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Thu24 May

no.w.here & Bruce McClure
Creative Projection and Collapsible Theatres
10am– 5pm (WORKSHOP WITH LIMITED PLACES)
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Ken Jacobs

Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
6.30– 8.30pm (Opening event with Free beer courtesy of cobra vision)
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Friday 25 May

Christian Lebrat

Vibrations
1 – 2.30pm
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Peter Kubelka
Metric Composition: Evolution manifested in film, food and other arts
3.30 – 6pm
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Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine
9 – 10pm
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Saturday 26 May

Compendium
New Artists' Film & Video
12.30 – 2.45pm
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Cucinema di Genzano
2– 8pm
(workshop open to all)

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Aldo Tambellini
Electromedia & The Black Film Series
3.30 – 5pm
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Emma Hart & Benedict Drew
Two New Works
7.30 – 10pm
(Part of an evening of performances)

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Ad Libitum
Improvisation n°10
7.30 – 10pm
(Part of an evening of performances)

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Christian Lebrat
Ultra
7.30 – 10pm
(Part of an evening of performances)
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Sunday 27 May

Compendium
New Artists' Film & Video
12.30 – 2.45pm
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Peter Kubelka
Metaphoric Composition: Evolution manifested in film, food and other arts
3.30 – 6pm
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Bruce McClure
6’s Two 8’s: Dopes To Infinity
7.30 – 8.30pm
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Ken Jacobs
Embedded In Manhattan
9 – 10pm
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Friday 25 May
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Liminal Minimal
Liminal Minimal, Christian Lebrat, performance photograph
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Christian Lebrat - Vibrations
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Screening & performance
the linacre studio
1 - 2.30pm
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Christian Lebrat’s films and film performances fragment and explode the frame into dense vibrations of colour, form and time. Falling roughly into two categories, Lebrat’s work investigates de-composition and the mutation of light into minimalist, painterly abstraction: In some of his work the camera gate is masked during filming, and the image exposed onto the filmstrip as a series of kaleidoscopic slices of time. In others the screen is activated by reverberating combinations of coloured light projections. Although Lebrat has been actively making work since the early '70s his work is little known in the UK and this will be his first solo screening. As part of this event Lebrat will talk about his work and perform Liminal Minimal, his 1977 expanded performance for two mobile projectors.
Films
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Liminal Minimal Film Numéro Deux Réseaux Trama
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Liminal Minimal
1977, ~20mins, performance for two 16mm projectors, silent
Film Numéro Deux
1976, 3mins, 16mm, silent, colour
Réseaux
1978, 10mins, 16mm, silent, colour
Trama
1980, 12mins, 16mm, sound, colour
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Autoportrait Au Dispositif Holon
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Autoportrait Au Dispositif
1981, 7mins, 16mm, silent, colour
Holon
1982, 15mins, 16mm, silent, colour
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Friday 25
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Schwechater
Schwechater, Peter Kubelka, film still
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peter kubelka - evolution in film and cooking
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lecture the linacre studio
3.30 - 6pm
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“Kubelka’s cinema is like a piece of crystal, or some other object of nature: it does not look like it was produced by man...” (Jonas Mekas)

Beginning his work in film in the early '50s, Austrian Peter Kubelka is one of the world’s most ardent proponents of avant-garde cinema. In the '70s he embarked upon a life dedicated to de-specialisation, working broadly across film, cooking, archeology, music and cultural history in an attempt to evade being labeled as a filmmaking virtuoso.

Kubelka’s spirited lectures are works of art in their own right, combining words with non-verbal examples and encompassing centuries of creativity. On this rare visit to the UK, he will deliver two lectures which probe the idea of evolution as manifested in the development of cinema – using his entire film output as examples and illustrating his ideas in relation to the non-industrial preparation of food and the development of tools. The lectures will provide an invaluable insight into cinema as a form of art, for both audiences and practitioners alike. The first instalment will centre around Kubelka’s ‘metric films’ in which every element is precisely ordered in relation to the whole.

Made possible through the kind support of the Austrian Cultural Forum, London.
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Adebar Schwechater Arnulf Rainer
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Adebar
1957, 1min, 16mm, sound, colour
Schwechater
1958, 1min, 16mm, sound, colour
Arnulf Rainer
1960, 7mins, 16mm, sound, b/w
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Friday 25
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Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine
Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine, performance photograph
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Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine
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performance the linacre studio
9 - 10pm
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Operating like a band of experimental instrumentalists, the French collective Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine liberate music and cinema from the clutches of convention through rich and intense improvised performances. Using eight projectors and the magic of mirrors, filmmakers Christophe Auger and Xavier Quérel cast out, manipulate and combine beams of multiple images as musician Jérôme Noetinger reciprocates with an electroacoustic sound field generated by tape loops, analogue synthesizers and amplified objects.

Made possible through the kind support of République Française and Institut Français.
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Saturday 26 May
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Thortsen Fleisch - Energie
Energie!, Thorsten Fleisch, video still
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Compendium - New Artists' Film and Video
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screening The Linacre Studio
12.30 - 2.45pm
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Evolution’s annual selection of new International avant-garde film and video shows that artists’ cinema, and the focussed engagement it commands, is still brimming with potential. Beginning with a step inside the medium in a series of new works by Jennifer Reeves, Joe Gilmore and Paul Emery, Kyle Canterbury, Simon Payne and Thorsten Fleisch. Moving on to four works by Jacqueline Goss, Robert Fenz, Steve Reinke and Ben Rivers that investigate borders, territories and visitors; and concluding with three new works by Dalia Neis, Lawrence Jordan and James Holcombe that borrow images from the cinematic past and re-frame them in the present.

Compendium is co-curated with Greg Kurcewicz.

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Films: Chroma in Bloom
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Light Work I Clut Some Times... A VIDEO
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Light Work I
Jennifer Reeves, US, 2006, 8mins, 16mm-HD, colour, sound
Clut
Joe Gilmore & Paul Emery, UK, 2007, 5mins, video, colour, sound
Some Times...
Kyle Canterbury, US, 2006, 1min 20 secs, video, colour, silent
A VIDEO
Kyle Canterbury, US, 2006, 3mins, video, colour, silent
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Fragments from a Room Untitled Videos: # 9 Double Negative Energie!
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Fragments From A Room
Kyle Canterbury, US, 2006, 3mins, video, colour, silent
Untitled Videos: # 9
Kyle Canterbury, US, 2006, 3mins, video, b/w, silent
Double Negative
Simon Payne, UK, 2006, 5mins 30secs, video, colour, silent
Energie!
Thorston Fleisch, Germany, 2007, 5mins, video, b/w, sound
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Border Crossings
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Stranger Comes to Town Crossings The Mendi This is My Land
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Stranger Comes To Town
Jacqueline Goss, US, 2007, 28mins, video, colour, sound
Crossings
Robert Fenz, US, 2006, 5mins, 16mm, colour, silent
The Mendi
Steve Reinke, Canada, 2006, 9mins, video, colour, sound
This Is My Land
Ben Rivers, UK, 2006, 14mins, 16mm, b/w, sound
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History Repeated
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Goray 1648 Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass A Peck Of Dust
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Goray 1648
Dalia Neis, UK, 2007, 7mins, video, colour, sound
  Blue Skies Beyond The Looking Glass
Lawrence Jordan, US, 15mins, colour, sound
A Peck Of Dust
James Holcombe, UK, 2007, 6mins, 16mm, b/w, sound
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Saturday 26 May
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Black Is
Black Is, Aldo Tambellini, film still
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aldo tambellini
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screening The Linacre Studio
3.30 - 5pm
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As a key figure of the 1960s Lower East Side arts scene, Aldo Tambellini used a variety of media for social and political communication. In the age of Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller, Tambellini manipulated new technology in an exploration of the “psychological re-orientation of man in the space age.” He presented immersive, multi-media environments and, having made his first experimental video as early as 1966, participated in early collaborations between artists and broadcast television.

His dynamic Black Film Series (1965-69) extends from total abstraction to footage of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, the Vietnam War, and black teenagers in Coney Island. Tambellini worked directly on the film strip with chemicals, paint and ink, scratching, scraping, and intercutting material from industrial films, newsreels and TV. Abrasive, provocative and turbulent, the series is a rapid-fire response to the beginning of the information age and a world in flux. “Black to me is like a beginning … Black is within totality, the oneness of all. Black is the expansion of consciousness in all directions.”  Aldo Tambellini will introduce and discuss his early work in film and video.

Curated by Mark Webber
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Black Is
1965, 16mm, b/w, sound, 4mins
Black Trip #1
1965, 16mm, b/w, sound, 5mins
Blackout
1965, 16mm, b/w, sound, 9mins
Black Plus X
1966, 16mm, b/w, sound, 9mins
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Black Trip #2 Moonblack Black TV Aldo Tambellini
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Black Trip #2
1967, 16mm, b/w, sound, 3mins
Moonblack
1969, 16mm, b/w, sound, 14mins
Black TV
1968, 2 x 16mm, b/w, sound, 10mins (double screen)
ABC-TV Interview
1967, video, b/w, sound, 3mins
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Black
(excerpt from The Medium is the Medium) 1969, 6mins, video, sound, b/w
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Saturday 26 May
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Emma Hart and Benedict Drew
Untitled 2., Emma Hart & Benedict Drew, performance photograph
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emma hart and benedict drew - 2 new works
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performance The Linacre Studio
7.30 - 10pm
(part of an evening of performances)
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The collaborative work of musician Benedict Drew and artist Emma Hart centre entirely around the moment of their making. Their performances are dialogues - first and foremost between each other and their respective sensibilities - but also between sound and image, projector and screen. During Evolution they will unveil a new work and perform Untitled 2.. In the latter a long reel of spliced 16mm film consisting of clear and black leader is fed through the strings of Drew’s guitar before being taken up by a projector and cast back onto the performer by Hart. "...hypnotic, tense and utterly entrancing, at once magical and technically astute, a brilliantly restrained drama between a projector and a guitar, between a man and a woman.” (Ian White)

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Saturday 26 May
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Improvisation No. 10
Improvisation n°10, Ad Libitum, film strips
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ad libitum - improvisation no.10
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performance The Linacre Studio
7.30 - 10pm
(part of an evening of performances)
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Ad Libitum’s Improvisation n°10 is a beautiful silent meditation on nature and abstraction. By intervening with the light cast from four modified projectors, French duo Laure Sainte-Rose and Christophe Auger superimpose, and weave together images of the same landscape creating abstract seasonal transformations through radiant chroma and texture.

Made possible through the kind support of République Française and Institut Français.
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Saturday 26 May
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Ultra
Ultra, Christian Lebrat, film still
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christian lebrat - ultra
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performance
the linacre studio
7.30 - 10pm
(part of an evening of performances)
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Ultra is a live performance using two projections superimposed on the same screen. Short loops composed of vividly colourful and completely transparent film phase in and out of synch as French artist Christian Lebrat gradually intervenes into the work. By applying gestures of coloured ink directly onto the moving filmstrip, and by using his body as a shutter, extraordinary luminous interactions and infinite complexities are created.
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Sunday 27 May
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Infinity
Infinity, Mai Yamashita & Naoto Kobayashi, video still
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Compendium - New Artists' Film and Video
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screening The Linacre Studio
12.30 – 2.45pm
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Evolution’s annual selection of new International avant-garde film and video shows that artists’ cinema, and the focused engagement it commands, is still brimming with potential. Beginning with six works by artists Jeanne Liotta, Neil Henderson, Mai Yamashita & Naoto Kobayashi, Edson Barrus, David Gatten and Rose Lowder which meditate on nature and the passage of time. Continuing with three works by Ken Jacobs and John Price that examine the toil of labour; and concluding with three films that deal with profoundly resonant spaces and their representation as moving images.

Compendium is co-curated with Greg Kurcewicz.

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Films: Under the Sky
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El Cielo 1
Jeanne Liotta, US, 2006, 3mins, 16mm, colour, silent

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Neil Henderson, UK, 2007, 3mins, 16mm, colour, silent
Infinity
Mai Yamashita & Naoto Kobayashi, Japan, 2006, 4mins 38secs, video, colour, silent
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Edson Barrus, Brazil, 2006, 5mins 53secs, video, colour, sound
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What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6
David Gatten, US, 2007, 17mins, 16mm, colour, sound
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Rose Lowder, France, 2006, 8mins 31secs, 16mm, colour, silent
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Labour
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John Price, Canada, 2006, 5mins 47secs, 16mm, b/w, sound
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Ken Jacobs, US, 2007, 14mins, video, colour, sound
The Surging Sea Of Humanity
Ken Jacobs, US, 2007 11mins, video, colour, sound
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Resonant Space
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Weep O Mine Eyes (Choir)
Louise K Wilson, UK, 2007, 5mins, video, colour, sound
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Nathaniel Dorsky, US, 2006, 21mins, 16mm, colour, silent
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Peter Samson, UK, 2007, 15mins, video, colour, sound
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Sunday 27 May
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Pause!
Pause!, Peter Kubelka, film still
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Peter Kubelka - Metaphoric Composition: Evolution manifested in film and other arts
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lecture the linacre studio
3.30 - 6pm
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“Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium...” (Stan Brakhage)

In this second seminary lecture by Peter Kubelka, the multifaceted Austrian artist and theorist will continue to probe the idea of evolution as manifested in the development of cinema, this time centering around his ‘metaphoric films’ and illustrating his ideas by interconnecting cinema, food preparation, the development of tools and the intrinsic relationship between art and life. Kubelka’s metaphorical films use the language of cinema to propose an ethnography of our time, critiquing subjects such as socialised behaviour, advertising and tourism (see the description of Kubelka’s Friday lecture for further details).

Made possible through the kind support of the Austrian Cultural Forum, London.

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Mosaik im Vertrauen Unsere Afrikareise Pause! Dichtung und Wahrheit
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Mosaik im Vertrauen
1955, 17mins, 16mm, sound, colour
Unsere Afrikareise
1966, 12mins, 16mm, sound, b/w
Pause!
1977, 12mins, 16mm, sound, colour
Dichtung Und Wahrheit
2003, 13mins, 16mm, sound, colour
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Sunday 27 May
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Nethergate
Nethergate, Bruce McClure, performance photograph
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Bruce McClure - 6's Two 8's: Dopes to Infinity
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Performance The Linacre Studio
7.30 - 8.30pm
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The performances of New York artist Bruce McClure are utterly unique and entrancing experiences. Using a bank of retrofitted projectors and basic guitar effects pedals he creates starkly simple arrangements of light and sound through controlled manipulation of rhythm, luminance focus and form. Pulsating from the screen like ecstatic visions, McClure’s work is a testament to economy and an ode to the primacy of light and sound.
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Nethergate 16mm Projectors 16mm Projectors
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Nethergate
2005, ~20mins, performance for three modified 16mm projectors, sound
Unnamed Complement
2007, ~20mins, performance for three modified 16mm projectors, sound
I Can See By The Hole In Your Head
2007, ~15mins, performance for three modified 16mm projectors, sound
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Sunday 27 May
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Embedded in Manhattan
Nervous magic lantern, Ken Jacobs, performance still
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Ken Jacobs - Embedded in Manhattan
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Performance The Linacre Studio
9 - 10pm
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Ken Jacobs’ films, performances and installations inspire a sense of awe and mystery that audiences must have felt when confronted by moving images at the very start of cinema. Beginning his work in the mid-50s, collaborating with legendary underground stalwart Jack Smith, Jacobs has opened doors to a new and unthinkable type of cinema.

He was amongst the first to investigate unfixed and ephemeral modes of presenting moving images, from live shadowplays to performances with bespoke projection systems. Pre-occupied by the potential of cinema to depict utterly convincing depth and volume, Jacobs’ investigations have succeeded in extending the confines of the screen in every conceivable dimension.

For Evolution he will create an astonishing rare live performance with his ‘nervous magic lantern’ projection system. Using neither film nor video, the nervous magic lantern is as mysterious as the unearthly forms and great luminous plains it somehow manages to cast onto screen.

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Information - Tickets Venues
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On sale from 23 April, early booking recommended.

Day pass
£12 full price
£10 concessions*

Festival pass
£28 full price
£24 concessions*

no.w.here/Bruce McClure workshop
£15 full price
£12 concessions*
(places limited to 25)

The Ken Jacobs installation and Cucinema workshop are free.

 

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Tickets available from Leeds City Centre Box Office:

By phone
+44 (0)113 224 3801

In person/by post
Leeds City Centre
Box Office
The Carriageworks
3 Millennium Sq
Leeds, LS2 3AD
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(Monday to Saturday, 10am-8pm)

Tickets also available on
the door of the venue 30 minutes prior to each event (subject to availability).

 

*Concessions available for unemployed and students

 

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Main performances and screenings
The Linacre Studio
The Opera North Centre
8 Harrison Street
Leeds, LS1 6PA
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Ken Jacobs installation and no.w.here workshop
Whitehall Waterfront
2 Riverside Way
Leeds, LS1 4EH
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Cucinema di Genzano workshop
Beano Wholefoods Collective
70 North Street
Leeds, LS2 7PN
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