TANYA LEIGHTON
Kuerfurstenstrasse 156
10785 Berlin
www.tanyaleighton.com
Gluehwein will be served
Art and the Moving Image: A Critical Reader
Tanya Leighton, ed.; Charles Esche, general ed; Tate, London, in
association with Afterall, 2008.
For further information on Art and the Moving Image please click
here (inset link to reader page)
BFI Southbank
London
For the past fifty years, the love/hate affair between art and
cinema has triggered vital aesthetic, social and political
responses that constantly renew the way we understand our age. This
symposium traces the story from early spatial experiments with film
and video technologies to the current widespread use of projected
images in museums and galleries.
This event also marks the launch of the critical reader Art and
the Moving Image. Series editor Charles Esche will introduce
presentations (including short screenings) by a number of the
authors: Sabeth Buchmann on Helio Oiticica's Quasi-Cinemas, Bruce
Jenkins on Fluxfilms and William Kaizen on the changing status of
video. The artist Chantal Akerman will present her own work. Esche
will close the event by chairing an open discussion on Art and the
Moving Image with the writer and LUX Assistant Director Mike
Sperlinger.
Please book online at www.bfi.org.uk
Or call the BFI Box Office: +44 (0) 20 7928 3232
Tickets £15, concessions £11
Italian Cultural Institute in London
39 Belgrave Square
London SW1X 8NX
To celebrate the launch of the latest title in Afterall's
One Work series, Alighiero e Boetti: Mappa by
Luca Cerizza, we are pleased to invite you to a special event at
the Italian Cultural Institute in London, with a conversation
between Luca Cerizza and Annemarie Sauzeau, Director of Archivio
Boetti.
In 1971 Alighiero e Boetti commissioned Afghan embroiderers to
create a map of the world, with each country bearing the colours
and pattern of its flag. The commission grew into a large-scale
series of maps produced over a period of twenty years in Kabul,
Afghanistan and Peshawar, Pakistan. Each map tracked geopolitical
changes throughout the world: the break-up of the Soviet Union, the
unification of Germany, disputes over territories in the Middle
East and regime changes in the Eurasian peninsula. In this new
study of the work, Italian curator Luca Cerizza looks at it in
relation to world events and the history of map-making, as well as
to the contemporary art movements of Minimalism, Conceptualism and
Arte Povera.
Afterall and The Showroom, London, are pleased to announce a new
ongoing series of seminars and events that take place at The
Showroom alongside the publication of each issue of the journal.
These aim to create a wider forum in which to collaboratively flesh
out editorial content with a small group of participants, and to
broaden the remit of the journal by bringing it into contact with
other ideas, practices and debates.
The first seminar is dedicated to the work of Berlin-based
filmmaker Hito Steyerl, whose work is featured in Afterall issue 19
(Autumn/Winter 2008). The seminar will involve the screening of two
recent films by Steyerl, November (2004) and Lovely
Andrea (2007), followed by a group discussion led by the
artist around issues that will include the politics of
representation and the articulation of protest through the moving
image.
Thursday 14 August 2008.
Thursday 21 August 2008.
Thursday 28 August 2008.
Screenings are FREE and begin at 8:15 pm
To celebrate Afterall 18, please join us for a three-week rooftop series of sci-fi inspired films and artists videos screened atop the landmark Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. In the high season of summer blockbusters, this series presents low-fi cult features and artist videos that use elements of science fiction to cast new light on earthly struggles and everyday phenomena. Outer space is used as a metaphor for psychological inner space, post-apocalyptic futures and interplanetary utopias are imagined through the quotidian lens of social progress, and android life illuminates human dysfunction on Earth. <\p>
As part of Nought to Sixty, a programme of exhibitions
and events at the ICA, London, Afterall will lead a
discussion on the status of the independent voice within critical
art discourse. The event will elaborate on current models for
publishing on art, and the role of criticism in relation to these
structures.
Participants in this discussion include Pablo Lafuente and Melissa
Gronlund of Afteralll, Matthew Arnatt of Rachmaninoff's,
Olivia Plender, artist and former editor of Untitled, and
Daniel Jewesbury, artist and co-editor of Variant.
Entry to this event is free, but booking is required. Please
contact the ICA box office on 020 79303647.
ICA Nash Room
The Mall
London
SW1Y 5AH
www.ica.org.uk
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/
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/
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
