EVENTS
Saturday 19 & 26 June 2010
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Location: ACME Project Space Interpretive exhibition tour
Sunday 27 June 2010
2pm-5pm
ACME Closing Event
Studio Visit and Artist Talk
Location: ACME Project Space
Artists in Conversation: An opportunity to meet artists David Blandy, Jan Hendrickse and Harold Offeh.
Conversation with Julia Lancaster (ACME Residency and Projects Manager)
And Artist Studio Tours: Audiences are invited to explore the territory of the artist studio and get the chance to go behind the scenes with visits to a selection of ACME studios at Bonner Road.
PREVIOUS EVENTS
In Conversation
Wednesday 16 June 2010
7-9pm
Location: ACME Project Space
A panel discussion centred on identity trends and categories explored in the exhibition. The role of curators, critics and art professionals in relation to how trends are generated and operate in the art world will also be considered. Discussion chaired by Dr Alison Rowley, with guest speakers; Dr Anthony Downey, David Gryn & Prof Irit Rogoff.
Speakers
Dr Anthony Downey
Programme Director, MA Contemporary Art, Sotheby's Institute
Prof Irit Rogoff
Curator, theorist and founder Of the department of Visual Arts, Goldsmiths University, London
David Gryn
Director, Artprojx
Dr Alison Rowley
Reader in Art and Design, Liverpool School of Art and Design
5 JUNE 2010
Film screening
1.30 - 4.45pm
Rio Cinema, Dalston, E8 2PB
£4, £3 concessions
Guest of Cindy Sherman (2008)
Dir: Paul Hasegawa-Overacker & Tom Donahue. 88 min
This film takes an eye-opening look at what happens when a sceptical outsider finds himself romantically involved with the ultimate insider. Filmed over 15 years and including interviews with a veritable who's who of the art and entertainment world (including Ingrid Sischy, John Waters, Robert Longo, Carol Kane, David Furnish, Danny DeVito, and Molly Ringwald), the film paints a vivid picture of the New York art scene that is also a witty, illuminating look at celebrity, male anxiety, and art.
Film screening introduced by Fatos Ustek, Independent Curator and Critic
Fatos Ustek, Curator and Art Critic
Born 1980 in Ankara (TR), currently based in London (UK); independent curator, and art critic, founder and editor of web-based contemporary art magazine Nowiswere, with Veronika Hauer (www.nowiswere.com). Currently working on three-part seminars Memory-Image-Object for Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford; compiling London programme for Vision Forum; and researching for the third part of Now, Expanded, a trilogy of exhibitions on the condition of 'now'.
Lover Other directed by Barbara Hammer
Colour + B&W, Sound, 55 min, 2006
1920s Surrealist artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore come to life in this hybrid documentary. Lesbians and step-sisters, the gender-bending artists lived and worked together all their lives. Heroic resisters to the Nazis occupying Jersey Isle during WWII, they were captured and sentenced to death.
Award-winning filmmaker Barbara Hammer infuses this film with vigor using photographs, archival footage, dramatic interludes of a 'found Cahun script' and unique interviews of Jersey Isle residents who knew the 'sisters'.
Contort Yourself: Upcoming Event
Sunday 27 JUNE 2010
Closing Event
2.00 – 5.00pm
ACME Project Space, E2 9JS – Free event, limited capacity
Contort Yourself Closing Event at the ACME Project Space:
2.00 – 2.30pm : ‘Contort Yourself’ Artists in Conversation
An opportunity to meet artists David Blandy, and Jan Hendrickse.
2.45 – 3.30pm : Conversation with Julia Lancaster (ACME Residency and Projects Manager)
A reflection on the exhibition with Julia Lancaster, a discussion about ACME, the changing role of the artist studios in contemporary art practice, the ACME Project Space, and its future.
3.45 – 5.00pm : Artist Studio Tours
Audiences are invited to explore the territory of the artist studio and get the chance to go behind the scenes with visits to a selection of ACME studios at Bonner Road.
RESERVE A PLACE BY EMAILING info@contortyourself.org
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SELF PORTRAIT (2010)
Can we claim to possess a stable individual identity that persists in time and do our attachments to ideas or appearances say anything essential about us? To what extent is our sense of self contingent upon our context and relations with others? Is what we say more important than the way that we say it?
Self Portrait appropriates some of the tools of social and consumer research to undermine assumptions about ourselves that we encounter daily. Adopting the form of an automated telephone survey, callers are invited to profile themselves by responding to standardised identity markers, and to leave a voice message.
To participate please call this number: 0203 094 1660*
*Calls are free from all UK landlines. Mobile phone users are advised to hang up after two rings and wait for a call back to participate for free.
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