Invisible Mend
INVISIBLE MEND
London Lounge Gallery & LUX Salon
24 May - 24 June 2007
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.
In addition to the exhibition at Lounge, Invisible Mend extends into a series of events throughout June. Invisible Mend is a LUX/Lounge collaboration curated by Ian White and LUX.
Exhibition at
Lounge
28 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ
Nearest Train: Dalston Kingsland
MAP OF AREA
Open Thursday to Sunday, 1-6pm (or by appointment)
Telephone: 020 7249 7606
Email: info@lounge-gallery.com
www.lounge-gallery.com
Shulie (Elisabeth Subrin, 1997)
INVISIBLE MEND EVENTS
Wednesday 30 May 2007, at 7pm for 7:30pm start
INVISIBLE MEND SALON: SHULIE
On the occasion of the Invisible Mend exhibition, LUX Salon takes the opportunity to screen Elizabeth Subrin’s Shulie in a FEMALE ONLY study salon. Subrin resurrected a little-known 1967 documentary portrait of a young Chicago art student, Shulamith Firestone, who a few years later would become a notable figure in Second Wave feminism and the author of the radical 1970 manifesto, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. Subrin’s version re-creates the original, shot for shot, and in the process arcs 40 years of feminisim. Using the film as a catalyst to form a discussion group we will look at the issues that resonate through the film; about identity, the construction of histories and how they reflect on the current interest in feminist work and assess the significance. Facilitated by Jackie Holt and Emma Hedditch.
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@lux.org.uk
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Thursday 7 June 2007, at 7pm for 7:30pm start
INVISIBLE MEND SALON: CAMCORDER DEVOTION
A collection of videos 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 people’s use of lo-tech and simple technology for escapism. including work by James Richards, Steve Reinke, Anne McGuire, Matthew Probert and Kim Fielding. Curated and presented by James Richards.
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@lux.org.uk
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Sunday 10 June 2007, at 8pm
INVISIBLE MEND PERFORMANCE:
EMMA HART & BENEDICT DREW, JAMES RICHARDS
An evening of live works that cross between cinema and performance, strategies of appropriation and magical formalism. James Richards presents a new work of found sound material. In Emma Hart & Benedict Drew’s Untitled 2 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.
This performance will take place at the Arcola Theatre, Arcola Road, London E8 2DJ. Tickets £5. www.arcolatheatre.com
...
Friday 15 June 2007, doors 9pm, projection starts at dusk
VALIE EXPORT: INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES (Unsichtbare Gegner)
EXPORT’s seminal first feature Invisible Adversaries 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 and with thanks to Faction Films.
This outdoor, rooftop screening 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@lux.org.uk
...
Thursday 21 - Saturday 23 June 2007, from 3-5pm
INTERIORS, URSULA MEYER
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.
Screening at 2 Willow Road, Hampstead, London, NW3 1TH.
Telephone: 020 7435 6166
Admission to house (including film): £4.90 (adult), £2.50 (child), £12.30 (family)
For visitor information about the house please see www.nationaltrust.org.uk
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www.lux.org.uk
London Lounge Gallery & LUX Salon
24 May - 24 June 2007
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.
In addition to the exhibition at Lounge, Invisible Mend extends into a series of events throughout June. Invisible Mend is a LUX/Lounge collaboration curated by Ian White and LUX.
Exhibition at
Lounge
28 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ
Nearest Train: Dalston Kingsland
MAP OF AREA
Open Thursday to Sunday, 1-6pm (or by appointment)
Telephone: 020 7249 7606
Email: info@lounge-gallery.com
www.lounge-gallery.com
Shulie (Elisabeth Subrin, 1997)Wednesday 30 May 2007, at 7pm for 7:30pm start
INVISIBLE MEND SALON: SHULIE
On the occasion of the Invisible Mend exhibition, LUX Salon takes the opportunity to screen Elizabeth Subrin’s Shulie in a FEMALE ONLY study salon. Subrin resurrected a little-known 1967 documentary portrait of a young Chicago art student, Shulamith Firestone, who a few years later would become a notable figure in Second Wave feminism and the author of the radical 1970 manifesto, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. Subrin’s version re-creates the original, shot for shot, and in the process arcs 40 years of feminisim. Using the film as a catalyst to form a discussion group we will look at the issues that resonate through the film; about identity, the construction of histories and how they reflect on the current interest in feminist work and assess the significance. Facilitated by Jackie Holt and Emma Hedditch.
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@lux.org.uk
...
Thursday 7 June 2007, at 7pm for 7:30pm start
INVISIBLE MEND SALON: CAMCORDER DEVOTION
A collection of videos 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 people’s use of lo-tech and simple technology for escapism. including work by James Richards, Steve Reinke, Anne McGuire, Matthew Probert and Kim Fielding. Curated and presented by James Richards.
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@lux.org.uk
...
Sunday 10 June 2007, at 8pm
INVISIBLE MEND PERFORMANCE:
EMMA HART & BENEDICT DREW, JAMES RICHARDS
An evening of live works that cross between cinema and performance, strategies of appropriation and magical formalism. James Richards presents a new work of found sound material. In Emma Hart & Benedict Drew’s Untitled 2 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.
This performance will take place at the Arcola Theatre, Arcola Road, London E8 2DJ. Tickets £5. www.arcolatheatre.com
...
Friday 15 June 2007, doors 9pm, projection starts at dusk
VALIE EXPORT: INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES (Unsichtbare Gegner)
EXPORT’s seminal first feature Invisible Adversaries 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 and with thanks to Faction Films.
This outdoor, rooftop screening 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@lux.org.uk
...
Thursday 21 - Saturday 23 June 2007, from 3-5pm
INTERIORS, URSULA MEYER
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.
Screening at 2 Willow Road, Hampstead, London, NW3 1TH.
Telephone: 020 7435 6166
Admission to house (including film): £4.90 (adult), £2.50 (child), £12.30 (family)
For visitor information about the house please see www.nationaltrust.org.uk
...
www.lux.org.uk
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