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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
