Evolution 2004: 1-6 November
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Straight In/Out: Exhibition of early conceptual film/video performances
by Vito Acconci
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1-6
November
10am - 6pm
Free |
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Three Relationship Studies, Vito Acconci,
video still, courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix
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Since the
late ’60s Vito Acconci has produced provocative and often radical
and confrontational performances, films, videos, writings, installations
and architectural designs. In the ’70s he created a prolific body
of conceptual film/video performances that today retain astonishing originality
and resonance. Intensely personal, the films document a range of physical
and psychological explorations of the self in relation to others, ones own
body, and the film/video camera. In Theme Song Acconci establishes
a perversely intimate relation with the viewer: ‘The scene is a living
room - quiet, private night - the scene for a come-on -
I can bring my legs around, wrapping myself around the viewer - I’m
playing songs on a tape recorder - I follow the songs up, I’m
building a relationship, I’m carrying it through.’ Over thirteen
works, totalling over seventy minutes of viewing will be exhibited for the
duration of the festival.
Films
(all Vito Acconci): Three Relationship Studies (1970, 12 mins 30
secs, super 8 on video, b&w/colour, silent); Three Attention Studies
(1969, 9 mins, super 8 on video, colour, silent); Three Adaptation Studies
(1970, 8 mins 5 secs, super 8 on video, b&w, silent); Three Frame
Studies (1969, 10 mins 58 secs, super 8 on video, b&w/colour, silent,);
Theme Song (1973, 33 mins 15 secs, video, b&w, sound) |
Recommended events/exhibitions:
Performing Architecture
| City Slivers and Fresh Kills
Further reading: Acconci
Studio website | Ubu
(Vito Acconci mp3's) | Vito
Acconci (Mark C Taylor, Frazer Ward, Jennifer Bloomer, 2002, Phaidon
Press)
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Synesthesia
- Interviews on Rock & Art: 4 video interviews by Tony
Oursler
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25
October - 13 November
Monday - Wednesday: 9am - 8pm; Thursday: 9.30am -
5.30pm; Friday: 9am - 5pm; Saturday: 10am - 5pm; Sunday:
12am - 4pm
Free |
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Synesthesia: Genesis P-Orridge, Tony Oursler, video still, courtesy
Electronic Arts Intermix |
Originally
included as part of Tony Oursler’s and Mike Kelly’s multimedia
installation The Poetics Project, Synesthesia features
interviews with renowned figures from the New York experimental rock and
art underground. Four of the twelve interviews will screen continuously
for the duration of the festival: John Cale, avant-garde musician and co-founder
of the Velvet Underground; Dan Graham, leading figure in conceptual art;
Genesis P-Orridge, co-founder of experimental UK art bands Psychic TV and
Throbbing Gristle; and Laurie Anderson, acclaimed visual artist, musician
and performer. Allow some time to sit and watch these fascinating and insightful
conversations.
Films
(all Tony Oursler, 1997-2001, video, colour, sound): Laurie Anderson
(47 mins 7 secs); John Cale (69 mins); Dan Graham (36
mins 47 secs); Genesis P-Orridge (90 mins 29 secs) |
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Midtown:
Real-time public video projection by Wolfgang Staehle
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28
October - 7 November
Sunset - sunrise
Free |
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Midtown, Wolfgang Staehle, screen still |
Specially
commissioned by Lumen for the GNER 18th Leeds International Film Festival,
Midtown by German net artist Wolfgang Staehle will bring a live
high-resolution projected picture of mid-town Manhattan to Leeds City
Centre during dark hours in the festival. In today’s immediate lifestyle
where technology attempts to bring everything in the world to your doorstep,
Staehle finds simplicity in the stillness of landscape and the instantaneous
sensations and implications of connectivity.
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Recommended events/exhibitions:
Mapping Space
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| Antenna:
Public performance and installation by Robert Whitman |
Performance
starts 7pm (29 and 30 October)
Installation from sunset - sunrise (31 October - 7 November)
Free (advance tickets required for performance) |
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Leeds Central Library |
Since the
early ’60s New York multi-media artist Robert Whitman has been mixing
film with theatre to create installations and performances with a magical
and illusory energy. Antenna is a new theatre performance and installation
that mixes the inside with the outside; live action with recorded representation;
and makes fantasy as real as reality. Live video projections, giant laundry,
live performers, books, floating paper bags, windows and mirrors will all
play a part in Leeds’ very own happening. The main performance will
occur twice over consecutive evenings, and a video installation will play
continuously during dark hours in the front windows of the library for the
remainder of the Festival.
Production manager: Barney George
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Recommended events/exhibitions:
Theatre and Engineering
Further reading: Robert
Whitman: Playback (Lynne Cooke, Karen Kelly, Bettina Funcke, 2003,
Dia Art Foundation)
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