LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 26 May - 1 June 2008

[luxweekly at lux.org.uk]

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK



1. Wednesday 28 May. LUX 28: Gregg Bordowitz: Conflicting Tendencies.  
LUX 28, London

2. Wednesday 28 May. Klaus W. Eisenlohr with Steven Ball. Light  
Reading Series 8, London

3. Thursday 29 May. LUX EVENT: Gregg Bordowitz in Person. LUX 28, London

4. Thursday 29 May. Helke Sander Retrospective, Goethe-Institut, London

5. Thursday 29th May. Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors (2006) - Matthew  
Noel-Tod. NFT3, BFI Southbank, London

6. Friday 30th May. Faster, Higher, Susan Pui San Lok. BFI Southbank  
Gallery, London

7. Friday 30th May. Anja Kirschner and David Panos: Trail of the  
Spider. Tate Modern, London




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1.
Wednesday 28 May.
LUX 28: Gregg Bordowitz: Conflicting Tendencies.
LUX 28, 28 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London E8.
Opening hours: 12-6pm, Wed 28 May – Sat 31 May
Free entry.

LUX is pleased to announce the opening of LUX 28, a new temporary  
exhibition space which will present a year-long investigation into  
how artists’ films and videos are made, discussed and collected.
For the launch of the project, there will be a week-long presentation  
of the work of artist and activist Gregg Bordowitz. Several of  
Bordowitz’s videos, alongside a range of other texts and related  
materials he has selected, will be on display in the space during the  
day. On 29 May, Bordowitz will give a rare London talk

A US-based writer and video maker who has been living with AIDS for  
two decades, Bordowitz is almost impossible to classify – his  
practice has consistently eroded the conceptual boundaries between  
art, activism, teaching, writing and performance. A contemporary of  
Andrea Fraser and Mark Dion at the Whitney Independent Study Program  
in New York in the 1990s, he was at the same time a key member of ACT  
UP, a ground-breaking AIDS activism group.

Bordowitz’s videos, including Fast Trip Long Drop (1993), A Cloud In  
Trousers (1995) and Habit (2001), have been widely shown in  
festivals, museums, cinemas and broadcast internationally. His  
writings have been published in anthologies such as AIDS: Cultural  
Analysis, Cultural Activism, and Queer Looks, and numerous  
publications and journals including Village Voice, frieze, Artforum,  
October, Documents and Art Journal. In addition to being a member of  
the faculty of the film department at the School of the Art Institute  
of Chicago, he is on the faculty of the Whitney Museum Independent  
Study Program. In 2007/8, he has been a visiting professor at the  
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

www.lux28.org.uk




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2.
Wednesday 28 May.
Klaus W. Eisenlohr with Steven Ball.
Light Reading Series 8, 3rd Floor, 316 – 318 Bethnal Green Road,  
London E2
£5 door £4 prebooked courses at nowhere-lab.org 02077294494

Light Reading’s 2008 series continues with a conversation between  
artists Klaus W. Eisenlohr and Steven Ball. Eisenlohr’s film Slow  
Space (2004) will be screened during the event.

Klaus W. Eisenlohr is an artist, photographer and filmmaker living in  
Berlin. He is currently curator of “Urban Research”, an ongoing film  
and video project concerned with urban development and public space,  
at Director’s Lounge, Berlin. Eisenlohr’s recent work can be  
characterised as “camera-guided” rigorous research into exploring the  
body within the spaces it inhabits, and aiming to go beyond mere  
representation of public spaces through film, but to encourage a  
perception of space that goes beyond the camera’s frame.

Eisenlohr’s work has been shown internationally, with recent solo and  
group exhibitions at the Alten Wiehre Banhof, Freiburg, Germany,  
2007, Inner Spaces Gallery, Poznan, Poland, 2007 and at the Helsinki  
International Artist-in-residence project room, Helsinki, Finland, 2006.

Steven Ball is a time based media artist. His recent work has focused  
predominantly on working with digital video producing a series of  
works that are, among other things, particularly concerned with  
digital material processes and spatial representation. He is  
currently Research Fellow at the British Artists’ Film and Video  
Study Collection, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design,  
London.

www.nowhere-lab.org




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3.
Thursday 29 May.
LUX EVENT: Gregg Bordowitz in Person.
LUX 28, 28 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London E8
BOOKING ESSENTIAL to book a place email salon at lux.org.uk

Gregg Bordowitz will talk about the conflicting impulses and  
philosophical contradictions that inform his work, drawing from  
literature and theory to examine structures of belief. Followed by a  
conversation with LUX assistant director Mike Sperlinger.

www.lux28.org.uk





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4.
Thursday 29 May. 7pm
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.

SILVO
Germany 1967, 16mins.
A short about the daily routine of Sander's 7-year-old son.
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THE ALL-ROUND REDUCED PERSONALITY – REDUPERS
Germany 1977, 95mins.
Lenin demanded that every housewife should learn to conduct state  
affairs. “Just when is she supposed to do this?” is the question  
Sander poses in her first feature film. The protagonist here is a  
photo journalist who has to juggle being a mother, lover, breadwinner  
and artist. The film is not a lament, but a sober and ironic  
observation. It is also a unique document of divided Berlin in the  
late 1970s.

www.goethe.de/london




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5.
Thursday 29th May.
Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors (2006) - Matthew Noel-Tod.
NFT3, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank Waterloo, London SE1 8XT
Tickets £5 Box office (020) 7928 3232

Using Polish actors, Noel-Tod re-presents a series of moments from  
four Polish films, creating a broken world where history and location  
form dialogues with politics and perception.

How important is our memory of cinema to the way that we see  
ourselves? Using Polish actors, Noel-Tod re-presents a series of  
moments from four Polish films - Ashes and Diamonds (1958), Man of  
Iron (1981), Dekalog (1988) and Sequence of Feelings (1993) - and  
through their fractured recasting and combination creates a new  
broken world where history and location, both in and outside the  
cinema, form dialogues with politics and perception.

Introduced by Matthew Noel-Tod.

www.bfi.org.uk




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6.
Friday 30th May.
Faster, Higher, Susan Pui San Lok.
BFI Southbank Gallery, Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XT
May 30 - Aug 31, 2008 Tue-Sun 11-8

Exploring the visual rhetoric of idealism, unity and aspiration,  
invoking both the Olympics as spectacle and movement and China's  
parallel sports culture, this new commission revolves around material  
from the BFI National Archive and new footage shot on location in  
London.

www.bfi.org.uk




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7.
Friday 30th May. 7pm
Anja Kirschner and David Panos: Trail of the Spider.
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

This is the premiere of acclaimed artist Anja Kirschner’s newest film  
(Anja Kirschner and David Panos, UK 2008), an unsettling trans- 
historical vision of the Wild West that collides with the suppressed  
history of the multi-racial American West and the conflicts breaking  
up contemporary East London. In a vanishing frontier, swarming with  
calculating surveyors, corrupt lawmen and hired thugs, a lone  
gunfighter must avenge the dispossessed, or remain trapped in a state  
of limbo, haunted by the past and pitted against a future which  
offers no retreat and no alternatives.

Anja Kirschner was born in 1977 in Munich, Germany and trained at the  
Slade School of Fine Art and the School of the Art Institute of  
Chicago. Her work spans a number of disciplines – film, painting,  
drawing and music – and collapses documentary and historical sources,  
literary themes and popular genres such as sci-fi and adventure  
films. Her film, POLLY II, Plan for a Revolution in Docklands, has  
been acclaimed for exploring themes central to Kirschner's work: the  
divisions and exclusions imposed through law, language, race and  
property and the difficulties and possibilities of social and  
political transformation.

David Panos is a musician, filmmaker and activist. His work with The  
London Particular involves critical, political and artistic  
interventions in the process of urban regeneration in East London. He  
is the co-founder of the Difficult Fun record label and the musical  
collective Antifamily and has previously collaborated with Anja  
Kirschner on a number of musical and film-based projects.

www.tate.org.uk