| Screening of Andy Warhol's Blow Job Thursday 10 April 2008. 6.30 pm To celebrate the launch of the latest title in Afterall's One Work series, Andy Warhol: Blow Job by Peter Gidal, we are pleased to invite you to a special screening of Andy Warhol's 1964 film. Drinks will follow the screening. Tate Modern Starr Auditorium London SE1 9TG £5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/ |  |
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| Art and Social Change Book Launch Friday 14 March 2008. 7:00 pm Launch of Art and Social Change, a critical reader edited by Will Bradley and Charles Esche. Nash and Brandon Rooms Institute of Contemporary Art The Mall London SW1Y 5AH During the launch we will be screening Nils Vest's Five Days for Peace (1978), a film about an intervention by the Danish street theatre collective Solvognen during the 1973 NATO summit in Copenhagen. Please RSVP to london@afterall.org http://www.ica.org.uk/ |  |
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| Riddles of the Sphinx Screening Friday 15 February 2008. 6:00 pm Chelsea Programme, in partnership with Afterall, present Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx (1977, 92mins) Banqueting Hall Chelsea College of Art & Design 16 John Islip Street London SW1P 4JU This event will be introduced by Laura Mulvey. Places are free, but need to be booked in advance. For bookings, please contact Sonya Dyer, Events Co-ordinator via - s.dyer@chelsea.arts.ac.uk / 020 7514 7948 www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk |  |
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| Re-Take: A Panel on Art and Appropriation Tuesday 27 November 2007. 7:00 pm Judith Barry, Sarah Charlesworth, Anthony Huberman, and Richard Phillips Moderated by Michael Newman The Kitchen 512 West 19th Street New York, NY 10011 $7 This panel discussion examines the use of appropriation in contemporary art, considering the various approaches to appropriation adopted by three different generations of artists spanning the 1970s to today. The panel will be moderated by art historian and writer Michael Newman, the author of Richard Prince: Untitled (couple) recently published by Afterall Books. Box Office: 212 255 5793 x 11 www.thekitchen.org |  |
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| Issue 16 Launch and Film Screening Tuesday 13 November 2007. Reception 7:45 pm | Film 8:30 pm Roy & Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 $9 / $7 Students / $4 CalArts Launch of Afterall 16 and screening of Ulrike Ottinger's Madame X: An Absolute Ruler. In this cult feminist pirate film, the harsh beauty Madame X calls upon women to trade their comfortable but dull lives for a world of danger and adventure on the China seas. Among those that gather aboard her ship, Orlando, are a housewife, a diva, a psychologist, a 'native' beauty, and an artist (played by Yvonne Rainer). Fueled by discontent, their utopia unravels as they begin to ritualize the power games of the outside world. Box Office: 213 237 2800 www.redcat.org www.ulrikeottinger.com |  |
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| Ibon Aranberri in conversation with Pablo Lafuente at documenta 12 Tuesday 17 July 2007. 16.00 Documenta Halle, Kassel Ibon Aranberri and Pablo Lafuente will talk about Aranberri's work, including the two projects he is exhibiting in Kassel as part of documenta 12. www.documenta12.de |  |
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| Lunch Lecture at documenta 12 Saturday 14 July 2007. 13.00 Documenta Halle, Kassel 'Editorial Practices and Criticality': a discussion about the role of critique in current editorial practice. Sasa Janjic (Remont, Belgrade), Lisette Lagnado (trópico, São Paulo) and Pablo Lafuente (Afterall). Moderated by Christian Höller (Springerin, Vienna). www.documenta12.de |  |
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| Lunch Lecture at documenta 12 Thursday 12 July 2007. 13.00 Documenta Halle, Kassel 'On Curatorial Methods: Universalist Frescoes, Grand Statements and Major Exhibitions': a panel discussion on the objectives and limitations of large-scale curatorial projects, with special focus on documenta 12. Lisette Lagnado (trópico, São Paulo), Victor Misiano (Moscow Art Magazine, Moscow), Charles Esche (Afterall) and Pablo Lafuente (Afterall). Chaired by Cosmin Costinas (documenta 12 magazines). www.documenta12.de |  |
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| Afterall 15 and Fillip 6 Launch and Panel Discussion Thursday 28 June 2007. 19.00 Mandrake Bar, La Cienaga Blvd, Los Angeles We are pleased to announce the publication of Afterall issue 15 and issue 6 of Fillip. We invite you to join us at the Mandrake Bar in Los Angeles for drinks and a panel discussion about the state of contemporary art journals. www.mandrakebar.com www.fillip.ca |  |
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| Mark Lewis talk at documenta 12 Tuesday 19 June 2007. 13.00 Documenta Halle, Kassel Following his essay published in Afterall issue 14 and the first issue of documenta 12 magazine, Mark Lewis will be discussing the greater and lesser moments of a past and yet present modernity in architecture, film and painting. This talk is part of the documenta 12 magazines Lunch Lecture programme. www.documenta12.de |  |
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| Joan Jonas Book Launch Thursday 24 May 2007. 18.30 westlondonprojects, 2 Shorrolds Road, London Afterall is pleased to announce the London launch of Joan Jonas, I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances) by Susan Morgan. The launch will coincide with the opening of Jonas's exhibition at westlondonprojects. As part of this event Joan Jonas will be in conversation with Bettina Funcke from Dia Art Foundation in New York, for which the artist recently produced a major performance. www.westlondonprojects.org |  |
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| Marc Camille Chaimowicz & Tom Holert Monday 21 May 2007. 15.00 Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Southampton Row, London On Monday 21 May, Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Tom Holert will have a conversation about Chaimowicz’s Celebration? Realife at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London. Marc Camille Chaimowicz was born in Paris and teaches in the M.F.A. course at the University of Reading and is visiting consultant at L'École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Dijon. Tom Holert is the author of the book Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Celebration? Realife, recently published by Afterall Books. Presented in association with ICFAR Curated Conversations, University of the Arts London. www.icfar.co.uk www.csm.arts.ac.uk |  |
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| documenta 12 magazine at The Photographers' Gallery, London Wednesday 09 May 2007. 19.00 The Photographers’ Gallery, 5 & 8 Great Newport Street, London On 9 May, Afterall will co-host a discussion at The Photographers’ Gallery on documenta 12 magazines. documenta 12 magazines has been working over the past two years on setting up a network of collaboration and exchange with around 100 magazines from all over the world. The project will be featured this summer in Kassel through a weekly programme of seminars, lectures and other events. Georg Schöllhammer, director of documenta 12 magazines, presents the project in a conversation with some of the partner editors: Ric Allsopp (Performance Research), Christine Frisinghelli (Camera Austria), Pablo Lafuente (Afterall) and Peter Osborne (Radical Philosophy). www.photonet.org.uk www.documenta12.de/magazine.html |  |
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| Joan Jonas: I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances) Tuesday 17 April 2007. 18.30 Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), West 22nd Street, New York EAI and Afterall present a screening of Joan Jonas's 1976 video work I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances), which Morgan's new book explores. Jonas will be present to introduce and talk about this haunting non-linear video narrative. Following the screening Susan Morgan will lead a discussion with Joan Jonas. Presented in collaboration with ICFAR Curated Conversations, University of the Arts London. www.eai.org www.icfar.co.uk |  |
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| Roberto Ohrt: Akademie Isotrop Saturday 24 February 2007. 17.30 Mandrake Bar, La Cienaga Blvd, Los Angeles Afterall presents a talk by Hamburg-based writer and curator Roberto Ohrt on Akademie Isotrop, the independent art school he co-founded in Hamburg in 1996 and run until 2001. André Butzer, Markus Selg, Jonathan Meese, Birgit Megerle, Daniel Richter and Abel Auer among others participated in a school that investigated new forms of educational practice. This event is part of Afterall's response to 'What is to be done?', one of the themes of the documenta 12 magazine project, of which Afterall is part. www.mandrakebar.com www.documenta12.de/magazine.html |  |
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| Boris Groys: The Post-Communist Condition Thursday 07 December 2006. 14.30 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Southampton Row, London Afterall, in conjunction with the International Centre for Fine Art Research, presents a lecture by writer, curator and philosopher Boris Groys on the specific developments of contemporary art in Eastern Europe. Taking as a starting point 'Privatizations', an exhibition he curated in 2004, Groys will discuss the differing conditions in which the cultural discourse in the east and the west has developed. www.postcommunist.de www.icfar.co.uk www.csm.arts.ac.uk |  |
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| Lane Relyea & Aïda Ruilova Friday 03 November 2006. 19.00 Mandrake Bar, La Cienaga Blvd, Los Angeles To celebrate the launch of Afterall issue 14 and Afterall Online, Lane Relyea will offer art lovers tips on how to best appreciate such recent masterpieces of relational aesthetics as Urban Outfitters stores, retro hotel lobbies, boutique- style bank branches and other retail outlets, not to mention hip art bars like the Mandrake. Aïda Ruilova will be screening her video works Oh No, You’re Pretty, Um, Let's Go, OK, Alright and Tuning. www.mandrakebar.com |  |
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| Boron: The Element of Place Saturday 24 June 2006. All-day event A day trip to Boron with the Center for Land Use Interpretation. This guided tour will begin in Culver City, congeal at the Center’s Desert Research Station, and spend the day visiting the remarkable places that ring this dramatic and compelling part of the California landscape. Sites visited and/or discussed include the largest open pit mine in California; the largest solar power plant in the world; a mountaintop rocket test site and an abandoned federal prison. www.clui.org |  |
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| David Lamelas: Time is a Fiction Tuesday 20 June 2006. 20.00 REDCAT Theater, 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles In conjunction with the exhibition ‘David Lamelas: Los Angeles Time as Activity’ at MC, Los Angeles and the release of Afterall issue 13, MC and Afterall are pleased to present Time is a Fiction, a programme comprising five early 16mm films by David Lamelas. This series is curated by Jacqueline Holt and distributed by LUX, London. www.redcat.org www.mckunst.com www.lux.org.uk |  |
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| East Art Map Panel Discussion Wednesday 31 May 2006. 19.00 The Kitchen, New York This panel discussion celebrates the launch of East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe, an Afterall Book edited by IRWIN, a group of five artists and the visual-art component of the Slovenian arts collective NSK. East Art Map is an attempt to reconstruct the missing histories of contemporary art in Eastern Europe from an East European perspective. Miran Mohar, member of IRWIN, Roger Conover, writer, curator and Executive Editor of MIT Press, and Vitaly Komar, whose work is featured in the book, will present and discuss the project. This event is supported by the Consulate General of Slovenia in New York. www.eastartmap.org www.thekitchen.org |  |
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| Hollis Frampton - (nostalgia) Tuesday 16 May 2006. 19.00 Starr Auditorium Tate Modern, London Tate Modern, in conjunction with Afterall, is screening a new print of Hollis Frampton's film (nostalgia), a formal masterpiece, long overlooked and under-studied. Following the screening, Rachel Moore will present a brief talk about the film. Moore is the author of Hollis Frampton: (nostalgia), published by Afterall Books in April 2006. Screening courtesy of Frampton Estate / LUX. www.tate.org.uk www.lux.org.uk |  |
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| Bas Jan Ader: All is Falling Thursday 04 May 2006. 19.00 Red Lion Square Lecture Theatre Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Southampton Row, London Afterall, in conjunction with Camden Arts Centre, presents a film screening and panel discussion on the occasion of the exhibition 'Bas Jan Ader: All is Falling', and Jan Verwoert's Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous, a new publication by Afterall Books. The discussion will be chaired by Andrea Phillips, MA Curating, Goldsmiths and will include Theo Tegelaers, De Appel and Jan Verwoert, a critic and writer on contemporary art and cultural theory. www.camdenartscentre.org www.csm.arts.ac.uk |  |
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| IRWIN - East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe Thursday 27 April 2006. 15.30 Red Lion Square Lecture Theatre Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Southampton Row, London Artists' group IRWIN have been investigating Eastern European art production and its relationship to that of the West for over a decade, and East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe, their new publication with Afterall Books, is the materialisation of this research. Members of the group will discuss the project with the help of examples of work included in the book. www.eastartmap.org www.csm.arts.ac.uk |  |