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Lux Salon
FILM ART: RUTH NOVACZEK
Thursday 25 November 2004, 7pm for 7.30pm start
Work that moves questioningly between gallery and cinematic projection
space. Films that introduce the missing link between experimental film
tradition and current art practise, and, conversant with both fine art and
fine art film, create a bridge that defines as developmental the difference
between the privacy of the gallery and the public nature of screening. This
screening accompanies a group exhibition of the same name which took place
at Catalyst Arts, Belfast in October 2004. Curated by Ruth Novaczek.
Programme includes: DARK DARK by Abigail Child, FATIMA'S LETTER by Alia
Syed, PLOT 2004 by Julia Dogra-Brazell, SENSE by Ruth Novaczek. More details
below.
Admission to the LUX SALON is FREE but places are limited so booking is
essential. To book a place email <[log in to unmask]>. If you reserve a space
but cannot attend, please let us know as it deprives others of a place.
LUX SALON takes place at LUX, 18 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ. see
directions at http://www.lux.org.uk/aboutlux/directions.html
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LUX SALON: FILM ART
'Artists film and video uniquely positions itself between the cinematic
space (quite literally meant, the space of cinematic projection) and the
gallery, the traditional space of visual art . Each environment requires
different notions of scale, of narrative, of focus and attention. Any
screening assembles a group in a particular space and time, nurturing a
collective, plural 'dreaming'. The gallery by contrast, encourages an
individual relation, working not with a collective consciousness, but with
solitary even personal narrative. Attending a screening of short works
promotes an expectation that what one sees, one sees once, contextualised
within a themed programme. The attention and its span, demanded by the
collective, cinematic space, requires a commitment to the duration of the
programme. The gallery allows fleeting glimpses or long reflection, allows
viewing and reviewing, allows the possibility of contextual/narrative
disfunction, dipping into or completely avoiding a particular work in favour
of another.
This programme and its accompanying exhibition explores contemporary film
art which can cross the line and back again. Work that moves questioningly
between gallery and cinematic projection space. The films introduce the
missing link of experimental film tradition to current art practise, and,
conversant with both fine art and fine art film, create a bridge that
defines as developmental the difference between the privacy of the gallery
and the public nature of screening.'
Abigail Child an NYC based film maker/artist of over 30 years has worked
with found footage, surrealistic narrative, and postmodern invention. Her
work brilliantly and wryly ironises postwar america. Her montage and cutting
an hommage to the great themes of cinema, a transgressive conversation with
its conventions.
"Dark Dark' takes moments, out-takes and glimpses, and cuts them into a path
through its world. Painful and ironic, it overlays a swathe of ambivalence
across a map of montage.
'the films don't form a single line...but rather a map of a series of
corners in relation to mind, to how one processes material...'
Abigail Child on, 'this is what you were born for' a series,comprising seven
films made over several years.
Alia Syed, a london based, artist has maintained a unique and particular
place in the british film avant garde. 'fatima's letter' is a poem in urdu,
a palimpsest laid onto the transformed bones of a city, overlaid with half
told and colliding stories, engraving text into an urban backdrop. the
narrative resonates with the sedative of its lilting tone, nudged by sudden
fissures. Syed welds the broken to the flowing in sinuous gestures that
celebrate screen and light.
Julia Dogra-Brazell
A London based artist, producing sound, photographic and film fragments
primarily in a gallery context. In 'Plot 2004' - one in a series of films
reconstituted around the same unnamed 'event' - Dogra-Brazell cuts minutely
into moments, compresses cinema, puts it into the gallery, invests its
minute gestures with super intensity, forces the repetition of the cycle.
Here, as the artist moves from gallery to cinema, the hommage is reversed,
and turned on itself. The glimpse is not reiterated but remains a glimpse,
almost subliminal. The narrative challenges our attention span. We question
our perception; it is a micro moment, a comet.
A solo photographic exhibition of her work appeared at the Scene Gallery in
NY in Feb 2003. In May of the same year, she was awarded a Jerwood
Commission in conjuction with the Wapping Project. A feature on her film
work will appear in Next Level in 2005.
Ruth Novaczek has been working with film and video for 25 years, moving
between experimental personal narrative and looped multi screen
installation. Her recent videos are short episodes that use heavily
processed and eclectic imagery with sampled multilayered sound in a kind of
collage of location and dislocation.
'sense' is a condensed transatlantic story, a restless tragedy of sampled
aphorisms and fleeting landscape.. part of an ongoing series of short films
that transpose to site specific installation pieces.
Novaczek showed 'Red Sea Heatless Night' a 3 screen video installation at
the New York Kunsthalle in 2000, and was Dartington Arts Artist in Residence
from 2000-2001. Her work was shown in a recent survey of experimental film
'Experiments in Moving Image' in London 2003.
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