HOW CAN YOU RELATE? – A CASE OF ALIENATION AND CLOSENESS
LUX Associate Artist Programme 2011-12 Helen Benigson, Andy Lacey, Patricia L Boyd, Heather Phillipson, Paul Simon Richards, Kerstin Schroedinger and Joseph Walsh. Edited by Pieternel Vermoortel, hosted and co-organised by the Showroom
How can you relate? looks at what it is to transpose a personal practice into a public event. Constructed as a series of performances, screenings and works, How can you relate? considers where the artistic subject is found across the constellations of production, distribution and consumption. The event consists of a series of lateral questions alongside more tacit propositions that fold back onto the structure of the event itself.
14.10 Andy Lacey get up and go (2014)
14.15 Joseph Walsh Pistachio and Wet Magazine (2014) performed by Ela Ciecierska, Holly Green and Papa Scotchie
14.50 Andy Lacey get up and go (2014)
15.00 Kerstin Schroedinger Limited Edition (2014), a film programme compiled by Kerstin Schroedinger with works by Tanya Syed, Peter Weiss, Lis Rhodes and others.
Break
16.40 Paul Simon Richards Follow: A confusion about her solidity (2014) performed by Anna Tierney
17.20 Andy Lacey get up and go (2014)
17.30 Heather Phillipson invites Mark Harris with Bad Music (2014)
18.10 Andy Lacey get up and go (2014)
18.30 Helen Benigson Travelling from Africa via a Machine called A Sunbed (2014)
A poster by Patricia L Boyd, Untitled (Pieternel Vermoortel), 2014, will be distributed during the event.
Helen Benigson
Helen Benigson is an artist and rapper who lives and works in London. Recent solo exhibitions include Going to Africa via a Machine Called a Sunbed, at Meantime Project Space, Cheltenham and Palm Trees and Poker Players at UCA, Farnham. Recent group exhibitions include Image Games: Ericka Beckman-Work in Context at Tate Modern, Videonale.14 at the Kunst Museum, Bonn, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris at Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris and Videocracy at The Centre for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv. In 2014, Benigson’s work will be included in the Hayward Touring exhibition Pre-pop to Post-Human: Collage in the Digital Age and she will have solo presentations at The Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and develop a new project at Site Gallery, Sheffield.
Patricia L Boyd
Patricia L Boyd lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions and projects include the 12th Lyon Biennale, Lyon; Frieze Film London (co-commissioned by EMPAC); ‘Greens’ at the Modern Institute, Glasgow; and ‘Nudes’ at Cubitt Gallery, London (all 2013). She has had solo exhibitions at OHIO, Glasgow, 2013 and The Vanity, Los Angeles, 2012.
Andy Lacey
Andy Lacey works with performance, text and video. He is Interested in ways of reimagining a social usefulness for experience.
Heather Phillipson
Heather Phillipson works across video, sculpture, sound, text and live events. Events in 2014 include: Assembly, Tate Britain and Park Nights, Serpentine Gallery, London. Solo shows in 2014 include Bunker 259, New York; Art Brussels (with Rowing Projects); Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, and Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool. In 2013, Heather had solo projects at Zabludowicz Collection, London; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; Random Acts, Channel 4 television; Flux Night, Atlanta, USA, and LOOP Art Fair (with Rowing Projects), Barcelona. She is also an award-winning poet with recent publications by Bloodaxe, Penned in the Margins and Faber and Faber.
Paul Simon Richards
The work of Paul Simon Richards explores the potential of thought to describe and make present in language that which cannot be experienced. Working mainly with spoken word performance and film, Richards’ work draws together immersive narratives that incorporate elements of spectacular entertainment and moments of enlightened consciousness that come about during mundane daily tasks.
Kerstin Schroedinger
Kerstin Schroedinger works with moving image, music and text. She is interested in a critical research practice which is calling into question image production and wishes to produce and reproduce images as material of thought. She works with a historiographic practice that scrutinises means of production, continuities and relocations. Since 2006 she works in collaboration with Mareike Bernien (Berlin) in different formats and contexts. Their works have an image critical approach and research cultural practices through concepts of appropriation and translation.
Joseph Walsh
Joseph Walsh sees his moving image work as a series of ‘video portraits’. He is interested in this format as a means to construct a character by proxy, through external objects and ideas. Recent work has been referring to recorded music, its formats and acoustic space to describe an emergent subject. He lives and works in London. Recently he did 21st Century event at Chisenhale Gallery (2013). Solo exhibitions include Evolution of the Meringue, Five Years, London (2011), Track 5, The Old Police Station, London (2011). Group exhibitions include Testbed1, Beaconsfield, London (2010) and Time Machine and Anywhere Door at IT Park, Taipei (2010).
Pieternel Vermoortel
Pieternel Vermoortel is an independent curator and co-founder/director of FormContent, a curatorial programme. Her most recent programme at FormContent It’s moving from I to It uses fiction as its main tool to reflect upon cultural production. Vermoortel teaches Exhibitions and Cultural Productions at TEBEAC, Ghent and is a lecturer at the BA Fine Art Goldsmiths University London and visiting lecturer at the MFA Curating at Goldsmiths University London. She wrote for various catalogues and magazines such as the Venice Biennial Catalogue 2011 and Metropolis M. She edited various publications such as a.o. It’s moving from I to It, 2014, Out of the Studio, 2008 and The Responsive Subject, 2011.
LUX Associate Artists Programme (AAP)
The LUX Associate Artists Programme (AAP) is a 12 month post-academic development course for artists working with the moving image. It aims to provide an intensive development focused on critical discourse, extending to the practical and infrastructural issues that present challenges for artists working with the medium. The programme consists of a minimum of 12 monthly critical seminars taking place at LUX exploring issues around artists’ moving image in the context of the artists’ own practice. Previous AAP Projects include (dis)chorus Residency, a project of the 2010/11 programme, Detroit, the 2009/10 final project, 8 Metaphors (because the moving image is not a book) for the 2008/9 final project and http://www.thepoliticsintheroom.org/ the AAP 2007/8 final project.
Still from Peter Weiss Studie II (Halluciationer), Sweden 1952 with kind permission of Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss distributed by Arsenal Distribution Berlin
