[NetBehaviour] London show: The Inoperative Community

Mon Feb 1 16:57:00 CET 2016

She and her partner Tom Zummer are our closest friends; I thought you and 
Ruth in particular might like the work.

- Alan

On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Michael Szpakowski wrote:

> Yes! I've been twice, each time to watch the 90 minute Leslie Thornton
> piece, which is stunning. I'd like to get there again before it closes if I
> possibly can -there's a Luke Fowler piece I'd very much like to see...
> michael
> 
> ____________________________________________________________________________
> From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
> To: netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org
> Sent: Monday, February 1, 2016 3:42 AM
> Subject: [NetBehaviour] London show: The Inoperative Community
> 
> 
> Hi -
> 
> I want to recommend the gallery show, The Inoperative Community, in
> London; it's remarkable. I know some of the people involved in it, as well
> as some of the work, and I think it's very relevant to Netbehaviour; it
> resonates well with the We Are Not Alone exhibition, for example. Do check
> it out if you have the opportunity; it closes 2/14/16.
> 
> Thanks greatly,
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> Raven Row
> 56 Artillery Lane
> London E1 7LS
> T +44 (0)20 7377 4300
> info at ravenrow.org
> 
> Wednesday to Sunday
> 
> 11am7pm
> 
> The Inoperative Community
> 3 December 2015 - 14 February 2016
> 
> Serge Bard, Eric Baudelaire, Ericka Beckman, Cinema Action, Patrick Deval,
> Lav Diaz, Mati Diop, Stephen Dwoskin, Luke Fowler, Jean-Luc Godard,
> Jean-Pierre Gorin, Johan Grimonprez, Marc Karlin, Stuart Marshall,
> Anne-Marie Miville, Pere Portabella, Yvonne Rainer, Jackie Raynal, Anne
> Charlotte Robertson, Helke Sander, Jon Sanders, James Scott, Albert Serra,
> Leslie Thornton, Humphry Trevelyan
> 
> 
> 
> Curated by Dan Kidner
> 
> 
> The Inoperative Community is an exhibition of experimental narrative film
> and video that address ideas of community and the shifting nature of
> social relations. It draws on work made since 1968 for cinema, television
> and the gallery, reflecting the overlapping and entangled histories of
> these sites. The exhibitions title is borrowed from Jean-Luc Nancys 1983
> essay of the same name, and while this connection did not determine the
> selection of works, they all bear witness in their own way to what Nancy
> characterised as the dissolution, the dislocation, or the conflagration of
> community. Many concern the limits of political activism and the fate of
> left political subcultures, and all use narrative as a means to explore
> social and political issues.
> 
> 
> 
> Encompassing over fifty hours of material the exhibition can be navigated
> by means of a printed or downloadable programme. Each visitor will only be
> able to see a fraction of the works on offer, but connections can be made
> between works on any particular course through the exhibition, which has
> been designed to accommodate both prolonged viewing and shorter visits. A
> screening room will show five daily programmes, in a more structured
> approach to the exhibitions historical and political framework. These
> begin with an Anglo-French focus before expanding to include international
> filmmakers reflecting on the radical political movements of the 1960s and
> 1970s.
> 
> 
> 
> The exhibition focuses on a period that could be described as the long
> 1970s (1968-84)  all the works were either made during this time, or
> reflect on the radical social and political movements of the era. The
> defiant video installation about the Aids crisis, Journal of the Plague
> Year (1984) by Stuart Marshall (194993, UK) has been specially restored
> for the exhibition. Also included is a new edit  within an installation
> designed for the exhibition  of Peggy and Fred in Hell (19842015) by
> Leslie Thornton (b. 1951, USA), featuring footage shot whilst in residence
> at Raven Row; and newly available reels from the epic Five Year Diary
> (198197) by Anne Charlotte Robertson (19492012, USA), preserved by the
> Harvard Film Archive, will be screened for the first time in the UK.
> 
> Extended gallery opening hours: 11am-7pm, Wednesday to Sunday
> 
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> 
> 5 November 2015
> Leslie Thornton, Peggy and Fred in Hell- Folding (1985-2015). Still from
> digital video (originated on 16mm film), 95 mins. Courtesy of the artist.
> 
> Raven Row, London: 3 December 2015  14 February 2016
> Opening: Wednesday 2 December, 6-9pm (Extended gallery hours Wed-Sun 11-7)
> Download exhibition programme PDF (57kb)
> 
> The Inoperative Community
> 
> Serge Bard, Eric Baudelaire, Ericka Beckman, Cinema Action, Patrick Deval,
> Lav
> Diaz, Mati Diop, Stephen Dwoskin, Luke Fowler, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre
> Gorin, Johan Grimonprez, Marc Karlin, Stuart Marshall, Anne-Marie Miville,
> Pere
> Portabella, Yvonne Rainer, Jackie Raynal, Anne Charlotte Robertson, Helke
> Sander, Jon Sanders, James Scott, Albert Serra, Leslie Thornton, Humphry
> Trevelyan.
> 
> Curated by London-based writer and curator Dan Kidner,  The Inoperative
> Community is an exhibition of experimental narrative film and video that
> broadly address crises of sociality and community. It draws on works made
> since
> 1968 for cinema, television and the gallery, with subjects that range from
> the
> construction of memory to game theory, and artificial intelligence. The
> exhibitions title is borrowed from Jean-Luc Nancys 1986 essay of the same
> name,
> and while this connection did not determine the selection of works, they all
> bear witness in their own way to Nancys characterisation of the dissolution,
> the dislocation, or the conflagration of community. Many concern the limits
> of
> political activism and failures of the revolutionary politics of the late
> 1960s.
> 
> Research for the exhibition began by finding means to reconstruct Journal of
> the Plague Year (1984), the defiant installation about the Aids crisis by
> Stuart Marshall (194993, UK). Other significant presentations include a new
> edit  within an installation designed for the exhibition  of the thirty-year
> project Peggy and Fred in Hell (19842015) by Leslie Thornton (b. 1951, USA),
> featuring footage shot on a residency at Raven Row; while newly available
> reels
> from the epic Five Year Diary (198197) by Anne Charlotte Robertson
> (19492012,
> USA), preserved by the Harvard Film Archive, will be screened for the first
> time in the UK.
> 
> The exhibition  itself constituting a kind of inoperative community attempts
> to
> reframe discussions about the overlapping and entangled histories of art,
> cinema and television. Visitors will be invited to select from over fifty
> hours
> of material. Comfortable seating has been designed to enable prolonged
> viewing
> as well as shorter visits, while, in the manner of a film festival, all
> starting times will be indicated. Alongside the galleries, a purpose-built
> screening room will show five daily programmes, each a point of departure
> for
> thinking about experimental film.
> 
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