LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 23 - 29 June 2008

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK

1. Tuesday 24 June. Helke Sander Retrospective, Goethe-Institut, London

2. Wednesday 25 June Light Reading: Claus Loser with Maxa Zoller.  
Light Reading, London

3. Thursday 26 - 28 June The Geographies of Theory: A two day  
international conference. Birkbeck College, London

4. Thursday 26 June One or Two Things: Gail Pickering - Mad Masters  
South London Gallery, London

5. Thursday 26 June LUX EVENT: Archivos OVNI. LUX 28, London

6. Sunday 29 June One or Two Things: Claire Fontaine - Get Lost.  
South London Gallery, London




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1.
Tuesday 24 June.
Helke Sander Retrospective
Goethe-Institut, 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 24 JUNE, 7PM
VILLAGE
Germany 2001, 90mins.
In this “auto-biographical” documentary, Helke Sander observes  
herself in the role of the city dweller that has moved into the  
countryside. She starts to delve into the history of “her” small  
village located on the former border between East and West Germany.  
She explores past customs and current attitudes, involving the  
villagers not only in revealing conversations but also in actual re- 
enactments of past rituals.

www.goethe.de/london




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2.
Wednesday 25 June
Light Reading: Claus Loser with Maxa Zoller
Light Reading, 3rd Floor, 316–318 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 0AG
Tickets: £5 door / £4 advance. Places are limited so booking is  
essential courses at nowhere-lab.org

Super 80 Ost: Punk, Performance & Politics behind the Iron Curtain
Light Reading’s 2008 series continues with a conversation between  
artist Claus Löser and curator Maxa Zoller.This long-overdue UK  
premiere of East German underground films seeks to present an  
alternative portrait of life on the other side of the Iron Curtain.  
The recent wave of so-called ‘Ostalgiefilme’ (a pun on ‘Ost’  
and Nostalgie’), such as Good-By Lenin and the Oscar-winning The  
Life of the Others presents GDR as either an innocent social  
experiment or a Stasi-infested enclave cut-off from the Western  
experience of every-day life. In order to counter this form of  
romanticisation, Maxa Zoller invited Claus Löser, filmmaker, curator  
and author of the groundbreaking book Gegenbilder – DDR Film im  
Untergrund, who will present the work of some of the most important  
East German underground filmmakers.

www.nowhere-lab.org




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3.
Thursday 26 June 6pm
Nagisa Oshima's Death By Hanging (part of the The Geographies of  
Theory Conference)
Birkbeck Cinema, 41 Gordon Square, London WC1
Free entry. All welcome.

Thursday 26 - 28 June
The Geographies of Theory: A two day international conference.
Birkbeck College, 41 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

Key note speakers: Francesco Casetti , Mikhail Iompolski, Ashish  
Rajadhyaksha, Soyoung Kim.

The conference has been designed to engage specifically with  
intellectual fields that concern both the IGRS and the SSG through an  
examination of the geographical and intellectual origins of film  
theory and its global diffusion. The conference will trace the  
contexts in which film theory was first articulated (between  
disciplines, national borders and in a close relation to the politics  
of modernity) in some European countries during the early twentieth  
century. The conference will then trace some of the ways in which  
film theory traveled in key, non-European, cultural and political  
contexts during the second half of the twentieth century,  
particularly its new configurations, translations and its re- 
politicisation.

Registration: The conference fee is £25 per day, £10 for concessions  
per day;  £40 for both days, £15 for concessions; Thursday evening,  
no fee.

A collaboration between the Screen Studies Group and the Institute  
for German and Romance Studies

For more information and registration please see: http:// 
screenstudies.sas.ac.uk/symposia.htm or contact Flo Austin  
(flo.austin at sas.ac.uk).




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4.
Thursday 26 June
One or Two Things: Gail Pickering - Mad Masters
South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH
Performance starts 7pm, doors open 6.30pm These events are free but  
booking is recommended.

Gail Pickering will present a new performance specially commissioned  
by the South London Gallery. Mad Masters borrows from the Jean Rouch  
film Les Maîtres Fous and the long defunct 1970s underground magazine  
OZ, which will see the gallery's vast exhibition space turned over to  
a troupe of actors and large-scale props. The performance continues  
Pickering's exploration of theatrical construct on multiple levels  
through representations of radicalised gestures and subversive  
cultures across history. Moving between staged scenarios, site- 
specific interventions and filmed performance, Pickering's practice  
offers an expanded reflection on performance and the conditions of  
its production and framing.

Gail Pickering lives and works in London. Her current solo exhibition  
at Gasworks, London, runs until 27 July. Recent exhibitions,  
performances and screenings include: Here We Dance, Tate Modern,  
London (2008); Neither Either Nor Or, Kunstverein Stuttgart (2008);  
New Work UK: The Sensible Stage, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London  
(2008); Persona, Parc Saint Léger Centre for Contemporary Art, France  
(2008), Hungary! and Other Economies, Galerie Jousse Entreprise,  
Paris (2007) and PraDAL, Matt's Gallery, London (2004).

www.southlondongallery.org




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5.
Thursday 26 June 7.30pm
LUX EVENT: Archivos OVNI
LUX 28, 28 Shacklewell Lane, London E8 2EZ
ADMISSION FREE, to book a place email salon at lux.org.uk

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.

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,Calle y Media Cooperativa, Venezuela, 2005, 30',
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.

www.lux28.org.uk




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6.
Sunday 29 June
One or Two Things: Claire Fontaine - Get Lost
South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH.
Performance starts 7pm, doors open 6.30pm. These events are free but  
booking is recommended.

Claire Fontaine presents her first solo project in London: a second  
staging of her performance Get Lost. Based on the essay Premiers  
Matériaux pour une Théorie de la Jeune Fille by French collective  
Tiqqun, it explores the contemporary characteristics of liberal love  
and its alienated compulsion to repetition. A slide show of  
photographs from the pages of fashion magazines represents multiple  
partners and relationships, while two actors endlessly declaim the  
sentence ‘I did love you once’ from Hamlet emphasising the sensory  
experience of language. Mixing sound, text, movement and image,  
Claire Fontaine uses these elements to make a complex statement on  
the power relations in a capitalist society. In addition to this  
performance, Claire Fontaine will presents her video Where Are We?,  
2004-2007, based on an excerpt from Pamela Anderson’s and Tommy  
Lee’s “honeymoon” tape.

Get Lost video and performance was first presented at the Palais de  
Tokyo, Paris in July 2007 as part of the extended programme of Steven  
Parrino: La Marque Noire, 2007.

Claire Fontaine is a collective artist based in Paris which takes its  
name from a famous brand of school notebooks. Claire Fontaine  
describes herself as a readymade artist born out of the  
standardisation of identities produced by contemporary capitalism.  
Claire Fontaine is currently part of Perplexed in Public, Lisson  
Gallery, until 20 July. Selected forthcoming and recent exhibitions  
include: Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (2008); Hayward Gallery  
(2008); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2008); The 00’s, The history of a  
decade that has not yet been named, Lyon Bienniale (2007); Get Lost,  
Module, Palais de Tokyo (2007); Galerie Air de Paris (2007); How to?,  
Kunsthalle Zurich (2007).

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