Ancient and Modern have a screening programme on 3 Fridays this month - starting today. Curated by Ben Judd there's some amazing people involved: Jim Shaw, Matt Stokes, Bruce Nauman, Maya Deren, Marcus Coates, Kenneth Anger etc. All the work is about signs, codes, rituals. It is a very small space but worth cramming in to.
'from ritual to theatre': screened fridays 6, 13 & 20 august
Running schedule commencing 1.30 and 5.30pm:
1.30 / 5.30 Christine Sullivan and Rob Flint, Generator, 2004, 4:00 min
1.34 / 5.34 George Gurdjieff, Hidden Symmetry 2, date unknown, 4:31 min
1.39 / 5.39 Jim Shaw, Initiation Ritual of the 360o, 2002, 10:54 min
1.50 / 5.50 Matt Stokes, Long After Tonight, 2005, 6:40 min
1.57 / 5.57 Marcus Coates, Out of Season, 2000, 7:16 min
2.05 / 6.05 Alex Sanders, Fire Spirit Ritual, c.1970, 3:27 min
2.10 / 6.10 Bruce Nauman, Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the
Perimeter of a Square, 1967-68, 5:00 min extract
2.14 / 6.14 Magali Reus, Background, 2009, 7:25 min
2.23 / 6.23 Catherine Sullivan, Triangle of Need (Olympian and Doves),
2007, 7:00 min
2.29 / 6.29 Michael Curran, All My Little Ducks, 1995, 7:00 min
2.36 / 6.36 Kenneth Anger, Invocation Of My Demon Brother, 1969, 10:30 min
2.48 / 6.48 Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti, 1947-55,
8:00 min
2.55 / 6.55 Sian Davies, Thebes, 2007, 7:52 min
3.03 / 7.03 Guy Sherwin, Man With Mirror, 1976/2006, 9:00 min
3.11 / 7.11 Breda Beban, Walk of Three Chairs, 2003, 10:00 min
3.21 / 7.21 Jim Shaw, The Whole: A Study in Oist Movement, 2009, 16:40 min
Curated by Ben Judd / Text compiled by Emma Cocker and Ben Judd
For more information please see the website www.ancientandmodern.org
My exhibition in Berlin opens on Thursday - I'm doing a singing performance at 9pm. Jeremy Shaw (who's also in the show) is DJing at the after party. Honoured by the artists who agreed to be in the show.
