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Good Morning Mr Orwell, Nam June Paik
Art for 10 million people: A screening of satellite Art by Nam June Paik
Venue: Ster Century Cinema
Time: 6pm
Nam June Paik’s live transcultural satellite extravaganza’s linked different countries, spaces, and times in often chaotic collages of art and pop culture, the avant-garde and television. These on-air installations featured performances by art world superstars including Keith Haring, Allen Ginsberg, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, Lou Reed, Charlotte Moorman and Merce Cunningham. This screening will feature edited versions of Good Morning Mr Orwell (1984, 30 mins), a rebuttal to George Orwell’s dystopian view of 1984; and Bye Bye Kipling (1986, 31 mins), drawing eastern and western cultures together via satellite.
Perfromer/Audience/Mirror, Dan Graham
Simultaneous Realities: Dan Graham
Venue: Ster Century Cinema
Time: 6pm
Through performances, video installations and architectural/sculptural designs, conceptual artist Dan Graham investigates the relationship between audience and performer, public and private, objectivity and subjectivity. This programme features two films; Performer/Audience/Mirror (1975, 23 mins), a recording of Dan’s seminal performance delivered in front of a mirror at Video Free America in 1975, and Local TV News Analysis (made with Dara Birnbaum, 1987, 61 mins), an investigation into three simultaneous realities of the news; the receiver; the TV control room and the news itself.
Eternal Frame, Ant Farm and T. R. Uthco
Underground Architecture: Videotapes by Ant Farm
Venue: Ster Century Cinema
Time: 6pm
Antfarm were a San Francisco-based collective of artists and architects working from 1968–78. Their activity was distinctly interdisciplinary, combining architecture, performance, media, happenings, sculpture and graphic design into works that functioned as art, social critique, and pop anthropology. Ant Farm tore into the cultural fabric of America and became one of the first groups to address television’s pervasive presence in everyday life. This programme will feature three documentary films made by the collective: Media Burn (1975, re-edited 1981, 23 mins), ‘the ultimate media event’, Eternal Frame (made with T. R. Uthco, 1975, 23 mins), a re-enactment of Kennedy’s assassination and Cadillac Ranch Show (1974, re-edited 1981, 14 mins), a subversive homage to the rise and fall of the iconic Cadillac tail-fin.
Airworld Radio by Kevin and Jennifer McCoy
Venue: Millennium Square, Leeds city centre
Times: Daily; 8 – 9.30am, 12.30 – 2pm, 5 – 7pm
‘Airworld: the leader in automatic content creation, Airworld: speaking the language of business, Airworld: designing the new architecture of travel, Airworld: the future digital composting, Airworld: new and improved, Airworld: dynamically generating playlists, Airworld: one hundred percent algorithmically made, Airworld: business as usual.’
Airworld Radio comments upon the virus-like growth of jargon used to describe networks, management, distribution hubs, soft architecture and global capital. Specially developed software scans the internet appropriating the language of business into a continuous flow of computer synthesised speech mimicking the endless monologue of consumer culture. Airworld Radio has been specially adapted as a public sound installation for Leeds’ Millennium Square and will broadcast three times a day during Evolution.
Local TV News Analysis, Dan Graham
Video/Television/Architecture: Dan Graham
Venue: Ster Century
Time: 11am
A very rare opportunity to hear US conceptual artist Dan Graham discuss his provocative and influential work which has circumnavigated the disciplines of photography, film, video, television, performance and architecture. As one of the prominent members of the 1960’s conceptual art movement Dan Graham occupies a unique position within the latter half of 20th century art history. Dan has been invited to discuss his video installation work, which investigates the complex and circuitous relationship between video, television and architecture.