LUXNEWSWIREjune2008

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LUXNEWSWIREjune2008

[LUX NEWSWIRE is a monthly e-newsletter covering UK and international  
artists' moving image news.]

Contents
1. UK openings (festivals, gallery shows, screening series)
2. Calls (festivals, open shows, competitions, conferences)
3. Opportunities (funding, residences, employment)
4. Publishing (books, online journals, videos, DVD, CD)
5. LUX news

1. UK OPENINGS

LUX LONDON EVENTS CALENDAR the most comprehensive daily listing of  
artists' moving image events, screenings and exhibitions in London  
http://www.lux.org.uk/resources/events.htm you can also subscribe to  
the calendar in any software that uses the ical format (such as apple  
ical and windows calendar) by entering http://www.google.com/calendar/ 
ical/calendar%40lux.org.uk/public/basic.ics

Nought to Sixty: Trail of the Spider – A Passage Through Limbo, Anja  
Kirschner and David Panos, ICA, London. 2 – 9 June. http:// 
www.ica.org.uk Anja Kirschner is currently a LUX Associate Artist.

Drive In, Stuart Croft, FRED, London. 5 June – 20 July. http:// 
www.fred-london.com

Helke Sander Retrospective, Goethe Institute, London. 9 – 24 June.  
http://www.goethe.de/london

Gail Pickering, Gasworks, London. 11 June – 27 July. http:// 
www.gasworks.org.uk

(Traffic Scarcely Audible), Domobaal, London. 12 June – 12 July.  
current trends in poetic documentary making. http://www.domobaal.com

Tony Conrad season, Tate Modern, London. 13 – 15 June. http:// 
www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/tonyconradseasonseries.htm

Marine Hugonnier, Max Wigram temporary space, London. 13 June – 31  
July. http://www.maxwigram.com

Broadcast Yourself, Cornerhouse, Manchester. 13 June – 10 August.  
Artists' interventions into television and strategies for self- 
broadcasting from the 1960s to today http://www.cornerhouse.org

Encounters, Victor Alimpiev, MOMA, Oxford. 15 June – 31 August.  
http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk

Solstice, Neeta Madahar, PM Gallery and House, London. 20 June – 27  
July. http://www.ealing.gov.uk/services/leisure/museums_and_galleries/ 
pm_gallery_and_house/exhibitions/solstice.html

Flux-Fest, Vivid, Birmingham. 25 June – 13 July. http://www.vivid.org.uk


2. CALLS
CALL FOR ENTRIES
* denotes entry fees
NEW LUX Calls and Opportunities deadline calendar available now at
http://www.lux.org.uk/resources/opportunities.htm
Or subscribe with any calendar programme which uses the ical format  
(such as apple ical or windows calendar) by entering http:// 
www.google.com/calendar/ical/q9b2oejc8tun8n7vibtnk8vcn0% 
40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Canary Wharf Film Festival, London, UK. Deadline: 10 June http:// 
www.cwff.org.uk

Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates. Call for proposals. Deadline:  
10 June http://www.sharjahbiennial.org/en/

Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Switzerland. Deadline: 15  
June. http://www.luff.ch

Doclisboa: Lisbon International Documentary Film Festival, Portugal.  
Deadline: 16 June. http://www.doclisboa.org

ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2008, Berlin, Germany. Deadline: 16 June.  
http://www.literaturwerkstatt.org

15th Chicago Underground Film Festival, USA. Deadline: 16 June.  
http://www.cuff.org *

London Film Festival, UK. Deadline: 27 June. http://www.lff.org.uk/

AURORA, Norwich, UK. Deadline: 27 June. http://www.aurora.org.uk

Invideo - Mostra Internazionale di video d'arte e cinema oltre,  
Milan, Italy. Deadline: 27 June. http://www.mostrainvideo.com

Cork Film Festival, Ireland. Deadline: 28  June. http:// 
www.corkfilmfest.org

Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden. Deadline: 30 June. http:// 
www.shortfilmfestival.com/

EAST International, Norwich, UK. Deadline: 4 July. http:// 
www.eastinternational.net


3. OPPORTUNITIES

Commission: Great North Run Moving Image Commission, UK. Offers  
£30,000 to an artist or film-maker to create a new piece of moving  
image work in response to the world’s largest half-marathon on 5th  
October 2008. Deadline: 9 June http://www.greatnorthrunculture.org

Residency: NEA International Digital Filmmaker Residency 2008,  
Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, USA. Deadline: 14 June. http://www.squeaky.org

Residency: South West Production Residency 2009, Spike Island,  
Bristol. Deadline: 23 June. NB open to UK based artists only. http:// 
www.spikeisland.org.uk

Residency: Artquest Three Months in Berlin, Germany. Deadline: 4  
July. NB open to London-based artists only. http:// 
www.artquest.org.uk/berlin.htm


4. PUBLISHING

British Artists' Films Vol. 4, Jayne Parker. DVD published in the UK  
by BFI. ISBN/EAN: 5035673007310 http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/ 
info_8669.html

Robert Frank The Complete Film Works Vols 1 – 3. DVD published in UK  
and USA by Steidl. Includes Pull My Daisy, The Sin of Jesus, Me and  
My Brother, Conversations in Vermont, Liferaft Earth, OK End Here,  
Keep Busy, About Me: A Musical, S-8 Stones Footage from Exile on Main  
Street http://www.steidlville.com/

Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage by  
Branden W. Joseph (Zone Books/MIT). ISBN-13: 978-1-890951-86-3 http:// 
mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11430


5. LUX NEWS

NEW TO LUXONLINE

New Luxonline Artist Profile: June 2008
Mark Aerial Waller
http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/mark_aerial_waller/index.html
Mark Aerial Waller is well known for his elliptical and subversive  
film and video fictions, where references from art, literature and  
cinema collide. His Luxonline profile presents clips and stills from  
his films, video installations and The Wayward Canon, the ongoing  
series of events where forgotten film classics meet light show,  
dance, film and performance. His profile also includes new writing on  
his work by Diana Baldon.

New Luxonline Vodcast: June 2008
Tina Keane
http://www.luxonline.org.uk/vodcasts.html
Luxonline is delighted to present an online vodcast with the video  
artist Tina Keane. Tina discusses how her practice has developed,  
from her early video monitor installations to more recent digital  
explorations. She offers valuable insights into the experiences and  
concepts that have shaped her work, from feminism to performance.

New Luxonline Exhibition: June 2008
The Absence of Satan by George Barber
http://www.luxvideo.org/exhibition/absence_of_satan.html
To celebrate LUX's upcoming DVD release of George Barber's seminal  
video work Luxonline presents his witty deconstruction of the TV  
movie in the 1985 Scratch video classic, The Absence of Satan.

SCREENINGS AND EVENTS

Thursday 5 June 7 for 7.30pm
LUX Salon: Q&A
A programme of four films using the format of the interview or  
debate, in which the conversation is only half the story. We join  
Willoughby Sharp interviewing performance artist Chris Burden,  
lounging by a Californian swimming pool as the camera operator’s  
attention wanders to the girls by the poolside; a dead John Wayne and  
Susan Hayward posthumously discuss their demise in a TV studio; Neil  
Bartlett blatantly lies to his interviewer about the contents of his  
briefcase; and Owen Land documents the meeting of a group of  
Christians to hypnotic effect.
Curated by Rachel Reupke (LUX Associate Artist 2007-8).
LUX Salon takes place at LUX, 3rd Floor, Shacklewell Studios, 18  
ADMISSION FREE, booking is essential - to book a place email  
salon at lux.org.uk

Thursday 12 June 7.30pm
New Work UK: In Media Res
Whitechapel Gallery http://www.whitechapel.org
New Work UK is a LUX/Whitechapel collaboration showcasing the best  
new British artists’ moving image work with each event programmed by  
a different guest curator.
New Work UK: In Media Res curated by Jen Wu
‘The artists selected inhabit cinema's virtual realm, constructing it  
in media res. Echoes of structuralist film pervade through a new  
radical formalism, absorbing and speaking our contemporary condition  
through approaches as diverse as the performance document, archives,  
narrative cinema, and computer generated animation - remapping  
cinematic space, becoming, and disintegrating into the artificial.   
The screen becomes a diffuse and disembodied container, the deposits  
a psycho-material excess, a trajectory somewhere in the fourth  
dimension where our consciousness persists and exists as  
experience’.  With Francis Lamb, Lindsay Seers, Anthony Gross,  
Plastique Fantastique (David Burrows and Simon O’Sullivan) and Tai  
Shani.

17 to 21 June, 12 – 6PM
Sharon Hayes In the Near Future, 2005-ongoing
Preview Sunday 15 June
LUX 28, 28 Shacklewell Lane, London E8 2EZ http://www.lux28.org.uk
Opening Times Tuesday - Saturday 12-6.
Presented in collaboration with Lisson Gallery
New York-based artist Sharon Hayes (b. 1970, USA) creates and  
documents situations that investigate the history and construction of  
pubic opinion, speech and gesture in relation to processes of  
individual and collective subject formation. Her performances and  
installations engage with the critical potential of art to question  
the way in which we take part, both as speakers and listeners, in  
current political discourse.
Central to her ongoing work In the Near Future is the question of how  
the past is turned into images, the way it is interpreted in the  
present and can influence our perception of the future. In this  
series of performative actions Hayes stages anachronistic and  
speculative solo protests that investigate the figure of the  
protester and the act of speech of the protest slogan. In London  
Hayes will develop three new actions based on the city’s specific  
history of dissent. In each action, Hayes stands on the street  
holding placards: some of the signs are culled from past protests,  
while others hold more elusive and speculative messages, which hint  
to future possible occurrences. As part of the work, Hayes invites an  
audience both to watch and participate through documenting the  
actions. The photographic documentation raises issues of circulation  
and production of meaning, as our knowledge of past protests is  
mediated by images and in turn the image produces meaning in excess  
of the original protest and represents a future possibility for  
action. The actions are presented simultaneously in the form of a  
multiple slide installation, positing the present moment as a  
layering of different temporalities and meanings.

26 June - 26 July
Archivos OVNI
LUX 28, 28 Shacklewell Lane, London E8 2EZ http://www.lux28.org.uk
Opening Times Wednesday - Saturday 12-6
Archivos OVNI (Observatorio de Video No Identificado) is an  
independent artists' video archive project based at the Centre for  
Contemporary Art in Barcelona. Founded in 1993 it aims to encourage a  
critique of contemporary culture and society, through the collecting  
and dissemination of a wide range of independent media works  
particularly from Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa. At  
LUX 28 Archivos OVNI presents a specially curated selection works  
from the archives which will be browsable by visitors during the  
period of the show as well as a weekly changing series of screenings  
drawing out principle lines of investigation for project around ideas  
of exodus and resistance.

Thursday 26th June 7.30pm opening event.
Toni Serra * Abu Ali and Xavi Hurtado, founders of Archivos OVNI  
introduce the ideas behind the project and present selected works  
from the collection. Admission free, to book a place email  
salon at lux.org.uk


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