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Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square, 17-18 Golden Square, London W1F 9JJ,
12 Dec 2011
Marlene Dumas: Forsaken
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Marlene Dumas tells us why she paints who she paints in the pamphlet that accompanies her show at Frith Street Gallery: “It is about tragic lives and falls from grace. It is about portraits betraying states of mind.”.
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Project: Marlene Dumas: Forsaken
Location: Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square, 17-18 Golden Square, London W1F 9JJ
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Auto Italia South East, 434 – 452 Old Kent Road, London, SE1 5AG,
11 Dec 2011
Several films, one of which is potentially tedious
Susanna Davies-Crook reviews Huw Lemmey and Nina Wakeford selection of films which highlight the political stakes of the 1980s, when women’s relationships with technology and the world of work were addressed head on. Part of Auto Italia's collaboration with Cinenova.
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Project: Several films, one of which is potentially tedious
Location: Auto Italia South East, 434 – 452 Old Kent Road, London, SE1 5AG
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Vision Quest - A Ritual for Elephant and Castle, A film by Marcus Coates
Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant & Castle is a feature-length film -- part documentary, part performance, part art - exploring the major transitions currently taking place in this south London neighbourhood. Commissioned and Produced by NOMAD.
Screening dates: 9th - 25th March 2012, The Heygate Estate Ballroom, Heygate Estate, Rodney Road, London
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Auto Italia South East, 1 Glengall Road, Peckham, London, SE15 6NJ,
9 Dec 2011
'Life, Love and HIV?'
'Life, Love and HIV?' at 'Bodies Assembling', Sunday December 4th - Amy Tobin reflects on the screening.
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Project: 'Life, Love and HIV?'
Location: Auto Italia South East, 1 Glengall Road, Peckham, London, SE15 6NJ
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Auto Italia South East, 434 – 452 Old Kent Road, London, SE1 5AG,
8 Dec 2011
A wolf in the house
A response to a screening of one film from distributed by Cinenova; Leila and the Wolves (Heiny Srour, UK/Lebanon, 1984) and a new work selected by Emma Hedditch and Melissa Castagnetto; The Package (Dara Greenwald & Ona Mirkinson, USA, 2010). This screening was part of Bodies Assembling organised by Cinenova and Auto Italia South East.
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Project: A wolf in the house
Location: Auto Italia South East, 434 – 452 Old Kent Road, London, SE1 5AG
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Whitechapel, East London,
8 Dec 2011
The Haircut Before The Party
On Saturday the 19th November party-goers sporting red neckerchiefs marched out of a hairdressing salon onto Toynbee Street, East London and began a circuit of the local area. Turning past a pub into a residential street and towards the orange glow of Sainsbury’s, the march paused to form a circle around a woman standing on a soapbox. ..
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Project: The Haircut Before The Party
Location: Whitechapel, East London
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Beaconsfield, 22 Newport St, London, SE11 6AY ,
7 Dec 2011
Svein Flygari Johansen: Am I making up what really happened?
Svein Flygari Johansen is a creature of the forest and fjord, spending the summer months high up inside the Arctic Circle, and is otherwise based in Oslo as a significant figure in the contemporary art community. Identification with nature is at the core of Flygari’s work, where imagery from the organic world connects with high technology. Until 12 February 2012. Review by Eleanor Shipman
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Project: Svein Flygari Johansen: Am I making up what really happened?
Location: Beaconsfield, 22 Newport St, London, SE11 6AY
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Auto Italia South East, 434 – 452 Old Kent Road, London, SE1 5AG,
6 Dec 2011
An update from Bodies Assembling
The first three screening events have now taken place at Bodies Assembling, a project organised by Auto Italia and Cinenova. Follow us through for details of the remaining programme.
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Project: An update from Bodies Assembling
Location: Auto Italia South East, 434 – 452 Old Kent Road, London, SE1 5AG
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OUTPOST, 10B Wensum Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 1HR,
6 Dec 2011
Andrew Lacon
Andrew Lacon’s work studies social class; that relentless - but of course not exclusively - English concern. Originally from Dudley and a working class family, the artist has found himself studying from within, whilst seemingly railing against, a series of now predominantly middle class art schools during the last six years...
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Project: Andrew Lacon
Location: OUTPOST, 10B Wensum Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 1HR
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FRANCESCA MININI,Via Massimiano, 25 20134, Milano,
5 Dec 2011
Beacky Beasley: The Outside
The Outside, first solo show of Becky Beasley at the gallery, forms the second part of the trilogy, ‘Late Works’, the first part of which was produced in 2010.The trilogy will be concluded with a further project and three-part bookwork in 2012. Until January 14, 2012
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Project: Beacky Beasley: The Outside
Location: FRANCESCA MININI,Via Massimiano, 25 20134, Milano
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Auto Italia South East, 434 – 452 Old Kent Road, London, SE1 5AG,
4 Dec 2011
Social forms of resistance, incorporating the principles for which they are fighting
Today from 7pm at Auto Italia: A selection of films presented by Emma Hedditch and Melissa Castagnetto (Cinenova Working Group).
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Project: Social forms of resistance, incorporating the principles for which they are fighting
Location: Auto Italia South East, 434 – 452 Old Kent Road, London, SE1 5AG
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Auto Italia South East, 434 – 452 Old Kent Road, London, SE1 5AG,
3 Dec 2011
Take Up, Direct Action, Acting Up, and Lift
Today from 7pm at Auto Italia: Activism, street actions and filmmaking; A Fantasy Whitehall and a historical insight into British women’s participation in the Olympics. Presented by Althea Greenan, curator of the Women’s Art Library (Make) at Goldsmiths.
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Project: Take Up, Direct Action, Acting Up, and Lift
Location: Auto Italia South East, 434 – 452 Old Kent Road, London, SE1 5AG
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Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark, Sølvgade 48-50 DK-1307, København Denmark,
3 Dec 2011
FOS: One Language Traveller
One Language Traveller by the Danish artist FOS occupies the entire Sculpture Street, the large space between the old and new buildings.
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Project: FOS: One Language Traveller
Location: Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark, Sølvgade 48-50 DK-1307, København Denmark
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Auto Italia South East, 434 – 452 Old Kent Road, London, SE1 5AG,
2 Dec 2011
Bodies Assembling
From today until the 11th December, there will be daily posts representing different perspectives from Bodies Assembling, a project produced through by Auto Italia in collaboration with the Women's film distributor; Cinenova. Through a series of screenings and workshops featuring moving image work selected by invited artists and activists, the project is engaging with Auto Italia and Cinenova both as organisations but also as active communities of artists. Bodies Assembling hopes to present a diverse set of relations between these communities and also with the practices and ideas that are represented by some of the films and videos distributed by Cinenova.
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Project: Bodies Assembling
Location: Auto Italia South East, 434 – 452 Old Kent Road, London, SE1 5AG
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The Event 2011, Birmingham
The Event was the third bi-annual visual art festival in Birmingham which ran from the 21 – 30 October 2011. It took place in galleries, studio spaces and empty buildings in various locations in and around Eastside, Birmingham’s creative quarter in Digbeth. Video filmed and produced by Square Eye Media
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