Artprojx presents at Hackney Picturehouse – 6 June 2013

Artprojx presents …

Jumana Manna, Mickalene Thomas, Susanna Wallin

in The Poetics of Unforgetting 

Hackney Picturehouse, 270 Mare Street, London E8 1HE

Thursday 6th June 2013. 7-8.30pm

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Artprojx Presents at Hackney Picturehouse is a new series of monthly screenings of artists film and video works. Launching with films by three brilliant young international contemporary artists – whose films will linger in your memory long after viewing.

Blessed Blessed Oblivion by Jumana Manna

Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman by Mickalene Thomas

Marker & Echo Park by Susanna Wallin

Introduced by David Gryn, Artprojx

Tickets £6 / £5 (concs) : Call 0871 902 5734 or visit Hackney Picturehouse website
www.picturehouses.co.uk  www.artprojx.com  http://davidgryn.wordpress.com

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Mickalene Thomas: Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman: A Portrait of My Mother

http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/film/Artprojx_Presents_The_Poetics_Of_Unforgetting/

The Poetics of Unforgetting, Jumana Manna, Mickalene Thomas, Susanna Wallin

Mickalene Thomas: Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman: A Portrait of My Mother (still)

Artprojx presents
Jumana Manna, Mickalene Thomas, Susanna Wallin
The Poetics of Unforgetting
Introduced by David Gryn, Artprojx

Hackney Picturehouse, 270 Mare Street, London E8 1HE
Thursday 6th June 2013
7-8.30pm

Jumana Manna
Blessed Blessed Oblivion

Mickalene Thomas: Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman: A Portrait of My Mother

Mickalene Thomas
Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman: A Portrait of My Mother

Susanna Wallin: Echo Park (still)

Susanna Wallin
Marker
Echo Park

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Artprojx Presents at Hackney Picturehouse is a new series of monthly screenings of artists film and video works. Launching with films by three brilliant young international contemporary artists – whose films will linger in your memory long after viewing.
Tickets: Call 0871 902 5734 or visit Hackney Picturehouse website
www.picturehouses.co.uk
www.artprojx.com
http://davidgryn.wordpress.com

Twitter @Artprojx @HackneyPH @ArtprojxCinema

Facebook event

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All three artists have made films, that I have not been able to forget ever since first viewing them. Manna’s Blessed Blessed Oblivion (along with Wallin’s Echo Park) was screened at the Art Video section I selected for Art Basel in Miami Beach 2012 and it was one of the most memorable and complete films I have shown. Susanna Wallin’s film Marker I screened at the Prince Charles Cinema, London several years ago in association with Film London, and somehow it has never left my thoughts and then Mickalene Thomas, whose work I have not screened before this. Last year, I was sent Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman, by her producer, Tanya Selvaratnam and by her gallery Lehmann Maupin in NY, I was deeply moved and I wanted to find a way that I could present it. So here we go.

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Blessed Blessed Oblivion by Jumana Manna

Inspired by Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising (1963), BLESSED BLESSED OBLIVION weaves together a portrait of male thug culture in East Jerusalem, manifested in barbershops, auto shops and bodybuilding. At the same time psychologizing and seduced by her subject, the artist finds herself in a double bind, a dilemma that resonates with the muddled desire that animates her protagonist as he drifts from abject rants to declamations of heroic poetry or unashamed self-praise.

Jumana Manna (born in New Jersey, lives and works in Jerusalem and Berlin) uses primarily film/video and sculpture to explore historical narratives, nationalism and subcultural communities. Her films are attempts at weaving together portraits of morally dubious characters or events, and her sculptural practice employs a language of minimalism and abstraction to reformulate familiar objects into a state of ambiguity, navigating between negation and seduction. Jumana Manna is represented by CRG Gallery, New York.

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Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman by Mickalene Thomas

Internationally acclaimed artist Mickalene Thomas presented her first documentary film “HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN” during her solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in Fall 2012. The film is a celebration of Thomas’s mother and muse, Sandra Bush, who has been the subject of numerous photographs and paintings by the artist. “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” explores Sandra’s memories and dreams, her life experiences, including her personal struggles and recent illness, and her hopes for the present and future. Her interviews are filled with poignancy, and old photographs and recordings of Sandra singing with her family add texture to this intimate portrait of “Mama Bush.”

Mickalene Thomas was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1971. She earned her MFA from Yale University and holds a BFA from Pratt Institute. In 2002-2003, she participated in the Artist-in-Residence program at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and most recently, was a resident at the Versailles Foundation Munn Artists Program in Giverny, France (2011).

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Marker & Echo Park by Susanna Wallin

Marker: One thousand reindeer are left running wild in the northern woods of Sweden. They once belonged to Anna-Sara’s dad. In an act to take care of what has been in order for something new to be able to start, she goes out to find them. Set on the periphery of a Sami community, in the middle of the night, the film follows Anna-Sara on her journey towards Reindeer Dell in Kraja. Marker is an impressionistic narrative on loss and imagination: a calling for someone who is gone, in an act to continue where something stopped. Characters are situated between real scenarios and invented ones, past and present. Funded by Arts Council England with the support of Film London’s Artists Moving Image Network.

Echo Park: Set inside a theme park, the film combines several amusement rides into one audio visual experience of time. Funded by FLAMIN London, The Arts Council England and Channel 4. Set inside an amusement park, entertainment is explored in an attempt to shut out thought.

Susanna Wallin’s work often lends from fact and fiction at once, merging actual scenarios with fictive ones in new narratives on screen. Ritual, dream and a distrust in language are some of her recurring themes. She has been the recipient of a number of commissions and awards, including London Artists Film and Video Award, The Jury Price at Clermont Ferrand and commissions from UK Film Council, Channel 4 and Arts Council England. Originally from Sweden, she lives and works in London and New York.

See FAZ http://www.faz.net/

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David Gryn / Artprojx overview

Artprojx, founded and directed by David Gryn, screens, curates, selects and promotes artists’ moving image and other projects, working with leading contemporary art galleries, art fairs, institutes and artists worldwide. Artprojx is a renowned and trusted brand in the artworld, a pop-up gallery space, pop up cinema, a special events team, arts fundraising, marketing, strategy and planning organisation.

Artprojx clients/partners include Art Basel in Miami Beach, MOCAtv, Royal College of Psychiatrists, 3d in Vebier, Hackney Picturehouse, Gagosian, White Cube, Camden Arts Centre, Lisson Gallery, Whitney Museum NY, Tate Britain, ICA, Frieze Art Fair, The Armory Show NY and Hamburg Short Film Festival. Artists screening events have included Christian Marclay, Dara Friedman, Santiago Sierra, Mark Wallinger, Susan Hiller, Christian Jankowski, Jumana Manna, Rashaad Newsome, Tracey Emin,  Dexter Dalwood, Jeremy Deller, Wilhelm Sasnal, Grace Ndiritu, Luke Fowler and many more.

http://www.artprojx.com

Artprojx news, update and recommendations April 2013

Jumana Manna: Blessed Blessed Oblivion (still)

Jane Bustin in the Drawing Room’s Drawing Biennial – auction and exhibition from 18 April

http://drawingroom.org.uk/drawingbiennial2013

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Nick Abrahams Films – Dukes at Komedia, Brighton 20 April

http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Dukes_At_Komedia/film/A_Night_Of_Nick_Abrahams_Films/

https://www.facebook.com/events/569334899765708/

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Patrick and Tristram Fetherstonhaugh – Transplant at Margaret Street Gallery from 18 April

http://www.patrickandtristramf.com/

http://margaretstreetgallery.com/

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Charlie Phillips – The Urban Eye, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, curated by Paul Goodwin from 20 April

http://thenewartexchange.org.uk/

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Mickalene Thomas: Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman: A Portrait of My Mother (still)

Artprojx presents at Picturehouse, Hackney – 6 June

The Poetics of Unforgetting with Jumana Manna, Mickalane Thomas, Susanna Wallin

www.artprojx.com

http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/  info coming soon.

a new monthly series

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The Poetics of Anxiety and Melancholia … presented by Artprojx

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/

Part 2  http://www.youtube.com/

featuring: Nick Abrahams, Shoja Azari, Hans op de Beeck, Stuart Croft, Meredith Danluck, Jesper Just, Jumana Manna, Nicolas Provost, Ben Rivers, Sam Samore and Thomas Nordanstad, Matthew Stone, Kerry Tribe, Susanna Wallin.

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Susanna Wallin: Echo Park (still)

Artprojx on blinkvideo

featuring Susanna Wallin

http://www.blinkvideo.de/

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contact

David Gryn

+447711127848

david@artprojx.com

www.artprojx.com

Artprojx News January 2013

Artprojx News January 2013 - Artist News

Jane Bustin – MOSTYN OPEN 18

Nick Abrahams Films – ICA

Meredith Danluck – Sundance

The Poetics of Anxiety and Melancholia – MOCAtv

E.S.P TV Season 3 – Kickstarter

Summer Show – Cul de Sac

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Jane Bustin at Mostyn Open

MOSTYN OPEN 18

Selected by: Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of MOSTYN; Adam Carr, Curator of MOSTYN; Ryan Gander, artist; and the visiting audience, for the People’s Choice.

Participating artists: Jacqueline Bebb, Jane Bustin, Cath Campbell, Tomas Chaffe, Danilo Correale, Sean Edwards, Alex Farrar, Claudio Gobbi, Gareth Griffith, The Hut Project, Yuki Kishino, Lawrence Leaman, James Lewis, Stuart Middleton, Edward Morgan, Philip Newcombe, John Henry Newton, Laura Reeves, Zhao Renhui, Hua Kuan Chen Sai, Chris Shaw-Hughes, Nikolaus Schletterer, Mathew Tom, Alaena Turner, Gwyn Williams, Jesse Wine.

MOSTYN Open 18

12 Vaughan Street, Llandudno

LL30 1AB  Wales, UK

Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10:30–5pm

www.mostyn.org

Since its inception in 1989, MOSTYN Open has functioned as a call-out to artists of any age and residing place to enter, with an exhibition of the selected artworks taking place at MOSTYN, and a prize of 10,000 GBP awarded to a single artist or collective. While continuing in this tradition, this 18th edition will also bring a fundamental addition. A prize of 1,000 GBP will be given to the People’s Choice, determined by the artist who receives the most votes from the visiting public during the exhibition’s run. In doing so, the questions that are raised, and central to this renewed edition, are: How do we examine and judge artwork? What criteria do we bring to perceiving, interpreting and understanding artwork? What really makes our favourite? Visitors are invited to make their selection at the People’s Choice voting booth.

http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/mostyn-open-18/

http://www.janebustin.com

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The Posters Came From The Walls

NICK ABRAHAMS FILMS AT THE ICA

Jan 24th Screening of excerpts from films, promos etc at the ICA in London, with chat from director Nick Abrahams and David Gryn, curator at Artprojx from 7pm, videos involving collaborations with Sigur Ros, Jeremy Deller, Huggy Bear, Stereolab, Aidan Gillen and many others…

please come along plus dj’s in ICA bar afterwards

http://www.ica.org.uk/36103/Film/A-Night-of-Nick-Abrahams-Films.html

and then on Jan 25th Screening of ‘The Bruce Lacey Experience’ by Nick Abrahams and Jeremy Deller, followed by Q + A with the directors at 6.30pm

http://www.ica.org.uk/36107/Film/The-Bruce-Lacey-Experience-Jeremy-Deller-Nick-Abrahams-QA.html

http://www.facebook.com/events/397411923676617/

http://www.nicholasabrahams.com/

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Meredith Danuck’s North of South, West of East

MEREDITH DANLUCK – SUNDANCE

Meredith Danluck is an artist and filmmaker working in New York and Los Angeles. She has exhibited at the Liverpool Biennial, Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and Venice Biennale and has a major film installation coming up at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit (MOCAD). She has also screened films at a number of festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival, SXSW, Byron Bay International Film Festival, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, and Margaret Mead Film Festival.

North of South, West of East enhances narrative storytelling by wrapping the film around the entire room. Presented in a 20-seat theatre with swivel chairs, Meredith Danluck’s remarkable four-channel narrative feature deftly unspools a darkly humorous tale of small-town folks as they try to make sense of a posthope America. Shot on location in Detroit, Michigan, and Marfa, Texas, this unique film features fantastic performances by Ben Foster, Stella Schnabel, and Sue Galloway, and a soundtrack by Marfa local punk band Solid Waste. – S. F.

http://filmguide.sundance.org/film/13034/north_of_south_west_of_east

See also: Cinema Series 1 (Fight Scene) on MOCAtv http://youtu.be/Ml-Ok5qHb9E

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THE POETICS OF ANXIETY AND MELANCHOLIA – MOCAtv

Curated by David Gryn / Artprojx

Part 1

Nick Abrahams, Shoja Azari, Stuart Croft, Meredith Danluck, Jesper Just, Jumana Manna, Sam Samore and Thomas Nordanstad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMxu-gwnbaA&feature=share&list=PLLdkjkOBv9VROLLgC-a5rcrCZ9FhYVlHG

Part 2

Hans op de Beeck, Shoja Azari, Sam Samore and Thomas Nordanstad, Nicolas Provost, Ben Rivers, Matthew Stone, Kerry Tribe, Susanna Wallin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cLNJRageaA&feature=share&list=PLLdkjkOBv9VSZxJTI7O-EGXWb6NRzDGHa

http://www.artprojx.com

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SUPPORT E.S.P. TV

Season 3 on Kickstarter http://t.co/A1SODPB9

E.S.P. TV is a nomadic showcase of primarily NYC-based experimental music, video art and performance and produced for Manhattan Neighborhood Network public television. E.S.P. TV formed in January of 2011 out of Louis V E.S.P.  The following year, E.S.P. TV opened a new space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for production of the show, development of the E.S.P. LAB project, and a regular schedule of performances, screenings and special events.

Tapings of E.S.P. TV are in front of an audience with live green-screening, signal manipulation and analog video mixing. The entire night is recorded to VHS and edited into half hour episodes for airing on cable TV in New York City. After airing, the episodes are posted online at http://www.esptvnyc.com for later viewing.

E.S.P. TV has worked with various venues including: Present Company, The Schoolhouse, La Sala, 285 Kent, Vaudeville Park, Spectacle Theater andRoulette (Brooklyn, NY), Franklin Street Works (Stamford, CT), Liminal Space(Oakland), Queens Nails Projects (San Francisco), Millennium Film Workshop (New York City) as a part of INDEX Festival, Printed Matter (NYC),General Public (Berlin) and Pallas Projects (Dublin). http://www.esptvnyc.com/

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SUMMER SHOW – CUL DE SAC GALLERY

JIRO AMETANI, THORBJØRN ANDERSON, SOL ARCHER, VANYA BALOGH, DOMINIC BEATTIE, LOUIS BENASSI, HECTOR CASTELLS, VINCENT LE CHAPELAIN, CLAUDIA DJABBARI, ELISE, DAMIEN GOOD, ALEX FOX, STEPHEN HALL, DENISE HAWRYSIO, CAMERON IRVING, TIMO KUBE,TOMAZ KRAMBERGER, SAMIA MALIK, DAWN MELLOR, FLORE NOVÉ-JOSSERAND, DANIEL PASTEINER, OLIVER PERKINS, RAUL PINA PEREZ, ELLIOT POTTS, LILI REN, SVEN SACHSALBER, REBECCA SCOTT, DALLAS SEITZ, PULPSTUDIO, DAVID BRIAN SMITH, MARTINA SCHMÜCKER, JULIA VARELA, JESSE WINE, MARK WOODS

PV 12/01/2013,  7 – 10 PM

HECTOR CASTELLS PERFORMANCE

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EXHIBITION OPEN 
13/01 – 12/02/2013

THURSDAY – SUNDAY,  12 – 6 PM

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david@artprojx.com

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http://www.artprojx.com

An Artprojx Happy New Year 2013

ARTPROJX WISHING YOU A VERY HAPPY XMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013

David Gryn  david@artprojx.com +447711127848

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Artprojx and MOCAtv present: The Poetics of Anxiety and Melancholia.

Part I & Part II

Artists: Nick Abrahams, Shoja Azari, Hans op de Beeck, Stuart Croft,Meredith Danluck, Jesper Just, Jumana Manna, Nicolas Provost, Ben Rivers, Sam Samore and Thomas Nordanstad, Matthew Stone, Kerry Tribe, Susanna Wallin.

http://sites.moca.org/thecurve/2013/01/01/the-poetics-of-anxiety-and-melancholia/

http://www.youtube.com/mocatv

http://www.artprojx.com/

http://davidgryn.wordpress.com/

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MOCAtv and Artprojx present … The Poetics of Anxiety and Melancholia part II

MOCAtv &

ARTPROJX PRESENT

THE POETICS OF ANXIETY AND MELANCHOLIA

Selected by David Gryn

Director & Founder of Artprojx

Part II

Nicolas Provost - Moving Stories

Shoja Azari – Traffic Jam

Hans Op de Beeck - Sea of Tranquility

Ben Rivers - We the People

Thomas Nordsanstad & Sam Samore - The Lovers

Matthew Stone - Everything is Possible

Kerry Tribe - Greystone

Susanna Wallin - Echo Park

MOCAtv Press Release:

Los Angeles, Calif.— MOCAtv in collaboration with Artprojx presents The Poetics of Anxiety and Melancholia, a curation of 17 films selected by David Gryn, director and founder of Artprojx.  The artists involved in the project include Nick Abrahams, Shoja Azari, Hans op de Beeck, Stuart Croft, Meredith Danluck, Jesper Just, Jumana Manna, Nicolas Provost, Ben Rivers, Sam Samore and Thomas Nordanstad, Matthew Stone, Kerry Tribe, Susanna Wallin. The Poetics of Anxiety and Melancholia features extraordinary examples of cinematic and poetic moving images that disturb, enamor, excite, thrill and fill the viewer with melancholia, anxiety and tension.

About MOCAtv

MOCAtv, which launched October 1, 2012, is a new online contemporary art video channel, and a digital extension of the education and exhibition program of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). MOCAtv is the first and only dedicated art channel to be part of YouTube’s original channel initiative announced October 2011, and one of fourteen new, original channels that make up YouTube Education, a collection of more than 700,000 videos on a wide range of educational topics from math to science, history to geography. MOCA is the first contemporary art museum to associate with a major media company in an online video-programming venture of this scale, and the new channel will feature curated, original and acquired videos to inform, educate and engage the global, online audience about contemporary art and its intersection with film, video, music, performance, dance, music, comedy, and more. Stay connected by becoming a MOCAtv subscriber today.

JOIN MOCAtv NOW AT http://youtube.com/mocatv

About Artprojx
Artprojx, founded and directed by David Gryn, screens, curates and promotes artists’ moving image projects, working with international contemporary art galleries, art fairs, institutes and artists. www.artprojx.com/

Art fairs and galleries Artprojx has worked with include: Art Basel Miami Beach, Independent, Armory, Zoo Art Fair, LOOP, Art Marrakech, Gagosian, White Cube, Sadie Coles HQ, Lisson Gallery, The Modern Institute, Whitney Museum, Tate Britain, ICA and artists have included: Christian Marclay, Dara Friedman, Santiago Sierra, Mark Wallinger, Christian Jankowski, Dexter Dalwood, Jeremy Deller, Wilhelm Sasnal, William Kentridge, Luke Fowler, Susan Hiller, William Eggleston and Jane Bustin

MOCA MEDIA CONTACTS

Jessica McCormack, Communications Coordinator, 213 633 5322, jmccormack@moca.org

Nancy Lee, PR Coordinator, 213 621 1788, nlee@moca.org

Lyn Winter, Director of Communications, 213 633 5390, lwinter@moca.org

ARTPROJX Contact: David Gryn  david@artprojx.com +44 (0) 77111278 http://www.artprojx.com/

http://davidgryn.wordpress.com/

Susanna Wallin – Echo Park

MOCAtv and Artprojx present … The Poetics of Anxiety and Melancholia part I

MOCAtv &

ARTPROJX PRESENT

THE POETICS OF ANXIETY AND MELANCHOLIA

Selected by David Gryn

Director & Founder of Artprojx

Part I

Nick Abrahams - Ekki Mukk

Shoja Azari - The Passing

Shoja Azari - A Family

Thomas Nordanstad & Sam Samore - Love

Jumana Manna - Blessed Blessed Oblivion

Meredith Danluck - Cinema Series Part 1 (Fight Scene)

Jesper Just - No Man is an Island

Stuart Croft - Drive In

MOCAtv Press Release:

Los Angeles, Calif.— MOCAtv in collaboration with Artprojx presents The Poetics of Anxiety and Melancholia, a curation of 17 films selected by David Gryn, director and founder of Artprojx.  The artists involved in the project include Nick Abrahams, Shoja Azari, Hans op de Beeck, Stuart Croft, Meredith Danluck, Jesper Just, Jumana Manna, Nicolas Provost, Ben Rivers, Sam Samore and Thomas Nordanstad, Matthew Stone, Kerry Tribe, Susanna Wallin. The Poetics of Anxiety and Melancholia features extraordinary examples of cinematic and poetic moving images that disturb, enamor, excite, thrill and fill the viewer with melancholia, anxiety and tension.

About MOCAtv

MOCAtv, which launched October 1, 2012, is a new online contemporary art video channel, and a digital extension of the education and exhibition program of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). MOCAtv is the first and only dedicated art channel to be part of YouTube’s original channel initiative announced October 2011, and one of fourteen new, original channels that make up YouTube Education, a collection of more than 700,000 videos on a wide range of educational topics from math to science, history to geography. MOCA is the first contemporary art museum to associate with a major media company in an online video-programming venture of this scale, and the new channel will feature curated, original and acquired videos to inform, educate and engage the global, online audience about contemporary art and its intersection with film, video, music, performance, dance, music, comedy, and more. Stay connected by becoming a MOCAtv subscriber today.

JOIN MOCAtv NOW AT http://youtube.com/mocatv

About Artprojx
Artprojx, founded and directed by David Gryn, screens, curates and promotes artists’ moving image projects, working with international contemporary art galleries, art fairs, institutes and artists. www.artprojx.com/

Art fairs and galleries Artprojx has worked with include: Art Basel Miami Beach, Independent, Armory, Zoo Art Fair, LOOP, Art Marrakech, Gagosian, White Cube, Sadie Coles HQ, Lisson Gallery, The Modern Institute, Whitney Museum, Tate Britain, ICA and artists have included: Christian Marclay, Dara Friedman, Santiago Sierra, Mark Wallinger, Christian Jankowski, Dexter Dalwood, Jeremy Deller, Wilhelm Sasnal, William Kentridge, Luke Fowler, Susan Hiller, William Eggleston and Jane Bustin

MOCA MEDIA CONTACTS

Jessica McCormack, Communications Coordinator, 213 633 5322, jmccormack@moca.org

Nancy Lee, PR Coordinator, 213 621 1788, nlee@moca.org

Lyn Winter, Director of Communications, 213 633 5390, lwinter@moca.org

ARTPROJX Contact: David Gryn  david@artprojx.com +44 (0) 77111278 http://www.artprojx.com/

http://davidgryn.wordpress.com/

Nick Abrahams – Ekki Mukk

Waltzing, Driving and Reflections at Art Basel Miami Beach

TONIGHT - Thursday December 6 at 8pm and 9pm

ART VIDEO NIGHTS at Art Basel Miami Beach

For the outdoor screenings at the New World Center, David Gryn of Artprojx has selected eight programs running over four nights.

Location: New World Center, SoundScape Park, 500 17th Street, Miami Beach
Admission to Art Video Nights is FREE.

Thursday December 6 at 8pm – Universal, Dreams & Anthems 

Animation blends with live-action, fiction with history, the earthly and the sublime. The program concludes with a grand finale: an unusual rendering of the American national anthem.
Mauricio Lupini | Repeat after reading (BADA DIDI), 2006, 58” | Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporáneo
Drew Heitzler and Sam Sharit | ZERO, 2012, 2’30” | Blum & Poe
Josiah McElheny | Island Universe, 2005-08, 19′ | White Cube
Daniel Steegmann Mangrane | 16mm, 2008/11, 4’52” | Mendes Wood
Pedro Reyes | Baby Marx TV Series (Episode 1: On Surplus Value), 2011, 7’04” | Labor
Ruben Ortiz Torres, Emmanuel Lubezki | Como TV, 1985, 3’31” | Galería OMR
David Zink Yi | Huyano y fuga detras, 2005, 3’43” | Johann König; Hauser & Wirth
Chen Xiaoyun | Love You Big Boss, 2007, 4′ | ShanghART & H Space

Thursday December 6 at 9pm – Waltzing, Driving & Reflections
Dancing, driving, flying through the air: in one way or another, the films in this section feature movement as a formal device or a theme, with a nod to the history of the cinema and the history of music.

Mauricio Lupini | Repeat after reading (DIBA DUDA), 2006, 55” | Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporáneo
David Adamo | Anniversary Waltz, 2007, 3’54” | Ibid
Jesper Just | Sirens of Chrome, 2010, 12’38” | James Cohan Gallery, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Galerie Perrotin
Jack Early | What to do with a drunken sailor?, 2011, 5’44” | McCaffrey Fine Art
Takeshi Murata and Billy Grant | Night Moves, 2012, 6’01” | Salon 94
Terence Gower | New Utopias, 2010, 17′ | Labor
Susanna Wallin | Echo Park, 2012, 2′ | Courtesy of the artist
Sefer Memişoğlu | Breeze, 2011, 8’18” | NON
Michael Sailstorfer | Raketenbaum, 2007, 1’30” | Johann König

also today

ART SALON at 4pm

Artist Talk | The Poetics of Enchantment
Jesper Just, Artist, New York. in conversation with David Gryn, Curator of Art Video, Founder of Artprojx

http://www.artprojx.com

Director of Artprojx David Gryn on Art Video at ABMB

Director of Artprojx, David Gryn on Art Video at ABMB

interview in Whitewall Magazine

David Gryn, director of Artprojx, selected five videos from tonight’s opening of Art Video at Art Basel Miami Beach. Below, he tells us what he selected, the personal impact of the work, and why it’s never easy to choose favorites:

Being asked to select five out of the 60 or more films and videos that we selected for Art Video, the Art Basel Miami Beach project where we screen on the vast wall of the New World Center at SoundScape Park, and in 5 pods inside the fair, is a tall order as there are so many of the works that I could choose. My selections were shaped by the notion of “poetics,” which gave me a focus and a rhythm on my decision-making. I also created titles for each screening program that reflected my choices such as “Love, Time & Decorum.”

It is the sound and music of the art works that formed and led my thought processes and these five works I have selected all had a very powerful audio resonance with me.

A selection of five works in no particular order:

1. Sirens of Chrome – Jesper Just
There is sound, music, and poetics in Jesper’s work that touches me within moments of seeing any of his works and lingers in my mind long after any screening or viewing. “Sirens of Chrome” felt perfect for the situation of where it will be screened on the huge 7,000 sq ft wall of the New World Center – with the Miami traffic running alongside and an audience comprised of a wide slice of the Miami community. I am also interviewing Jesper in the fair’s  Art Salon program, in a talk I entitled “The Poetics of Enchantment,” based on the effect his work has on me.

2. Repeat after reading – Mauricio Lupini
In my selecting, these Lupini films became the introductory sound of these programs, a kind of art fair soundtrack, as they spell out in flashes of black and white text and play bursts of Latin American music, which is so much part of the multi-cultural human landscape in Miami. They instantly make a laid-back happy mood, as well as a call to audience observation and participation.

3. Anti-Mercator – William Kentridge
William Kentridge is a modern alchemist, creating magical and mesmerising works from seemingly base materials that engage audiences on so many levels. I can always view his work over and over again; he is a brilliant and true artist. He also collaborates perfectly with the composer Philip Miller, whose music infuses the works with an added dynamism and sublime.

4. Blessed Blessed Oblivion – Jumana Manna
Jumana was a real discovery for me in this project. Her work immediately touched and engaged me on so many levels, its use of language and poetry, from the delightfully crude to the profound, the technical quality of the filming and subject focus. The Arab music is a joy and there is much humor. However, the message is a striking and very human observation of a deep-rooted misogyny.

5. Counting In – Tim Davis
This film and other works by Tim, create in me the tense anticipation of what is about to happen that never does. Here we have band after band about to start a piece of music and it never starts, yet that is the real joy we have in much that we do, see, and experience – that of anticipation, regardless of it being fulfilled or not. The program he is in ultimately has much fulfillment in other glorious artists’ works that feature the music of Sigur Ros and Antony and the Johnsons.

David Gryn is the founder and Director of Artprojx, which screens, curates and promotes artists’ moving image projects usually in the context of the cinema, working with leading international contemporary art galleries, art fairs, institutes, and artists. Artprojx also creates fundraising, development, audience, marketing strategies, projects and special events for arts organisations, artists and charities.

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Love, Time and Decorum at Art Basel Miami Beach

TONIGHT – Wednesday December 5 at 8pm and 9pm

Art Video Nights at Art Basel Miami Beach

For the outdoor screenings at the New World Center, David Gryn of Artprojx has selected eight programs running over four nights.

Location: New World Center, SoundScape Park, 500 17th Street, Miami Beach
Admission to Art Video Nights is FREE.

Wednesday December 5 at 8pm – Love, Time & Decorum
This year’s edition of Art Video opens with a program about body language, behavior, knowledge, and motion: it traces the undercurrent of sensuality and anxiety connecting these otherwise disparate films.

Mauricio Lupini | Repeat after reading (O BA), 2011, 1’29” | Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporáneo
Evandro Machado | Desmaterial, 2011, 7′ | A Gentil Carioca
William Kentridge | Anti-Mercator, 2010/11, 9’45” | Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, Lia Rumma
Adam Shecter | Hydra, 2006, 2’50” | Eleven Rivington
Ana Prvacki | The Greeting Committee, 2012, 3′ | Lombard Freid Gallery
Amar Kanwar | A Love Story, 2010, 5’37” | Marian Goodman Gallery
Sam Samore | Compendium of Perplexities, 2011, 7′ | Team Gallery
Robin Rhode | Open Court, 2012, 1′ | Lehmann Maupin
Marie Bovo | Subak, 2010, 4’50” | kamel mennour
Hans Schabus | Echo, 2009, 3’45” | Zero…

Wednesday December 5 at 9pm – Music, Magic & Melancholia
This program is inspired by the magic of music. Artists respond to the sounds of Sigur Rós and Antony and the Johnsons, reflecting on the spectrum of emotions that music can provoke, from anticipation to melancholy, love and rage, and the joys of making noise.

Tim Davis | Counting In, 3’30”, 2012 | Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
Simon Dybbroe Møller | The Loud Speaker, 3’55”, 2012 | Galerie Kamm
Ryan McGinley | Varúð, 2012, 8′ | Team Gallery
Adam Shecter | Mysteries of Love, 2002, 3’02” | Eleven Rivington, Antony and the Johnsons
Ragnar Kjartansson | Ég anda, 2012, 6’15” | i8 Gallery, Luhring Augustine
Adam Shecter | The Lake, 2003, 4’48” | Eleven Rivington, Antony and the Johnsons
Nick Abrahams | ekki mukk, 2012, 10’30” | Courtesy of the artist
Ari Marcopoulos | Detroit, 2010, 7’32” | Kavi Gupta Gallery, Marlborough Fine Art

http://www.artprojx.com