Art at LSE


OUT OF THE ARCHIVES - film screening


<bold>Do you really want it that much? ...More! 

</bold>Volker Eichelmann, Jonathan Faiers, Roland Rust.


You are invited to a screening of <bold>Do you really want it that
much? ...More! 


24 January, Vera Anstey Room (Old Building, Houghton St, LSE) 6.00pm


</bold>Volker Eichelmann will introduce the film and discuss the
project with Ruth Maclennan, artist-in-residence in the Library
Archives at LSE. All are welcome.


<bold><italic>Do you really want it that much?...More!</italic></bold>
consists of the collection, assembly and presentation of sequences from
mainstream film and television programmes that depict museums,
galleries and other art spaces, artistic production and art criticism.
These often brief sequences are contained within the overall narrative
structure of films and are then isolated and re-assembled to construct
alternative narratives: video assemblages that present endless
formulations of the art space. 


As with the conventional or official archive, the material is already
in the public domain on television, in cinemas and on video. Once
captured on video it can be re-categorised and reinterpreted allowing
the material to elude any fixed presentation or interpretation. 


The archive has existed since 1998 when Eichelmann, Faiers and Rust
collaborated on the first <italic>Do you really want it that
much?...More!</italic> installation. But, the archive's potential has
existed since the inception of film itself and specifically since the
advent of the home video recorder.


The artists' individual cinematic knowledge and memories come together
in their collaborative projects and it is here that the practice can be
most closely associated with the act of self-archiving: each
contributing his own personal experience of films to the specific
production of <italic>Do you really want it that much?...More!


</italic>http://www.doyou.at/page.html/.


The event is the first in a series of talks and presentations by
artists entitled <bold>Out of the Archives</bold> organised and hosted
by Ruth Maclennan. The aim of the series is to have a discussion
between artists, archivists, LSE academics and students, of themes
raised by the artists' understanding of archives in relation to their
art practice.


Future events: 

Wednesday 27 February - Richard Wentworth 

Wednesday 13 March - David Mabb

Thursday 16 May - Monica Ross 


All talks take place in the Vera Anstey room, and begin at 6pm


For more information on the residency or Art at LSE, please contact Ben
Eastop at <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or Ruth Maclennan at
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Or you can ring Ben on 020 7955 6483







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