LUX salon: the parents programme/ Thursday 3rd April 7 for 7.30 start

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Thursday 3rd April 7 for 7.30pm
LUX Salon: the parents programme

Works from the LUX collection in which artists' parents feature as  
subjects and participants, willing and unwilling. Anthea Kennedy's  
Bag of a Thousand Pockets (2002) is a touching portrait of her father  
who's memory fails him as he remembers a long and eventful life. Carl  
Callam's A Part of Me (1998) explores the complexities of his life as  
a black man raised by a white foster parents through discussions with  
his foster mother and ever absent biological mother. Neil Goldberg's  
My Parents Read Dreams About Them (1998) is as the title describes,  
Goldberg's parents read his comical and surreal dreams, visibly  
affected by what they reveal about his relationship with them.  
Finally, Marcin Koszalka's Such a Nice Boy i Gave Birth to (1999) is  
a painful and hilarious portrait of a family in meltdown as the  
filmmaker's bohemian lifestyle violently clashes with his mother's  
expectations.

LUX Salon is part of First Thursdays http://www.firstthursdays.co.uk/

LUX Salon takes place at LUX, 3rd Floor, Shacklewell Studios, 18  
Shacklewell Lane, E8 2EZ. see http://www.lux.org.uk/about/index.html  
for directions. ADMISSION FREE, booking is essential - to book a  
place email salon at lux.org.uk

ANTHEA KENNEDY
BAG OF A THOUSAND POCKETS
UK, 2002, 8 mins, video
"My bag has a thousand pockets. In each one is a memory." So says my  
father as he reels off brief and fragmented recollections of his life  
in Germany. A work on video which reflects on memory, being old and  
death.

CARL CALLAM
A PART OF ME
UK, 1998, 20 mins, video
'In this work, a young British black man observes how his white  
foster family and his biological Jamaican mother squirm when  
questioned about the cultural and racial complexities of his life.  
Interviewing his foster mother and aunt in person, and his biological  
mother on the phone, the artist upsets the delicate propriety of  
these relationships, in both cases unveiling unspoken intentions and  
decisions that have shaped his life.' Maria Troy, Wexner Centre for  
the Arts

NEIL GOLDBERG
MY PARENTS READ DREAMS ABOUT THEM
USA, 1998, 9 mins, video
'As the title suggests, in this work I videotaped my parents reading  
a series of dreams I've had about them. The dreams date from the past  
several years and incorporate a wide range of imagery and subject  
matter. I provided my parents with no direction except to read the  
dreams in whatever manner they wished.' - N.G.

MARCIN KOSZALKA
SUCH A NICE BOY I GAVE BIRTH TO
Poland, 1999, 25 mins, video
Koszalka's, Such a Nice Boy I Gave Birth to is a portrayal of the  
sheer brutality of the filmmaker's relationship to his parents, one  
of undying humiliation and abuse. It resorts to persistent, almost  
insufferable repetition – repetitions only gradually undermined by  
subtle narrative developments throughout the film – as a manner of  
getting its point across.

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