LUX MONTHLY - LUXNEWSWIREjune2007
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LUXNEWSWIREjune2007
[LUX NEWSWIRE is a monthly e-newsletter covering UK and international
artists' moving image news. Contributions are welcome under any of
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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
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.htm
UK
Dali & Film, Tate Modern, London. 1 June – 9 September
www.tate.org.uk
Jen Denike, Site Gallery, Sheffield. 2 June – 28 July
http://www.sitegallery.org
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Art Gallery, London. 5
June – 9 September. http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery
Lighthouse, Truman Brewery, London. 20 – 24 June. a caravan cinema
screening film and video works by Eloise Calandre / Declan Clarke /
Miriam de Burca / Simon Faithfull / Tom Flanagan / Michael Fortune /
Mark Garry + Karl Burke / Stephen Gunning / Lizzie Hughes / Jochen
Kuhn / Jonas Mekas / John O'Connell. http://www.houseprojects.net
Return of the Black Tower, Jennet Thomas. Peer, London. 22 June - 28
July. http://www.peeruk.org
Kirk Palmer, Paradise Row, London. 22 June – 29 July.
http://www.paradiserow.com
Paper Rad, Sketch, London. 30 June – 11 August.
gallery at sketch.uk.com
The Assembly, Rachel Davies. Cornerhouse, Manchester. 30 June – 26
August. http://www.cornerhouse.org
Here and You’re here, Anna Lucas. FACT, Liverpool. 30 June – 19
August. http://www.fact.co.uk
INTERNATIONAL
John Smith Retrospective at the Venice Biennale (June 8th - November
21st) Slovenian Pavillion, a cinema created by Tobias Putrih on San
Servolo Island. http://www.venetianatmospheric.com/
Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg, Germany. 6 – 11 June
http://www.shortfilm.com
Le Grice - Raban - Sherwin / Live Cinema/ Shoot Shoot Shoot,
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Musée du Cinéma, Brussels, Belgium. 13 – 17
June. http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=7404&
Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves, ZKM | Center for Art and Media,
Germany, June 15 - October 21, 2007 http://www.zkm.de/thermocline
Documenta, Kassel, Germany. 16 June – 23 September. http://
www.documenta12.de
2. CALLS
CALL FOR ENTRIES
* denotes entry fees
11th Ismaïlia International Festival For Documentary & Short Films,
Egypt. Deadline: 15 June. http://www.egyptianfilmcenter.org.eg
egyptianfilmcenter at hotmail.com
FIKE 2007 - Évora International Short Film Festival, Portugal.
Deadline: 30 June. http://www.fikeonline.net/2007/en/festival/
regulations/
11th Jijihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech
Republic. Deadline: 30 June http://www.dokument-festival.cz
OVNI 2008, Centre de Cultura Contemporànea de Barcelona, Spain.
Deadline: 1 July. http://desorg.org/submit.php?language=en&
Unimovie - International Short Film and Video Festival, Pescara,
Italy. Deadline: 1 July. http://www.unimovie.it
New York Film Festival, USA. Deadline: 13 July.
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
Lucca Film Festival 2007, Lucca, Italy
Deadline: 30 July. http://www.vistanova.it
24th Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival 2007, Germany.
Deadline: 1 August. http://www.filmladen.de/dokfest
3. OPPORTUNITIES
Travel Grants. Film London Film-makers' Festival Fund, UK. Travel
support for London artists’ who have work selected for film festival
competitions. Deadline: 15 June. http://www.filmlondon.org.uk/
content.asp?CategoryID=1063
NEA International Digital Film-maker Residency 2007, Squeaky Wheel,
Buffalo, USA. Deadline: 16 June. http://www.squeaky.org/
opportunities.html
Bursaries. Westminster Arts Film Bursary, London, UK. Deadline: 29
June. NB applicants must live, work or study in the London borough of
Westminster. http://www.cwac.org.uk/fundingfilmandphotography.htm
Training. Developing Audiences for Artists' Moving Image Work, ICO,
London, UK. Deadline: 16 July. http://
www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/trainingace-london.htm
4. PUBLISHING
British Artists’ Films: Ian Breakwell. DVD published by bfi in UK.
Includes Excerpts From The Diary, Repertory, The News, Auditorium and
Variety. http://www.bfi.org.uk/booksvideo/video/details/breakwell/
Fresh Moves: New Moving Images From the UK. DVD published by Tank
Form in UK. David Blandy, Ben Callaway, Duncan Campbell, Ergin
Çavuşoğlu,
Spartacus Chetwynd, Kate Cooper, Ann Course, Katy Dove, Max Hattler,
Runa Islam, Kevin Heavey, Anja M. Kirschner, Zineb Sedira, Andrew
Kötting,
Torsten Lauschmann, Daria Martin, Alexander Heim, Ben Rivers, Samuel
Stevens, Stephen Sutcliffe, Mark Aerial Waller, Saskia Olde Wolbers,
John
Wood & Paul Harrison, Cerith Wyn Evans. ISBN: 978-0-9555181-0-2
http://www.tank.tv
1,2,3... Avant-Gardes. Film/Art between Experiment and Archive. Book
published by Sternberg Press in Germany and USA. Lukasz Ronduda and
Florian Zeyfang (Eds.). Texts by David Crowley, Steven Ball and David
Curtis, Anselm Franke, Stefanie Peter, Lukasz Ronduda, Leire Vergara,
Jan Verwoert, Axel John Wieder, Michal Wolinski. 1,2,3... Avant-
Gardes is dedicated to the ongoing history of the experiment in film
and art. This book describes and analyses the works of filmmakers and
artists, defining two decades of experiments in Polish avant-garde
film, and juxtaposes their work with contributions by international
artists, who started to work during the last fifteen years. ISBN
978-1-933128-24-5. http://www.sternberg-press.com
5. LUX NEWS
NEW ON LUXONLINE
David Lamelas
Stills, articles and clips explore the career of the renowned
international artist.
'Time doesn't exist, our consciousness constructs it. Time is a
fiction.'
http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/david_lamelas/index.html
Chris Welsby
Chris Welsby's work 'acknowledges our changing relationship to the
environment, drawing on twentieth century science and art-practice to
re-define the idea of Landscape with a relevance to our own times.'
David Curtis on Chris Welsby, Luxonline Profile.
http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/chris_welsby/index.html
NEW WORKS AVAILABLE FROM LUX DISTRIBUTION – May 2007
http://www.lux.org.uk/newacquisitions/may07.htm
Stan Brakhage, The Wonder Ring (1955) *new restored print
Stan Brakhage, The Riddle of Lumen (1972) *new restored print
Betzy Bromberg, A Darkness Swallowed (2006)
Peter Gidal, Room Film (Double Take) (1967) *new print
John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, Videospace (1970)
Andrew Kötting, Offshore (Gallivant) (2007)
Alfred Leslie, The Last Clean Shirt (1964)
Miranda Pennell, Drum Room (2007)
Margaret Tait, The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (1955) *new print
Emily Wardill, Born Winged Animals and Honey Gatherers of the Soul
(2005), Basking in what feels like 'an ocean of grace', I soon
realise that I'm not looking at it, but rather that I AM it,
recognising myself (2006), Ben (2007)
SCREENINGS AND EVENTS
Continuing to 24th June
INVISIBLE MEND at Lounge, 28 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ
Chrissy Coscioni, VALIE EXPORT, Emma Hart & Benedict Drew, Jasmina
Fekovic, Ursula Mayer, James Richards, Jonty Semper, Elizabeth Subrin.
Since the beginning of the twentieth century artists making moving
images have exploited industrial cinema as ‘found’ images to be
reinterpreted, manipulated and represented as art. Invisible Mend, a
group show of mainly young artists, presents a collection of works
that seem to strategise in a similar way while actually drawing their
material from radically different sources, simulating the look of
the ‘found’ or exploring as much a set of radical (over)
identifications with their subjects as a set of formal, political or
historical questions. The works vary wildly in their aesthetics but
what they have in common is an exploitation of the invisible:
refutations of the permissible in the name of personal or political
expression, a rewriting of history and to travel through time and
space, through imaginary forays against and within dominant culture,
escaping into new landscapes of desire. Criticality is manifested
through an ebullience that replaces strict analysis with intuition,
an interplay of emotional registers and often a disarming sense of
celebration. As well as the exhibition at Lounge, Invisible Mend
extends into a series of events throughout June. Invisible Mend is
curated by Ian White and LUX. http://www.lux.org.uk/invisiblemend
Sunday 3 June 12.30 – 4pm
TONY CONRAD and Finnish Experimental films at Curzon Soho, London
http://no-signal.net/tonyco/screening/
To coincide with the live live music event taking place on Friday
June 01 at St Giles in the field (w/ TONY CONRAD feat. PAAVOHARJU,
RICHARD YOUNGS and ISLAJA), the London based experimental music
production [no.signal] - in collaboration with the Curzon Soho, the
Finnish Institute and LUX is presenting a special screening of Tony
Conrad's films along with selected Experimental Finnish films.
Thursday 7 June, 7pm for 7.30pm start
INVISIBLE MEND SALON: DEVOTION curated and presented by James Richards
A collection of videos and found footage which are very much about
the camera/editor as an off screen character with an ambiguous or
subverted relationship to the events being depicted in the video.
While often awkward or obsessive in tone the material shown is also
about fantasy and the re working of found material or the staging and
depiction of events as an act of devotion..including work and found
footage by James Richards, George Kuchar, Steve Reinke, Anne McGuire,
Matthew Probert, Kim Fielding, and mary cigarettes. LUX Salon takes
place at LUX office, 3rd Floor, 18 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ.
Admission Free but places are very limited so pre-booking is
required, to book a place email salon at lux.org.uk
also late opening of Invisible Mend exhibition until 9pm at Lounge,
26 Shacklewell Lane, E8 (same building as LUX)
Sunday 10 June, 8pm, £5
INVISIBLE MEND PERFORMANCE
Arcola Theatre, 27 Arcola Street, London E8. (tickets from Arcola box
office, 020 7503 16 46 http://www.arcolatheatre.com/)
EMMA HART & BENEDICT DREW, JAMES RICHARDS & KEVIN HOWBROOK, MARK LECKEY
An evening of live works that cross between cinema and performance,
strategies of appropriation and magical formalism.
To a projected backdrop james Richards and Kevin Howbrook present an
improvised music and spoken word performance. Using turnatebles and a
sampler james creates live sound designe and foley fx for the video
footage and stories read by Kevin.
In Emma Hart & Benedict Drew’s Untitled Two a 50-foot length of film
with black and white frames is projected by running the filmstrip
from the projector and through the strings of an electric guitar held
by Drew who stands in front of the screen. The string is plucked each
time a splice passes. The effect is disconcerting as the increasingly
staccato flashing of the projector, in tension with the distorting
guitar strings, takes the viewer into a territory that is immediately
personal, sexual and mesmerizing.
Plus CINEMA-in-the-ROUND a lecture by Mark Leckey. Professor Leckey
presents a specially conceived collection of film, video, sculpture,
painting and other works that "come to life" on screen, grasping as
much at intangble mass, weight and volume as the indescribable
essence of objects of which he is enthralled. Leckey shifts between
an essay on the nature of images, the magic of cinema and an anti-
authoritarian art history to an impassioned, personal declaration on
the stuff of things in the material moment that we see them on screen.
Wednesday 13 June 7pm for 7.30pm start
LUX SALON: MIACA at LUX
As part of an exchange project between LUX, UK and the Moving Image
Archive of Contemporary Art (MIACA), Japan, MIACA presents a special
lecture and screening of contemporary Japanese artists' video at LUX
on Wednesday 13 June. Includes a lecture by Hitomi Hasegawa and
Mayumi Hirano of MIACA about its work and the arts scene in Yokohama
and a screening of work by Tetsushi Higashino, Takehiro Iikawa,
Tetsuya Karatsu, Takuro Kotaka, Chikara Matsumoto, Kaeko Mizukoshi,
Daisuke Nagaoka,Masanobu Nishino, Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi.
This event is generously supported by The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese
Foundation, The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and The Japan
Foundation.
LUX SALON takes place at LUX, 18, Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ.
ADMISSION FREE, places are extremely limited so booking is essential.
To book a place email salon at lux.org.uk
Friday 15 June, doors 9pm starting at dusk, £3
VALIE EXPORT: Invisible Adversaries (Unsichtbare Gegner)
LUX, 3rd Floor, 18 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ (outdoor rooftop
screening)
EXPORT’s seminal first feature is a tour-de-force of radical
paranoia presented in a special rooftop screening overlooking the
city. Anna wakes to a radio signal that she interprets as an alien
invasion. Her investigations are an exegesis on the self, mental
instability, the media and sexual politics. 'The film feels a little
as if Godard were reincarnated as a woman and decided to make a
feminist version of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers' Amy Taubin.
Presented in collaboration with Cinenova www.cinenova.org.uk and with
thanks to Faction Films. Booking essential as places are limited,
email salon at lux.org.uk
also late opening of Invisible Mend exhibition until 9pm at Lounge,
26 Shacklewell Lane, E8 (same building as LUX)
Saturday 16 June - Sunday 17 June
Learning behaviour, learnt action, unlearning knowledge: A weekend of
work from the Cinenova collection
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Through such publications as the seminal magazine Screen in the 1970s
and Laura Mulvey's essay 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'
psychoanalytic theory was introduced into the study and practice of
both film and art. At the same time the consciousness-raising
activity of the Women's Movement engaged in workshop-based film
production and screenings as a means to activate discussions about
women's lives, document their stories and allow women to experience
their subjectivity. This weekend of screenings explores both these
developments through special presentations and film and video drawn
from the collection of the women-only distributor Cinenova and unique
special projects by Laura Mulvey herself and American artist Sharon
Hayes. The Whitechapel Film Programme is presented in collaboration
with LUX. Full programme details at http://www.whitechapel.org
Thursday 21 – Saturday 23 June, 3 - 5 pm
INTERIORS, URSULA MAYER
2, Willow Road, Hampstead, London, NW3 1TH Telephone: 020 7435 6166
Admission prices to house (including film): £4.90, child £2.50,
family £12.30
For visitor information about the house please see
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/
w-2willowroad/
Shot to a high finish in the house at 2 Willow Road designed by the
architect Ernö Goldfinger, the location for its exhibition here, two
women – one old, one young – move through a set of modernist
rooms, across hallways and up and down stairs, never meeting, never
speaking. They variously gravitate towards and linger around what
looks like one of the British sculptor Barbara Hepworth’s infamous,
intimate works.
Presented as part of Architecture Week 2007.
21 - 23 June 2007, 11am - 5pm
Wake Work, Charlotte Ginsborg and Rose Kowalski
exhibition at LUX, Shacklewell Studios, 18 Shacklewell Lane, London,
E8 2E
Wake-Work is a 16mm film that explores what it means to work. Its
subject matter is one building, 18 Shacklewell Lane, a converted
warehouse, and the people employed there. As a cinematic portrait the
film cuts across genres of documentary, art and drama to provide an
intimate social document of the changing working patterns taking
place in east London at the start of the twenty first century. It
addresses work as a form of theatre and depicts how the rhythm of
human activity is affected by the physicality of architecture. The
sound track is composed of 12 characters testimonies edited together
to create an imaginary discussion that reflects on role-play,
identity, and power in the workplace. Through depicting cigarette
breaks, generic meetings and office spaces the film draws attention
to how characters communicate without words, and the potency
contained within their mundane actions and momentary glances. The
‘naturalness’ of the voices, combined with the overtly staged but
restrained dramatisation of people moving through their environment
present the viewer with an ambiguity as to exactly what they are
watching. What results is an epic account of the everyday.
Wednesday 20 June 7.30pm
Launch Screening and Talk. Screening of Wake Work and The Mirroring
Cure by Charlotte Ginsborg followed by a discussion between the
artists, Charlotte Ginsborg and Rose Kowalski and Michael Oades,
director of atomikarchitecture, an architecture and interior design
practice, based at 18 Shacklewell Lane. Admission Free, to book a
place email salon at lux.org.uk part of Architecture Week 2007. http://
www.architectureweek.org.uk/
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