LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK Thursday 31 July - Wednesday 6 August 2008

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK

1. Sunday 3 August. LUX video shop - Publish And Be Damned, Rochelle  
School, London

2. Sunday 3 August. ICO Essentials: Pop, Renoir Cinema, London

3. Sunday 3 August. Stephan Dillemuth & Nils Norman / Gisèle & Luc  
Meichler, The Castle, London

4. Wednesday 6 August. Reverberations # 1: Robert Fenz, Camden Arts  
Centre, London



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1.
Sunday 3rd August, 12 - 6pm
LUX video shop at Publish And Be Damned: A ONE-DAY SELF-PUBLISHING FAIR
Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London E2 7ES
Free admission

Publish and Be Damned, the One-Day Self-Publishing Fair is in its 5th  
year and will again take place at Rochelle School on Sunday 3rd  
August 2008.
The fair provides a network for artists, writers, and musicians to  
distribute and disseminate material amongst other producers, and the  
public.

Publish and Be Damned (PaBD) continues to profile individual and  
experimental approaches to making and distributing publications  
outside of the commercial mainstream. The fair encompasses cut ‘n’  
paste ‘zines, critical journals, glossy periodicals, self-published  
DVDs, and collaborative publishing projects in a broad selection of  
formats and interpretations. The fair offers a rare opportunity to  
discover a wide variety of publications and to meet their producers.

This year, for the first time, PaBD has invited three special  
projects to participate. Ooga Booga is a shop in Los Angeles run by  
Wendy Yao. The focus is on independent culture, mostly selling artist  
books and multiples, music, and clothing as well as staging  
performances and events. For this year's Publish And Be Damned, Ooga  
Booga are focusing on a selection of American artists' publications,  
particularly those from the West Coast.

LUX is an arts agency that explores ideas around artists' moving  
image practice through exhibition, distribution, publishing,  
education and research. For Publish and Be Damned LUX will offer an  
opportunity to sample artists’ film and video production in a project  
room gathering together DVDs from an international network of  
artists, as well LUX’s own publications.

London's radio-arts station Resonance104.4fm will produce Podcast and  
Be Damned, a special Publish and Be Damned audio literary anthology  
and make it available for download as a podcast within 24 hours of  
the fair. Featuring material drawn from, or which responds to Publish  
And Be Damned, supplemented by an eclectic smattering of prose culled  
from literary history.

The fair continues to feature regular favourites, such as Starship  
from Berlin, Slimvolume, Public Works, Guestroom and Centrefold, and  
publications new to the fair, A Calzone, Flypaper, and FormContent.  
We are also very pleased to be hosting overseas participants from  
South Africa, Poland, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and France,  
amongst others. We are also pleased to welcome many brand new  
publications, The Internet in Print, URA!, Bastón Blanco and St.  
Pierre et Miquelon, amongst many others.

Publish and Be Damned is run by Sarah McCrory, and Joe Scotland.
The fair was originally conceived in 2004 at Kit Hammonds and Emily  
Pethick.

www.publishandbedamned.org




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2.
Sunday 3 August. 4.30 pm
ICO Essentials: Pop, Renoir Cinema, London
Renoir Cinema, Brunswick Centre, London WC1N 1AW
Tickets £7

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 The Rock And Roll  
Film)
Thom Andersen, Malcolm Brodwick / USA, 1966-67
Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable / Ronald Nameth / USA,  
1967-2005
Link / Derek Boshier / UK, 1970
Marvo Movie / Jeff Keen / UK, 1967
The Selling Of New York / Nam June Paik / USA / 1972
I’m Not The Girl Who Misses Much / Pipilotti Rist / Switzerland / 1986

www.icoessentials.org.uk




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3.
Sunday 3 August. 6pm
Stephan Dillemuth & Nils Norman / Gisèle & Luc Meichler
The Castle, 65 Camberwell Church Street, London SE5 8TR
Free, booking advisable, South London Gallery 020 7703 6120  
mail at southlondongallery.org

This screening, as part of Games and Theory at the South London  
Gallery, presents two films which explore our relationships to urbanism.

Stephan Dillemuth & Nils Norman
I’m Short Your House, 2007
DVD / colour / 25 min
Stephan Dillemuth and Nils Norman have been collaborating on  
exhibitions and research projects since the early 1990s. This film  
brings together their parallel research strands of Bohemia, the  
developing economy of the city and the role of the artist within  
today’s international art market.

Gisèle & Luc Meichler
Allée des Signes, 1976
16mm / B&W / 21 min
One of the most remarkable Situationist film-essays, Allée des Signes  
is based on Guy Debord’s texts on psychogeography. It describes the  
metamorphoses of the city of Paris using texts by Levi-Strauss,  
Eisenstein, Deleuze-Guattari and Blanchot amongst others.

NOTE: The film is in French with English transcript provided

www.southlondongallery.org



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4.
Wednesday 6th August. 6.45pm (doors 6.15pm)
Reverberations # 1: Robert Fenz
Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3
Free, to reserve call 020 7472 5500

In the first event in the series, American artist Robert Fenz will  
focus on the enduring importance of improvisation in his work. Fenz's  
films are neither purely non-fiction, nor abstract; but instead  
occupy a personal and lyrical space relative to both. His starting  
point is often a particular person or place, and from there he works  
intuitively to ?reflect a deeper understanding of the human  
condition? using the formal aspects of film. The event is presented  
in dialogue with Camden Arts Centre?s Chantal Akerman exhibition, an  
artist with whom Fenz has worked as cinematographer.

Improvisation is of utmost importance to the way Fenz works,  
particularly in relation to the context of jazz music, where players  
practice and study extensively in order to be prepared to create ?in  
the moment?. To illustrate these ideas he will be joined in dialogue  
with one of his teachers, the acclaimed American composer and  
musician Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, who will also perform live  
improvised trumpet to two of his films.

Robert Fenz is one of the most original young filmmakers working in  
and against the avant-garde tradition today. He is currently  
completing an ambitious work that engages the cinematic legacy of  
pioneering documentarian, Robert Gardner. Fenz was awarded a  
Guggenheim Fellowship in
2004, and lived in Berlin in 2006 as part of the DAAD Artist in  
Residence  Program. His film Crossings is included in the 2008  
Whitney Biennial. Fenz studied filmmaking with Peter Hutton and James  
Benning, and music with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith.

Reverberations is a new series of events and workshops where six  
international moving image artists trace lines of influential thought  
through their practice. The project launches with Robert Fenz.

www.no-w-here.org.uk









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