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

Tickets on sale NOW

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

Twitter @Artprojx @HackneyPH @ArtprojxCinema

Facebook event

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/

Shirin Neshat: Turbulent (still)

BODIES WITHOUT ORGANS

14th, 16th, 21st, 23rd May

at 6.45 pm

at Hackney Picturehouse

 270 Mare Street, London E8 1HE

Students from the Curating Contemporary Art MA programme at the Royal College of Art present a series of four film screenings entitled Bodies without Organs. Inspired by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s notion, ‘the body without organs,’ these four programmes refer us to the sensory structures, rhythms and logics which underlie appearances. The programme explores the experimental camera’s ability to deterritorialise and defamiliarise, to reveal invisible worlds, forms and meanings that extend beyond the literal bodies that we inhabit everywhere and are part of.

By taking a different ‘body’ as its starting point, each programme will explore how artists and filmmakers have used the camera to deconstruct the relation of subject to object that binds our everyday perception. Through a rich variety of contemporary and historical material, Bodies without Organs aims to transport its audience to a realm of flux, instability and changing intensities.

Booking recommended: Tickets are £6 per screening, £5 concessions

Book tickets via these links: The Site  / The Voice / The Pulse  / The Fall

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THE SITE – Tuesday 14th May, 6.45pm

This programme, including films by Arthur Lipsett, Patrick Keiller and Natasha Mendonca, explores the way in which the movements of parts (animate or inanimate) within a metropolis or site form a living and breathing set of collective rhythms. It looks at different ways in which the camera tracks moments of expansion and contraction, rising and collapse, cohesion and fragmentation.

Bridges Go Round, Shirley Clarke, 1958
a-b-city, Dieter Hormel and Brigitte Bühler, 1985
21-87, Arthur Lipsett, 1964
The End, Patrick Keiller, 1986
Jan Villa, Natasha Mendonca, 2010

Ticket holders for ‘The Site’ will receive a complimentary beer courtesy of Harviestoun Brewery.

Book here:
http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/film/The_Site_Programme_1/

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THE VOICE – Thursday 16th May, 6.45pm

Featuring work by Shirin Neshat, Beatrice Gibson, and Turner Prize nominee, Laure Prouvost, this programme considers how sound becomes a protagonist – how it moves beyond the camera’s visual field and into a different realm of meaning. Here, voices resonate beyond their source, adhering to a new logic and narrative by deconstructing and disrupting the linear.

Turbulent, Shirin Neshat, 1998
Owt, Laure Prouvost, 2007
The Tiger’s Mind, Beatrice Gibson, 2012
Sniper, Adela Jušić, 2008
Turn On, Adrian Paci, 2004
Veronique Doisneau, Jérôme Bel, 2004

Book here:
http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/film/The_Voice_Programme_2/

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THE PULSE – Tuesday 21st May, 6.45pm

This selection of films from artists including Maya Deren, Malcom Le Grice, Guy Maddin and Gunvor Nelson, looks at the pulse or rhythmic movement within a film and asks how that movement can control or emancipate a narrative (and our perception of it). Techniques such as abstraction, repetition and layering connect all these films — challenging and deepening our sense of reality. The screening will include a special 35mm screening of Daïchi Saïto’s Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis, a first time showing in London.

Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair, Guy Maddin, 2009
Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis, Daïchi Saïto, 2009
Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, Mark Leckey, 1999
My Name is Oona, Gunvor Nelson, 1969
Waterfall, Chick Strand, 1967
Berlin Horse, Malcolm Le Grice, 1970
Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Deren, 1943

Book here:
http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/film/The_Pulse_Programme_3/

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THE FALL – Thursday 22nd May, 6.45pm

Featuring works by John Smith, Emily Richardson and Cyprien Gaillard, this programme questions what happens when structures collapse and individual voices lose their sense of fixed locality. These films explore the potentiality of architectural frameworks (specifically those of modernist design) to encase individuals and test how traces or memories can exist beyond these ostensibly solid structures.

Blight, John Smith, 1994-6,
Block, Emily Richardson, 2005
Desniansky Raion, Cyprien Gaillard, 2007

Book here:
http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/film/The_Fall_Programme_4/

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BODIES IN MOTION
3rd of May-1st of June

Bodies in Motion is an accompanying programme of artist moving image displayed looped on monitors in the Hackney Picturehouse exhibition space. The programme features a variety of archival material which explores the appropriation and manipulation of the body by the camera. Featuring seminal works by Yvonne Rainer, Norman McLaren, Lumière Brothers and Maya Deren, each of the four films isolate and celebrate the dynamism of motion and viewer’s ability to visually arrest the forward march of time.

Pas de Deux, Norman McLaren, 1968
Danse Serpentine, Lumière Brothers, 1894
Hand Movie, Yvonne Rainer, 1966
A Study in Choreography for Camera, Maya Deren, 1945,

****Entrance for the exhibition is free*****

Curated by: Joseph Constable, Yuval Etgar, Huma Kabakci, Tarini Malik, Zsuzsanna Stánitz, Aisha Stoby, and Angelica Sule

Organised in partnership with LUX, London.

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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

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

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

‘THERE ARE BETTER THINGS TO DO’ 8:30 PM

EXHIBITION OPEN 
13/01 – 12/02/2013

THURSDAY – SUNDAY,  12 – 6 PM

CUL DE SAC GALLERY

65 – 69 COUNTY STREET

LONDON, SE1 4AD

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David Gryn

david@artprojx.com

+447711127848

http://www.artprojx.com

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 &

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 &

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

TONIGHT - Friday December 7 at 8pm / 9pm / 10pm

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.

Friday December 7 at

8pm – Shadows, Circles & Fire
Forward, backward, repetition, circles and spirals: these films move in their own particular ways through space and time, emphasizing the transitory and the fleeting.

Mauricio Lupini | Repeat after reading (SA BA DA BA), 2011, 1’29” | Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporáneo
Guy Ben-Ner | Foreign Names, 2012, 4’48” | Konrad Fischer Galerie
Cao Fei | Shadow Life, 2011, 10′ | Lombard Freid Gallery
Mircea Cantor | Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, 2012, 3’43” | Yvon Lambert
Andrea Bowers | Shadows (Aztec Dancers at Protest March, Los Angeles, 2011), 2012, 5’05” | Susanne  Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Praz-Delavallade, Andrew Kreps Gallery
Rashaad Newsome | Shade Compositions (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Preview), 2012, 25′ | Marlborough Gallery
Daniel Arsham | Tearing up the Museum, 2011, 2’16” | Galerie Perrotin

9pm – Laughing, Wondering & Meditating
Young men posing amid traffic in the Chinese city of Guangzhou; a fictional factory that produces canned laughter for sitcoms; a rickety elevator in a building where odd things happen. The films in this program explore different kinds of strangeness, ranging from works embracing unexpected encounters, to humor, anxiety and madness.

Mauricio Lupini | Repeat after reading (BIM BOM), 2006, 47” | Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporáneo
Julieta Aranda | Springtime, 2010, 1’23” | Galería OMR
Melanie Smith | Elevador, 2012, 7’49” | Galeria Nara Roesler
Sam Samore | Glossary of Delusions, 2010, 6′ | Team Gallery
Dineo Seshee Bopape | The Problem Of Beauty, 2009, 7’19” | Stevenson
Julika Rudelius | Rituals, 2012, 14′ | Galerie Michael Janssen
Theaster Gates | Sun Salutation, 2011, 4’41” | Kavi Gupta Gallery
Yoshua Okon | Canned Laughter, 2009, 9’56” | Mor Charpentier
Jordan Wolfson | Untitled, 2007, 3′ | Johann König

10pm – Spirit, Breath & Air
This program begins with breath, but also touches on the visual and the tactile, with explorations of everyday life, locations and objects.

David Zink Yi | Pneuma, 2010, 1’23” | Hauser & Wirth, Johann König
Chen Xiaoyun | Bi, 2007, 5’30” | ShanghART & H Space
Sam Samore | Archipelago of Enigmas, 2012, 16′ | Team Gallery
Hu Xiangqian | The labor song I night, 2012, 7’12” | Long March Space
Pierre Bismuth | Following the left hand of Jacques Lacan, 2012, 5′ | Team Gallery
Eija-Liisa Ahtila | Fishermen (Etudes, no. 1), 2007, 5’40” | Marian Goodman Gallery
Jumana Manna | Blessed Blessed Oblivion (censored), 2010, 23′ | CRG Gallery
Nate Boyce | Reliquary House (excerpts), 2011, 2’58” | Altman Siegel

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