LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 16 - 22 June 2008

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK


1. Monday 16 June. 8pm. Nought - Sixty: Emma Hart & Benedict Drew.  
ICA Theatre, London

2. Tuesday 17 June. LUX 28: SHARON HAYES, IN THE NEAR FUTURE. LUX 28,  
London

3. Tuesday 17 June. 6.30PM Helke Sander Retrospective. Goethe- 
Institut, London

4. Tuesday 17 June. Light Reading: Tobias Hering with Rachel  
Anderson. Light Reading, London

5. Thursday 19 June. 7pm. Twenty Six Things Explored: Discussion with  
Marion Coutts. Wellcome Collection, London

6. Saturday & Sunday, 21-22 June. Bruce Goff. Tate Modern, London

7. Sunday 22 June. 12 noon. BBC Arena on the Big Screen: Chelsea  
Hotel & Robert Mapplethorpe. Curzon Soho, London




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1.
Monday 16 June. 8pm.
Nought - Sixty: Emma Hart & Benedict Drew.
ICA Theatre, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
FREE admission, booking required. Box Office: 020 7930 3647

Emma Hart and Benedict Drew collaborate on live performances that set  
up conflicts between the mechanics of film, video and sound.

Their experimental pieces have variously included film projector tugs- 
of-war, noise works 'performed' by 16mm film passing through the  
strings of a guitar, and mesmeric visual studies of dust bouncing on  
the diaphragm of a speaker.

For this evening's free event, the artists will perform a series of  
new works that pursue the playful yet dramatic dissection of image  
and sound production.

www.ica.org.uk
www.emmahart.info
www.benedictdrew.com




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2.
Tuesday 17 June.
LUX 28: SHARON HAYES, IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
LUX 28, 28 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London E8 2EZ.
Opening hours: 12-6pm, Tue 17 June – Sat 21 June. Free entry.

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.

For In the Near Future, Hayes stages anachronistic and speculative  
solo protests that investigate the figure of the protester and the  
act of speech of the protest slogan. In this series of performative  
actions, Hayes stands on the street holding signs, some of which are  
culled from past protests while others hold more elusive and  
speculative messages. The work questions how our knowledge of the  
past is mediated by images and in turn these produce meaning in  
excess of the original events and represent a future possibility for  
action. In London, Hayes will develop three new actions based on the  
city’s specific history of dissent. As part of the work, Hayes  
invites the audience to both watch and participate through  
documenting the actions. These photographic documentations, which  
will be presented as a multiple slide installation at LUX 28, raise  
issues of circulation and production of meaning.

In the Near Future is part of Perplexed in Public, a series of off- 
site works and performances organized by Lisson Gallery and taking  
place across central London during the months of June and July 2008.

www.lux28.org.uk




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3.
Tuesday 17 June. 6.30pm
Helke Sander Retrospective.
Goethe-Institut London, 50 Princes Gate; Exhibition Road, London SW7  
2PH.
Tickets: £3 Tel 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.

TUE 17 JUNE, 6.30PM + 8.15PM
LIBERATORS TAKE LIBERTIES PART 1 + 2
Germany 1991 / 92, Part1: 90mins + Part 2: 102mins.
This carefully researched two-part documentary investigates the  
concept and practice of mass rape in Berlin and several other places  
in Germany in 1945, attempting to quantify it into reliable figures  
whilst also addressing its political, medical, psychological and  
family consequences. In the first part the women speak, often for the  
first time, about the experience of violence, in the second part it  
is the children born as a consequence of these rapes who speak.

www.goethe.de/london




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  4.
Tuesday 17 June.
Light Reading: Tobias Hering with Rachel Anderson.
Light Reading, 3rd Floor, 316–318 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 0AG
Tickets: £5 door / £4 advance. Places are limited so booking is  
essential. Email courses at nowhere-lab.org

Light Reading’s 2008 series continues with a conversation between  
film curator Tobias Hering and artist and curator Rachel Anderson. A  
screening of selected works will inform the discussion.

Tobias Hering is a film curator and writer based in Berlin. The  
programme will act as a critical introduction to his curatorial  
practice and to inform the scope of a larger project which will take  
place at the Cinema Arsenal in Berlin in March 2009, called Der  
Standpunkt der Aufnahme / Point of View: A Programme on Political  
Film and Video Work. Hering’s practice engages with politically  
motivated film and video activism as an independent practice within  
the broader range of contemporary film and video making. It  
interrogates their different forms of reception and examines its  
critical and actual potential for social change. Equally integral to  
Hering’s practice and to the structuring of Point of View is the  
desire to foster a continual debate around the issues which motivate  
current activist film and video work. Its overarching aim is to  
debate and interrogate what it means and entails to take up an  
explicitly political stance when making films and videos. Film and  
video makers contributing to the programme are among others, Hito  
Steyerl, Joanne Richardson, Elke Marhöfer, Charles Heller, and the  
activist collective kanalB.

www.nowhere-lab.org




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5.
Thursday 19 June. 7pm.
Twenty Six Things Explored: Discussion with Marion Coutts.
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
This event is free. Tickets for the event must be booked in advance,  
call 020 7611 2222

Artist Marion Coutts, neuroscientist Hugo Spiers and writer and  
curator, Lucy Reynolds will be discussing the art and science of the  
film installation, 'Twenty Six Things'. From memory games and  
psychological tests to sculpture and still life, our three guests  
will explore their responses to the film and the miscellaneous  
objects portrayed.

www.wellcomecollection.org/events




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6.
Saturday & Sunday, 21-22 June
Bruce Goff.
London Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG.
Discussion Tickets: £7 / £5 concessions. Screening Tickets: £5 / £4  
concessions. Box Office: 020 7887 8888

This weekend of events celebrating the work of visionary architect  
Bruce Goff (1904-82) will include presentations and discussion by key  
figures
including Charles Jenks, Peter Cook and Sid Robinson, as well as the  
world premiere of a new film about Goff by acclaimed artist Stephen  
Prina, and the UK premiere of GOFF IN THE DESERT by Heinz Emigholz.

Goff¹s organic approach has long held the attentions of architect  
internationally. He was a seminal influence on the Archigram  
movement, and
has had a long-standing impact on eco-architects such as Architype.  
Forms and ideas Goff proposed long before the ease of digital  
manipulation, and
his pioneering use of found materials and penchant for reflective  
surfaces now resonate with the architectural practices of Frank Gehry  
and Zaha Hadid, amongst many others.

...

Saturday 21 June 2008, from 3pm to 6pm
ON BRUCE GOFF

This discussion celebrating the work of visionary architect Bruce  
Goff will include presentations and discussion by key figures  
including Charles Jenks,
Peter Cook and Sid Robinson.

...

Saturday 21 June 2008, at 8pm
STEPHEN PRINA

American artist Stephen Prina is highly regarded for his hybrid,  
intricate practice, which plays with the role of the artwork within  
cultural and institutional networks. This screening features the  
premiere of Prina¹s new film, which investigates the architect Bruce  
Goff¹s own multi-faceted approach to music, painting and architecture.

Shot in Goff¹s Ford House, the film includes a score by Prina,  
performed in the house and written using excerpts from Goff¹s own  
compositions and
correspondence. The screening also includes Prina¹s previous film  
VINYL II, which details the slippage between two Baroque paintings at  
the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

Stephen Prina, The Way He Always Wanted It, 2008, c.30 min
Stephen Prina, Vinyl II, USA, 22 min

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Sunday 22 June 2008, at 2pm
HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: GOFF IN THE DESERT

German filmmaker, artist and writer Heinz Emigholz has produced a  
series of compelling, formally rigorous films investigating important  
but often
overlooked architectural spaces.

Shot in the spring of 2002 on a 9,200-mile trip across the USA, this  
film presents a cinematic archive of 62 controversial buildings by  
Bruce Goff,
which opened up radically new possibilities for architecture, and  
defined Goff¹s singular approach to space and form. Introduced by  
Heinz Emigholz.

Heinz Emigholz, Goff in the Desert, 2003, 110 min

...

Sunday 22 June 2008, at 5pm
HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: SCHINDLER¹S HOUSES

Structured around 40 Southern California homes designed by Austrian- 
born architect Rudolph Schindler, SCHINDLER'S HOUSES proceeds through  
a series of elegantly composed views and long takes detailing  
Schindler's pioneering modernism and radical approach to domesticity.  
The film is a unique portrait of iconic modernist architecture amidst  
the concrete sprawl of Los Angeles.
Introduced by Heinz Emigholz.

Heinz Emigholz, Schindler¹s Houses, 2007, 99 min

Part of the London Festival of Architecture 2008.
With support from Goethe-Institut London.

www.tate.org.uk
www.lfa2008.org





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7.
Sunday 22 June. 12 noon.
BBC Arena on the Big Screen: Chelsea Hotel & Robert Mapplethorpe.
Curzon Soho, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 5DY
£8 double-bill

To kick off 2008 we introduced a short season of the BBC’s longest  
running arts strand, Arena. Due to popular demand, we continue this  
series in June with a look at New York’s ’80s art scene.

CHELSEA HOTEL
For 100 years the Chelsea Hotel has been a legendary haven for  
performers and artists, from Mark Twain to Sid Vicious.  Arena  
explores the brilliant and eccentric worlds created behind the drab  
doors of the Chelsea’s apartments.

- Andy Warhol and William Burroughs have dinner in the room where  
Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001
- Virgil Thomson, doyen of American composers, reveals the truth  
about Alice B. Toklas and those famous cookie cakes
- Nico sings Chelsea Girls
- George Kleinsinger, composer of Tubby the Tuba plays a waltz for  
his turtle
- Painter Alphaeus Cole reflects on being 104 years old
- Jobriath, otherwise known as Bryce Campbell, sings Sunday Brunch
- Joe Bidewell sings The Dream Hotel

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
  The epitome of New York style in the late ’Eighties, Robert  
Mapplethorpe is less celebrated for his portraits than for the  
notorious photographs that chronicled the chic gay world of  
Manhattan.  His studies of nude black men are a shameless affirmation  
of gay sexuality while at the same time recalling the great male  
icons of classical painting and sculpture.  As one of the most  
successful photographers of modern times, his work has been  
instrumental in the restoration of the male nude to a primary place  
in mainstream art.

The film also features Mapplethorpe’s friends who include Patti  
Smith, novelists Kathy Acker and Edmund White and the formidable  
first lady of body-building Lisa Lyons.

www.curzoncinemas.com/whats_on/arena_at_curzon








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