'The Ruins of the Future' study day + film programme, 20 October
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Dear friends and colleagues
The Ruins of the FutureBuilding on the rich history of engagement with space and place in artists’ moving image, the artists will present and discuss their own work with reference to that of others. An evening film programme in the city will contextualise and expand on the themes of the study day.
Ellard & Johnstone’s Neue Museen, 2011,focuses on the site of the museum itself – an architecture of encoded knowledge in which the building and the conceit of museological devices share the stage with the collection. It also functions, as does Things to Come, 2011, as a specific enquiry into Modernist aspirations for the display of objects. Redmond Entwistle’s Monuments, 2010, looks similarly at the Modernist inheritance but by ‘exhuming’ some of its key protagonists – Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson and Dan Graham – to revisit sites of some of their key pieces of work as a means by which to think about the (re)development of the urban and suburban. And, in contrast to Ellard & Johnstone’s investigations into (specifically museological) spaces created for objects, Claire Hooper’s Nach Spandau examines an architecture created for people, albeit the transitional, utilitarian spaces of the Berlin U-Bahn.
The day is structured informally, not as an academic symposium. An evening film programme will contextualise the artists’ work: tickets are valid for both study day and screening. The day is as suitable for those with an active knowledge of artists’ moving image as those eager simply to explore the moving image beyond the cinema.
Tickets are £10 / £8 concessions. You can book by phoning the Sainsbury Centre on 01603 593199. More info (well, this info with a couple of images) at www.promontories.org ; more about the Sainsbury Centre is at www.scva.ac.uk .
Please send this onto anyone you think might be interested. I hope to see you there,
LUX writer in residence, November 2012