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Out of one’s cinema: Stephen Dwoskin, collective viewing 2

1 July, 2017

– 1 July, 2017

10pm – 11.30pm

Gallery S O

92 Brick Lane

Part of the Art Night 2017 Associate Programme
in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery

A series of experimental screenings of artist-filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin’s work (1939-2012) conducted by Philomène Hoël.
For this second event, artist Philomène Hoël selects a series of early short films by Stephen Dwoskin from the LUX and Reading University archives, devising a performative dialogue between the films, Gallery S O’s space and the audience.

Philomène Hoël is undertaking a collaborative PhD Studentship with LUX at University of Reading – Stephen Dwoskin: The artist as/and film maker.
Curatored by Valentina Bin and Simina Neagu.

Steve Dwoskin was born in 1939 in Brooklyn, New York City, into a poor family originally from Odessa. He contracted polio at the age of 9 and was left disabled. After studying under de Kooning and Albers, he attended New York University and the Parsons School of Design, and was a regular in Greenwich Village with the likes of Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, and Robert Frank. He discovered experimental cinema watching Maya Deren’s films and was influenced by the transgressive underground films of Jack Smith and Ron Rice. He later published the book Film is… on this genre, in a highly personal and activist style, at a time when the police frequently carried out Prohibition-style raids on venues where experimental films were shown, confiscating and destroying prints, and arresting organizers, film-makers and sometimes audience members. Such films by-passed the usual commercial channels and norms and were thus considered unacceptable and branded “pornographic”…
(http://www.s tephendwoskin.com/02bio.html)