LUX Salon: Q&A : Thursday 5 June 7 for 7.30 start

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Thursday 5 June 7 for 7.30pm
LUX Salon: Q&A
A programme of four films using the format of the interview or  
debate, in which the conversation is only half the story. We join  
Willoughby Sharp interviewing performance artist Chris Burden,  
lounging by a Californian swimming pool as the camera operator’s  
attention wanders to the girls by the poolside; a dead John Wayne and  
Susan Hayward posthumously discuss their demise in a TV studio; Neil  
Bartlett blatantly lies to his interviewer about the contents of his  
briefcase; and Owen Land documents the meeting of a group of  
Christians to hypnotic effect.
Curated by Rachel Reupke (LUX Associate Artist 2007-8).

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

NEIL BARTLETT & STUART MARSHALL
PEDAGOGUE
UK, 1988, 10mins, video
A short performance to camera by solo performer/dramatist Neil  
Bartlett. PEDAGOGUE explores in comic style the possible implications  
of Clause 28. Through Clause 28, the British Government took powers  
to outlaw the 'promotion of homosexuality' in education and local  
government.

BETSY NEWMAN & ELLEN STEIN
DEBATE OF THE DEAD
USA, 1983, 7 mins, video
Debate of the Dead is a bizarre posthumous interview with John Wayne  
and Susan Hayward as to whether their deaths were caused by nuclear  
tests carried out near a former film location.

WILLOUGHBY SHARP
WILLOUGHBY SHARP VIDEOVIEWS CHRIS BURDEN
USA, 1973-75, b&w, sound 27:45 mins, video
A videotaped interview ("videoview") of Chris Burden by Willoughby  
Sharp takes place by a swimming pool on a sunny California day.  
Burden talks about such subjects as his progression as a performance  
artist, what America thinks about life as art, and his relationship  
to his own body.

OWEN LAND (formerly George Landow)
A FILM OF THEIR 1973 SPRING TOUR COMMISSIONED BY CHRISTIAN WORLD  
LIBERATION FRONT OF BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA
USA, 1974, sound, colour, 5 mins, 16mm
"A document of what happened when a group of radical 'Jesus Freaks'  
from Berkeley met conservative Christians in seminaries and colleges  
across the U.S." - Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Catalogue, 1980.
"He manages to set off a uniquely hypnotic experience. The viewer  
discovers the possibility of looking at the film like a 'winkie toy',  
seeing first one view then flashing to another. Because all footage  
is sound sync, this screening process hones our responses, until we  
see more in Land's 3-frame sequences than we would in hour long doses  
of 'normal' time. Like the study of signs, this study of seconds  
yields a knowledge of people and truth inaccessible to more common  
observation." - B. Ruby Rich.

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


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