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LUXNEWSWIREmay2006

[LUX NEWSWIRE is a monthly e-newsletter covering UK and international  
artists' moving image news. Contributions are welcome under any of  
the following headings, send information for inclusion to news[at] 
lux.org.uk]

Contents
1. UK/International openings (festivals, gallery shows, screening  
series)
2. Calls (festivals, open shows, competitions, conferences)
3. Opportunities (funding, residences, employment)
4. Publishing (books, online journals, videos, DVD, CD)
5. LUX news


1. UK/INTERNATIONAL OPENINGS

UK

LUX LONDON EVENTS CALENDAR the most comprehensive daily listing of  
artists' moving image events, screenings and exhibitions in London  
http://www.lux.org.uk/resources/calendar.html

A Story Told, Alia Syed, Millais Gallery, Southampton. 28 April – 3  
June. http://millais.solent.ac.uk

All is Falling, Bas Jan Ader. Camden Arts Centre, London. 28 April –  
2 July. http://www.camdenartscentre.org

Point of Departure, Ergin Cavusoglu, John Hansard Gallery,  
Southampton. 4 May - 17 June. http://www.hansardgallery.org.uk

Once in the XX Century, Deimantas Narkevicius, Arnolfini, Bristol. 6  
May - 2 July. http://www.arnolfini.org.uk

Tomas Saraceno, Barbican Gallery, London. 11 May – 16 July. http:// 
www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=4107

Jonas Mekas, Sketch, London. 13 May – 1 July. gallery at sketch.uk.com

The New Brutalists, Jane & Louise Wilson, Lisson Gallery, London. 17  
May - 24 June. http://www.lisson.co.uk

Bruce Nauman, Tate Liverpool. 19 May – 28 August.
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool

John Wood and Paul Harrison, ffotogallery, Cardiff. 20 May – 2 July.  
http://www.ffotogallery.org

INTERNATIONAL

Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany. 4 – 9 May. http:// 
www.kurzfilmtage.de

European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany. 10 – 14 May. http:// 
www.emaf.de

VIDEOEX, International Experimentalfilm & Video Festival, Zürich,  
Switzerland. 18 – 28 May. http://www.videoex.ch

Loop ’06, Barcelona, Spain. Video Art Fair. 19 – 21 May. http:// 
www.loop-barcelona.com


2. CALLS
CALL FOR ENTRIES
* denotes entry fees

EXiS2006, Seoul, Korea. Deadline: 13 May. http://www.ex-is.org

OutVideo2006, International video-art festival in public spaces,  
Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Volgograd, Voronezh, Irkutsk, Kaliningrad,  
Krasnodar, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Riazan', Samara, Sochi, Ufa,  
Yaroslavl', Yekaterinburg and Surgut, Russia. Deadline: 15 May. NB  
limited to works ofmaximum length 30 seconds with no sound. http:// 
www.artpolitika.ru/outvideo

The 4th annual Clerkenwell Film and Video, London, UK. Deadline: 31  
May. http://www.blowingup.org.uk

Media Art Festival Friesland, The Netherlands. Deadline: 1 June.  
http://www.mediaartfriesland.nl

Cinematexas, Austin, USA. Deadline: 2 June. http://cinematexas.org/ 
festival/submit.html

London Film Festival, UK. Deadline: 30 June. http://www.lff.org.uk/ 
content.php?CategoryID=640

Uppsala International Short Film Festiva, Sweden. Deadline: 30 June.  
http://www.shortfilmfestival.com

l’Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Spain. Deadline:  
31 July. http://alternativa.cccb.org

International Short Film Festival Leuven, Belgium. Deadline: 1  
August. http:// www.shortfilmfestival.org


3. OPPORTUNITIES

Competition. MADRID PROCESOS 06, Spain. AVAM (Associated Visual  
Artists of Madrid) is organising a competition to select artistic  
projects for MADRID PROCESOS 06. Deadline: 9 May. http://avam.net/? 
newlang=eng
	
Residency. European Media Artists in Residence Exchange 2006. Europe  
based Media Artists working in the fields of digital media
including internet and computer based art, filmmakers, sound and video
artists are invited to apply for a two month residency at VIVID,
Birmingham, England (www.vivid.org.uk); at IMPAKT, Utrecht, The
Netherlands (www.impakt.nl) or at Werkleitz Gesellschaft in Halle,
Germany (www.werkleitz.de/emare). Deadline: 14 May. http:// 
www.werkleitz.de/emare

Competition. animate! Artist Award for innovation in manipulated  
moving image, Brief Encounters, Bristol. Deadline: 26 May. http:// 
www.animateonline.org/editorial/2006/04/new-animate-artist-award-at- 
expanded-encounters-festival

Production Residency, Artsway, Hampshire, UK. Deadline: 30 May.   
http://www.artsway.org.uk/

Calls for proposals, Emergences festival, Paris. Deadline: 30 May.  
http://www.festival-emergences.info/


4. PUBLISHING

SPECIAL OFFER. David Lamelas: Films 1969-1972/2004. DVD published by  
BDV in collaboration with LUX. Order from LUX SHOP in May and quote  
‘newswire’ to get this disc for £20 (usual price £25) plus shipping.  
See http://www.lux.org.uk/shop/video.htm for more information.

Chris Welsby. DVD published by BFI in the UK. Includes Stream Line,  
Park Film, Windmill lll, Seven Days, Wind Vane, Sky Light, Drift, and  
River Yar (made with William Raban). http://www.bfi.org.uk/booksvideo/ 
video/details/welsby/

The Cinematic Works, Eija-Liisa Ahtila. DVD published by BFI in the  
UK. Contains Me/We; Okay; Gray, Jos 6 Olis 9 / If 6 Was 9, Tänään /  
Today, Lohdustusseremonia / Consolation Service, Rakkaus on aarre /  
Love is a Treasure. http://www.bfi.org.uk/booksvideo/video/details/ 
ahtila/

Oskar Fischinger: Ten Films. DVD published by the Center for Visual  
Music in the USA. http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/DVD.htm

Star Spangled to Death, Ken Jacobs. DVD published in USA. http:// 
www.starspangledtodeath.com


5. LUX NEWS

Nik Houghton - Obituary
It is with great sadness that we have heard about the death of Nik  
Houghton.  Nik was a founder member of London Video Arts which became  
the LUX.  As the editor of Independant Video magazine, he was one of  
the first people to write seriously about artists' video in the UK.   
He also sat on the Arts Council Artists Film and Video Comittee.  In  
later years he trained as a primary school teacher, specialising in  
literacy work with Bengali children in the East End of London where  
he lived. In the last year, he had returned to his old love of  
performance and created the character of John E. Cashmoney, who, with  
The Lonesome Cowboys from Hell created quite a buzz in the art venues  
of the East End.


UPCOMING SCREENINGS, EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS

THE UNNAMABLE, Lounge Gallery, London. 20 April – 28 May 2006 http:// 
www.lux.org.uk/theunnamable
Lounge gallery and LUX are pleased to present the debut London solo  
shows of three video artists (Sebastian Buerkner, Laure Prouvost and  
Duncan Campbell) as part of an exhibition entitled The Unnamable. The  
Unnamable is the first collaboration between Lounge and LUX. The  
exhibition consists of three two-week solo gallery shows, presenting  
works which have not been exhibited in London.

With a nod to Samuel Beckett, the exhibition is loosely themed around  
the notion of gaps in language and experience: the primæval stratum  
to everyday existence, the background hum of subjective states which  
never quite break through into the world of speech, commerce and  
common sense. This inchoate stream of velleities and half-fleshed  
fantasies can be unspeakably trivial, or unutterably disturbing. The  
video works presented in The Unnamable each, in their different ways,  
evoke these subliminal states. Sebastian Buerkner’s The Conversation  
involves an ongoing attempt to develop visual dictionaries, a shadow  
language of images which are associated with particular sounds or  
words, but which gradually take on a life of their own. Laure  
Prouvost’s Abstractions Quotidiennes are synaesthetic stories in  
which abject details, examined in tactile close-up, give rise to  
elaborate and macabre fictions. Duncan Campbell’s Falls Burns Malone  
Fiddles examines a series of photographs from a Belfast community  
archive, as the narrator questions not only his own position as  
observer but his very existence.

Laure Prouvost
4 - 14 May 2006
Private view Wednesday 3 May, 6 - 9pm

Duncan Campbell
18 - 28 May 2006
Private view Wednesday 17 May, 6 - 9pm
	
12 – 13 May, Tate Modern, London
Conference. Anticipating the Past : Artists : Archive : Film
The experience of viewing projected archival film or antiquated video  
footage can have a seductive, even spellbinding effect on the viewer.  
Its material and aesthetic qualities act as a trigger to memories,  
evoking a sense of time and nostalgia or conjuring up fantasies of  
history. This international symposium draws together a collection of  
voices and perspectives to examine the work of artists and filmmakers  
who have worked with these materials and dislocated them from their  
original purpose and intention, revealing new readings, meanings and  
questions. The speakers include George Barber, Neil Cummings and  
Marysia Lewandowska, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci-Lucci,  
Patrick Keiller, Elizabeth McAlpine, Pat O'Neill and Benjamin Weil,  
Mark Nash, Marcel Odenbach, AL Rees and Akram Zaatari. Organised with  
LUX and the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection at  
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, in association with  
Arts Council England and the British Film Institute http:// 
www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/ 
anticipatingthepastartistsarchivefilm5202.htm

Tuesday 16 May 7pm (admission free, no booking), Starr Auditorium,  
Tate Modern, London
Hollis Frampton: (nostalgia)
Free screening of a new restored print of Hollis Frampton’s seminal  
film (nostalgia) to mark the publication of a new illustrated study  
of the film by Rachel Moore published by Afterall Books. The  
screening will be introduced by Rachel Moore. Presented in  
collaboration with Afterall and Tate.

Thu 18 May, 7pm, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Henry Hills - In Person
Portraits of the downtown New York’s improv music and poetry scene –  
from John Zorn, Sally Silvers, Ron Silliman, Arto Lindsay, Abigail  
Child, Charles Bernstein et al to the North Beach Communist cafe poet  
Jack Hirschman - Hills’ rapid-fire editing documents the artist  
radically engaged with society. This rare in person screening, the  
celebrated Money and culminates with the UK premiere of extracts from  
his new cycle of work, Emma’s Dilemma. In collaboration with LUX.
Kino Da!, 1981, 16mm, 3 mins / Radio Adios, 1982, 16mm, 11 mins /  
Money, 1984, 16mm, 15 mins / SSS, 1988, 16mm, 7 mins / Little  
Lieutenant, 1994, 16mm, 7 mins / Emma’s Dilemma, 2003-5, DVD,  
(selections) http://www.whitechapel.org/content.php?page_id=2527

26 – 27 May, Goethe Institut, London
Matthias Müller - The Memo Book – Retrospective and book launch.
Three programmes to mark the release of The Memo Book - Films, Videos  
and Installations by Matthias Müller. The films of Matthias Müller  
can be read as an unwritten history of German experimental film.  
Starting off in the Super 8 movement, Matthias Müller has gone on to  
produce a vast variety of material, from the genre-crossing work with  
found footage, through the mutual interweaving of analogue and  
digital image media, up to his cinematographic installation in  
museums and galleries. Hollywood film, avant-garde and queer cinema  
have been taken apart as much as the radical changes in media and  
representation technologies that occurred in the eighties and  
nineties.Müller's determined interest is in exploring questions of  
memory, traces of the past and the meaning of historical bodies.  
Müller has collaborated with other artists, notably Dirk Schaefer,  
responsible for the sound of many films, and more recently with the  
visual artist Christoph Girardet.
Organised in collaboration with arsenal experimental and LUX. Funded  
by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en1343963.htm

TOURING

Schadenfreude http://www.lux.org.uk/schadenfreude
4-9 May 2006, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany http:// 
www.kurzfilmtage.de

Describing Form: Film Experiments with the Sculptural Form http:// 
www.lux.org.uk/touring/describingform.htm
4 May 2006, Chapter, Cardiff http://www.chapter.org
23 May 2006, Outpost, Norwich http://www.norwichoutpost.org

Subjects and Sequences. The Films of Margaret Tait http:// 
www.lux.org.uk/margarettait
3 May 2006, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany http://www.kuenstlerhaus.de
4 May 2006, Kinemathek Karlsruhe, Germany http://www.kinemathek.inka.de
25 May 2006, Kulczyk Foundation, Poznan, Poland http:// 
www.kulczykfoundation.pl

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