Artprojx presents Jumana Manna, Mickalene Thomas, Susanna Wallin 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

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

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A First Thursday 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/

Bodies Without Organs at Hackney Picturehouse

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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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

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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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13/01 – 12/02/2013

THURSDAY – SUNDAY,  12 – 6 PM

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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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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.

http://whitewallmag.com/all/art/director-of-artprojx-david-grynon-art-video-at-abmb#

Artprojx screening at Ikon Gallery – The Voice and the Lens

Artprojx presents a selection of artists’ films and videos 

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The Voice and The Lens at Ikon Gallery

Featuring: 

David Blandy

Mel Brimfield

Kota Ezawa

Dara Friedman

Rashaad Newsome

Martha Rosler

Terry Smith

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The Voice and the Lens: Part I 

at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Friday 9 November, 7-9.30pm (doors 6.45pm)

Tickets £6 / £4 students & unemployed

Weekend pass £10.50 / £6.50 students & unemployed

To book visit www.bookwhen.com/ikongallery

See the full programme: http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/programme/current/event/711/autumn_almanac_the_voice_and_t/

Forthcoming projects – coming very soon: 

David Gryn / Artprojx curates for MOCAtv. The Poetics of Anxiety and Melancholia. Artists: Meredith Danluck, Jesper Just, Kerry Tribe, Matthew Stone, Nick Abrahams, Stuart Croft, Sam Samore and Thomas Nordanstad, Shoja Azari, Jumana Manna, Hans op de Beeck, Nicholas Provost, Susanna Wallin – http://www.youtube.com/user/MOCATV

David Gryn / Artprojx curates Art Video for Art Basel Miami Beach 2012, Dec. Artists inc: Tim Davis, Adam Shecter, Ryan McGinley, Ragnar Kjartansson, Nick Abrahams, Ari Marcopoulous, Julieta Aranda, Melanie Smith, Sam Samore, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Julika Rudelius, Theaster Gates, Yoshua Okon, Jordan Wolfson, Mauricio Lupini, David Adamo, Jesper Just, Jack Early, Takeshi Murata, Terence Gower, Sefer Memişoğlu, Michael Sailstorfer, Gigi Scaria, Guy Ben-Ner, Cao Fei, Mircea Cantor, Andrea Bowers, Rashaad Newsome, Daniel Arsham, Drew Heitzler & Sam Sharit, Josiah McElheny, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Pedro Reyes, Rubén Ortiz Torres & Emmanuel Lubezki, Michael Portnoy, David Zink Yi, Chen Xiaoyun, Hu Xiangqian, Pierre Bismuth, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Nate Boyce, Evandro Machado, William Kentridge, Adam Shecter, Ana Prvacki, Amar Kanwar, Robin Rhode, Marie Bovo, Hans Schabus, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Jumana Manna. 

Programme details: http://miamibeach.artbasel.com/global/show_document.asp?id=aaaaaaaaaaaznjk

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Artprojx presents Penny Siopis films at Prince Charles Cinema

AN ARTPROJX – FRIEZE ART FAIR WEEK – SPECIAL CINEMA SCREENING

Artprojx presents Penny Siopis at the Prince Charles Cinema

ARTPROJX PRESENTS

‘THIS IS A TRUE STORY’: FOUR SHORT FILMS BY PENNY SIOPIS.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 8.15-9.45pm (doors open at 8pm).

Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, London WC2H 7BY.

With TJ Demos and Penny Siopis in conversation and introducing the films.

FREE BEER & POPCORN.

Tickets £10 (discount £5 for artists, students, curators and PCC members).

Box office: +44 (0)20 74943654 www.princecharlescinema.com

(Each ticket is entitled to one free beer and popcorn).

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STEVENSON and ARTPROJX are pleased to present four short films by Penny Siopis at the Prince Charles Cinema in London as part of the Frieze Art Fair VIP programme. The screening will be introduced by writer/curator TJ Demos in conversation with the artist.

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Penny Siopis screening preview on FAD written by Yvette Gresle http://www.fadwebsite.com/2012/09/22/frieze-penny-siopis-at-prince-charles-cinema/

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For more event information contact David Gryn at Artprojx david@artprojx.com +447711127848

Penny Siopis screening preview by Yvette Greslé for FAD

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PENNY SIOPIS. ‘THE MASTER IS DROWNING’. DIGITAL VIDEO AND SOUND (STILL), 9 MINUTES, 2012. COURTESY OF STEVENSON.

‘My interest is in combining sequences of found 8mm film with sound and text (appearing as subtitles) to shape stories about people caught up, often tragically, in larger political and social upheavals. The elemental qualities of these stories appeal to me as they speak to questions far beyond their specific origins’ – Penny Siopis.

‘This is a true story’ is a screening of four short films by South African artist Penny Siopis. Part of the Frieze Art Fair VIP programme, the screening (presented by Artprojx and Stevenson) is to take place on Thursday 11 October (8.15-10pm) at the Prince Charles cinema, 7 Leicester Place, London WC2H 7BY.  The event includes a conversation between Siopis and art historian T.J Demos.

PENNY SIOPIS. ‘OBSCURE WHITE MESSENGER’. 8MM FILM TRANSFERRED TO DVD FOR PROJECTION (STILL), 15 MIN, 7 SEC, 2010. COURTESY OF STEVENSON.

One of the most significant artists working in South Africa today, Siopis’ career spans over 30 years.  In the 1980s her ‘history’ paintings imagined counter-narratives to the history propagated by the apartheid regime. Her paintings, object based installations, photographs and films explore what she calls the ‘poetics of vulnerability’.  In her films, human vulnerability is given form in fragile images and materials that tell stories about anonymous, everyday people – their lives shaped by political violence and domination.

Siopis is represented by Stevenson (a gallery based in Cape Town and Johannesburg). Stevenson focuses on contemporary art practice in South Africa as well as Africa and the diaspora. Its FOREX programme – initiated in 2009 – has brought the work of international artists to South Africa. These include Francis Alÿs, Glen Ligon, Rineke Dijkstra, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Walid Raad.  In London, Stevenson’s artists have appeared in shows at Tate Modern, the Photographers Gallery, Haunch of Venison and the V&A.

PENNY SIOPIS. ‘THE MASTER IS DROWNING’. DIGITAL VIDEO AND SOUND (STILL), 9 MINUTES, 2012. COURTESY OF STEVENSON.

In 2005, Siopis showed at the Freud Museum, with Three Essays on Shame. The show, at the centenary of Freud’s Three Essays on Sexuality (1905), staged a dialogue between Freud’s work, and the conditions of South Africa. Siopis often explores stories that are idiosyncratic and buried beneath the surfaces of history and society. Her re-staging of events, counter the idea of history as an objective, rational project. She deliberately blurs the boundaries between what we imagine to be true and what we think of as fiction. Films such as Obscure White Messenger(2010) are constructed from found 8mm film (home movies from the ‘50s and ‘60s which she converts to a digital format). The original footage is an intriguing document of domestic life and travel, recast in narratives that are ambiguous and open to the projections of the viewer.

In Siopis’ films, texts and sound draw us into an emotional space that confuses the relationship between our own inner narratives (as we watch) and those presented by the film. Emotion and its various registers are an important part of Siopis’ process as an artist. We read her films as dream-like sequences of apparently disconnected parts, their surfaces disturbed by effects of light and age. Artefacts in a digital age, and objects with a life, and material history, of their own.

PENNY SIOPIS. ‘OBSCURE WHITE MESSENGER’. 8MM FILM TRANSFERRED TO DVD FOR PROJECTION (STILL), 15 MIN, 7 SEC, 2010. COURTESY OF STEVENSON.

The stories the films tell speak also to larger political concerns: to histories of migration, exile, colonialism, apartheid. Both Obscure White Messenger and The Master is Drowning are idiosyncratic explorations of 1960s South Africa, and apartheid in the era of notorious South African Prime Minister H.F Verwoerd (known popularly as the ‘architect of apartheid’). Siopis produces an alternative history told through the stories of Dimitri Tsafendas who assassinated Verwoerd in the House of Assembly in 1966, and David Beresford Pratt, who attempted to assassinate him in 1960. Both Tsafendas and Pratt exist as marginal figures imagined by texts and images that range from psychiatric reports to the media.

PENNY SIOPS. ‘OBSCURE WHITE MESSENGER’. 8MM FILM TRANSFERRED TO DVD FOR PROJECTION (STILL), 15 MIN, 7 SEC, 2010. COURTESY OF STEVENSON.

It will be interesting to see how the site of the Prince Charles cinema mediates how it is we watch the films. The cinema, which opened in 1962, has a cult following, and a programme that includes cult, classic and arthouse films. Moving pictures are part of Siopis’ family history, and My Lovely Day (1997) was originally shown in a spatial reconstruction of a 1920s movie theatre (produced on an intimate scale, and complete with shabby folding velour seats). The installation first appeared at the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor in 1997.

PENNY SIOPIS. ‘MY LOVELY DAY’ (STILL). 8MM COLOUR FILM TRANSFERRED TO VIDEO AND DVD, 21MIN, 15SEC, 1997. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST.

The voice that Siopis imagines in the making of ‘My Lovely Day’ is that of her grandmother who fled Asia Minor in the wake of Turkish invasion, and travelled from Smyrna, to England and then South Africa. The film appropriates 8mm home movies – shot in the ‘50s and ‘60s by the artist’s mother. We hear music and Siopis’ mother sing ‘This is my lovely day’ (recorded onto a 78 rpm record, made in 1955). The scratchy nostalgia of the record is interjected by the urgent rhythms of music from Greece. The film is an intimate telling of domestic life and family history, against wider backdrops of political oppression and trauma. It is also a telling of prejudice and racial segregation made ordinary. This prejudice made ordinary is a critical point of the films which make visible the nuances of living in apartheid South Africa as a person classified white. Memory is a disruptive, critical force in the telling of history. And there is much at stake in how we remember and represent the past.

PENNY SIOPIS. ‘OBSCURE WHITE MESSENGER’. 8MM FILM TRANSFERRED TO DVD FOR PROJECTION (STILL),15 MIN, 7 SEC, 2010. COURTESY OF STEVENSON.

The screening of Siopis’ films can be situated in relationship to the many shows that have explored film and memory in recent years. Yael Bartana’s powerful trilogy ‘And Europe will be stunned’ – was presented by Artangel at the Hornsey Town Hall this summer.  Bartana’s films stage highly charged performances that are complex explorations of  how the Holocaust is remembered (she engages the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland). Kutluğ Ataman’s multi-screen video installation fff  (at the Whitechapel gallery in 2010) draws, similarly to Siopis, from ‘found family footage’ (shot in the ‘50s and ‘60s). Ataman worked with the archives of two English families in post-war Britain.  But unlike fff, Siopis’ films draw from home movies that are largely anonymous – often discovered in markets in Greece and South Africa.  Recognising people, places and events often depends on prior knowledge, if we are able to at all.

PENNY SIOPIS. ‘OBSCURE WHITE MESSENGER’. 8MM FILM TRANSFERRED TO DVD FOR PROJECTION (STILL), 15 MIN, 7 SEC, 2010, COURTESY OF STEVENSON.

Contemporary art worlds are global phenomena. The past two decades have seen the expansion of international platforms for art production: these include biennales, artist residencies, art fairs. Travelling artists and curators are ubiquitous. While there are points of connection between art practices across the globe, there are also regional particularities. In London, the interest in performance and moving image media has culminated in the opening of The Tanks at Tate Modern. In New York Performa, founded by RoseLee Goldberg in 2004 has played a critical role in the way we think about performance and its relationship to media such as film. Both The Tanks and Performa are international in impetus as much as they are local, and both function from cities that we imagine are cosmopolitan and as concentrated hubs for creative and intellectual production.

PENNY SIOPIS. ‘OBSCURE WHITE MESSENGER’. 8MM FILM TRANSFERRED TO DVD FOR PROJECTION (STILL), 15 MIN, 7 SEC, 2010. COURTESY OF STEVENSON.

Britain has a long-standing relationship with a number of African countries, both as colonial power and as part of a globalised present. London is home to a substantial African diaspora, and migration from the UK to South Africa is in turn part of South African history. In London, contemporary art from the African continent is certainly becoming more visible.  Hopefully these will counter the stereotypes that continue to haunt the ways in which Africa is imagined (stereotypes produced by former colonial powers and Africans themselves still situate African cultural production within an ethnographic frame). It will be interesting to see how London audiences, and indeed the African diaspora itself, relate to different kinds of visibility. And to art practices that question what it is to think about art today. 

PENNY SIOPIS. ‘THE MASTER IS DROWNING’. DIGITAL VIDEO AND SOUND (STILL), 9 MINUTES, 2012. COURTESY OF STEVENSON.

This is a true story is a Frieze VIP event (all welcome)

Doors open at 8pm, Thursday 11 October (www.princecharlescinema.com)

Tickets £10 (discount £5 for artists, students, curators)

Box office: 020 74943654

Gallery, Art School Groups and Frieze VIP guests RSVP to David Gryn events@artprojx.com

For more information about Penny Siopis and Stevenson see:  www.stevenson.info. Stevenson, will be at the Frieze art fair (11-14 October 2012) showing work by Nicholas Hlobo, Nandipha Mntambo and Zanele Muholi.www.friezelondon.com. This is the first time Stevenson is participating in Frieze, London: previous fairs include Frieze New York, Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, and Paris Photo.

‘This is a true story’ consists of four short films:  My Lovely Day (1997), Obscure White Messenger (2010), Communion (2011), The Master is Drowning (2012).

T.J Demos is an art historian, writer and curator – based at University College London, He has written widely about contemporary art (including Dara Birnbaum, the Otolith Group, Kutluğ Ataman and Zarina Bhimji) . He was the co-curator of Uneven Geographies: Art and Globalisation at Nottingham Contemporary in 2010 and director of the research-exhibition project Zones of Conflict: Rethinking Contemporary Art during Global Crisis in 2008-9.

Yvette Greslé for FAD

(Yvette is working on Siopis as an art history PhD candidate at University College London, some of the thoughts presented here are drawn from this work)

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