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THE ILLUMINATED ROOM


The Illuminated Room is a series of monthly screenings exploring the moving-image as an open-ended art form and critical practice. Each programme positions the work of contemporary film and video artists alongside key works from the rich and often overlooked histories of experimental cinema. An opportunity to experience how artists have worked with, and thought about, film and video.

Programme 5

DOUBLE TIME: MICHAEL SNOW, CARL BROWN, WILLIAM RABAN, SALLY POTTER, DAVID PARSONS


Thursday 18 March 2010 at 5pm
Leeds College of Art, Vernon Street Lecture Theatre, LS2 8PH
Free and open to all

Now a common convention in video installations, the roots of double and multi screen projection works lay in the expanded cinema of the 1960’s and 70’s. This programme offers a rare chance to see an entire programme of double-screen 16mm films projected live and in their native format. Including experimental works that emerged from the London Filmmakers Cooperative in the 1970’s by Sally Potter, William Raban and David Parsons. As well as a recent exquisite corpse collaboration between Michael Snow and Carl Brown, in which their independently made films are brought together in the moment of projection.

As this is in college you should make an effort to go.

Interesting stuff at Pavilion

Check out Pavilion. http://www.pavilion.org.uk/ It's a Leeds based agency that supports fine art photography and has its own gallery/showing space. Pavilion is located in Saw Mill Yard which is on Saw Mill Street, off Water Lane. Go down the side of the Leeds city rail station, under the bridge which houses the Hans Peter Kuhn light spots and Water Lane is on the right, just after crossing over the river.


In an Ideal World

In an Ideal world is an ongoing research project by Frederico Camara, designed to create an atlas of man-made animal enclosures around the world. The gallery press release states: Devoid of life, yet profoundly revealing, the photographs turn our attention to the visual representation of natural habitats and, ultimately, to the act of looking. This exhibition presents over thirty projected images from the series, taken at zoos in the UK, China, Japan, Singapore and Norway. The UK leg of the project was commissioned by Pavilion in 2009.

In an Ideal World will be open to the public every Thursday, 10am - 6pm and by appointment until 30 April 2010

Event: Frederico Camara in dialogue with Jo Longhurst
March 17, 6 - 8 pm

This event will bring Camara into dialogue with artist Jo Longhurst whose work with British show Whippets also deals with human-animal relationships and the nature of looking. Longhurst was commissioned by Pavilion in 2008 and recently completed a PhD at the Royal College of Art.

Viewing of In an Ideal World at Pavilion: 6 - 7 pm

Dialogue at the Cross Keys Pub: 7 - 8 pm

£4/ £3 (concessions) including complimentary drink at Pavilion

To book contact gill@pavilion.org.uk or 0113 242 5100

Essay: Beauty and the Beast
A commissioned essay by Stephen Feeke accompanies the exhibition and is available to view online: http://www.scribd.com/doc/27117405/Beauty-and-the-Beast
Gill Park | Programme Producer (Interaction)
Pavilion | 7 Saw Mill Yard | Round Foundry |
Leeds | LS11 5WH
E: gill@pavilion.org.uk
T: 0113 242 5100

The idea of having an essay commissioned for a show is an interesting one and you may consider this as something to do when developing your own shows.

Exhibition Openings to go to

The'second round' of Art In Unusual Spaces exhibitions
will launch tonight (Thursday) at Leeds Shopping Plaza from 5-7pm.

Now Then by Guiseppe Lambertino, Kathryn Cooper, Lesley Child, John Scurrah,
Jamie Wardley, Luke Owens, Tim Curtis working with Clapgate Primary School

Playground by Sameeha Akudi, Sarah Baumann, Gaia Rosenberg-Colorni, Tania
Flewitt, Aoife Flynn, Alice Lea, Andy Nizinskyj, James Noonan, Laura Ruehl
and Hannah Parker-Smith.

SLICELand by SLICEArts (upstairs in the old TKMaxx unit)

Also - the opening of On Your Wall by Leeds Met Gallery and Studio Theatre

Details of the shows can be found at www.artinunusualspaces.co.uk

This is also a great opportunity for you to see and look round the spaces in
the shopping plaza which might be available for you, as artists, to use!

Check out:
www.lightnightleeds.co.uk
www.secretleeds.com

Artists Book Fair

As this is on the doorstep it's a must when writing about exhibition opportunities.
13th International Contemporary
Artists’ Book Fair
Friday 12 & Saturday 13 March 2010
The Parkinson Court, University of Leeds
Friday 11.00–6.00 Saturday 10.00–5.00

Intrim

Tonight is the opening of Interim. This will be down in the Vernon Street building and is a competition that invites 2nd year fine art BA students who did their foundation course at Leeds to submit work for exhibition back in their home town. This is a great chance to see what is happening in Glasgow, the Slade, Goldsmiths etc. in relation to students in your year. The opening is a chance to network as well. Are there any students working collaboratively who would like to join in with projects that link Leeds with elsewhere?
It opens at 6pm tonight, (Wednesday) and will be open up until the 26th March.
This is of course another opportunity for your blog. How does the work sit in a very difficult space? As you are the ideal audience, does it communicate to you and if not why not? What are the examples of best practice that you could learn from?

Also. Now everyone has been to the retail exhibition space, I would hope that this gives you an opportunity to reflect on the reality that now confronts you. Those of you filling in proposal forms could if you wish also put those on the blog as well. (They could be scanned in)