LUX Event - Guy Sherwin: Live Cinema at Chisenhale Gallery - Thursday 8 May 2008

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Thursday 8 May 7.30 pm
Guy Sherwin: Live Cinema

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).

Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ
Admission free, booking essential
To reserve seats for this event please email events at chisenhale.org.uk  
or call the gallery on 0208 981 4518


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

Guy Sherwin, Optical Sound Films DVD/Book will be on sale on the  
night for the special price of £15 (usual price £20).
www.lux.org.uk/shop/video.htm

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