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Evolution 2004:
1-6 November Full Programme online: www.lumen.org.uk/evolution2004 New Work, Bruce McClure Organised for the Leeds International Film Festival by Lumen - the Evolution programme explores experimental and avant-garde approaches to film/video and media art. Over the space of a week, international artists, filmmakers and curators will participate in talks, screenings, live performances, workshops and exhibitions. This year’s programme will feature elements of theatre, mass media, environment, architecture, music, politics, anti design, performance, gender, nature and destruction; and will include works by Vito Acconci, John Cage, Tom Betts, Chip Lord, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce McClure, Gustav Metzger, Antonio Muntadas, Tony Oursler, Carolee Schneemann and Chris Welsby. Full Programme: www.lumen.org.uk/evolution2004 Tickets on sale from October 4 Midtown by Wolfgang Staehle | Antenna by Robert Whitman Commissioned by Lumen for the GNER 18th Leeds International Film Festival Midtown by Wolfgang Staehle; Leeds Central Library Thanks to an award from Arts & Business New Partners Scheme - and in celebration of the Leeds International Film Festivals association with GNER - two internationally renowned media artists have been commissioned by Lumen to create new public art works for the Festival. Using projected images, Midtown by Wolfgang Staehle and Antenna by Robert Whitman will be on public display during dark hours on the exterior of the Central Library and Henry Moore Institute buildings on Victoria Gardens. Robert Whitman’s work will also feature a unique theatrical performance inside the Central Library building. Midtown: Real-time public video projection by Wolfgang Staehle Henry Moore Institute (facade) 28 October - 7 November Sunset - Sunrise Free 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. Antenna: Public performance and installation by Robert Whitman Leeds Central Library Performance starts 7pm (29 and 30 October) Installation from sunset - sunrise (31 October - 7 November) Free (advance tickets required for performance) 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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