Thursday 9 December, 2010

Advance bookings for this event have closed. A very limited number of tickets are available to buy on the door on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to avoid disappointment.

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What it is Not

New LUX Touring Programme featuring Ed Atkins, David Raymond Conroy, Mark Leckey, Laure Prouvost, James Richards and Mark Aerial Waller.

New (in relation and opposition to the now)

Work (As an object in itself and as labour)

What it is Not brings together a selection of new works by UK-based artists. Against the new as a merely contemporary form of visibility, the works in this programme consistently interrogate these terms, their own guises, structures and language. This presentation of their means of representation acts to displace the works’ own logic. Here reference is reflexive, a sort of contrapuntal relation between form and deformation. Both product as the result of labour and autonomous fetish object, the new work is and is not the thing-in-itself. The new is, in this sense, negative, a duplicitous and illusory new, gone as soon as it is discerned.

Ed Atkins Death Mask 2: The Scent (UK 2010, 8'19, video, colour, sound), David Raymond Conroy Ramon Requilman Live (UK 2010, 6’09, video, colour, sound), Mark Leckey Vache Concrete (UK 2010, 25’00, video, colour, sound), Laure Prouvost The Artist (UK 2010, 10’10, video, colour, sound), James Richards Misty Suite (UK, 2009, 6’0, video, colour, sound), Mark Aerial Waller Phantom Avantgarde (UK 2010, 8’10, 16mm transferred to video, b&w, sound).

The screening is introduced by writer and curator Gil Leung and will be followed by a short Q&A. Gil Leung is Distribution Manager at LUX and editor of VERSUCH journal.

In association with LUX.

Image courtesy Ed Atkins and Cabinet, London.

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