Vivienne Dick Retrospective at Tate Modern

Irish filmmaker and LUX artist Vivienne Dick moved to New York in 1975 and became a key figure of the ‘No Wave’ movement, a time of collaborative countercultural production by a loose collective of people including Nan Goldin, Lydia Lunch, James Nares, Beth and Scott B, Arto Lindsay and many others.

Shot on Super-8, 16mm and video, Dick’s work is marked by an interest in individual transgression, urban street life, kitsch and pop culture. Multilayered and open-ended, the work is framed from a female perspective, with an overriding concern for social conditioning and sexual politics.

This survey of her remarkable films also includes special guest speakers and performers Nan Goldin,

Lydia Lunch, Claire Pajaczkowska and Maeve Connolly.

A series of Vivienne Dick screenings is planned at Artists Space and Light Industry in New York in late October and an international tour in 2011.

The seeds of this tour were planted by the first retrospective exhibition of Vivienne Dick’s films in 2009 in Crawford Art Gallery in Cork.

More information and full programme here

Curated by Treasa O’Brien and Vivienne Dick

With support from Culture Ireland and LUX

Vivienne Dick’s films are distributed by LUX