussion. ADMISSION FREE  
booking essential - to book a seat email salon at lux.org.uk

DYN AMO
UK, 1972, sound, colour, 120 mins, 16mm
'Dyn Amo is a 'drama' exploring the distinction of a person's self  
and his/her projection of that self to others; and it is a 'horror  
movie' tragically suggesting how a projection can become more  
substantial than the self behind it. Its subjects are role-playing  
(especially sexual role-playing) and the masochism of playing a role  
that conforms to others' exploitative interests.' - S.D.
'DYN AMO explores aspects of women's slavery, a slavery that involves  
them in acting out fantasies that have lost whatever social value  
they had long ago .... DYN AMO may be partially the tale of the  
creation that runs away with the creator. But it is also  
revolutionary to the extent that Dwoskin shows these false roles to  
be escapable. ... And the women in the film remain, despite an  
environment of which the best that can be said is that it is a parody  
of itself, despite their acute identity distortion, aware, if not of  
an alternative, at least of the desperate need for one ....' - Verina  
Glaessner, Time Out, London

The DVD of Dyn Amo is published by Re:Voir, Paris in collaboration  
with LUX, as well as the film the DVD includes a new essay by  
Jacqueline Holt and a filmed interview with Steve Dwoskin and Maggie  
Pinhorn. AVAILABLE ON THE NIGHT or from LUX SHOP http:// 
www.lux.org.uk/shop/video.htm

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5.
Sunday 2nd March. 6pm
imagine art after: Satellite Screening.
E:ventGallery, 96 Teesdale Street, Bethnal Green, London, E2 6PU

In association with ‘imagine art after' exhibition at Tate Britain.  
Curated by Breda Beban

TOURISTS IN THEIR OWN CITY
2007, series of 13 photographs, digital print , 297 x 420mm
by Faig Ahmed & Jeyhun Ojadov
Set against the backdrop of contemporary Baku, the series of  
photographs shows the artists in protest against local inhabitants’  
understanding of a modern city.

NAZIR (“The Minister”)
2007, video, 29min segment looped
by Farid Rasulov
Filmed at the ITU unit of a local hospital in Baku, the video  
features Nazir, a young medic. Disillusioned by a society where money  
is increasingly becoming a basic value, Nazir believes that  
emigration is the only way of avoiding a sense of isolation. Unlike  
many of his compatriots, however, Nazir doesn’t dream of living  
somewhere in the ‘developed world’. He wants to emigrate to the past.

NEFTELCHEK (Oilswing)
2007, video, 10min segment looped
by Shahin Malikzadeh
As a reaction to a world where wars are fought over natural  
resources, the artist appropriates the icon of national wealth in  
Azerbaijan by turning an oil field into an amusement park.

http://www.eventnetwork.org.uk/programme/exhibitions

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