LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 14 - 20 January 2008

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK


1. January 17th. Paul Pfeiffer. Thomas Dane Gallery, London

2. January 17th. LUX Event: Argument (1978) screening with Aurélien  
Froment. Goethe Institute, London

3. January 18th. Fire Under Snow, Darren Almond. Parasol unit, London

4. January 19th. Mark Aerial Waller: The Flipside of Darkness. South  
London Gallery, Camberwell, London

5.  January 18- 20th. ICO Essentials. Tate Modern, London




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1.
Thursday January 17th
Paul Pfeiffer.
Thomas Dane Gallery, 11 Duke Street St James's, SW1Y 6BN
Jan 17 - Feb 16, 2008. Tue-Fri 11-6, Sat 11-4

The directors of Thomas Dane are pleased to announce Paul Pfeiffer’s  
second exhibition at the gallery, which will include two video works.  
The first of which, 'Live from Neverland', is a video piece divided  
into two parts. One displayed on a monitor replays footage from a  
famous broadcast, arranged by Michael Jackson in which he admitted to  
sharing his bed with a number of children. The statement was screened  
following his arrest for charges of sexual abuse and during one of  
the most documented trials in American history. In response to this,  
a large projection that displays a choir of 80 students of speech and  
English language who carefully recite Michael Jackson's confession in  
the style of a Greek chorus was staged by Pfeiffer in his Fillipino  
home-town. Pfeiffer replaced their traditional oration texts with a  
transcript from Michael Jackson’s broadcast. The two videos are  
carefully re-synched so that the voices of the choir are in time with  
Jackson's soundless monologue.




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2.
Thusday January 17th. 6.30pm.
LUX Event: Argument (1978) screening with Aurélien Froment
Goethe Institute, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2PH
Tickets £5 (entry to both screenings) Box Office: 020 7596 4000

A double-bill of screenings: Anthony McCall and Andrew Tyndall's  
feature-length film Argument, followed by a presentation of a new  
work by Paris-based artist Aurélien Froment. Presented in  
collaboration with The Serpentine Gallery & LUX, in the context of  
the Serpentine's Anthony McCall show.

6.30pm.  Argument is a dense and provocative feature-length essay  
examining one issue of the New York Times magazine. Fashion  
photographs are used as a starting point for a political  
investigation of news, advertising, and images of masculinity - while  
at the same time, the filmmakers reflect on their own position and  
the possibility of radical film practice. Its trenchant analysis of  
media ideology seems more pertinent than ever. (A booklet which  
originally accompanied the film has been republished by LUX and will  
be available for ticket holders at the reduced price of £3.)
www.lux.org.uk/touring/argument.htm

8.30pm.  Aurélien Froment presents a new video work.  His work deals  
with film as a metaphor, the provenance of images, and sleight of hand.
Froment formerly worked as a projectionist in an avant garde cinema  
in Paris. In 2006 his collaboration with Ryan Gander, Of any actual  
person, living or dead, was shown at STORE Gallery . He currently has  
a solo-show at the Project Art Centre, Dublin.




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3.
Friday January 18th.
Fire Under Snow, Darren Almond
Parasol unit, 14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW
18 Jan – 30 Mar 2008. Open Tues – Sat 10-6pm. Sunday 12–5pm.

Darren Almond's work takes as its subject matter the recurring themes  
of time, memory, human labour and exploitation in various  
geographical parts of the world.

Almond is an avid traveller and since the beginning of his career in  
the mid 1990s he has experimented with films, video-installations and  
photography in remote regions. He has also made kinetic sculptures,  
the best-known of which are made with digital clock mechanisms.

In his solo exhibition at Parasol unit Almond will show two films,  
shot separately in China and Indonesia; a series of photographs taken  
in Norilsk and Monchegorsk, Siberia; and a time-based wall sculpture.





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4.
Saturday 19th January
Mark Aerial Waller: The Flipside of Darkness
SLG, 65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH http:// 
www.southlondongallery.org/docs/live/event.jsp?id=46&sid=29
7-11PM, £5/3.50 concs

This event and new video work brings together strands from the epic  
Greek wartime play Orestia by Aeschylus with ideas derived from a  
rich diversity of science fiction and cult cinema. The event is a  
celebratory party for 21st century Ancient Greek guests with a  
yearning for 8 bit electronic music. Some costumes will be available  
on the night or guests may wish to improvise: bomber jackets with  
golden Zardoz masks, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! outfits, tunics and  
trainers are all very welcome. This project forms the first part of  
Waller's cycle Resistance Domination Secret which continues at  
various platforms throughout the year. To book tickets call 020 7703  
6120.

The project emerges from work made at residencies at Platform  
Garanti, Istanbul and CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw during 2007.

The event includes a live DJ set by Bjorn from ADAADAT records. The  
film alone will also be screened on Sunday 20 January, 12-6pm.





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5.
Friday 18 January - Sunday 20th
ICO Essentials
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended. For tickets book online  
www.tate.org.uk/modern or call 020 7887 8888.

Essentials is a new series presenting iconic and influential films by  
artists. The six themed programmes will launch a national tour of  
classic works that have blazed a trail through the visual arts,  
fashion, music and design influencing countless artists and films  
throughout the last century. Collected together under broad themes  
the programmes propose distinct new ways of looking at the past  
century, ranging from politics to pop. Drawing on a wide range of  
practices from across the world the Essentials programmes offer  
revelatory and ground-breaking works.http://www.icoessentials.org.uk/


Friday 18 January 2008, 19.30
ICO Essentials - Dreams.
Cinema has flirted with the fantastic since its origins, but the most  
potent and penetrating explorations of the unfathomable world of the  
unconscious can be found in artists’ work. Essentials: Dreams  
collects together the mythic, the nightmarish and the psychedelic to  
present pioneering artists’ wondrous visions revealing cinema in all  
its magical intensity. Featuring celebrated work by Luis Buñuel and  
Salvidor Dalí, Lawrence Jordan, Jan Svankmajer, and Suzan Pitt.  
Curated and presented by George Clark.

Un chien andalou, Luis Buñuel / Salvador Dalí, France, 1929
Les Jeux des anges, Walerian Borowczyk, Poland, 1964
Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Deren, USA, 1943
Dimensions of Dialogue, Jan Svankmajer, Czechoslovakia, 1982
Asparagus, Suzan Pitt, USA, 1974-78
Our Lady of the Sphere, Lawrence Jordan, USA, 1969


Saturday 19 January 2008, 15.00
ICO Essentials: Modernity
The twentieth century can be defined by rapid change and  
modernisation. This programme presents artists' films that reflect  
and explore the matrix of change, and how science and technology,  
creativity and invention have moved towards the more synchronised  
experience of modernity. The mechanisms of production become less  
conspicuous and modes of consumption define lifestyle from an  
expansive field of possibility. Including work by Len Lye, László  
Moholy-Nagy, Mary Ellen Bute, Ferdinand Kriwet and Mark Leckey.  
Curated and presented by Michelle Cotton.

Light Display: Black-White-Grey, László Moholy-Nagy, Germany, 1930
Trade Tatoo, Len Lye, UK, 1937
Blacktop, Charles & Ray Eames, USA, 1952
Escape, Mary Ellen Bute, USA, 1951
Apollovision, Ferdinand Kriwet, Germany, 1969
Kustom Kar Kommandos, Kenneth Anger, USA, 1955
Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, Mark Leckey, UK, 1999
A History of Nothing, Edouardo Paolozzi, UK, 1963


Saturday 19 January 2008, 19.00
ICO Essentials: Expression
Amidst the many terms used to define artists’ film and video,  
‘personal film’ was amongst the earliest. These works explore how the  
personal is also political, opposed not only to mainstream cinema,  
but also radically challenging institutional and ideological  
structures; gender, sexuality, family, the state and the individual.  
The programme includes work by Martha Rosler, Sadie Benning, Kenneth  
Anger and
Stuart Marshall. Curated and presented by Ian White.

L’invitation au voyage, Germaine Dulac, Fr 1927, 33 min
Semiotics of the Kitchen, Martha Rosler, US 1975, 6 min
If Every Girl Had a Diary, Sadie Benning, UK 9 min
Light Reading, Lis Rhodes, UK, 20 min
Pedagogue, Neil Bartlett & Stuart Marshall, UK 1988, 10 min
Invocation of My Demon Brother, Kenneth Anger, US 1969, 12 min


Sunday 20 January 2008, 15.00
ICO Essentials: Protest
Essentials: Protest presents iconic cine-pamphlets, cine-manifestos  
and film-essays that mobilised the social energies of discontent,  
crisis and struggle that convulsed the 20th century. Drawing upon  
aesthetic traditions of negation, critique and provocation, these  
artists use the political forms of montage, collage and appropriation  
to produce radical interventions. Including: Jean Vigo, Harun Straub/ 
Huillet, Farocki, Santiago Alvarez and Jorge Furtado. Presented and  
curated by The Otolith Group, Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sugar.

A Propos de Nice, Jean Vigo, France, 1930
Histoire du soldat inconnu, Henri Storck, Belgium, 1932
79 Springs of Ho Chi Min,Santiago Alvarez, Cuba, 1969
Die Worte Des Vorsitzenden/The Words of The Chairman,Harun Farocki,  
Germany, 1967
Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a  
Cinematographic Score, Straub and Huillet, Germany, 1973
Isle of Flowers, Jorge Furtado, Brazil, 1989


Sunday 20 January 2008, 17.30
ICO Essentials: Play
Essentials: Play honours the irreverent, impudent, subversive and fun  
in artists’ film. Ranging from Dada to Postmodernism this programme  
is a playground for unconventional ideas and approaches, with work  
that mocks and parodies a cinema that takes itself seriously for all  
the wrong reasons. These playful works cast aside pretensions and  
freely celebrate life and art in all its forms. Featuring work by  
Hans Richter, John Smith and George Kuchar. Curated and presented by  
James Harding.

Filmstudie, Hans Richter, Germany,1926
Ent’racte, Rene Clair, France, 1924
Associations, John Smith, UK, 1975
Hold me While I'm Naked, George Kuchar, USA, 1966
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy, Martin Arnold, Austria, 1998
Little Stabs at Happiness, Ken Jacobs, USA, 1963
Sacrificial Mutilation and Death in Modern Art, Jake and Dinos  
Chapman, UK, 1999


Programme content is still liable to change.








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