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3/7/2007

Artprojx at Greenland Street

Greenland Street, Liverpool

A free programme of films by contemporary artists

Project curated by David Gryn

Film festival with a difference opens at Greenland Street
Come and enjoy a unique free film festival from 4 – 22 July at Greenland Street, Liverpool’s major modern arts centre.

The Artprojx festival will be screening movies by seven contemporary artists, many of them accompanied by live orchestral music, singing and performances by the film makers themselves.

Arts agency Artprojx has curated this summer programme of film within Greenland Street’s purpose-built cinema to explore the relationship between moving image and live art forms such as performance and music. Artists will be present at each screening to talk about their work.

Artprojx is well known for showing artists films in London's Leicester Square and the agency has chosen Greenland Street for its first UK film season outside the capital.

Liverpool-based improvised music group, Frakture will provide a spontaneous soundtrack to Theda, a silent movie by artist Georgina Starr. Re-performing the work of the once hugely famous Theda Bara and other now neglected silent film stars, Starr has reconstructed key scenes from lost films to create her own unique silent movie.

Artist David Blandy will be screening a series of films including I Am and What Is Soul, which search for self identity through popular music, martial arts hero Bruce Lee and Star Wars! Blandy uses humour to question how much individual characters are formed through the mass media – records, film or TV. He will act out a live performance to accompany his films.

Taking a piece of music by classical composer Monteverdi as a starting point, the film Broken Voices by artist Terry Smith is a collaboration between international vocalist Linda Hirst and musician Ian Dearden that is part live performance, part sound and video installation. Linda Hirst will be singing live at the screening.

Other artists showcasing their work at the Artprojx festival include filmmaker and photographer Ravi Deepres who will introduce four films including Tremour, a choreographed dance sequence shot in a wind tunnel. Alice Anderson’s films, often described as ‘little Freudian fables’, are fuelled by visions of childhood. Artists ZATORSKI + ZATORSKI will introduce a selection of screen-based video works including Kokoro, a surreal micro-drama played out by two butterflies.

David Gryn, Director of Artprojx said: “I visited Greenland Street during the last year’s programme and was immediately mesmerized by one of the best venues I had seen in the UK, if not the world. So when I was asked to curate and programme a month long season of artists’ moving image it felt like an honour and a privilege. The warmth and generosity of the space is immediate to anyone who walks in.”

Media enquiries: Rowan Atkins M: 07834 158 725 E: rowan@rowanatkins.co.uk

For details of Greenland Street’s Summer 2007 programme visit www.afoundation.org.uk


Editor’s Notes

Artprojx at Greenland Street

Curated by David Gryn
www.artprojx.com

Dates: 4 – 22 July 2007
Venue: 67 Greenland Street, Liverpool L1 0BY
Details: Each event is free but booking is recommended. Please email info@afoundation.org.uk or call 0151 706 0600 to reserve a seat.

Wednesday 4 July, 7pm
Terry Smith
Taking a piece of music by Monteverdi as its starting point, Broken Voices Part 2 is a collaboration between international vocalist Linda Hirst and composer Ian Dearden that is part live performance and part sound and video installation.

Thursday 5 July, 7pm
David Austen
David Austen introduces his witty and poignant films Smoking Moon and Crackers, a high definition film with sound commissioned in 2007 by Milton Keynes Gallery. Austen will also be premiering his new film Moon Song.

Saturday 7 July, 7pm
Georgina Starr
Georgina Starr re-performs and reinterprets the work of the once hugely famous Theda Bara, and other now neglected silent film stars, in her own silent film Theda. With live improvised music from Liverpool improvisers Frakture.

Wednesday 18 July, 7pm
Ravi Deepres
Filmmaker and photographer Ravi Deepres often works with music and dance to create dynamic films expressing intuitive energy. Deepres will introduce four of his films including Tremor a choreographed dance sequence shot in a wind tunnel.

Thursday 19 July, 7pm
David Blandy
A search for soul and identity through popular music, Bruce Lee and Star Wars David Blandy’s films use humour to question the individual within mass media constructions. With a live performance by the artist.

Saturday 21 July, 7pm
ZATORSKI + ZATORSKI
ZATORSKI + ZATORSKI question and subvert our expectations through works that can often be seen as video paintings. The artists will introduce a selection of screen-based video works that explore ideas around mortality, including Kokoro a surreal micro-drama played out by two butterflies.

Sunday 22 July, 7pm
Alice Anderson
Alice Anderson introduces four of her short films. Fuelled by introspective visions of childhood Anderson’s works are often described as ‘little Freudian fables’ each work contributing to a kind of novel that the artist has been building since 1999.

Greenland Street

67 Greenland Street, Liverpool L1 0BY Tel +44(0)151 706 0600 www.afoundation.org.uk

Greenland Street, Liverpool’s major new art centre, opened on 14 September 2006. Located off Jamaica Street in the city’s Artists’ Quarter, Greenland Street consists of three enormous former industrial buildings that have been transformed into 2500 sq m of high quality exhibition space.

The Furnace, The Blade Factory and The Coach Shed offer space for large scale, experimental artists’ projects, ambitious new commissions, Liverpool’s first contemporary artists residency scheme and collaborations with other arts venues around the world.

The arts centre was set up by James Moores through A Foundation to revitalize Liverpool’s contemporary art scene. A Foundation also launched the Liverpool Biennial in 1998, which has gone on to become the largest celebration of international contemporary art in the UK.

From October 2007 onwards, Greenland Street is open Wednesday – Sunday 10am-6pm, Thursday late-night until 8pm. Admission is free. Greenland Street has partial disabled access.

Artprojx
www.artprojx.com M: 07711 127848 T: 0208 3740488 E: david@artprojx.com

Artprojx is a co-marketing, event production and creative strategic consulting agency - utilizing its pre-eminence in the art world as a leading brand that exhibits and promotes artists' films and videos in the context of the cinema.

Working with a variety of corporate and charitable bodies, individuals and arts institutions both nationally and worldwide, Artprojx plan innovative and viable arts and culture-focused solutions to integrate with business, marketing and individual needs.

Artprojx acts as a conduit and catalyst between the contemporary arts world and its potential supporters, creating genuine opportunities that bring new audiences, clients and benefactors.

Artprojx at Greenland Street presents:
Alice Anderson
David Austen
David Blandy
Ravi Deepres
Terry Smith
Georgina Starr
ZATORSKI & ZATORSKI

Wed 4 July at 7pm

Terry Smith – Broken Voices with live music

Linda Hirst singing and Ian Dearden sound

Thurs 5 July at 7pm
David Austen - CRACKERS

in conversation with Michael Stanley, Director Milton Keynes Gallery

Sat 7 July at 7pm

Georgina Starr's THEDA

with live improvised music by Frakture 6

Weds 18 July at 7pm
Ravi Deepres

in conversation with David Gryn, Artprojx

Thurs 19 July at 7pm

David Blandy

with live performance and discussion

Sat 21 July at 7pm
Zatorski & Zatorski

in conversation with Jennifer Thatcher, Director of Talks at the ICA, London

Sun 22 July at 7pm
Alice Anderson

in conversation with Ian White, film curator for Whitechapel Art Gallery

http://www.afoundation.org.uk

For each event the artists will be present to talk about their work and talk with the audience.

Each event is free but booking is recommended.
Please contact info@afoundation.org.uk
or call 0151 706 0600 to reserve a seat.

Contact/info/press events@artprojx.com
+44(0)7711 127 848
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