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In his book Retromania, music critic Simon Reynolds writes on the effects of the proliferation of music enabled by MP3 compression, file sharing and streaming…
Mark Webber, Irm and Ed Sommer, Nitsch; Ed Halter and Thomas Beard, Luther Price, Shelly Winters; Rosa Barba, Jordan Lavi Quellman, The Deteriorationists; Yann Chateigné…
Although attentive to the conditions of the camera, early performance video engendered relatively singular aesthetic encounters. A closed-circuit dialectic was produced between the artist and…
Ripped, remixed and compressed, the pixelated “poor image” satiates consumer thirst for visual knowledge at the expense of its own substance. Cast out into digital…
The telly is always on in the background. Always. Hollyoaks, Eastenders, drama all the time. At the end of the night, when you get back,…
The decade of the 1960s saw the contemporary exodus of film from the theater towards the site of the gallery (and an emphasis on screening…
“This is where it happened,” the two men at the beginning of Tamar Guimarães’s Tropical Blow Up seem to be saying. They point to a…
17.55 JPW: Artists’ Long-Form Filmmaking talk ends. 17.51 JPW: Ogborn observes that within the film industry shorts are no longer a place for experimentation. Comer…
Luther Price’s work is difficult, to say the least. Chairing the post-screening Q&A session on Friday 25 May, Assistant Director of LUX Mike Sperlinger characterised…
What follows is Thomas Morgan Evans’ commentary on the panel discussion Global Centres. The participants – writer and academic May Adadol Ingawanij, curator Shanay Jhaveri,…
Ben Rivers’ programme Friends with Benefits is both a collage film-essay on the subject of friendship, and a primer to his preoccupations as an artist….
The real, for theories of perception it is the most troubled over of categories . Once set upon by Enlightenment’s eye it became, in the…
If the film clubs of today are initiated to emphasise the shared experience of watching films, how does that communal viewing become a form of…
A three-part essay, A Levy on the Moving Image Installation explores specific conditions of the LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images as a site of display. The starting…
16.00 AB: After Q&A’s to the panel, the talk comes to an end. Pil & Galia sparking the most interest with their post-Fordist ideas of theatricality,…
Amy Budd talks with curator Martha Kirszenbaum about her screening programme Fetish & Figure, discussing the relationship between moving image and surrealism, the fetishised gaze,…
Berlin-based artist Cyprien Gaillard’s work comprises a bleak but iridescent study of how civilisations lay claim to the time and places that they inhabit, primarily…
Cara Tolmie’s work is a spatial practice. Text, drawing, moving image, singing and making noise, dancing and walking are all different ways for her to…
“Clean, mirror, indoors domestic room, close-up, panning, reflection, colour image, hotel room, real time, no people, establishing shots…” The preceding series of Internet search terms…
Ed Halter is the co-founder of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, New York. Between 1995 and 2005, Halter programmed…
In the first of our podcast interviews, Amy Budd talks with curator Shama Khanna about her screening programme A Blurred Boundary is still a Boundary, discussing…
Liza Béar’s fascination with the mass media is lifelong. It’s impossible to define her ‘medium’ or ‘work’, and her artistic role is equally intangible, though…
Andy Warhol’s Rorschach paintings are ‘abstract’. Abstraction, though, was a notion Warhol used curiously. Yes, it meant what we understand as abstract: these are non-representative…
Leslie Thornton pushes the moving image to its limits, by exploring the enduring influence of technology on our daily lives. Her bricolage of archival footage,…
Back in late 2000, Little Stabs at Happiness, a monthly club night and screening programme at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, ended its three-year…
For the duration of the festival, the Live Journal will feature commentary, analysis and up-to-the minute reportage on the biennial. The site will post previews…
