LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 19 - 25 May 2008

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK


1. Monday 19th May. Nought to Sixty: Seamus Harahan. ICA, London

2. Monday 19th May. Nought to Sixty: Aileen Campbell Performance.  
ICA, London

3. Tuesday 20th May. Jesper Just. Victoria Miro Gallery, London

4. Thursday 22nd May. Complex Financial Instruments: Claire Hope. Way  
East, London

5. Thursday 22nd May. LUX EVENT: Stephen Dwoskin's Dyn amo Birbeck  
Cinema, London

6. Friday 23rd May. Judy Price. Danielle Arnaud, London

7. Friday 23rd May. Konono No. 1 & Djibril Diop Mambety. Tate Modern,  
London
	
8. Sunday 25th May. Past-Potential-Futures: Early Experiments in  
Computer Animation. Tate Modern, London





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1.
Monday 19th May.
Nought to Sixty: Seamus Harahan.
Upper Galleries, ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
Exhibition 19-26 May. Open daily 12pm - 7pm (9pm on Thursdays)
Admission price covers entry to exhibitions, café and bar. Mon-Fri:  
£2/£1.50 concs Sat-Sun £3/£2 concs

The video works of Seamus Harahan employ documentary footage which is  
fugitive and offhand in nature – sometimes hinting at more turbulent  
narratives - and which the artist overlays with musical soundtracks.  
As his contribution to Nought to Sixty Harahan is showing a two- 
screen projection in the ICA’s Upper Galleries, which uses footage  
from the Bloody Sunday commemoration in Derry.

www.ica.org.uk




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2.
Monday 19th May 8pm
Nought to Sixty: Aileen Campbell Performance.
Nash/Brandon Rooms, ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
Entry to this event is free but booking is required: call the ICA Box  
Office on 020 7930 3647.

Glasgow-based artist Aileen Campbell presents a live performance that  
spans video, sound and audience participation. Using both the Nash  
and Brandon rooms at the ICA, Campbell will deploy a variety of  
visual rules and strategies for her performance, engaging the  
audience as a choral mechanism to create a live soundtrack.

www.ica.org.uk





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3.
Tuesday 20th May
Jesper Just
Victoria Miro Gallery, 16 Wharf Rd, N1 7RW.
Open: May 20 - Jun 14, 2008. Tue-Sat 10-6

The first solo exhibition in the UK by Danish artist Jesper Just will  
premiere the newly commissioned film trilogy A Voyage in Dwelling in  
addition to a selection of earlier works, including Just's acclaimed  
film A Vicious Undertow.

www.victoria-miro.com




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4.
Thursday 22nd May
Complex Financial Instruments: Claire Hope
Way East, 62 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH.
Exhibition open Sat 24 May and 28–31 May, 11-5pm
Private View 22nd May, 6–8pm

Claire Hope's first solo exhibition in London explores the reflection  
of complex human subjectivities in the ordering of the built  
environment and considers the inscription of narratives of power and  
desire in the land.

A video will be shown across two spaces accompanied by different  
vocal soundtracks - one performed live at the opening event by two  
male performers and one pre-recorded.  In the video, footage of the  
built environment in different states of being is depicted alongside  
a renovation project in progress.  The soundtracks depict narratives  
of private decision-making surrounding a fantasy building project.

Currently a LUX Associate Artist for 2007/2008, Claire graduated with  
an MA Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 2004.  She has shown  
widely in group and solo exhibitions, most recently screening video  
work internationally as part of the transmediale.07 video selection.

http://wayeast.russellmartin.org.uk




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5.
Thursday 22nd May 7.30pm
LUX EVENT: Stephen Dwoskin's DYN AMO
Birbeck Cinema, 41 Gordon Square, WC1
Admission free but booking essential, email salon at lux.org.uk

Special screening presented by LUX and Re:Voir, Paris to mark the  
launch of the DVD of Steve Dwoskin's seminal 1972 film Dyn Amo.  
following the film Steve Dwoskin and the film's producer, Maggie  
Pinhorn of Alternative Arts will be in discussion.

DYN AMO
UK, 1972, sound, colour, 120 mins, 16mm
'Dyn Amo is a 'drama' exploring the distinction of a person's self  
and his/her projection of that self to others; and it is a 'horror  
movie' tragically suggesting how a projection can become more  
substantial than the self behind it. Its subjects are role-playing  
(especially sexual role-playing) and the masochism of playing a role  
that conforms to others' exploitative interests.' - S.D.
'DYN AMO explores aspects of women's slavery, a slavery that involves  
them in acting out fantasies that have lost whatever social value  
they had long ago .... DYN AMO may be partially the tale of the  
creation that runs away with the creator. But it is also  
revolutionary to the extent that Dwoskin shows these false roles to  
be escapable. ... And the women in the film remain, despite an  
environment of which the best that can be said is that it is a parody  
of itself, despite their acute identity distortion, aware, if not of  
an alternative, at least of the desperate need for one ....' - Verina  
Glaessner, Time Out, London

The DVD of Dyn Amo is published by Re:Voir, Paris in collaboration  
with LUX, as well as the film the DVD includes a new essay by  
Jacqueline Holt and a filmed interview with Steve Dwoskin and Maggie  
Pinhorn. AVAILABLE ON THE NIGHT or from LUX SHOP http:// 
www.lux.org.uk/shop/video.htm

www.birkbeckcinema.com/




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6.
Friday 23rd May
Judy Price: Within this narrow strip of land
Danielle Arnaud, 123 Kennington Rd, SE11 6SF
Exhibition May 23 - Jun 22, 2008. Fri-Sun 2-6 or by appt

Within this narrow strip of land is a video and sound installation by  
Judy Price. A number of video works are presented from her lengthy  
research in Israel and Palestine. The new works explore ways in which  
communities and individuals are framed and incited by the  
irreversibility of loss in Israel and Palestine. Price is interested  
in how power manipulates loss for its own end and decides whose loss  
is valid, how it is negotiated and from what perspective loss is seen  
and acted on.

www.daniellearnaud.com




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7.
Friday 23rd May 9pm
Konono No. 1 & Djibril Diop Mambety
Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
£20, booking required

Turbine Hall will host a unique performance by award-winning  
Congolese band Konono No 1, combined with a rare showing of two  
groundbreaking films by the acclaimed Senegalese Director Djibril  
Diop Mambéty (1945-1998). Konono No 1’s transformative sound is  
created largely through likembés (thumb-pianos) combined with  
junkyard percussion, amplified through megaphones and makeshift  
systems of the group's own device.

Djibril Diop Mambéty was the most wildly talented and irreverent  
filmmaker to emerge from Africa at the end of the 1960s. His striking  
work is marked by its radical use of sound and wry, satirical  
approach to colonialism. Mambéty's film Badou Boy, 1970, will be  
screened with its original soundtrack and his first film, Contras  
City, 1969, will be accompanied live by Konono No 1.

www.tate.org.uk/modern


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8.
Sunday 25th May 9pm
PAST-POTENTIAL-FUTURES - Early Experiments in Computer Animation
Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
Free, no bookings taken. Tickets available on a first come, first  
served basis Friday 23 - Sunday 25 May

This free Sunday evening screening in the Turbine Hall will celebrate  
the inspiring technical and aesthetic advances of early computer  
animation, including work by key pioneers such as Charles Csuri, Ed  
Emshwiller, Denys Irving, Kenneth Knowlton, Malcolm Le Grice, Lillian  
Schwartz, Stan VanDerBeek, and many more. Decades before our  
contemporary CGI-saturated media landscape, artists during the 1960s  
and 70s -- working at Bell Laboratories, IBM, and in their own  
studios -- created radical experiments at the vibrant intersection of  
art and technology. Tate Modern's iconic architecture will be  
transformed by the pulsating, kinetic and colourful ryhthms of these  
visionary glimpses into the future of cinema.


www.tate.org.uk/modern