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23/5/2012

Biennial of Moving Images 2012

ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

The inaugural LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images is a four-day celebration of contemporary artists' moving image launched by LUX and the Institute of Contemporary Arts. It is the only biennial of its kind dedicated to artists’ moving image in the UK, and continues the ICA’s ongoing commitment to this burgeoning art form. The biennial consists of screenings, unique expanded cinema events and performance commissions, and a series of talks and panel discussions encompassing a wide-ranging and diverse perspective on contemporary moving image practice.

The LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images features a series of guest-curated programmes that together offer a critical survey of current artist moving image work. Leading international curators and artists, including Rosa Barba, Thomas Beard & Ed Halter (Light Industry), Yann Chateigné Tytelman, Michelle Cotton, Elena Filipovic, Shanay Jhaveri, Martha Kirszenbaum and Ben Rivers, as well as two curators selected from a curatorial open call, Carmen Billows and Shama Khanna, have each selected a programme of moving image works that offer their own unique perspectives on contemporary practice.

The screening series includes a profile on American experimental filmmaker Luther Price, and features works by Kenneth Anger, Michel Auder, Neïl Beloufa, Tony & Beverly Conrad, Turner Prize-nominated Spartacus Chetwynd, Cyprien Gaillard, George Kuchar, Agnieszka Polska, Emily Roysdon, Josephine Meckseper, Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, Shahryar Nashat, Paul Sharits, Leslie Thornton, Harald Thys & Jos de Gruyter and Jennifer West, among many others. Each screening will be followed by an in-depth Q&A with the screening curator.

A revival of Little Stabs at Happiness, the music and film club presented by Mark Webber at the ICA from 1997 to 2000 launches the biennial on Thursday 24 May, and includes a rare screening of Roberto Rossellini’s The Machine that Kills Bad People (La Macchina ammazzacattivi) followed by music from Little Stabs DJs.

The biennial hosts a high-profile series of chaired panel discussions, in association with Film London Artists' Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), exploring current issues in contemporary artists' moving image practice. Our panel chairs include Bridget Crone, Maeve Connolly, May Adadol Ingawanij, and Stuart Comer.

In addition to the talks programme, the students of the LUX/Central Saint-Martins MRes Art: Moving Image course will co-produce a two-day Student Symposium for UK-based MA and PhD students to present their research into ideas around ‘On Failure’ and ‘Contemporary Currents’ within artists’ moving image practice, with keynote lectures from Jan Verwoert and Maeve Connolly.

Three nights of live performance, co-produced by Bridget Crone / Plenty Projects in association with Picture This, Electra and Tramway, will feature new expanded cinema events and performances by artists including Claire Hooper, Sophie Macpherson & Clare Stephenson, Shelley Nadashi, Gail Pickering, Jimmy Robert, and Corin Sworn & Charlotte Prodger, as well as a collaborative project by Ed Atkins, Gareth Bell-Jones, Gil Leung and James Richards.

Running parallel to the biennial, a 5-day Artists’ School led by Ian White and a 2-day Curating Course led by George Clark will facilitate discussion and debate through a dynamic programme of seminars and discussions featuring curators and artists contributing to the biennial.

A Live Journal, edited by Isla Leaver-Yap, will feature commentary, analysis and up-to-the-minute reportage on the biennial. The site will post previews and responses to screenings and performances, upload video interviews with participating filmmakers, offer live streams to talks and events, and generate live updates from the biennial as it unfolds. The Live Journal’s writers-in- residence, selected from an open call, are Amy Budd, Thomas Morgan Evans and Jonathan P Watts.

The LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

About LUX
LUX is an arts agency that supports and promotes artists working with the moving image through distribution, exhibition, publishing, education and research. Founded in 2002, it builds on a lineage of its predecessor organisations (The London Filmmakers Co-operative, London Video Arts and The Lux Centre) which stretches back to the 1960s. LUX also represents the UK’s only significant collection of artists’ film and video and is the largest distributor of such work in Europe. www.lux.org.uk

About the ICA
The ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, is a not-for-profit, multi-disciplinary arts centre established in 1947 by a collective of artists, poets and writers to showcase and champion contemporary culture across the broadest range of art forms. Housing two galleries, two cinemas, a theatre, reading room, bookshop and café/bar, the ICA has been at the forefront of cultural experiment since its formation and has presented some of the most radical exhibitions, artists, films, music and thought to have shaped our world. It exists today as a committed proponent of contemporary arts practice and new ideas, presenting an international and contextualised programme of work in new and experimental frameworks across a variety of platforms.

The ICA and Artists Moving Image
The launch of the LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images supports the ICA’s ongoing commitment to this art form. The ICA has been screening moving image work since the 1960s, beginning with Don Levy’s Herostratus (1967). The seminal 1976 Festival of Expanded Cinema (showcasing experimental work often involving multiple projections and elements of performance) gave avant-garde artist- filmmakers an opportunity to show their works at a time when there were few venues in which they could do so. In 1981, the ICA opened its Cinematheque and Video Library. The Video Library enabled members to watch films and television programmes at their own convenience, while the Cinematheque showed scheduled programmes of experimental and lesser known work. The Cinematheque presented works by the likes of Bill Viola and Nam June Paik, screened a programme of music videos and held a season of Derek Jarman films to coincide with an exhibition of his paintings. ICA Projects (now ICA Films) was launched as a film distribution company in the 1990s, providing a national cinema platform to global filmmakers with an emphasis on experimental, arthouse and documentary film work. Breaking new ground with films from China, Japan and Iran, it also became an outlet for New Queer Cinema. Other highlights in the ICA’s moving image history include Video Acts (2003), a major international retrospective of video art from the private collection of Pamela and Richard Kramlich; Beck’s Futures (2000-2006), including the annual Beck's Futures Student Film & Video Prize; File Under Sacred Music, a video/ performance piece by Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth (2003); and Rosalind Nashashibi (2009). The Artists’ Film Club is an ongoing platform for dialogue and debate surrounding contemporary artists’ moving image at the ICA.
www.ica.org.uk

About Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN):

Film London, with funding from Arts Council England (ACE), is a major supporter of artists’ filmmaking, through the Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN). FLAMIN was launched by Film London in 2005 as a one-stop resource to provide London-based artists working in the moving image with access to funding, guidance and development opportunities. Through unique commissioning funds, FLAMIN has produced over 100 productions, and supported the careers of countless other artists with programmes of one-to-one advice sessions, residencies and workshops. www.filmlondon.org.uk/FLAMIN

Film London, as the capital’s film and media agency, aims to ensure London has a thriving film sector that enriches the city’s businesses and its people. The agency works with all the screen industries to sustain, promote and develop London as a major international production and film cultural capital, and it supports the development of the city’s new and emerging filmmaking talent. Film London is funded by the Mayor of London, the National Lottery through the BFI, and receives significant support from Arts Council England and Skillset.
www.filmlondon.org.uk

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The ICA is open from Tuesday to Sunday, 11am – 11pm.
Exhibitions: The galleries are open during exhibitions 11am – 6pm, except Thursday, 11am – 9pm

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