LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 21 - 28 January 2008

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK


1. January 21st. ICO Essentials: Pop. Tate Modern, London

2. January 23rd. Replays: Selected video works 1994 - 2007, Willie  
Doherty. Matts Gallery, London

3. January 23rd. On The White Screen: Eleanor Antin. South London  
Gallery, London

4. January 24th, Katie Paterson. Room, London

5. January 24th, A Walk Through, Omsk Collective. Stephen Lawrence  
Gallery, Greenwich University Campus, London




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1.
Monday January 21st, 6.30pm.
ICO Essentials : Pop
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: Pop presents iconic Pop films from the 1950s and 60s  
alongside work that preceded the Pop Art movement and work from its  
many legacies. Drawing on the proliferation of brand-name products,  
logos, billboards, comic books, popular press, advertising,  
television and Hollywood films, these artists create radical new  
perspectives on mass production and popular culture. Including work  
by Peter Roehr, William Klein and Peter Whitehead. Curated by Tanya  
Leighton.

Broadway By Light, William Klein, France, 1957
Film Montage I, Peter Roehr, Germany, 1965 – 68
When I Was Young, Peter Whitehead, UK, 1965
--- ------ (aka Short Line Long Line), Thom Anderson & Malcolm  
Brodwick, USA, 1966-67
Velvet Underground: Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Ron Nameth, USA, 1966
Link, Derek Boshier, UK, 1970
Trilogy, Jeff Keen, UK, 1967-72
The Selling of New York, Nam June Paik, USA, 1972
I'm Not The Girl Who Misses Much, Pipilotti Rist, Switzerland, 1986

Programme duration 90 min. Programme content is still liable to change.




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2.
Wednesday, January 23rd
Replays: Selected video works 1994 - 2007, Willie Doherty
Matts Gallery, 42–44 Copperfield Road, London E3 4RR
23 January – 16 March 2008. Open Weds – Sun 12-6pm

This will be Willie Doherty’s fifth exhibition at Matt’s Gallery. The  
gallery has collaborated with the artist since 1990 and was the first  
venue to show his video work, commissioning the installation The Only  
Good One is a Dead One in 1993. This led to Doherty’s first Turner  
Prize nomination in 1994.

For Replays, Matt's Gallery will present a survey of Doherty’s video  
work made over the last thirteen years. These works are set against  
the backdrop of a changing Northern Ireland and engage the viewer in  
the undercurrent of apprehension and uncertainty of living in a  
divided society.

The gallery will be divided into two exhibition spaces, with Ghost  
Story (2007) showing throughout the exhibition in one space and a  
rotation of eight videos in the other.




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3.
Wednesday January 23rd. 7.00pm
On The White Screen: Eleanor Antin
South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH
£3, doors 6.30pm

The first in a series of evenings dedicated to some of the most  
significant artists working with film and performance. These events  
profile major historical works including documentation and  
performance-based film and video. This first event features works by  
acclaimed American artist, writer and film-maker Eleanor Antin.

Eleanor Antin (born 1935) is one of the most influential performance  
artists of her generation most recently presenting a major  
installation at Documenta 2007.
In theatrically set videos she creates fictional characters living  
adventures which reflect her own life experience. Endorsing various  
roles becomes a way for her to explore the inner self. This programme  
presents some of her most intriguing works.

 From the Archive of Modern Art, 1987, 18 min
The Nurse and the Hijackers, 1977, 75 min
The King, 1972, 55 min
Caught in the Act, 1973, 36 min





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4.
Thursday January 24th.
Katie Paterson
Exhibition: 24 Jan - 17 Feb 2008 Open Thurs - Sun 12:00 - 18:00

Katie Paterson brought back the sounds, and also the water, from  
three melting glaciers in Iceland. The sounds were pressed into three  
LP records - ice creaking, cracking, hissing. Then, after several  
months of experimentation, moulds were made from them using a very  
sensitive casting technique, the meltwater from those same glaciers  
poured into those moulds and frozen, creating ‘ice records’.

These ‘ice records’ were then played on three turntables, playing the  
sounds of the melting glaciers from whence the water/ice had come,  
until they had completely melted over nearly two hours. Miniature  
landscapes were formed as the needle traced over the ice as it was  
worn down. The sound is embedded, locked, inscribed into the material  
itself. Playing out the dissolving landscape. Nothing remained.

The work speaks of the ephemeral, notions of immateriality,  
formlessness; the slow imperceptible decomposition of things. In a  
sense, the work is a description of death. The record revolving  
slowly like the globe, having played its music, it’s caught on a  
dying loop.

She says “I’m interested in the notion of ‘geological time’ – a vast  
span of time difficult to comprehend, in relation to ‘human time”.  
She wanted to bring the scale of the glacier, an immense, remote,  
geological form, to the ‘human’ scale of an LP.
She refers to the sublime, and the futile attempt of the artist to  
‘represent’ or allude to something that is ultimately  
unrepresentable. This act is in itself a failure.

The work now exists as three digital films.




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5.
Thuursday January 24th. Private View 6-8 pm
A Walk Through, Omsk Collective
Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich University Campus, Old Royal  
Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, London SE10 9LS 020 8331 8260
Exhibition: 25 Jan – 15 Feb 2008. Open Mon – Fri, 10am – 5pm; Sat,  
11am – 4pm

The OMSK Collective has a history of producing platform events for  
live artists, film/video makers and sonic artists. Itinerant and  
irreverent, the OMSK ideology sits outside of the cinema, theatre and  
gallery space, and their recent publication - OMSKBOOK, is indicative  
of how the collective and its affiliates tamper with and question the  
existing formats of cultural production. In A Walk Through, OMSK  
brings this exploratory approach to the Stephen Lawrence Gallery,  
where the white cube space is dissolved and the visitor is recast as  
participant.  Collective members Jamie Bargeman, Steven Eastwood,  
Sally Irvine, Hannah Metcalfe, Clare Moloney, along with associates  
Bill Aitchison, Quartet Electronishe and Woodrow Kernohan, expand the  
perimeters of the gallery by locating art works around its vicinity  
and throughout the campus of Greenwich University.

This attitude of exposing process is echoed in each of the artist’s  
works:
For A Seminar in Film Sound, Eastwood unpicks the stitching together  
of sound in the cinema transaction, holding a mirror up to the  
cinema’s face by way of a re-enacted student presentation; in  
Bargeman & Irvine’s The Palace of Placentia, a series of incidental  
installations explore the psycho-physical history of the campus  
buildings; for Nothing Comes Close, Metcalfe constructs a giant paper  
military aeroplane which both articulates the intricate beauty of  
high-minded engineering and the unpalatable wealth of the oil  
industry; in A Blow to the Head, Moloney sets up a writing desk on  
campus, embarks on her first novel and lays bare her strategies for  
writing and not-writing; ‘Quartet Operation’, by Quartet  
Electronishe, presents the material value of a complex concert  
preparation and technical set-up, and in Kernohan’s Four-Four, the  
seemingly utilitarian process of drilling holes is made visual and  
deconstructed  to produce a profoundly melodic soundscape.  In  
addition, performance artist Bill Aitchison walks the viewer through  
the exhibition with a commentary entitled Auto Theatre. Aitchison  
will perform Auto Theatre live at the private view on Thursday 24  
January 2008 and thereafter it will be available as an audio  
recording for visitors as they wander around the artworks.

A Walk Through is the first exhibition in the Stephen Lawrence  
Gallery Borders & Identities series.










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