LUX 28: Archivos OVNI/ Inner Visions: Exodus & Resistance(s) - Thursday 26th June 7.30pm

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Thursday 26th June 7.30pm
Inner Visions: Exodus & Resistance(s).
To celebrate the launch of Archivos OVNI, an artists' film and video  
archive from the Centre for Contemporary Art Barcelona at LUX 28 Toni  
Serra *Abu Ali, the founder of the project presents a special  
screening of selected works followed by a discussion with filmmaker  
Xavier Hurtado.

The works in this programme offer a journey through different  
experiences of critique and exodus. The critical vision they offer  
isn’t only aimed at the specific social and political realities, but  
also at the concept of the “real” itself, the perceptions that  
make this reality it possible, and the grammatical structure that  
sustains and consolidates it, in order to propose and evoke different  
experiences of exodus and resistance.

ADMISSION FREE, to book a place email salon at lux.org.uk
LUX 28, 28 Shacklewell Lane, London E8 2EZ www.lux28.org.uk (train:  
Dalston Kingsland overground, bus: 236, 242, 243, 149, 76, 67)


En Décimas las Propiedades del Limón

Xavier Hurtado
USA / Colombia / Spain, 2000, 8'

A map of healing territories, Brooklyn (New York) - Bogota  
(Colombia). Conversations with Hector Malabé, a homeless Puerto Rican  
from Greenpoint, and the Spanish/ritual/spiritual properties of the  
lemon, sung by an anonymous Afroamerican from Colombia's caribbean coast

El Río de las Estrellas
Xavier Hurtado
Colombia / Spain, 2002, 25'

A succession of mysteries are repeatedly ordered and observed. A  
ritual for creating meaning. Dreaming, a daily exercise in the free  
interpretation of reality.

Nawpa [0.1]

Xavier Hurtado
Ecuador / Spain 2004-2007, 13'14''

In Ecuador, the indigenous movement has one of the longest and most  
intense traditions of resistance in the history of modern Latin  
America. Cesar Pilataxi, a Kichwa man from the Andean region,  
explains the reasons behind the confrontation between his community  
and Western interests

Abajo el COLONialismo

Venezuela, 2005, 30'

Calle y Media Cooperativa
A thirty minute documentary that captures the actions of the Caracas  
peoples’ movements that pulled down the detested statue of  
Christopher Columbus (Cristobal COL”N in Spanish) in Plaza Venezuela  
on the 12th of October 2005. Through its simplicity, this small but  
historic event opened up new paths in the anti-COLONial subjectivity  
of the people by provoking a controversy that led to complex debate.  
Their action opened up thousands of discussions, not just about the  
depth of the COLONial aculturalisation that we have been subject to  
as peoples, but also about the danger that the Bolivarian Revolution  
be used as an alibi by the bureaucratic processes that deny the  
people their collective and sovereign power to act. This documentary  
gives voice to the people’s struggle for autonomy and continental  
rebellion that has been gestating for centuries in the belly of  
Pachamerika.

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June 26 - July 26, Wednesday to Saturday 12-6
Archivos OVNI
LUX 28, 28 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ
Founded in 1993 Archivos OVNI (Observatorio de Video No Identificado)  
is an independent artists’ video archive project based at the Centre  
for Contemporary Art in Barcelona. The aim of the archive is to  
collect and disseminate works that challenge prevailing western mass  
media representations of the world and give a voice to unrepresented  
people and cultures. The archives are unique in that they cut across  
moving image disciplines: from video art to independent documentary  
and mass media archaeology, they draw together extraordinarily  
diverse works which share a commitment to personal expression.

The Archives are the core of the OVNI project, but rather than being  
a static resource they are conceived of as part of a dialogue which  
aims to encourage an ongoing critique of contemporary culture and  
society. This dialogue is realised through the collection and  
dissemination of works; through the screenings and debates which OVNI  
hosts; through the collaboration with other agencies and the staging  
of aspects of the project across the world in places as disparate as  
New York, Amman, Casablanca, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Bogotá, Buenos  
Aires, Mexico, Tijuana, Marseille, Paris, Stuttgart, Graz, Brescia,  
Lecce, Madrid, Lugano, Valencia and Seoul.

Archivos OVNI presents the project for the first time in London with  
a specially curated selection of works presented at LUX 28 in the  
form of a video library and weekly screening programme. The selection  
particularly focuses on questions of exodus and resistance, two  
principal themes within the archive, and the tensions that draw a  
line from subjective experience to specific social and political  
realities.

Over 100 works will be presented, including Xavi Hurtado’s Nawpa  
[0.1] which explores indigenous resistance to western interests in  
Ecuador, Calle y Media Cooperativa’s Abajo el COLONialismo, a  
documentary about anti-colonialism in Venezuela, Nahed Awwad’s  
Lions, an eye witness testimony of the invasion of Ramallah, Dallia  
Ennadre’s El Batalett which follows a group of Moroccan women in  
Casablanca’s old Medina and Electronic Lebanon’s From Beirut to…  
those who love us, a series of broadcasts from Beirut during the 2006  
bombings.

a full list of works available to view at LUX 28 is available on   
www.lux28.org.uk







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