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

http://miamibeach.artbasel.com/go/id/eoe/

http://www.artprojx.com/Art_Video_2012_ArtBaselMiamiBeach.html

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David Gryn, Director & Founder of Artprojx screens, curates and promotes artists’ moving image projects, working with leading international contemporary art galleries, online platforms, art fairs, institutes and artists.

Artprojx projects have included: Art Basel Miami Beach, MOCAtv, Gagosian, White Cube, Sadie Coles HQ, Lisson Gallery, The Modern Institute, Whitney Museum, Tate Britain, ICA, Frieze Art Fair and artists have included: Christian Marclay, Dara Friedman, Santiago Sierra, Mark Wallinger, Christian Jankowski, Tracey Emin, Susan Hiller, Dexter Dalwood, Jeremy Deller, Wilhelm Sasnal, William Eggleston, Natalie Djurberg, William Kentridge, Luke Fowler. www.artprojx.com

Artprojx screening at The Voice and the Lens – Ikon Gallery 9 Nov

Dara Friedman, Musical 2008 (courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown enterprise)

David Gryn / Artprojx programmes an evening of artists’ films and videos. Featuring artists: 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

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

Performances and screenings

Second Floor Galleries

Adam de la Cour performs his interpretation of Kurt Schwitters’ seminal text performance piece, Ursonate, with Neil Luck, alongside his own performance pieces reimagining Al Jolson (La Nosloj), and I-Paine, a violent reading of Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man featuring martial arts…

Adam also performs Live Adult Chat, his new work with Bruce McLean, created especially for The Voice and the Lens (see Exhibition for details of Drumstick, the film counterpart to this performance).

Amy Cunningham performs Oracle, created for The Voice and the Lens (see Exhibition for details).

Neil Luck & Fiona Bevan present a new collaborative work incorporating Luck’s trademark post-symbolist foley and Bevan’s penetrating feminist subtexts. Their interrogation of recorded media takes the form of juxtaposed scenes drawing influences from Grand Opera to Soap Opera.

“Spine-tingling. Fiona Bevan completely transported me” Alex James, Blur

“Soulful and eccentric” Guardian

Dante Rendle Traynor performs a new work, building on his highly theatrical alter egos, together with his film something for everyone.

Luke Deane presents a performance of luke and luke like to look and listen (see details of the film in the Exhibition).

Sepideh Saii – Behind The Scene (2010)

This film features footage from La Vie en Rose, the Hollywood portrait of Edith Piaf. A young woman is seen intently watching and listening to ‘Piaf’ being called from her dressing room to perform on stage. When ‘Piaf’ finally exits her dressing room, so does our heroine, masking Piaf both visually and in audio by singing her own estranged tune.

Stella Capes – Knights Move Thinking (2009)

Shot with a single take, Knights Move Thinking sets up a struggle between performer and voice to construct an image for camera. A voiceover recites fragments from theatre scene-settings, whilst a ‘stagehand’ builds an abstract composition challenging what’s being described. The fixed camera endeavours to capture the unfolding composition, which is constructed in almost complete darkness.

Ed Atkins Delivery To The Following Recipient Failed Permanently (2011)

“Depth, both physical and emotional, is phony here: the back of a head as the most opaque, resistant thing I can think of; smoke as an explication of a particularly morbid kind of speech, like barium quaffed before an x-ray to illuminate those darkened paths inside you; words that seem caring– but which are in fact exploitative tropes conveyed with a cool impunity to anyone who’ll listen. Music! – especially for you.”

Samuel Beckett – Not I (1972) 

Not I features a spot-lit mouth in an otherwise dark space, focusing on an actress’s mouth. The mouth utters at a ferocious pace a logorrhoea of fragmented, jumbled sentences which obliquely tells the story of a woman who appears to have suffered an unspecified traumatic experience. This performance, featuring Julianne Moore and directed by Neil Jordan, was made for the Beckett on Film project.

Anri Sala – Answer Me (2008)

Filmed in the abandoned dome of a Buckminster Fuller-designed surveillance station, the dome’s distinctive echo, triggered in the film by a man playing the drums in the large, empty space, drowns out all of the dialogue spoken by the female character, with the exception of the words that give the film its title.

Elsewhere in the galleries:

Simon Lewandowski demonstrates and performs with his automatic voice machines.

ARTPROJX Screenings 

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Events Room, 7-9.30pm

Artprojx programmes a night of artists’ films and videos.

Featuring artists: David Blandy, Mel Brimfield, Kota Ezawa, Dara Friedman, Rashaad Newsome, Martha Rosler, Terry Smith

Director David Gryn writes:

‘Sound marshals my seeing and music dictates much of my moving image tastes. Quoting Bill Viola: “ .. sound … goes around corners, through walls, is sensed simultaneously 360 degrees around the observer and even penetrates the body …” All the artists that I have selected have taken the voice and made me want to watch their films and videos over and over again.’

ARTPROJX is a leading brand that screens, curates and promotes artists’ moving image and other art projects, working with leading international contemporary art galleries, art fairs, institutes and artists. Forthcoming project Art Video at Art Basel Miami Beach 2012

David Blandy – White and Black Minstrel Show (2007), From The Underground (2001), I Am (2003-04), Sons of Slaves (2006), and Secrets and Lies (2002)

Blandy’s work deals with his problematic relationship with popular culture, highlighting the slippage and tension between fantasy and reality in everyday life. Either as a white man mouthing the words to the underground soul classic “Is it because I’m black” in White and Black Minstrel Show (2007), or discovering his father courtesy of Star Wars in I Am (2003), Blandy is searching for his cultural position in the world.

Rashaad Newsome – Shade Compositions (2009)

Newsome’s Shade Compositions takes up the body language and voice of certain women of colour — wondering how a seemingly sassy street expression extends across the globe as an open vernacular.

Mel Brimfield – He Hit Me…And It Felt Like A Kiss (2011)

Singer Gwyneth Herbert performs a reworked version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Memories as a half-carved sculpture emerging from a block of marble, but wistfully regretting her abandonment by the sculptor having been relegated to storage when he became interested in abstraction.

Kota Ezawa – Beatles Über California (2010)

Ezawa’s mash up blends an animation of The Beatles’ 1964 performance on The Ed Sullivan Show with the Dead Kennedy’s ‘California Über Alles’.

Dara Friedman – Musical (2007/08)

For three weeks Friedman invited ordinary New Yorkers to burst into song on street corners, in coffee shops, museums and train stations. Friedman’s film collates those discrete happenings, creating a sprawling American musical that is by turns uproariously funny and devastatingly sad.

Martha Rosler – If it’s too bad to be true it could be disinformation(1985)

Rosler’s video uses a partially demagnetised videotape to engage problems of reading popular news media. This video presents news coverage of US conflicts in Latin America during the early 80s, which various media techniques for vilification, obscuring fact with allegation, propagating an illusion of truth.

Terry Smith – Unsung (2012)

Unsung is an homage to Robert Rauschenberg and Merce Cunningham, inspired by their performance at Dartington in 1964. It features vocalist Linda Hirst, who has worked with Cage, Berio, the Michael Nyman Band, Royal Opera House and many more.

DAVID GRYN / ARTPROJX

+447711127848

david@artprojx.com

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http://davidgryn.wordpress.com

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Artprojx and workinprogress presents Performance on 18 May at Reial Cercle Artistic Barcelona

Roi Vaara 'Artist's Dilemma' (1997) photograph by Naranja

Artprojx & workinprogress present

in association with LOOP Barcelona

Performance

screening of films and videos by

artists including:

boyleANDshaw

David Austen

David Blandy

Matt Calderwood

Marie Losier

Marianela Orozco

Nigel Slight

Terry Smith

Gary Stevens

Roi Vaara

Jessica Voorsanger

Carl Von Weiler

Richard Wilson

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18 May 2011 at 19 h.

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Reial Cercle Artístic

C/ Arcs, 5

08002 Barcelona

93 301 59 37

http://www.reialcercleartistic.com

Artist Film and Video Barcelona Loop (Notes from Terry Smith)

Artist throughout history have been at the forefront of technology. In the sixties taking full use of 16 mm and then when 8mm film was introduced for the domestic market capitalized on the opportunity.

The availability of the new technology, allowed artist and filmmakers to explore the medium. From the structuralist works with filmmakers like Stan Brakhage and Michael Snow who explored the media as experimental film to those exploring the more theatrical aspects like Stuart Sherman and Derek Jarman, to artists like Bruce Nauman, Chris Burden, Richard Serra and Joan Jonas who turned from performance to moving image.

Today artists are taking on cinema, with artists like Steve McQueen and Douglas Gordon, moving into the world of feature films. Art has always been involved with popular culture, but there has often been an uneasy relationship between the different strands of the use of moving image; feature films, experimental film and artists film and video works.

There is a long history of artists use of film and video, but it’s a history not often taught in art school. This collection of artists demonstrates some of the different strands in current artists practice in the medium of film and video.

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This selection is in two parts the first by the artist Terry Smith of workinprogress and the second by David Gryn the director of Artprojx. What is fascinating about this collection of works is in the different areas that each selector chosen to emphasize. Smith is looking at the sculptural and performative works, while Gryn is concerned more with the theatrical and filmic tendencies in contemporary video. This is of course just a small selection of the wide range of works that occupy the same ground.

Performance artists have from the beginning embraced the medium of film and video. It is a way for performers to distribute their work to a wider audience and into different contexts. So the medium is used by a mixed group, from artists, filmmakers and performance artists all emphasizing different aspects. This collection present some of the range of work that can be seen today.

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Part one running time 35 minutes

Part two running time 55 minutes

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Part one ( Part one running time 35 minutes )

David Austen, Matt Calderwood, Marianela Orozco, Nigel Slight, Gary Stevens, Terry Smith, Carl von Weiler, Roi Vaara

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Part two ( Part two running time 55 minutes )

boyleANDshaw, David Blandy, Marie Losier and Jessica Voorsanger

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PART ONE (Notes from Terry Smith)

David Austen is primarily a painter, but it’s probably more accurate to say he is a picture maker. The transition from prints and photography to film and video as been seamless. In this work Man Smoking, Austen keeps the 16mm camera fixed on subject, the Italian artist Enzo Cucchi. The subject nervously shifts his balance aware, self-conscious of the act of being looked at.

Matt Calderwood takes performance to its extreme, coming out as much from the earlier videos of Chris Burden and Bruce Nauman as well as British Artists Harrison and Wood, vaudiville, the comic situations and extraordinary play to camera has seen Calderwood pursue a body of work that captures the set piece ‘act’ that aspires as much to sculpture as early silent comedy

Marianela Orozco, is a Cuban artists who continues to live in Havana. Her work oscillates between performance and photography and film. The work here Sal is a block of salt that is worn away by the sea. Her works often deals with a single locked off shot. Her work explores the incidents of real life, finding poetry in the everyday.

Nigel Slight comes in a sense form the old school. Contemporary with Stuart Brisley Brian Catling and Alastair MacLennan, Slight presents performances that can best be described as hard core. Dealing with all kinds of subjects, controversial and taboo. His live performances have elements of humour and threat that categories his work.

Gary Stevens made his first videos in the mid seventies. A graduate of Goldsmiths College, he moved quickly from text works to performances. He has shown internationally for many years, and continues to be one of the most innovative performance artists in the UK. He has recently returned to video with a series of video works that explore the possibilities technology.

Terry Smith I have included my own work here because it demonstrates and pays homage to Bruce Nauman and artists who influence is immense. This was a work developed as a project in a London art school.

Carl Von Weiler is as artist who works with video and performance. Just like in painting the self portrait is a device for the artist to use their own face or body to create simple works. The act of representing the self as the self has a long history in art.

Roi Vaara  has been traveling the world from his native Norway, creating performance at the Venice Biennial to the Hayward Gallery in London. Primarily a performer he has translated his work, like many performers the use of video to enhance and compliment the performance work.

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Part two – notes (well almost notes) by David Gryn

boyleANDshaw, David Blandy, Marie Losier and Jessica Voorsanger

The choice of these artists is a combination based on the quality of their work, their risk taking, their sense of fun and their warm collaborative nature. I traditionally do not say much about artists’ work – as I like art to speak for itself or let the artists speak for themselves – however I was compelled to write even this much as Terry Smith has been so diligent above. Terry is an arch collaborator and has been a great support on this project and many others. I regard performance and video as strange labels – nothing more than names of media that artists use to make their work. In this case the artists I have selected make work through various processes (performance, installations, video/film etc) and film is a way of capturing their work.

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boyleANDshaw are growing from strength to strength, with a major performance project with Artprojx at the ICA last year and then for the ICA’s annual fundraiser this year, working with curator David Thorp on those projects and at Calvert 22 and beyond. Jessica Lack captures their essence in the Guardian: “The irascible boyleANDshaw scrape the very edge of artistic decency. Holed up in a cafe on Vauxhall Bridge Road they pen lurid sketches of the art world. Certainly not for the faint hearted, boyleANDshaw’s surreal visions suggest that there’s a hideous, self-loathing wretch lurking beneath every artist’s aloof, monosyllabic exterior. From comic drawings to bizarre happenings, boyleANDshaw push the boundaries of taste to its outer limits.”

David Blandy recent film and seventeen gallery exhibition Child of the Atom has been widely acclaimed. His work deals with his problematic relationship with popular culture, highlighting the slippage and tension between fantasy and reality in everyday life. The work in this compilation, Samurai Story, was part of an exhibition project collaboration with Artprojx and dub sound system legend Manasseh that featured at Artprojx Space, Whitechapel Gallery and Tate Britain.

Marie Losier has recently been introduced to Artprojx and her work is so full of brilliance, vitality, life and joie de vivre that it makes me smile. She is a film maker artist. Whimsical, poetic, dreamlike and unconventional, her films explore the life and work of other artists through an endless variety of cinematic means.

Jessica Voorsanger has a wonderful sense of mischief and amusement. She creates inter-active installations, objects, performances and events that reference pop and celebrity culture. Her recent project with Peckham Space was screened in NY during the Armory Show collaboration at the SVA Theatre with Artprojx Cinema

boyleANDshaw

Artist                                                   Title                                                        Year                        Duration

David Austen                                    Man Smoking                                     2008                        5:29

Roi Vaara                                          Artist Dilemma                                    1997                        5:00

Carl von Weiler                               Drop it                                                    1999                        4:17

Gary Stevens                                    Landscape /tracking                          1975                        3:00

Terry Smith                                      Fuck Nauman                                        2005                      0:53

Matt Calderwood                           Rope                                                         2000                       2:30

Nigel Slight                                    Anthem                                                   1998                        3:46

Marianela Orozco                        Sal                                                            2003                        3:00

Richard Wilson                            Turbine Hall Swimming pool           2000                        6:43

Maria Losier                                 Tony Conrad, DreaMinimalist         2008                        25:00

Jessica Voorsanger                     The Woody Allen Show                     2008                        14:10

David Blandy                                 Samurai Story                                      2008                        8:00

boyleANDshaw                            Bang it while ya can, Barcelona    2011                        10:00

Presentació de la sessió a càrrec de Terry Smith (Artista i comissari del programa) i David Gryn (Artprojx).

El programa reuneix una selecció de projectes que mostren diferents pràctiques creatives que incorporen elements performatius o teatrals.

El programa reúne una selección de obras que retratan diversas prácticas creativas informadas por elementos performativos y teatrales.

This collection of artists portrays various creative practices informed by performative and theatrical elements.

Un projecte fruit de la col·laboració de ARTPROJX, WORKINPROGRESS i Screen Projects.

http://www.loop-barcelona.com/

http://www.artprojx.com

http://www.loop-barcelona.com/eng/fitxa.php?id=238

Artprojx Cinema in New York 2011 – report

Artprojx Cinema at The SVA Theatre, NY

The Artprojx Cinema at the SVA Theatre project was a great success. Many artists, students, collectors, curators and other gallerists attended the large number of screenings throughout the week. We had wonderful feedback about showing films within the context of the cinema. Sales and gallery introductions were reported back to us at the art fair, as well as offers to the artists for further screenings and exhibitions. We were very pleased with the visual and sound quality of the screenings, also with many attending artists, galleries and curators who had never seen their work in such an impressive cinematic environment.

Artprojx Cinema posters

The value and awareness of the screenings extends to the vast local and global audience who were made aware of the project and programme but who could not attend.

Artprojx Cinema - full house

We had many meetings throughout the week with other major International Art Fairs, who were all impressed by the quality and depth of the programme and the project in general. A general thread had been that the screening of artists’ film and video is complicated and that Artprojx Cinema provides one of the best solutions to many of the screening problems faced by galleries and the art fairs.

As a result Artprojx Cinema has been invited to work on many other similar projects with Art Fairs and Galleries worldwide.

Contact: David Gryn or Poppy Gordon Lennox at artprojxcinema@gmail.com to discuss your project.

Artprojx Cinema

Artprojx Cinema at Night

 

GALLERIES AND THEIR SELECTED ARTISTS:
• ADA Gallery, New York – George Kuchar • Allan Stone Gallery, New York – Alfred Leslie • Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York – Brent Green • Filomena Soares Gallery, Lisbon – João Pedro Vale • Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia – Jennifer Levonian • Fredericks & Freiser, New York / Pilar Corrias, London / Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles – Mary Reid Kelley • Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen – Jesper Just • Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima – Diego Lama • Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki – HC Berg • Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna / Galerie Carlier-Gebauer, Berlin – Erik Schmidt • Gowen Contemporary, Geneva – Nick Laessing • Johansson Projects, Oakland – Tadashi Moriyama • Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin – Elaine Byrne • LTMH Gallery, New York – Shoja Azari • Nettie Horn, London – Oliver Pietsch • Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York – Ezra Johnson • Number 35 Gallery, New York – Frederick Hayes • Peter Blum Gallery, New York – Matthew Day Jackson / Adrian Paci • Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago – Luis Gispert • The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London – John Zieman / Christina Benz • V1 Gallery, Copenhagen – Jakob Boeskov  • V1 Gallery, Copenhagen / Charles Bank Gallery, New York – Kasper Sonne •

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PUBLIC ART ORGANIZATIONS AND CURATORIAL PROJECTS – SELECTED ARTISTS:
• Ben Rivers / Edith Marie Pasquier – Adelaide Bannerman, London boyleANDshaw, London • Brent Green / Carolyn Monastra / Dan Torop / Jem Cohen / Jessica Langley & Ben Kinsley / Karen Azoulay – Carolyn Monastra & Megan Cump, New York • Jaime Davidovich / Andrew Lampert / Kristin Lucas / Cynthia Maughan / Takeshi Murata / Martha Rosler – Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York  • Simon Pope – Film & Video Umbrella and Olympic Delivery Authority, London  • Aukje Dekker / Kristian De La Riva / Luciano Zubillaga / Ralitza Petrova – Filmarmalade, London  • Phil Coy – FLAMIN (Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network), London • David Blandy / Dinu Li / Emily Richardson / Lynne Marsh / Matt Calderwood – Kim Burgess-Driver Collection, London  • Ed Atkins / David Raymond Conroy / Mark Leckey / Laure Prouvost / James Richards / Mark Aerial Waller – LUX, London  • Marie Losier, New York  • Jessica Voorsanger – Peckham Space, London  • Jeremy Deller & Chrissie Iles / Johan Grimonprez / Maria  Marshall / Mounir Fatmi  / Ruth Paxton – tank.tv, London  • Terry Smith, London  • Adam Christensen / Alastair Frazer / Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann / Chris Clarke / Jasiek Mischke / Lucky PDF / Patricia Lennox-Boyd / Patrick Coyle / Richard Sides / Sidsel Christensen – The Woodmill, London  • Dani Leventhal / Jessie Mott & Steve Reinke / Michael Gitlin / Nicolas Provost / Sterling Ruby – Video Data Bank, Chicago  • Aura Satz / Jordan Baseman / Marion Coutts / Shona Illingworth – Wellcome Collection, London  • Alex Noyer / Alex Dunn / Rob Wilton / Stuart Birchall – You Know Limited, London •

Artprojx Cinema New York Map – March 1-6

http://www.artupdate.com

Artprojx Cinema at the SVA Theatre, New York
in association with The Armory Show & VOLTA NY

MARCH 1-6 2011

screenings of artists’ films & videos

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street between 8th & 9th Avenues

C and E Train is on the corner

This March at the SVA Theatre in Chelsea, New York, Artprojx Cinema, a new art fair collaborative venture is launching initially with The Armory Show and VOLTA NY, screening daily from March 1-6, a program of over 100 artists’ films from over 20 participating galleries alongside an exciting public program of artists’ films from leading international arts organizations and curators.

Artprojx Cinema is FREE

Artprojx Cinema Program to download and print

For more information contact:
David Gryn: +44 (0)7711 127 848

Poppy Gordon Lennox: +44 (0)7881 953 794

artprojxcinema@gmail.com

see related links:

Artprojx Cinema

Film London

The Armory Show

SVA

Soho Shorts

VOLTA NY

Artupdate

FAD (David Gryn interview by Ben Austin)

Delphine Perrot

Nicole Klagsbrun

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)

You Know Ltd

Video Data Bank

The Woodmill

Tank TV

ADA Gallery

number 35 gallery

Peckham Space

videoart.net

Charles Bank Gallery

Artlog

wooloo

events.org

Visual Artists Ireland

mutualart.com

chrishenryclarke

This Week In New York

The L Magazine

e-flux

Artprojx Cinema NY – Programme 1-6 March

ARTPROJX CINEMA at the SVA THEATRE, NEW YORK

in association with THE ARMORY SHOW & VOLTA NY

1-6 MARCH 2011

screenings of artists’ films & videos

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street between 8th & 9th Avenues

E Train on the corner

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Artprojx Cinema is FREE

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Access is relaxed, but RSVP with the screenings you want to see at artprojxcinema@gmail.com to save your seats.

Artprojx Cinema Program Online

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Tuesday 1 March

10.00 – 11.00 LUX, London ***

11.10 – 12.15 Wellcome Collection, London ***

12.25 – 12.55 The Woodmill, London ***

13.05 – 13.35 Video Data Bank, Chicago ***

13.45 – 14.15 Marie Losier, New York, “Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist”

14.25 – 15.25 Terry Smith, London, “Broken Voices”

15.35 – 16.55 Johan Grimonprez, tank.tv, London

Marie Losier "Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist"

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Wednesday 2 March

10.00 – 11.00 Terry Smith, London, “Broken Voices”

11.10 – 12.30 Filmarmalade presents, London ***

12.40 – 13.00 Nick Laessing, “Researches Undertaken for the Museum of Alessandro Cruto” – Gowen Contemporary, Geneva

13.10 – 13.40 Jessica Voorsanger, “Star Struck”, “The Woody Allen Show” – Peckham Space, London

13.45 – 14.45 Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York ***

14.50 – 15.20 Video Data Bank, Chicago ***

15.30 – 16.05 Phil Coy, “Façade” – FLAMIN (Film London Artists Moving Image Network), London

16.15 – 17.15 Jacob Boeskov, “Empire North” – V1 Gallery, Copenhagen

17.25 – 17.55 Elaine Byrne, “Message to Salinas” – Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

18.05 – 19.55 Armory & VOLTA NY Gallery Compilation *

20.05 – 20.35 Marie Losier, New York, “Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist”

20.45 – 21.15 CLIMATE: Carolyn Monastra & Megan Cump, New York ***

21.25 – 22.25 Kim Burgess-Driver Collection, London ***

Phil Coy - Facade

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Thursday 3 March

10.00 – 11.00 boyleANDshaw, London, “Bang it while ya can NY 2011”

11.10 – 12.30 Simon Pope, “Memory Marathon” – Film and Video Umbrella & Olympic Delivery Authority, London

12.40 – 13.00 Jennifer Levonian, “Take Your Picture With A Puma”, “Buffalo Milk Yogurt”, “Her Slip is Showing” – Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia

13.10 – 14.15 Wellcome Collection, London ***

14.25 – 15.25  tank.tv, Part 1, London ***

15.35 – 16.55 Armory & VOLTA NY Gallery Compilation *

17.05 – 17.35 CLIMATE: Carolyn Monastra & Megan Cump, New York ***

17.45 – 18.55 Brent Green, “Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then” – Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York

19.00 – 21.00 PREMIERE – “New York Influence City” You Know Ltd, London *

21.30 – 22.10 Marie Losier, New York, “Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist”

 

Jem Cohen - in the Climate compilation

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Friday 4 March

10.00 – 11.20 Filmarmalade, London ***

11.30 – 11.50 Jesper Just, “Sirens of Chrome”, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen

12.00 – 12.55 Adelaide Bannerman, London ***

13.10 – 13.40 Jessica Voorsanger, “Star Struck”, “The Woody Allen Show” – Peckham Space, London

13.50 – 15.40 Armory & VOLTA NY Gallery Compilation *

15.50 – 16.50 Jacob Boeskov, “Empire North” – V1 Gallery, Copenhagen

17.00 – 18.00 Oliver Pietsch, “From Here to Eternity” – Nettie Horn, London

18.10 – 18.30 Nick Laessing, “Researches Undertaken for the Museum of Alessandro Cruto” – Gowen Contemporary, Geneva

18.40 – 19.40 George Kuchar, ADA Gallery Gallery, New York **

20.00 – 20.30 PREMIERE - Matthew Day Jackson, ”In Search of” – Peter Blum Gallery, New York

Artprojx Late Night Screenings

20.40 – 21.50 Alfred Leslie, “The Cedar Bar” – Allan Stone Gallery, New York

22.00 – 23.10 João Pedro Vale, “Hero, Captain and Stranger”, Filomena Soares Gallery, Lisbon

Jesper Just: Sirens of Chrome

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Saturday 5 March

10.00 – 11.10 “New York Influence City” You Know Ltd, London *

11.20 – 11.55 Phil Coy, “Façade” – FLAMIN (Film London Artists Moving Image Network), London

12.05 – 12.35 Elaine Byrne, “Message to Salinas” – Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

12.45 – 13.45 Kim Burgess-Driver Collection, London ***

13.50 – 14.10 Jennifer Levonian, “Take Your Picture With A Puma”, “Buffalo Milk Yoghurt”, “Her Slip is Showing” – Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia

14.15 – 15.15 Oliver Pietsch, “From Here to Eternity” – Nettie Horn, London

15.25 – 15.45 Jesper Just, “Sirens of Chrome”, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen

15.55 – 16.55 Shoja Azari, “K”, LTMH Gallery, New York

17.05 – 18.05 George Kuchar, ADA Gallery Gallery, New York **

18.15 – 18.45 The Woodmill, London ***

18.55 – 19.25 Matthew Day Jackson, ”In Search of” – Peter Blum Gallery, New York

19.35 – 20.45 Brent Green, “Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then” – Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York

Artprojx Late Night Screenings

20.55 – 22.15 Alfred Leslie, “The Cedar Bar” – Allan Stone Gallery, New York

22.25 – 23.35 João Pedro Vale, “Hero, Captain and Stranger”, Filomena Soares Gallery, Lisbon

Shoja Azari: "K"

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Sunday 6 March

10.00 – 11.20 Simon Pope, “Memory Marathon” – Film and Video Umbrella & Olympic Delivery Authority, London

11.30 – 12.30 Shoja Azari, “K”, LTMH Gallery, New York

12.40 – 13.35 Adelaide Bannerman curates, London ***

13.45 – 14.45 boyleANDshaw, London, “Bang it while ya can NY 2011”

14.55 – 15.55 LUX, London **

16.05 – 17.05 Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York ***

Frederick Hayes

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* ARMORY & VOLTA NY GALLERY COMPILATION PROGRAMME:

Mary Reid Kelley, “Sadie, the Saddest Sadist” – Fredericks & Freiser, New York / Pilar Corrias, London / Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles

Diego Lama, “Chimaera” – Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima

HC Berg, “A Conversation with HC Berg” – Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki

Erik Schmidt, “Gatecrasher” – Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna / carlier | gebauer, Berlin

Nick Laessing, “Researches Undertaken for the Museum of Alessandro” – Gowen Contemporary, Austria

Tadashi Moriyama, “Flight Home” – Johansson Projects, New York

Ezra Johnson, “Not Me” – Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York

Frederick Hayes, “Civil Defense Small Claims Court (I Didn’t Know Anything)” – Number 35 Gallery, New York

Adrian Paci, “Electric Blue” – Peter Blum Gallery, New York

Luis Gispert, “Turbo Burbo” – Rhona Hoffman Gallery, New York

John Zieman, “Time Suite”

Christina Benz, “Station” – The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London

Kasper Sonne, “The List” – V1 Gallery, Copenhagen / Charles Bank Gallery, New York

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** Legendary Potboilers & Melodramas (16MM Films) by George Kuchar

“Wild Night in El Reno”, “Hold Me While I’m Naked”, “Eclipse of the Sun Virgin”, “Nocturne”, “I, An Actress” – ADA Gallery, Richmond/New York

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** New Travel-ettes and Thrills! by George Kuchar

“Dribbles”, “Vintage Visits”, “Tummy Ache Times” – ADA Gallery, Richmond/New York

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*** PUBLIC ARTS & CURATOR PROGRAMMES:

Adelaide Bannerman, London:

Ben Rivers, “I Know Where I’m Going” / Edith Marie Pasquier, “Blue Hare”, “Wanderer”, “Coyote Daydream”, “Lark of the Border”

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CLIMATE: curated by Carolyn Monastra & Megan Cump, New York:

Brent Green, “Carlin” / Carolyn Monastra, “lovely, dark and deep” / Dan Torop, “Ocean” / Jem Cohen, “Blessed Are The Dreams of Men” / Jessica Langley & Ben Kinsley, “Mothers of Mt. Esja” / Karen Azoulay, “The Astronomer’s Mime”

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Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York – Takeshi Murata, “EAI 40th

Anniversary Intro” / Martha Rosler, “Semiotics of the Kitchen: An

Audition” / Jaime Davidovich, “The Live! Show Promo” /

Kristin Lucas, “Background Story” / Takeshi Murata, “Infinity Doors” /

Cynthia Maughan, Selected Works / Andrew Lampert, “Am I From

Brooklyn?”

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Filmarmalade presents, London:

Aukje Dekker, Versus” / Kristian De La Riva, “Cut” / Luciano Zubillaga, “Music For A Missing Film” / Ralitza Petrova, “By The Grace Of God”

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Kim Burgess-Driver Collection:

David Blandy, “Child of the Atom” / Matt Calderwood, “Ladder”, “Rope”, “Battery”, “Cuff”, “Gloss” / Dinu Li, “Family Village” / Lynne Marsh, “Stadium” / Emily Richardson, “Petrolia”

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LUX, London:

Ed Atkins, “Death Mask 2: The Scent” / David Raymond Conroy, Ramon Requilman Live” / Mark Leckey, “Concrete Vache” / Laure Prouvost, “The Artist” / James Richards, “Misty Suite” / Mark Aerial Waller, “Phantom Avantgarde”

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tank.tv, London:

Jeremy Deller & Chrissie Iles, “A Discussion” / Maria Marshall, “Matthew” / Mounir Fatmi, “Architecture Now 1”, “Architecture Now 2”, “I Live on the 3rd Floor”  / Ruth Paxton, “She Wanted to be Burnt”

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The Woodmill, London:

Adam Christensen / Alastair Frazer / Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann / Chris Clarke / Jasiek Mischke / Lucky PDF / Patricia Lennox-Boyd / Patrick Coyle / Richard Sides / Sidsel Christensen / Una Knox

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Video Data Bank, Chicago:

Dani Leventhal, “Hearts are Trump Again” / Jessie Mott & Steve Reinke, “Everybody” / Michael Gitlin, “Dust Studies” / Nicolas Provost, “Storyteller” / Sterling Ruby, “Hiker”

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Wellcome Collection, London:

Aura Satz, “Sound Seam” / Jordan Baseman, “Tape 1 Tape 2”  / Marion Coutts, “26 Things” / Shona Illingworth, “Balnakiel”

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You Know Limited, London:

Alex Noyer, Alex Dunn, Rob Wilton, Stuart Birchall, “New York Influence City”

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Artprojx Cinema is at the SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd St between 8th & 9th Avenues

 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David Gryn: +44 (0)7711 127 848 

Poppy Gordon Lennox: +44 (0)7881 953 794

artprojxcinema@gmail.com

Artprojx Cinema Press Release

Artprojx Cinema e-flyer

PRESS RELEASE

1 February 2011

ARTPROJX CINEMA TO FEATURE OVER 90 ARTISTS’ FILMS & VIDEOS

IN NEW POP UP CINEMA VENTURE IN ASSOCIATION WITH

THE ARMORY SHOW AND VOLTA NY, MARCH 2011.

This March at the SVA Theatre in Chelsea, New York, Artprojx Cinema, a new collaborative venture with The Armory Show and VOLTA NY, will screen a program of over 90 artists’ films from over 20 participating galleries alongside a public program of artists’ films from leading international arts organizations and curators.

“We are delighted to collaborate with such an outstanding quality of artists, galleries and organizations from such a diverse scope”, says David Gryn, Director of Artprojx. “Artprojx Cinema is not only an important opportunity for participating galleries and arts organizations to screen their artist’s films within the focused context of the cinema but also for the collectors, dealers, curators, artists and film enthusiasts flocking to New York during the week of The Armory Show and VOLTA NY to see an exceptional program of artists’ film.”

Feedback from participating organizations, artists and galleries indicates that Artprojx Cinema is adding a much desired kudos and credibility to screenings of artists’ films and a new and valued initiative on the NY cultural landscape. “We are passionate about creating a new buzz around the art fairs, engaging with local artists and students and enabling them to be part of the excitement in the city. The cinema is free to everyone and we want as many people to see this fantastic program,” says David Gryn.

This new venture has already proved a huge success with galleries participating from 14 cities – New York (Allan Stone Gallery, Andrew Edlin Gallery, Charles Bank Gallery, Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, LTMH Gallery, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Number 35 Gallery, Peter Blum Gallery), Philadelphia (Fleisher/Ollman), Los Angeles (Susanne Vielmetter), Chicago (Rhona Hoffman Gallery), Oakland (Johannson Projects), London (Pilar Corrias, Nettie Horn, The Cynthia Corbett Gallery), Dublin (Kevin Kavanagh Gallery), Lisbon (Filomena Soares Gallery), Copenhagen (Galleri Christina Wilson, V1 Gallery), Lima (Galeria Lucia de la Puente), Helsinki (Galerie Forsblom), Vienna (Galerie Krinzinger), Berlin (Galerie Carlier-Gebauer) and Geneva (Gowen Contemporary).

Artprojx Cinema will be screening premieres of Matthew Day Jackson’s “In Search Of” presented by Peter Blum Gallery, New York and a documentary, “New York Influence City” produced by You Know Limited, London, which reflects on New York City by key figures of its prominent art scene.

Other highlights include screenings by Brent Green (Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York), Erik Schmidt (Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna / Galerie Carlier Gabauer, Berlin), George Kuchar (ADA Gallery, New York) and Jacob Boeskov (V1 Gallery, Copenhagen).

Artprojx Cinema Late Nights features: Alfred Leslie (Allan Stone Gallery, New York) and  João Pedro Vale (Filomena Soares Gallery, Lisbon) on Friday and Saturday.

Special artist focus screenings include films by Marie Losier, Terry Smith, boyleANDshaw and Jessica Voorsanger and selected programs curated by Adelaide Bannerman, Carolyn Monastra & Megan Cump and works from the collection of Kim Burgess-Driver.  Organizations such as Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York, LUX, London, Video Data Bank, Chicago and Film & Video Umbrella, London, who are all leading lights in the support and distribution of artists films and videos will be taking part in the program. As well as this, Artprojx Cinema includes artists’ films from London based organizations tank.tv, Wellcome Collection, Filmarmalade, The Woodmill and Peckham Space, who are all key organizations in supporting artists’ film and commissioning new projects.

Artprojx Cinema has linked with the SVA Theatre in Chelsea to host the screenings. The cinema, a world-class cultural centre for the visual arts is both excellent in reputation and location. Visitors to the cinema are in easy walking distance to the Piers of the art fairs and can also browse the many Chelsea galleries nearby.

Artprojx Cinema is FREE and will screen daily from March 1 – 6 from 10.00am until late.

ARTPROJX CINEMA at the SVA THEATRE, NEW YORK

in association with THE ARMORY SHOW & VOLTA NY

1-6 MARCH 2011

10am TILL LATE

screenings of artists’ films & videos

The SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street between 8th and 9th Avenues

See the program and timings at www.artprojx.com/cinema

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David Gryn: +44 (0)7711 127 848

Poppy Gordon Lennox: +44 (0)7881 953 794

artprojxcinema@gmail.com

GALLERIES AND THEIR SELECTED ARTISTS:

• ADA Gallery, New York – George Kuchar • Allan Stone Gallery, New York – Alfred Leslie • Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York – Brent Green • Filomena Soares Gallery, Lisbon – João Pedro Vale • Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia – Jennifer Levonian • Fredericks & Freiser, New York / Pilar Corrias, London / Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles – Mary Reid Kelley • Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen – Jesper Just • Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima – Diego Lama • Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki – HC Berg • Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna / Galerie Carlier-Gebauer, Berlin – Erik Schmidt • Gowen Contemporary, Geneva – Nick Laessing • Johansson Projects, Oakland – Tadashi Moriyama • Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin – Elaine Byrne • LTMH Gallery, New York – Shoja Azari • Nettie Horn, London – Oliver Pietsch • Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York – Ezra Johnson • Number 35 Gallery, New York – Frederick Hayes • Peter Blum Gallery, New York – Matthew Day Jackson / Adrian Paci • Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago – Luis Gispert • The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London – John Zieman / Christina Benz • V1 Gallery, Copenhagen – Jakob Boeskov  • V1 Gallery, Copenhagen / Charles Bank Gallery, New York - Kasper Sonne •

PUBLIC ART ORGANIZATIONS AND CURATORIAL PROJECTS – SELECTED ARTISTS:

• Ben Rivers / Edith Marie Pasquier – Adelaide Bannerman, London boyleANDshaw, London • Brent Green / Carolyn Monastra / Dan Torop / Jem Cohen / Jessica Langley & Ben Kinsley / Karen Azoulay – Carolyn Monastra & Megan Cump, New York • Jaime Davidovich / Andrew Lampert / Kristin Lucas / Cynthia Maughan / Takeshi Murata / Martha Rosler – Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York  • Simon Pope – Film & Video Umbrella and Olympic Delivery Authority, London  • Aukje Dekker / Kristian De La Riva / Luciano Zubillaga / Ralitza Petrova – Filmarmalade, London  • Phil Coy – FLAMIN (Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network), London • David Blandy / Dinu Li / Emily Richardson / Lynne Marsh / Matt Calderwood – Kim Burgess-Driver Collection, London  • Ed Atkins / David Raymond Conroy / Mark Leckey / Laure Prouvost / James Richards / Mark Aerial Waller – LUX, London  • Marie Losier, New York  • Jessica Voorsanger – Peckham Space, London  • Jeremy Deller & Chrissie Iles / Johan Grimonprez / Maria  Marshall / Mounir Fatmi  / Ruth Paxton – tank.tv, London  • Terry Smith, London  • Adam Christensen / Alastair Frazer / Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann / Chris Clarke / Jasiek Mischke / Lucky PDF / Patricia Lennox-Boyd / Patrick Coyle / Richard Sides / Sidsel Christensen – The Woodmill, London  • Dani Leventhal / Jessie Mott & Steve Reinke / Michael Gitlin / Nicolas Provost / Sterling Ruby – Video Data Bank, Chicago  • Aura Satz / Jordan Baseman / Marion Coutts / Shona Illingworth – Wellcome Collection, London  • Alex Noyer / Alex Dunn / Rob Wilton / Stuart Birchall – You Know Limited, London •

http://www.artprojx.com/cinema

Contort Yourself – panel discussion 16 June

16 JUNE 2010
In Conversation

David Gryn, Dr Alison Rowley, Dr Anthony Downey, Irit Rogoff

7 – 9pm
ACME Project Space, 44 Bonner Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9JS

Limited capacity for all free events. To reserve a seat, please email: info@contortyourself.org
A panel discussion centred on identity trends and categories explored in the exhibition. The role of curators, critics and art professionals in relation to how trends are generated and operate in the art world will also be considered. The session will be chaired by Dr Alison Rowley, and moderated by Ulrika Frink, RCA CCA (Inspire) Student.

CHAIR:
DR ALISON ROWLEY: Reader in Art and Design, Liverpool School of Art and Design
Dr Alison Rowley is presently working on a book entitled Common Gestures, Class Acts: Studies in ‘young British art’, an analysis of the return in the 1990s of neglected histories of British social and political life since 1945 in key works by artists grouped under the heading ‘yBa’. Dr Rowley’s research interests centers around modern and contemporary art; feminist history, theory and practice in the visual arts and cinema; psychoanalysis and aesthetics; aesthetics and politics and configurations of social class in British art.

SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHIES:
DR ANTHONY DOWNEY: Programme Director, MA Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s Institute
Dr Anthony Downey completed his PhD and is currently researching a book on ethics, politics and aesthetics and the production of knowledge in contemporary art. He sits on the editorial board of Third Text, and is a London correspondent for Flash Art and he has also published essays, criticism and interviews in over twenty different publications and has recently given papers and chaired conference panel.

IRIT ROGOFF: Curator, theorist, and founder of the Department of Visual Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London
Irit Rogoff is a curator, theorist, and organiser who writes at the intersections of the critical, the political, and contemporary arts practices. Her work across a series of new “think tank” PhD programs at Goldsmiths (Research Architecture, Curatorial/Knowledge) is focusing on the possibility of locating, moving, and exchanging knowledge across professional practices, self-generated forums, academic institutions, and individual enthusiasms.

DAVID GRYN: Director, Artprojx
David Gryn is the director of Artprojx which has been promoting artist’s film since 2001. He has worked with artists such as Christian Marclay, Sarah Morris, Mark Wallinger, Susan Hiller, Jeremy Deller, Dexter Dalwood, Jane Bustin, Mark Leckey, William Kentridge, William Eggleston, Willie Doherty and institutes including Gagosian Gallery, White Cube, Whitney Museum, Matt’s Gallery, ICA, Sadie Coles HQ, Victoria Miro, Tate Britain, Prince Charles Cinema. see http://www.artprojx.com

David Blandy's 'Choose Your Character' - Street Fighter battles at the ICA produced by David Gryn

Press Release

Contort Yourself Works by Harold Offeh, Jan Hendrickse and David Blandy

ACME Project Space Gallery, 44 Bonner Road, Bethnal Green, London E2 9JS

Curated by the first year MA Curating Contemporary Art (Inspire), Royal College of Art                                         Exhibition: 4 June – 27 June, 2010

Open Thurs – Sun, 11.00am – 6.00pm

Contort Yourself brings together the work of three UK based artists who twist, stretch, and re-appropriate notions of the construction of self through performance, digital video and sound. In exploring the theme of self-realization, the works playfully critique processes of identity formation and re-formation. The title of the show ‘Contort Yourself’ is inspired by the popular love song of the same name by James Chance and The Contortions which situates the body in an abstract imaginary space, where thought and matter become enmeshed. In borrowing this title, the exhibition alludes to hybrid trans-mutational categorizations and the miscegenation of cultural specificities.

Alien Communication by Harold Offeh (b. 1977) utilizes a variety of lenses to distort his features; magnifying his eyes, lips and teeth to exaggerated proportions whilst referencing historical representations of the ‘other.’ It interrogates the ever-contested site of the body, and latent or forgotten memory.

David Blandy’s (b. 1978) The White and Black Minstrel appropriates humour to pose questions which relate to the degree to which the self is formed by its immersion in the world of records, films and television. His clown-like white minstrel figure simultaneously appropriates a sub-cultural formation and explores the inverse of modes of popular cultural stereotyping

Artist in residence Jan Hendrickse’s (b. 1966) work exists across the boundaries of performance, improvisation, installation and socially engaged practice. Trained initially as a musician, Hendrickse’s new commission, Self Portrait, is an interactive sound installation examining the structures and parameters of self-categorization through visitor participation in the form of telephone as transporter and generator of immediate sound, and as a self-referential object.

Alongside these works additional research documentation offers fragments from the artists’ creative processes; sketches, notes, documents and supplementary material illustrate a rich frame of reference. The material questions and explores a multitude of influences within perceived spheres of national, popular and personal identities.

An accompanying series of events includes a panel talk at ACME Project Space Gallery  on 16 June 2010, with Dr Anthony Downey, Professor Irit Rogoff and David Gryn.

Additional information about talks and events held during the exhibition can be found on the following websites: www.contortyourself.org & http://www.acme.org.uk/projectspace.php

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Contort Yourself Events_______________________________________

ICA LIVE WEEKEND PRODUCED BY DAVID GRYN – YouTube Highlights

Image from the screening of Shola Azari's Windows

1. ICA LIVE WEEKEND – PERFORMANCE etc YouTube HIGHLIGHTS
2. David Blandy – YouTube
3. Tai Shani – YouTube
4. boyleANDshaw – YouTube
5. Terry Smith – YouTube
6. Aura Satz  - YouTube
7. Brian Catling – YouTube

Artprojx at LONDON SEEN – LOOP FESTIVAL BARCELONA

LONDON SEEN – LOOP FESTIVAL BARCELONA

Saturday 22 May

10-1pm

Sala Fòrum // Hotel Catalonia Ramblas // Barcelona

http://www.loop-barcelona.com/

London Seen offers an overview of venues for moving image practices in London through the presentation of a number of spaces and platforms, invited on the basis of their critical engagement with and display of video and film. The event will consist of a combination of presentations and brief screenings followed by a panel discussion. Each participating venue has selected a moving image work or a curatorial project that exemplifies their approach. The idea is that these presentations will provide a basis for critical reflections around the participants’ respective location, mission and mode of operation on the London art scene. The participants are:

Artprojx // Film and Video Umbrella // FormContent // Gasworks // LUX // MOT International

David Gryn will be discussing the processes of collaboration between his own Artprojx company and the artist David Blandy. How they create projects, the interactions and the outcomes. Gryn and Blandy have done projects in Liverpool at the A Foundation, Artprojx at the Prince Charles Cinema, Artprojx Dojo at Artprojx Space, Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Britain and Anthology Film Archives in NY and most recently as part of the David Gryn produced ICA Live Weekend – Performance projects with Choose Your Character. David Blandy has featured in various Artprojx cinema screening compilations have been played internationally.

The brief You Tube trailer features extracts of several David Blandy films.

Blandy at the ICA

Blandy's Choose your Character at the ICA

Blandy's Artprojx Dojo

Blandy at Artprojx Dojo