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LUX MRes Public Lecture: Film Grain, Noisy Bodies, and Queer Materiality

24 February, 2015

– 24 February, 2015

7pm

LUX

Shacklewell Lane

This talk by Juan A. Suárez will offer a historical and critical reading of the pervasive presence of film grain in the work of (queer) experimental filmmakers from the early 1960s forwards. It will trace the links between the discontinuous rendering fostered by grain and other forms of representation in vogue at the time, such as the Ben Day dots and silkscreening used by pop artists and the emerging digitization of information in post-war cybernetics. At a later moment, it will explore the signification of the spectral, grainy body in the work of a range of filmmakers such as Andy Warhol, Carolee Schneemann, Tom Chomont, Luther Price, and Peggy Ahwesh, among others.

This event directly follows the MRES ART: MOVING IMAGE OPEN DAY, also at LUX between 4pm and 6pm. An opportunity to meet and discuss the course with the Course Leader Dr Lucy Reynolds and LUX Director, Benjamin Cook. To express your interest in attending please email [email protected]

Applications for September 2015 are now accepted.

Juan A. Suárez is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Murcia (Spain). He is the author of the books “Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars” (1996), “Pop Modernism: Noise and the Reinvention of the Everyday” (2007), and “Jim Jarmusch” (2007) and of many essays on modernist literature and experimental film.

Michele Pierson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film Studies at King’s College London. She is the author of “Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder” (Columbia UP, 2002) and co-editor with “Paul Arthur and David E. James of Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs” (Oxford UP, 2011).

LUX Mres Public Lecture Series is an ongoing series of presentations by key thinkers on contemporary moving image practice sponsored by the LUX / Central Saint Martins Mres Art: Moving Image programme.

Over the past two decades, artists moving image has proven itself a dynamic and thriving area of art practice, to be encountered in the gallery, museum, cinema auditorium, and a host of other unexpected venues. But what about the rich and fascinating histories, theories and aesthetics that have led to artists turn to film and video? And what insights can a study of artists moving image offer us for understanding the diverse practices that now fill art spaces internationally as well as in the UK?
A unique collaboration between LUX and Central St Martins College of Art has created a research led masters degree to address these questions lead by Dr Lucy Reynolds. The Mres Art: Moving Image programme is now open for applications for 2015/16 For more information see CSM website or contact Lucy Reynolds directly at [email protected]