LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 5 - 11 May

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LUX  UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK


1. Monday 5th May. Nought to Sixty. ICA, London

2. Weds 7th & Thurs 8th May. The Images Festival and CFMDC present:  
Double Vision tour BFI Southbank, London

3. Thursday 8th May. LUX EVENT: Guy Sherwin, Live Cinema. Chisenhale  
Gallery, London

4. Sat 10th & Sun 11th. LUX EVENT: Film Circus! Children’s Film  
Library. Whitechapel Gallery, London.

5. Saturday 10th May. Co-conspirators (new artist commissions). Starr  
Auditorium, Tate Modern, London

6. Sunday 11th May. Office Killer. Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, London




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1.
Monday 5th May.
Nought to Sixty. ICA, Nash House, The Mall, SW1Y 5A www.ica.org.uk
May 5 - Nov 2, 2008 Daily 12-7.30, (day membership fee) Mon-Fri: £2/ 
£1.50 concs Sat-Sun £3/£2 concs

Nought to Sixty presents sixty projects by emerging artists based in  
Britain and Ireland over six months from 5 May to 2 November 2008.  
Most of the artists in Nought to Sixty are under thirty-five, few of  
them have had significant commercial exposure, and in most cases this  
is their first opportunity to mount a solo project in a major public  
space.

The season is not intended to announce any new generation or style,  
but to build up a multifaceted portrait of the emerging art scene in  
the two countries, and to provide a space for exchange.




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2.
Weds 7th & Thurs 8th May.
The Images Festival and CFMDC present: Double Vision
BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank SE1 www.bfi.org.uk
Tickets £ 5 / £4 concessions Box Office: 020 7928 3232

A multi-city touring project entitled Double Vision to celebrate the  
occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Images Festival and the 40th  
anniversary of the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. The  
programs are built around pairs of cities in Canada and abroad:  
Montreal and Paris, London, Ontario and London, UK and Berlin,  
Germany and Kitchener, Ontario.

The programs taking place in the two Londons represent a selection of  
works by artists that examine this idea of borders, place and  
migration both externally in history and culture as well as  
internally in personal identity. Artists Franci Duran, Oliver Husain  
and Deirdre Logue will be in attendance.

The Images Festival is Canada's annual showcase for the innovative  
edge of international contemporary media art. Over the past 20 years,  
the festival has screened thousands of independent films and videos  
in all genres, and has presented groundbreaking live performances and  
media art installations by many renowned Canadian and international  
artists. Attended by more than 30,000 people each year, the Images  
Festival is a critical forum for the independent media arts in Canada  
and around the world. This is a chance to showcase the Festival in  
London.

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Wednesday 7 May 2008, at 6:10pm
& Thursday 8 May 2008, at 8:45pm
DOUBLE VISION: PROGRAMME ONE

Program One in this series is more directly engaged with the outside  
world: from personal histories about immigration and homelands to  
Mike Hoolboom and Steve Sanguedolce¹s anti-travelogue shot between  
Mexico and Toronto.

Francisca Duran, Boy, 2005, 16mm, 5 min
Garine Torossian, The Girl From Moush, 1993, 16mm, 4 min
Brett Kashmere, Unfinished Passages, 2005, video, 17 min
Mike Hoolboom & Steve Sanguedolce, Mexico, 1992, 16mm, 35 min
Francisca Duran, Cuentos de Mi Ninez, 2005, 16mm, 5 min

...

Wednesday 7 May 2008, at 8:20pm
& Thursday 8 May 2008, at 6:20 pm
DOUBLE VISION: PROGRAMME TWO

Program Two pushes the boundaries of space, travel, appropriation and  
the physical limits of the body to examine internal and external  
borders that traverse identity, place, form and emotion.

Deirdre Logue, Beyond the Usual Limits: Part 1, 2005, 3 min
Shelley Niro, Tree, 2006, video, 5 min
Ho Tam, Yellow Pages, 1994, video, 8 min
Atif Y Siddiqi, Erotic Exotic, 1998, video, 19 min
Cherie Valentina Stocken, The Knot Between, 2006, video, 5 min
Karma Clarke Davis, Bombay the Hard Way, 2001, video, 4 min
Oliver Husain, Squiggle, 2005, video, 21 min




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3.
Thursday 8th May. 7 pm
LUX EVENT: Guy Sherwin, Live Cinema. Chisenhale Gallery, 64  
Chisenhale Road, E3
Admission free, booking essential, events at chisenhale.org.uk or call  
the gallery on 0208 981 4518

Guy Sherwin’s film works, which often include serial forms and live  
performance, are characterised by an enduring concern with time and  
light as the fundamentals of cinema. In his multi-projection  
performances, the mechanics of film projection become an integral  
part of the viewing experience through manipulation of both projector  
and image. In this multi-work live cinema event at Chisenhale Gallery  
– the first such event for Sherwin in London – both new and older  
works will be performed in the gallery’s main exhibition space in a  
programme which includes the first showing in London of Sherwin’s  
recent Abrasion Loops (2007), the three screen works Bay Bridge from  
Embarcadero (2004/7) and Camden Road Station (2004) and the seminal  
Man with Mirror (1976/2008).

Sherwin studied painting at Chelsea School of Art in the 1960s before  
becoming closely associated with the British avant garde film  
movement centred on The London Film-makers Co-operative in the 1970s.  
The recently published book and DVD Optical Sound Films 1971 – 2007   
collects Sherwin’s ongoing work and research into one of his  
particular and recurrent concerns, the synaesthesic relationship  
between sound and image manifest in the material of film sound. These  
investigations take Sherwin from physical manipulation of the very  
material of film through to live performances utilising multiple film  
projectors, all of which are explicated through drawings, diagrams,  
video documentation as well the films themselves.

Sherwin’s films have been widely exhibited in England and  
internationally including, 'Film as Film' Hayward Gallery (1979);  
'Live in Your Head', Whitechapel Gallery (2000); 'Shoot Shoot Shoot',  
Tate Modern (2002); 'A Century of Artists' Film & Video', Tate  
Britain (2003/4). His work has also been shown on BBC2, Channel 4 and  
Arte TV, France. Solo shows include San Francisco Cinematheque, LUX,  
London, International Film Festival, Rotterdam and Image Forum,  
Tokyo. He lives in London and teaches at Middlesex University, the  
University of Wolverhampton and periodically at the San Francisco Art  
Institute.

Guy Sherwin: Live Cinema is organised by Chisenhale Gallery in  
collaboration with LUX

Programme, projection, sound mix: Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo




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4.
Sat 10th & Sun 11th.
LUX EVENT: Film Circus! Children’s Film Library. Whitechapel Gallery,  
London.
Admission Free

On the 10 and 11 May the Whitechapel Gallery showcases a weekend of  
inspirational artists’ films that offer families an alternative to  
mainstream children’s entertainment.

During the Film Circus weekend the Whitechapel Gallery will open a  
video lounge to give children the opportunity to view the works and  
make a selection of their favourite films and share their thoughts on  
them. These will be incorporated into a special screening in the  
cinema later the same day.

The Film Circus weekend will present classic films from the Russian  
animator Yuri Norstein, Calder’s Circus by the American sculptor  
Alexander Calder and La Belle et la Bête by Jean Cocteau as well as  
films from Animate Projects.

This weekend of films made by artists are suitable for children aged  
4 – 11 and is part of Whitechapel’s Children’s Film Library project.   
We are developing a library of artists’ films sent to us through an  
open submission.  The final library of works is being selected and  
curated by children to be available from public libraries in East  
London.  The aim of the Children’s Film Library is to provide  
families in East London with an alternative to mainstream, commercial  
films and a new way of approaching and appreciating artists’ films  
and video.

Programme

Saturday 10 May
1-3pm 	Children’s special viewing lounge
3pm	Children’s hour – screening of chosen artists' films in the cinema
4pm	Heron and Crane, Yuri Norstein, Russia 1973, 10mins
		Hedgehog in Fog, Yuri Norstein, Russia 1975, 11mins
Sunday 11 May
1-3pm 	Children’s special viewing lounge
3pm	Children’s hour – screening of chosen artists' films in the cinema
4pm	La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast), Jean Cocteau, France  
1942, 96mins




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5.
Saturday 10th May. 7 pm
Co-conspirators (new artist commissions).
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG. www.tate.org.uk
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

Exploring a range of subjects such as cursed clothing, obsessive  
gestures and desires, and the history of the cinematic slap, eight  
artists have collaborated with the Festival to create new films that  
explore the themes of “If Looks Could Kill.” Weaving together the  
work of photographers, performers, designers, artists and film- 
makers, the programme takes a long hard look at the fixations, joys  
and fears that can become attached to garments and styles of dress.  
The Co-conspirators artists are: Paulette Philips, Eloise Fornieles,  
Elizabeth McAlpine, Dino Dinco, Shannon Plumb, Wendy Bevan, Derrick  
Santini and Boudicca.

The diverse approaches include artist Paulette Phillips’ re- 
sequencing of Hollywood film clips, emphasising the viewer’s pleasure  
in watching female criminals and the visual codes that mark them as  
seductive deviants; photographer Derrick Santini’s tracing of a pair  
of gloves that encourage their wearers to commit the criminal act of  
frottage; and artist Shannon Plumb’s focusing on New York street  
corners and the identification of criminals through their appearance.  
Performance artist Eloise Fornieles has collaborated with cameramen  
in an interactive gallery performance, which examines the  
relationship between wasteful consumption and violence , and artist  
Elizabeth McAlpine has choreographed sequences of slaps from the  
history of cinema, identifying them as a particularly female form of  
violence.

Co-Conspirators will also be shown at the Gallery at Sketch on 31 May  
2008, 10am – 5pm , 9 Conduit Street , London, W1S 2XG .  
www.sketch.uk.com




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6.
Sunday 11th May. 5 pm
Office Killer - Cindy Sherman
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG. www.tate.org.uk
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

In her only feature film direction to date, the American artist Cindy  
Sherman concocts a peculiarly funny caricature of the psycho-thriller  
and horror genres. The film, introduced by Gilda Williams, follows  
the transformation of the ‘pathetic’ office mouse Dorine into an  
unruly predator of the femme-fatale-gone-wrong sort. Having stirred  
up a criminal chaos, Dorine finds much pleasure in fashioning a  
grisly tableau of her bitchy colleagues in a dark basement, upping  
the stakes in Sherman’s trademark portrayal of perversity.

Introduced by Gilda Williams, lecturer in contemporary art at  
Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, former Editor for Contemporary  
Art at Phaidon Press, contributor to TATE ETC., Art Monthly, Parkett  
and many other art journals.

Part of the, If Looks Could Kill: Fashion in Film Festival