LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 9 - 15 June 2008

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK

1. Monday 9 June. Kinomuseum Book Launch Screening, Whitechapel  
Gallery, London

2. Monday 9 June. Helke Sander Retrospective. Goethe-Institut, London

3. Monday 9 June. Nought to sixty: Jesse Jones, ICA, London

4. Wednesday 11 June. Gail Pickering. Gasworks, London

5. Thursday 12 June. (traffic scarcely audible) Domoball, London

6. Thursday 12th June. LUX Event - New Work UK: IN MEDIA RES, curated  
by Jen Wu. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

7. Friday 13 June. Marine Hugonnier. Max Wigram, London

8. Friday 13 - 15 June. Tony Conrad. Tate Modern, London




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1.
Monday 9 June 7.30pm
Kinomuseum Book Launch Screening
Whitechapel Gallery, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 80-82 Whitechapel High  
Street , London E1 7QX
Free entry, but RSVP  essential: rostaylor at whitechapel.orgg

To celebrate the publication of the book Kinomuseum: Towards an  
Artists' Cinema edited by Mike Sperlinger and Ian White there will be  
a special screening at Whitechapel Gallery.

Published by Walther Koenig (www.koenigbooks.co.uk), Kinomuseum  
documents and extends Ian White's programme of the same name which  
took place at the 53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen  
in 2007. It contains contributions from Pierre Bismuth, Achim  
Borchardt-Hume, AA Bronson, Morgan Fisher, Lars Henrik Gass, Dan  
Graham, Lucian Harris, Mary Kelly, Mark Leckey, Emily Pethick, Ian  
White and the full transcript of a panel discussion between Alexander  
Horwarth, Chrissie Iles, Marysia Lewandowska and Vanessa Joan Muller.
For the London launch, four films originally shown at the festival by  
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pablo Bronstein, Megan Fraser and  
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa will be presented as a one-off screening at  
Whitechapel Gallery. Copies of the Kinomuseum book will be available  
to buy at a special launch price, and the event will be followed by a  
drink in a local pub.

www.whitechapel.org





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1.
Monday 9 June.
Helke Sander Retrospective.
Goethe-Institut, 50 Princes Gate; Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PH
Tickets £3. 020 7596 4000

Known as much for her films as for her involvement in the women's  
movement, Helke Sander (*1937) made her first films at the  
radicalised Berlin Film and Television Academy collaborating with  
fellow students like Harun Farocki, Hartmut Bitomsky or the later RAF  
terrorist Holger Meins. Struggling as a single mother within a male  
dominated protest movement, she started various initiatives to  
challenge the exclusion of women and their issues from the protest  
movement and has since then continued to question the division  
between private life and public politics. She co-organised the first  
International Women's Film Seminar (1973) in Germany and founded the  
journal "Women and Film" (1974), which is still published. She made  
her first long feature film The Allround Reduced Personality –  
Redupers in 1977. Many of her prize-winning films address the social  
and political concerns of women and children. She was a professor at  
the Film Academy in Hamburg (1981-2001), taught in many other  
countries, and her many written publications include journalistic and  
critical texts as well as short stories. "The Three Women K." was  
published in 1991 by Serpent’s Tail, London.

MON 9 JUNE 7PM
THE TROUBLE OF LOVE
Germany 1983, 112mins.
Two women who are connected through their professional and political  
work suffer from the fear and indecision of the man they both love.  
The women overestimate themselves. One wants openness, the other one  
most of all wants the man. The film poses the question of how such  
relationships can be lived without self-denial, lies and causing pain  
and confusion for families and friends.

www.goethe.de/london




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2.
Monday 9 June.
Nought to Sixty: Jesse Jones Screening
Cinema 1, ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
Exhibition 2 - 9 June. Open daily 12pm - 7pm (9pm on Thursdays)
This event is free but booking is required. Contact the ICA Box  
Office 020 7930 3647.

The films of Jesse Jones use the forms of cinema and music to reveal  
hidden political and social histories. This screening features a new  
work The Spectre and the Sphere that addresses the cultural legacies  
of Marxism, and centres on a performance of The Internationale by  
Theremin virtuoso Lydia Kavina. Jones will also screen a film that  
has influenced her work – Soviet satire The New Babylon (1929), a  
satirical film by Soviet filmmaker Grigori Kosintsev about the defeat  
of the Paris Commune in 1871.

www.ica.org.uk





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3.
Wednesday 11 June.
Gail Pickering.
Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall St, London SE11 5RH
Open Jun 11 - Jul 27, 2008. Wed-Sun 12-6

Gasworks presents a solo exhibition by Gail Pickering, featuring two  
recent video works, Dissident Sunset (2007) and Hungary! And Other  
Economies (2006), installed specifically for the space and shown in  
their entirety for the first time in the UK.

Pickering has become known for her ambitious performance works which  
have included a six-week durational performance by a bodybuilder at  
Matt's Gallery, London in 2004, and a series of evolving performances  
as part of Here We Dance at Tate Modern earlier this year. Her  
collaborative work with both amateur and professional actors proposes  
a form of ‘scripting’ which brings together historical and  
contemporary references through an intertextual playfulness. The  
resulting scenarios switch between imposing tableaux and performing  
autonomy, raising questions about the nature of political and social  
ritual. In recent years, Pickering has extended her interest in  
performance to include video, which is the focus of this exhibition.

www.gasworks.org.uk


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4. Thursday 12 June
(traffic scarcely audible)
Domobaal, 3 John St, London WC1N 2ES
Open Jun 12 - Jul 12, 2008. Thur-Sat 12-6 and by appt

Current trends in poetic documentary making, includes 'Their  
Helicopter' by Salome Jashi and Tato Kotetishvili + others

www.domobaal.com



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5.
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
Tube: Aldgate East
£5, booking highly recommended 020 7522 7888

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.


www.whitechapel.org

www.lux.org.uk





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6.
Friday 13 June.
Marine Hugonnier.
Max Wigram, 28 Redchurch Street, E2 7DP
Open 13 - 31 June, 2008. Thur-Sun 12-6

New work by Marine Hugonnier.


www.maxwigram.com




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7.
Friday 13 - 15 June. Tony conrad.
Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
Tickets: £5 / £4 concessions

Tony Conrad is a pivotal figure in contemporary culture. His multi- 
faceted contributions since the 1960s have influenced and redefined  
music, filmmaking, minimalism, performance, video and conceptual art.

Known for his groundbreaking film The Flicker, his involvement in the  
Theatre of Eternal Music and the evolution of the Velvet Underground,  
and collaborations with a host of luminaries including Jack Smith,  
John Cale, Mike Kelley and Henry Flynt, Conrad is a radical artist  
who challenges our understanding of art history.

This special weekend event at Tate Modern includes a special late  
night performance in the Turbine Hall and screenings of his  
extraordinary film and video work.

Curated by Stuart Comer, Alice Koegel and Mark Webber.


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Friday 13 June
Flicker and Process Films. 7pm
Tickets: £5 / £4 concessions

Minimal cinema with maximal effect. Few films provide the intense,  
stroboscopic viewing experience of The Flicker, a non-objective film  
composed only of opaque and clear frames, and a pulsing electronic  
soundtrack. Conrad’s cinematic debut still astounds audiences four  
decades after its creation, and will be screened together with other  
works exploring audio-visual harmonics and the radical production  
processes of cooked and electrocuted films.

Tony Conrad, The Flicker, 1966, 30 min
Tony Conrad, Curried 7302, 1973, 2 min
Tony Conrad, 7302 Creole, 1973, 1 min
Tony Conrad, Electrocuted 4-X (Second Series), 1974, 10 min
Tony Conrad, Film Feedback, 1974, 14 min
Tony Conrad, Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Camera Optics, 1975,  
10 min excerpt
Beverly & Tony Conrad, Straight and Narrow, 1970, 10 min

The screening, introduced by Tony Conrad, will be followed by a  
drinks reception to celebrate the publication of Beyond the Dream  
Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage by Branden W. Joseph  
(Zone Books/MIT).



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Sat 14 June
Tony Takes on Video: Who's Watching Who? 7pm
Tickets: £5 / £4 concessions

Tony Conrad investigates the conditions of video production and  
presentation in a series of tapes which deconstruct or re-appropriate  
the techniques of TV. Exploiting the reflexive nature of the medium,  
he critiques the electronic image and notions of history, theory and  
authority with an irreverent sense of humour. Postmodernism was never  
this much fun!

Tony Conrad, Concord Ultimatum, 1977, 10 min excerpt
Tony Conrad, Redressing Down, 1988, 18 min
Tony Conrad, Ipso Facto, 1985, 7 min
Tony Conrad, Lookers, 1984, 4 min (excerpt)
Tony Conrad, Egypt 2000, 1986, 13 min
Tony Conrad, No Europe, 1990, 13 min
Tony Conrad, Accordion, 1981, 5 min
Tony Conrad, In Line, 1986, 7 min

The artist will introduce this programme of rarely seen works.



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Sat 14 June 10 pm
Unprojectable: Projection and Perspective
This event is FREE but advance booking is recommended. Book by  
telephone 020 7887 8888, email ticketing at tate.org.uk or online at  
www.tate.org.uk

This major new live performance by Tony Conrad is specially conceived  
for the latent sound and immense scale of the Turbine Hall. Emerging  
from an installation inspired by the hum of the former power  
station’s one remaining generator, Conrad’s sonic and visual feast  
will incorporate an amplified string quartet, electric drill and  
motors, phonograph arms, film projection and shadows which loom high  
above the audience.

A free event as part of UBS Openings: Saturday Live.



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Sunday 15 June 3pm
Tony Conrad in Conversation + Dreaminimalist
Tickets: £5 / £4 concessions

Tony Conrad will discuss his radical breakthroughs in film, video,  
music and performance with Branden W Joseph, Associate Professor of  
Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University, and author of  
“Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after  
Cage” (Zone Books/MIT).

The discussion will include a screening of DreamMinimalist (Marie  
Losier, 2008, 25 min), the latest in Marie Losier's ongoing series of  
film portraits of avant-garde artists (Mike and George Kuchar, Guy  
Maddin, Richard Foreman). The film offers an insightful and hilarious  
encounter with Conrad as he sings, dances and remembers his youth and  
his association with Jack Smith. Marie Losier will be in attendance.



www.tate.org.uk


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