Sadie Coles HQ and Artprojx invite to Wilhelm Sasnal’s FALLOUT screening

You are invited to

FALLOUT by Wilhelm Sasnal

Sadie Coles HQ

in association with Artprojx presents …

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the world premiere of

FALLOUT by Wilhelm Sasnal

Special screening during the week of the Frieze Art Fair

http://www.sadiecoles.com/exhibitions.html

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Friday 15 October 2010 at 10.30am

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at Prince Charles Cinema

7 Leicester Place, Leicester Square

WC2H 7BY

www.princecharlescinema.com

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Quote from the first screening:

“One of the most shattering experiences I’ve had at a cinema, it had a physical effect on me.  Not one moment of relief, totally remorseless. If the point was about daily life in the former Warsaw pact nations, and surely it was, then it made its point with a power I haven’t ever seen articulated so well. Stepping outside afterwards, the light was not only a relief but a surprise. Anyway, an experience I’ll remember for a while.”

 

Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema

PRESS RELEASE …

FALLOUT by Wilhelm Sasnal

The world premiere screenings of a new film by Wilhelm Sasnal, 70 minutes, Poland, 2010, in Polish with English subtitles.

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this is the brief moment after the disaster

when they crawl out of their holes

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Sadie Coles HQ in association with Artprojx is delighted to announce a series of screenings of Fallout, the second feature film by Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal, at the West End’s Prince Charles Cinema in October. Set in an unidentified region of Poland, Fallout glimpses at the decimated existences of men and women in the aftermath of a nuclear bombing. The largely nameless characters inhabit a wasteland of  junk-strewn garages and drab apartment blocks – locked in a listless waiting game that recalls the dramas of Samuel Beckett. Only the ghosts of human dynamics survive, fraught with undercurrents of sexual suspicion and decay. Men address each other using sardonic epithets – ‘Mr Bad’ or ‘Mr Kiddo’; and they observe and follow each other with ambiguous intent.Sasnal holds his characters at arm’s length, undercutting our instincts about them as their desperate interrelationships shift and expire, to form an acute and unnerving picture of personal and social degeneration.

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Wilhelm Sasnal has emerged in the last decade as one of Europe’s most celebrated figurative painters as well as a prolific maker of short films shot on 8mm or 16mm camera. Fallout demonstrates his engagement with Polish avant-garde cinema from the 1940s works of Stefan and Franciszka Themerson to the punk music videos of the 1970s. In particular, the film foregrounds the relationship between picture and sound: its discordant, tremulous soundtrack merges with interior noises while mirroring the phases of wobbly footage shot on a handheld camera. As in Sasnal’s short films, the influences of music video and poststructuralist cinema combine to evoke ‘personal cinema’ – the privately produced short films which proliferated among Polish artists during the Communist regime, and which often overlaid the banal details of life with whimsical fantasies. A painterly sensibility furthermore threads through the film, which echoes the off-kilter angles, minute observations and mundane subjects of Sasnal’s canvases.

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The characters of Fallout find parallels to their dystopian world in stories and dreams: ‘Mr Bad’ speaks of Siparis, the sole survivor of a volcanic eruption, while a doctor relates how she has been “dreaming of mice lately, young and old, all sick”. Fallout is itself a social fable in the mould of Orwell. Its nightmarish world, where memories, whether individual or collective, are suspended, and words themselves have disappeared – furnishes an allegory for the Polish Communist regime’s assaults on individual freedom, as well as the identity crises, personal and national, of the post-Communist era.

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Wilhelm Sasnal was born in 1972 in Tarnow, Poland, and lives and works in Krakow. In 2009-2010, he had retrospectives at K21 in Düsseldorf, Germany and Centro De Arte Contemporàneo, Málaga, Spain. Major solo shows include Wilhelm Sasnal, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland, 2010; Years of Struggle at the Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 2007; Matrix, The Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA, 2005; Wilhelm Sasnal, The Locker Plant, Marfa (TX), USA; Camden Arts Centre, London, 2004; and Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, 2003.

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Contact David Gryn

07711127848

david@artprojx.com

Making the Cut – Film and Video Umbrella

Making the Cut.

Film and Video Umbrella presents a series of talks and events in which artists from London, known for their innovations with the moving image, showcase new work and discuss their practice. These presentations, collectively entitled ‘Making the Cut’, focus on artists who have made their mark over the last few years, while speculating also on the future of this kind of experimental practice at a time of unprecedented pressure on public funding. Reflecting the breadth and diversity of London’s cultural life, ‘Making the Cut’ has been initiated in collaboration with a number of cultural organisations across the capital.
Thursday 7 October 9.10pm: Shezad Dawood at Ritzy Picturehouse, Brixton

Monday 11th October, 6.30pm: Leo Asemota at Iniva at Rivington Place

Tuesday 12th October, 6.30pm: Jananne Al-Ani at Ritzy Picturehouse, Brixton

Friday 15th October, 6pm: Gayle Chong Kwan at Chelsea College of Art and Design

Sunday 17th October, 1.30pm: Zineb Sedira at The Gate Picturehouse, Notting Hill Gate

Monday 18th October, 6.30pm: George Chakravarthi & Campbell at Iniva at Rivington Place

Wednesday 20th October, 7pm: Ergin Çavuşoğlu at artsdepot

Thursday 21st October, 7pm: The Otolith Group & Mirza and Butler at The Showroom

Monday 25th October, 6.30pm: Sonia Boyce at Iniva at Rivington Place

Tuesday 26th October, 8pm: susan pui san lok at Stratford Picturehouse

Film and Video Umbrella
8 Vine Yard, London, SE1 1QL
Tel: 020 7407 7755
Fax: 020 7407 7766
www.fvu.co.uk

JANE BUSTIN in Calligrams – EAGLE GALLERY opening 23 JUNE

Jane features in the forthcoming show

Calligrams.

Join us for drinks at the Private View starting at 6.30pm on June 23rd

24 June – 24 July

The Eagle Gallery

159 Farringdon Road

London EC1R 3AL

open Weds-Fri 11am-6pm and Sat 11am -4pm

0207 833 2674

www.emmahilleagle.com

emmahilleagle@aol.com

Jane Bustin les dernieres fleurs 2010

Kevin Finklea Geary Street 2010 – in progress

Matt Magee Division 2009

Estelle Thompson Four Rectangles (for KM) 2009

Contact:

Jane Bustin

www.janebustin.com

janebustin@hotmail.com

CALLIGRAMS 24 June – 24 July 2010
Jane Bustin, Kevin Finklea, Matt Magee, Estelle Thompson

Calligrams features four artists whose work explores contemporary paths of minimalist abstraction. The exhibition brings together UK-based painters Jane Bustin and Estelle Thompson with American artists Matt Magee and Kevin Finklea.

Calligrams poses questions about the challenge involved in reinventing non-representational genres. The artists work within traditional parameters of colour, form and support, yet each in individual ways extends them.

Echoes of Suprematism and Colour Field abstraction are evident in the work of Kevin Finklea and Estelle Thompson, in the use of geometric forms and the manipulation of ranges of complex, high-keyed colours.

Finklea’s recent paintings arise from memories of place and time and have moved off the two-dimensional picture plane into three-dimensional reliefs. The range and vocabulary of Finklea’s colour, whether the exclamatory blush of two contrasting pinks or the meditative quality of a light blue are focused and projected into space through these sculptural forms
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The intense colours and re-worked surfaces of Estelle Thompson’s oils on panel bring to mind a range of associations from past traditions in painting, from the shimmering light of Renaissance frescos to the distressed surface of Jasper Johns ‘Flag’. Thompson’s nuanced surfaces act in counterpoint to her plays with geometric form, in which a simple division of a rectangle can offer myriad visual possibilities.

Matt Magee’s more emblematic paintings employ simple pictograms such as punctuation marks or numbers, as a way of incorporating language into the work under his own abstract terms. Formally satisfying simply as shapes, these signs are also weighted with exclamatory meaning and are held within surfaces of painterly marks.

Jane Bustin’s investigations into the potential for the abstract image to allude to emotional states or metaphorical ideas are closest perhaps to traditions of the sublime in abstraction. Exploring sources in literature, her recent series of works are made in response to Mallarmé’s volume of poems ‘’Pour Anatole un tombeau’. Employing a range of materials and supports the work has moved into the territory of installation where related paintings and text are sited in three-dimensional arrangements.

Jane Bustin is represented by the Eagle Gallery. Her most recent solo exhibition Unseen – A collaboration, took place at the British Library, London.

Kevin Finklea’s recent solo exhibition Memories are Uncertain Friends was held at Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York.

Matt Magee’s forthcoming solo show takes place at the Knoedler Gallery, New York.

Estelle Thompson is represented by the Purdy Hicks Gallery, where she had a solo show In 2009.

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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

Review – Live at the ICA … DAVID BLANDY, TAI SHANI, boyleANDshaw, BRIAN CATLING, AURA SATZ, TERRY SMITH

ICA Live Weekend – Performance etc … produced by David Gryn 6-9 May

See YouTube highlights of all the events and YouTube moments from:

David Blandy

Tai Shani

boyleANDshaw

Terry Smith

Aura Satz

Brian Catling

JocJonJosch

DAVID BLANDY, TAI SHANI, boyleANDshaw, BRIAN CATLING, AURA SATZ, TERRY SMITH

Aura Satz

Over 4 days there were so many great moments, pieces and a general vibrant, creative intensity at the ICA.

Shija Azari"s Windows screened by Artprojx

As a young artist it was a place of discovery, aspiration, idea nurturing and artistcally forming and it really feels like that it is possible again.

Street fighter battles in David Blandy's day

The works and projects each day worked on so many levels beautiful, aesthetic, rough around the edges, challenging, musical, poetic, engaging, audience enchanting, scary, awkward and much more.

Tai Shani's rehearsals

Over the 4 days the ICA proved it can be a creative hub, exhibiting ground-breaking, experimental, risk and chance taking art – enabling and nurturing the artists to do so.

Tai Shani's performance

All the artists put their vision on the line – creating wonderful aesthetic, aspirational and challenging feasts and treats for all the large numbers of visitors.

boyleANDshaw's The Scuttler

The staff at the ICA, care passionately about delivering the work and joined in to great supportive effect – they all played their part in making it such a great few days..

Terry Smith is Drunk and Disorderly

Send in your comments on the 4 days …

More images from the day …

Terry Smith

Brian Catling’s Mr Rapehead

boyleANDshaw’s The Scuttler

David Blandy's Choose Your Character

Infinite Livez dj-ing at ICA

YouTube

Tai Shani’s performance at the ICA ‘Screentest: R-R-Rhine Peacetime 82′

Tai Shani’s performance:

‘Screentest: R-R-Rhine Peacetime 82′

Friday 7 May

ICA – LIVE WEEKEND 1 – PERFORMANCE etc …

Produced by David Gryn

Tai Shani

TAI SHANI
‘Screentest: R-R-Rhine Peacetime 82′
Performance: 7:30pm & 9:15pm Main Gallery (30mins)

On a sound stage, an actress is being filmed auditioning for a role in a fictitious film based on a strange, actual sequence of events that took place in West Germany in the hot summer of 1982. Over the course of 25 days in three unrelated, tragic incidents members of the US and UK peacetime army stole tanks and rampaged through various German towns and countryside leaving behind a trail of destruction, ultimately driving themselves over bridges and into trains to their deaths. The actress Maya Lubinsky is auditioning for the role of Katja Riemann, a young woman who gets run over by a tank driven by Private Charles S. Keefer, her boyfriend.

In this expanding screentest which occurs on a fractured timeline, the lives and fictions of Katja Riemann, Maya Lubinsky and Maya’s body double overflow and hemorrhage into each other creating a spiraling narrative told through film, heroines, anti-heroines, animated props, an overbearing narrator and a Neanderthal from a parallel universe.

The performance is accompanied by a live score by David J. Smith (Guapo, Stargazers Assistant and Amal Gamal Ensemble)

ICA Theatre Film & Video Screenings selected by Artprojx

2pm Jo Mitchell – Concerto for Voice & Machinery II

3.25pm Mark Leckey – Cinema-in-the-Round

ICA Theatre Film & Video Screenings selected by Tai Shani

4.30pm
Cartune Xprez
Part psychedelic insurrection, part cartoon road show, they harness the energies of video artists who remix commercial imagery to the extent of anarchy and animate their way out of Sunday Morning Cartoons. Previous shows have included Paper Rad, Bruce Bickford, Takeshi Murata, and Shana Moulton, who have since been featured in the Whitney Biennial, the MOMA in New York, the Sundance Film Festival, and many others.

6pm
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm by William Greaves, United States, 1968, 75 minutes
In his one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One, director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York’s Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they’re making. A couple enacts a break-up scenario over and over, a documentary crew films a crew filming the crew, locals wander casually into the frame: the project defies easy description. Yet this wildly innovative sixties counterculture landmark remains one of the most tightly focused and insightful movies ever made about making movies.

Jen Wu

8:00pm
Jen Wu – Half Light, 5mins 2009
The dead weight of a sleeper drifts between the syncopal darkness of the cinematic night and the waning daylight of a world that feels no less other. Shifting between modes of cinematic identification, inhabiting surrogate bodies and self obliteration in the face of the familiar Half Light sensitively makes manifests a mesmeric, recondite and affective territory.
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Damon Packard

Damon Packard – Spacedisco One, 2007, 58min
To sum it up. “Spacedisco One” will not only shatter your perception of reality as we know it, it will break it in half ad infinitum, pairs of two, so am I, pairs of two, so are you, until the soul’s binary code is revealed and, biting its own tail, destroyed in the blink of a serpent’s eye. You will melt like a marshmallow in the furnace of hell. And if everything has been said and if everything has been done, we still have the possibility to make a movie about it, a sequel to reality.

10pm
Jim Hollands – Here, 2007, 70min
(3D glasses will be supplied)
A hallucinogenic dissolution between the screen and the viewer forming a radical new art agenda for the 21st century. Here is a seventy-minute remix of a rarely seen existing work written by Joe Orton, called ‘The Erpingham Camp’. Originally screened on TV in 1966, it has been experimentally remixed in sound, image and words, with subtitles, and partly in anaglyphic (red/cyan) 3D. Large parts of the work operate under flicker frequencies of 8-13hz, and as such are viewable by epileptics or those prone to seizure at their own risk.

Music:
DJ set in Bar from 7pm
Owen Hills (of Wooden Spoon and Dollboy) . Kraut and cosmic musics

Tai Shani (1976) is an artist living and working in London. Fantastical and televisual, Tai Shani’s performances and films contain cartoon props and extravagantly costumed large casts of archetypes and pseudo-historical characters drawn from popular culture and counterculture mythologies. Referencing early science fiction, Greek tragedy and theatrical spectacle they are accompanied by voice over soundtracks reminiscent of radio plays that alternate between familiar fictional styles and narratives and self-reflexive texts that delve into the mechanics of simulatory channels and their agency. Often dramatising historical phenomena, Shani seeks to underpin the axis point of their transformation from historical to fantastical. Chaotic, a-historical and non-linear in form, Shani’s work explores fictional strategies, the cinematic corruption of memory as well as conflicting temporal structure in the ‘real’ and the mediated.

Recent Tai Shani exhibitions and performances include:
The Herzeliya Biennial, Israel; The Royal Academy, London; The Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Spike Island + Arnolfini, Bristol; A Foundation, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; ARTIS Centre for Fine Arts Hertogenbosch, Stedelijk Museum Hertogenbosch; Liverpool Biennial 08; Artprojx at Rio Cinema, Dalston. She also writes and performs music as Cherry Mash Cherry.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=51765222127

http://www.ica.org.uk

http://www.artprojx.com

ICA is LIVE – PRODUCED BY DAVID GRYN | ARTPROJX

ICA – LIVE WEEKEND 1 – PERFORMANCE etc …

PRODUCED BY DAVID GRYN

6 – 9 MAY 2010

Tai Shani

Each day will feature artist projects throughout the day and evening:

DAVID BLANDY – Thurs 6 May

TAI SHANI – Fri 7 May

boyleANDshaw -Sat 8 May

BRIAN CATLING, AURA SATZ, TERRY SMITH & PROPOSITIONS- Sun 9 May

Don't miss this weekend !!! ...

For the first in a series of three Live Weekend programmes – David Gryn, director of Artprojx is producing several artist days of live art/expanded theatre/performance related artist’s events, screenings and music.

Artprojx will also present films and videos by various artist on the 6 and 9 May in the ICA Theatre:

Ashish Avikunthak – Kalighat Fetish

Shoja Azari – Windows

David Blandy – My Philosophy

Brian Catling & Tony Grisoni – Vanished – A Video Séance & The Cutting

Mark Leckey – Cinema-in-the-Round & Shades of Destructors

Lynne Marsh – Plänterwald,

Jo Mitchell – Concerto for Voice & Machinery II

Damon Packard – The Untitled Star Wars Mocumentary

Matt Stokes – Long After Tonight

David Blandy's Choose your Character

TIMING OF EVENTS

THURSDAY 6 MAY

DAVID BLANDY

12noon – 11pm, Lower Gallery

David Blandy’s “Choose Your Character”. With Street Fighter game tournament organisers Neo Empire.

12noon – 7pm, Lower Gallery

Pop up music stalls inc: Ninja Tunes/Big Dada, Rough Trade, Soul & Dance Exchange and Flashback

7pm – 1am, Bar

DJs & live music feat: Infinite Livez, King Cannibal, DJ Phaze, DJ Shorty, DJ CutWild, g-man & Priority Deluxe

2 – 7pm, Theatre

Artprojx screenings

2pm Ashish Avikunthak – Kalighat Fetish

2.20pm Shoja Azari – Windows

3.50pm Lynne Marsh – Plänterwald

4.10pm Matt Stokes – Long After Tonight

4.40pm Mark Leckey – Shades of Destructors

5pm Damon Packard – The Untitled Star Wars Mocumentary

6 pm David Blandy – My Philosophy

Tai Shani's Screentest: R-R-Rhine Peacetime 82

FRIDAY 7 MAY

TAI SHANI

Midday – 6pm, Lower Gallery

Tai Shani Screentest: R-R-Rhine Peacetime 82 (open rehearsals)

7.30pm, Lower Gallery

Tai Shani Screentest: R-R-Rhine Peacetime 82. (LIVE irst performance)

9.15pm, Lower Gallery

Tai Shani Screentest: R-R-Rhine Peacetime 82.(LIVE second performance)

2 – 4.30pm, Theatre

Jo Mitchell's Concerto

Artprojx screenings

2pm Jo Mitchell – Concerto for Voice & Machinery II

3.25pm Mark Leckey – Cinema-in-the-Round

4.30 – 11pm, Theatre

Tai Shani curated screenings:

4.30pm Cartune Xprez

6pm William Greaves – Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

8pm Jen Wu – Half Light

8.05pm Damon Packard – Spacedisco One

10pm Jim Hollands – Here

8 – 12 midnight ICA Bar – Musics by DJ Owen Hills

boyleANDshaw's The Scuttler

SATURDAY 8 MAY

boyleANDshaw with David Gothard present The Scuttler

12 noon – midnight, Lower Gallery, Theatre and Bar (LIVE)

in collaboration with: Sam Belinfante, Patrick Coyle, Adam James,

JocJonJosch, Plastique Fantastique, Harold Offeh, Malin Ståhl, Malachy Orozco, Keeley Forsyth and Max Reinhardt

Terry Smith

SUNDAY 9 MAY

Terry Smith, Aura Satz, Brian Catling, Propositions

12 noon – 7pm, Lower Gallery

Terry Smith The Foundling, Drunk and Disorderly.Performance 4pm (LIVE inc Rehearsals)

12 noon – 7pm, ICA Concourse

Propositions: Chris Agnew, Jenny Baldock, Fiona Long, Russell Moore, Lauren O’Day, Helen Newhouse, Charlotte Turton, Nicholas Quenzer, Sam Wilkins

4.10 – 5pm, Theatre

Artprojx screening

4-5pm – Brian Catling & Tony Grisoni – The Cutting

5 – 5.30pm, Theatre

Aura Satz, Turntable Tableau (LIVE)

The live soundtrack will be performed by Alex Baker, Lina Hakim, Chris McCormack, Roger Orwell, Frances Scott and Aura Satz.

5.30 – 6pm, Theatre

Artprojx screening

5.30pm screenings tbc

6 – 6.30pm, Theatre

Brian Catling – Mr Rapehead (LIVE)

6.30 – 7.40pm, Theatre

Artprojx screening

6.30pm Brian Catling & Tony Grisoni: Vanished ! – A Video Séance

https://davidgryn.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/timing-of-ica-events-6-9-may/

Brian Catling at the ICA

This is an opportunity for artist experimentation, taking risk and trying out the unexpected. Join us.

FREE ENTRY TO ALL EVENTS AND SCREENINGS

The ICA bar will be open at all times.

The ICA is located on The Mall, London SW1.

http://www.ica.org.uk/

Box office 020 7930 3647

DAVID GRYN

ARTPROJX

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ARTIST PROJECT DETAILS

DAVID BLANDY – 6 May

Choose your Character

As part of David Gryn’s LIve Weekend at the ICA, David Blandy’s day, “Choose Your Character” on Thurs 6th May, will celebrate a variety of different fan-behaviours and sub-cultural obsessions that reflect the artist’s own passions. Including rooms featuring a Street Fighter IV tournament and Turntablist DJing, alongside a pop up record market.

Features live music from Infinite Livez, King Cannibal, turntablists DJ Phaze, DJ Shorty, DJ CutWild, g-man and Priority Deluxe, music stalls from Ninja Tunes, Rough Trade, Soul & Dance Exchange and Flashback and hardcore fighting game tournament organisers Neo Empire. Ninja Tune will be hosting the new Funki Porcini album listening party (‘On’ released on May 3rd). http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=111522198884501&ref=ts

TAI SHANI – 7 May

‘Screentest: R-R-Rhine Peacetime 82’

Performance: 7:30pm & 9:15pm Main Gallery (30mins)

On a sound stage, an actress is being filmed auditioning for a role in a fictitious film based on a strange, actual sequence of events that took place in West Germany in the hot summer of 1982. Over the course of 25 days in three unrelated, tragic incidents members of the US and UK peacetime army stole tanks and rampaged through various German towns and countryside leaving behind a trail of destruction, ultimately driving themselves over bridges and into trains to their deaths. The actress Maya Lubinsky is auditioning for the role of Katja Riemann, a young woman who gets run over by a tank driven by Private Charles S. Keefer, her boyfriend.

In this expanding screentest which occurs on a fractured timeline, the lives and fictions of Katja Riemann, Maya Lubinsky and Maya’s body double overflow and hemorrhage into each other creating a spiraling narrative told through film, heroines, anti-heroines, animated props, an overbearing narrator and a Neanderthal from a parallel universe. The performance is accompanied by a live score by David J. Smith (Guapo, Stargazers Assistant and Amal Gamal Ensemble)

ICA Theatre Film and Video Screenings selected by Tai Shani

4.30pm: Cartune Xprez

6pm: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm by William Greaves,1968, 75 mins

8pm: Jen Wu – Half Light, 5mins 2009

& Damon Packard – Spacedisco One, 2007, 58min

10pm: Jim Hollands – Here, 2007, 70min (3D glasses will be supplied).

Music: DJ set in Bar from 7pm. Owen Hills (of Wooden Spoon and Dollboy). Kraut and cosmic musics.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=119012498124183&ref=mf

boyleANDshaw – 8 May

THE SCUTTLER

boyleANDshaw with David Gothard present The Scuttler in collaboration with Sam Belinfante, Patrick Coyle, Adam James, JocJonJosch, Plastique Fantastique, Harold Offeh, Malin Ståhl, Malachy Orozco, Keeley Forsyth and Max Reinhardt

For the ICA they will be presenting and developing a new durational performance-based work called The Scuttler, collaborating with an array of artists, actors and musicians in an improvised and experimental way to bring to this new work to life throughout the various spaces of the gallery.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=112310498804462&ref=ts

TERRY SMITH – 9 May

The Foundling: DRUNK AND DISORDERLY

The final part in a quartet of performances. The last chapter of the Foundling project Drunk and Disorderly will be workshopped as part of an open rehearsal and performed at the ICA. This forms the last of four distinct parts, which includes Lost and Found (performed at the Tete a Tete Opera festival in London 2008), Hide and Seek, (performed at the The Foundling Museum 2009) and Sticks and Stones (performed at St George’s Church in Venice 2009). The video works include texts by the writer Mel Gooding spoken by the actor Julian Bird. This performance includes Linda Hirst, Miguel Tantos, Oliver Coates and Danny Standing.

PROPOSITIONS

Propositions is a project selected by Terry Smith that brings together a diverse body of work by nine current and past students from Wimbledon College of Art. Chris Agnew, Jenny Baldock, Fiona Long, Russell Moore, Lauren O’Day, Helen Newhouse, Charlotte Turton, Nicholas Quenzer, Sam Wilkins

AURA SATZ – 9 May

TURNTABLE TABLEAU, a film performance.

Aura Satz performs a talking book ventriloquist act, followed by a live soundtrack to her film on gramophone grooves. The hypnotic footage of spinning sound patterns is accompanied by a spiralling multivocal counterpart, a cornocupia of voices recounting a tale of mourning and technology, a forensic love-story of sorts in which the voices overlap, echo and pre-empt each other. The cinematic stage is animated by a voice-over carousel, a spinning tableau vivant, a canon of voices amplified by horns set on a rotating stage.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118623424831585

BRIAN CATLING – 9 May

Mr Rapehead- a new live performance

Mr Rapehead is new 30 minute work made for the ICA extends his obsessive manipulation of the mysterious and enigmatic atmospheres by interrogating them with threats of violence and humour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq8VlTi4nuc

https://davidgryn.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/live-at-the-ica-sunday-9-may-brian-catling-aura-satz-terry-smith-performances/

Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Art prize – Deadline 20 May

Submit your ideas by 20 May

Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Art prize

JACK DANIEL’S SINGLE BARREL ART

Mr. Jack’s great passion was making whiskey.

He spent a long time crafting every drop, giving his whiskey a distinctive character that’s known the world over.

Now it’s your turn to share your passion.

Jack Daniel’s invites you to create a unique piece of art using one of our handcrafted single barrels.

The barrel is your canvas, to do with what you will.

Let your imagination run wild.

Then submit your concept to singlebarrelart@lynchburg.jackdaniels.com by 20th May 2010.

To enter, please include:

– A black and white drawing of your concept attached as a jpeg, along with a paragraph explaining your concept in no more than 250 words.

– Your name, date of birth (you must be over 21), home address and email address.

– Three jpegs containing recent and different pieces of your work with the relevant date and title for each piece.

(Email must not exceed 2MB in size)

singlebarrelart@lynchburg.jackdaniels.com

Here are the T&C’s please read it’ll only take a few minutes …

1. The Jack Daniel’s Barrel Art competition is open to all artists aged 21 or over. It is not open to employees nor their immediate families of Brown-Forman, DFS, their agents or anyone else professionally connected with the promotion.

2. Entrants must produce a piece of art, using a barrel of Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel as their canvas and inspiration.

3. To enter the competition, entrants must first email a jpeg file (max 2MB in size) containing a drawing or photo of their proposed concept and three jpeg files of recent work with title and date, along with a supporting paragraph of no more than 250 words by email to singlebarrelart@lynchburg.jackdaniels.com

Email must also include their name, date of birth, address and contact telephone number. Deadline for receipt of entries is 18.00 GMT on 13 May 2010.

4. The entry must be entirely original work, not defame anybody nor breach any copyright.

5. Entries must ensure the final piece of art can be transported to its final destination (to be decided by Promoter). Any pieces that are of an indecent or offensive nature, are deemed detrimental to Jack Daniel’s, or promote irresponsible drinking will not be entered into the competition.

6. The entries will be judged by a representative from the art world,

a representative from Brown-Forman and a representative from iris nation. Ten concepts only will be selected based on those deemed to best represent Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel in an original and interesting way.

7. The judges’ decision will be final and no correspondence can be entered into. We will email successful applicants only by 20 May 2010 and we will make arrangements to deliver a barrel directly to each applicant.

8. The ten winning artists must be able to supply their final piece by 30 June 2010, and email photographs of their final piece to singlebarrelart@lynchburg.jackdaniels.com with their name, a short personal biography of no more than 250 words, date of birth, address and contact number.

The Promoter will arrange for each piece to be collected from a pre-agreed location, on a pre-agreed date and at a pre-agreed time. The final piece must be transportable and fit within 1m squared space.

9. The closing date for receipt of entries is 13 May 2010. 10. All ten pieces of art will be displayed as part of the Jack Daniel’s stand at one of ten airport locatitons globally; Abu Dhabi, Mumbai, New Zealand, LA, JFK, San Francisco, Singapore. The location will be determined by the Promoter.

11. All ten artists will receive $500 to cover their material expenses and in consideration of their assignment to Jack Daniel’s of all intellectual property rights and sufficient to enable the publicity rights contemplated at clauses Jack Daniel’s Barrel Art Competition

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12, 13 and 18. 12. When submitting concepts competitors accept that the images sent become the sole property of Jack Daniel’s and that we shall have the right to use that content and make it available to the public on their website and in conjunction with the Barrel Art campaign.

The copyright of the concepts will pass to Jack Daniel’s for the duration of one year, after this time copyright reverts back to the winner.

13. The photographs of all ten pieces of art will be uploaded to jackdaniels.com with artists’ biographies for the general public to vote for their favourite piece of art. The piece of art with the most votes at the end of the promotional period will be deemed the overall winner.

14. The overall winner will receive a return economy flight to London from their nearest international airport (to the value of £1,000 only), three nights accommodation in a 4 star hotel, and a ticket to the London Art Fair, as well as £1,000 spending money.

Dates of travel to be confirmed, the London Art Fair takes place in January 2011. Winner must be responsible for ensuring they have a valid passport and meet entry requirements for Great Britain.

15. In the event of circumstances outside of its control, the promoter reserves the right to substitute a similar prize of equal or greater value.

16. The promoter does not accept responsibility for non-receipt, delay or corruption of entries.

17. The name of the ten winning artists shortlisted to produce a piece of barrel art will be available by sending a SAE to: Jack Daniel’s Barrel Art competition, iris nation, 185 Park Street, London SE1 9DY, 28 days after the closing date.

18. The names of the ten shortlisted winners will be published and are required to participate in publicity. Their artworks may compiled into a book and may also be published online, charity auction, TV, cinema and in the press.

19. The winner must consult Jack Daniel’s via singlebarrelart@lynchburg.jackdaniels.com before using an image of the barrel art in other media or for any other purpose, and this permission can be withheld if in their opinion such usage shall have any material adverse effect on Jack Daniel’s.

20. Following the display of the winning barrel art, winners agree that they may be auctioned by Jack Daniel’s for the benefit of a humanitarian charity of Jack Daniel’s choosing, albeit likely concerned with the provision of aid to Haiti.

Promoter: Brown-Forman Beverages Europe, Ltd., 45 Mortimer Street, London W1W 8HJ.

Artprojx

Timing of ICA Events 6-9 May

ICA – LIVE WEEKEND 1 – PERFORMANCE etc …

PRODUCED BY DAVID GRYN

6 – 9 MAY 2010

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Thurs 6 May: David Blandy – Choose your Character

Fri 8 May: Tai Shani – Screentest: R-R-Rhine Peacetime 82

Sat 8 May: boyleANDshaw with David Gothard present The Scuttler

Sun 9 May: Terry Smith, Aura Satz, Brian Catling, Propositions

Neo Empire hosts Street Fighter Battles at the ICA – May 6

Neo Empire STreet Fighter Battles at David Blandy's Choose Your Character - ICA - Thurs 6 May

DAVID BLANDY – CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER
THURS 6 MAY 2010 12 noon – 11.30pm
at the ICA LIVE WEEKEND – PRODUCED BY DAVID GRYN

also featuring: Infinite Livez, King Cannibal, DJ Phaze, DJ Shorty, DJ CutWild, g-man, Priority Deluxe, Ninja Tune, Big Dada, Rough Trade, Soul & Dance Exchange, Flashback, Neo Empire.

David Gryn | Artprojx presents at the ICA a series of special events starting with the South Bank Show Award winning artist David Blandy presents ‘Choose Your Character’, a celebration of a variety of different fan-behaviours and sub-cultural obsessions that reflect the artist’s own passions. Pop in and browse through the vinyl and cds on sale whilst catching a Street Fighter IV tournament, featuring Ninja Tune/Big Dada artists King Cannibal (10pm) and Infinite Livez (8pm) and a special screening of Damon Packard’s fandom-tinged film work. Funki Porcini album listening party (new album ‘On’ released on May 3rd). There will be record stalls from Rough Trade, Ninja Tune, Music and Video exchange, Flashback records and Sounds of the Universe. The ICA opens at noon, and closes around late.

NINJA TUNE

NEO EMPIRE

CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER

DAVID BLANDY

MUSIC & VIDEO EXCHANGE

BLANDY TRAILER for MY PHILOSOPHY