LUX Event - New Work UK: IN MEDIA RES, Whitechapel - Thursday 12th June 7.30pm

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Lindsay Seers

Thursday 12th June 7.30pm
New Work UK: IN MEDIA RES, curated by Jen Wu

Whitechapel Art Gallery, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street , London E1  
7QX www.whitechapel.org
£5, booking highly recommended 020 7522 7888
Tube: Aldgate East

The artists selected inhabit cinema's simultaneous realms of past,  
present, and future, constructing it in media res. Echoes of  
structuralist film pervade through an embodied formalism, absorbing  
and speaking our contemporary condition.  Through diverse approaches,  
these artists remap cinematic space, becoming and disintegrating into  
film’s elaborate fictions.

'What fascinates me about these works and practices is the generative  
capacity they possess.  The sensibilities they convey and the means  
by which they are articulated present something that feels new –  
perhaps precisely in the way they critique, both directly and  
indirectly, that very principle within contemporary art practice and  
the ways by which we situate ourselves.' Jen Wu


Francis Lamb, HOUSE TAKEN OVER, 2005.  6 min
Isolating frames and fragments from cinema’s seemingly infinite  
archive, Lamb assembles reconfigured mindscapes of potentiality.  
House Taken Over is titled after a short story by Julio Cortazar.

Lindsay Seers, INTERMISSION, 2007.  11 min.
Seers’ recent body of work details her attempts at becoming a  
projector. Rather than a purely mechanical transformation, this act  
provokes a mode of production where personal biography, memory,  
social history, and artistic practice become intertwined in a format  
akin to television documentary – in this case as an act of  
ventriloquism.

Plastique Fantastique (David Burrows & Simon O'Sullivan), THE  
CHYMICAL WEDDING, 2008.  18 min.
Plastique Fantastique are an invented guerrilla group - a  
'mythopoetic fiction produced through comics, performances, text,  
assemblages and shrines'.  The Chymical Wedding forms part of their  
ongoing communiqués, this one drawing upon the practice of  
‘mumming’ and the examples of Sascha Masoch and John Dee.

Tai Shani, THEE KITTY GENOVESE, 2008.  26 min.
The films and performances of Tai Shani create evocative cosmologies  
of interconnected being.  Trauma becomes the precipitant for a cinema  
depicting a fantastical universe construed wholly and compellingly of  
intense psychological and emotional states.

Anthony Gross, THE NEW MUSEUM, 2008.  Variable.
Interspersed through the programme will be short scenes from Anthony  
Gross’ The New Museum.  A series of computer generated indents,  
these formally reduced animations produce a feedback loop of the  
virtual, like an infinite yet non-reflective mirror of our dispersed  
consciousness.

New Work UK is a LUX/ Whitechapel collaboration showcasing the best  
new British artists' film and video, each event is programmed and  
presented by a different guest curator.





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