FURTHER RITUALS FROM RENTED ISLAND Film & Video Series /
FURTHER RITUALS OF RENTED ISLAND
January 16 - 23, 2014
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10003.
In conjunction with the exhibition RITUALS OF RENTED ISLAND at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Anthology Film Archives presents FURTHER RITUALS OF RENTED ISLAND a screening series co-curated by J. Hoberman, Andrew Lampert, and Jay Sanders featuring videos, films, and documentation and features many pieces not on view in the exhibition. All screenings take place at Anthology Film Archives,.
EL ADIOS LARGOS at Migrating Forms /
December 15, 2014 at 7pm
EL ADIOS LARGOS (2013)
plays NYC again as part of
Migrating Forms at BAM
Outside the Box Gallery Talks: Andrew Lampert on Chris Burden: Extreme Measures /
December 14, 2013, 2:15 PM
New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
This fall, the New Museum launches a new lecture series, OUTSIDE THE BOX, a roster of gallery-based talks given by a variety of guest speakers over the course of a season. In this new series, lecturers with diverse backgrounds and affinities will address the New Museum’s current exhibition(s), kicking off with CHRIS BURDEN: EXTREME MEASURES in forty-five to sixty minute presentations taking place exclusively in the Museum’s galleries. As a way to emphasize the Museum’s strong commitment to new art and new ideas, Outside the Box talks are open to the public and are intended to provide participants with multidisciplinary perspectives on New Museum exhibitions. To this end, lecturers will speak about the exhibitions or themes emergent in artists’ works from the various positions they occupy, be they academic, personal, political, etc., and engage in rich investigations that illuminate and probe the Museum’s current exhibition program.
As an artist, Andrew Lampert regularly uses moving images, live performance, and recorded sound to address the contemporary condition of cinema spectatorship in its waning days. He is concerned with time as experienced on screen, in the course of production, and most especially by the audience in a theater. He has exhibited at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA P.S.1, the Getty Museum, the British Film Institute, the New York Film Festival, and is distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). Lampert is also Curator of Collections at Anthology Film Archives, where he is responsible for the daily management, photochemical preservation, and digitization of the moving image and audio collections, as well as co-programming the quarterly screening schedule. He has preserved more than two hundred movies by artists including Wallace Berman, Robert Breer, Bruce Conner, Tony Conrad, Manuel De Landa, the Kuchar Brothers, Marie Menken, Carolee Schneemann, Paul Sharits, Stuart Sherman, Michael Snow, and many others. Lampert teaches in the Film Department at Purchase College, and is currently editing a book titled THE GEORGE KUCHAR to be published by Primary Information.
A Stom Sogo Tribute at Mix Festival /
A STOM SOGO TRIBUTE
MIX New York Queer Experimental Film Festival
Thursday, November 14, 2014 @ 9PM
Featuring SLOW DEATH (2000) and many other surprises. Organized with Gina Carducci.
SLOW DEATH (2000) by Stom Sogo
A dynamo whose thunderous potential was cut short by his premature death, Japanese moving-image artist Stom Sogo (1975-2012) remains a romantic rebel if ever there was one. For over two decades he created a hair-raising body of aggressively beautiful films and videos. This 70-minute program features the acclaimed film SLOW DEATH and the rest is, well, a surprise. As we type, tons of new and enticing discoveries are being made in the boxes of over 1200 films, videos and tapes that Sogo left behind. Did we just find a 400-foot reel mysteriously titled 20 CENTURY PORNO? How many abstract adaptations of Dennis Cooper novels did Stom make? We are carefully opening hundreds of envelopes of unknown film reels and you just won’t believe what we have found. This all Super-8 program will feature films projected on film, the way that Stom used to show them during his bacchanalian all-night screenings.
EL ADIOS LARGOS at New York Film Festival /
October, 5, 2014 @ 9:30
in the program LULLABIES AND ALARMS
as part of the VIEWS FROM THE AVANT-GARDE
at the 51st New York Film Festival
A Conversation with John Zorn /
John Zorn in Henry Hills' MONEY (1985)
Sunday, September 23, 2013 @ 5 PM
Anthology Film Archives, NYC
A conversation on the art of scoring films and survival with John Zorn as part of his city-wide 60th birthday celebration.
First Thought Upon Waking, RejectedBradford & Leeds United Kingdom /
A collaboration with Vibracathedral Orchestra, FIRST THOUGHT UPON WAKING, REJECTED was one show in two parts in two cities. The title lived up to the piece, or the other way around.
BINS OF LEEDS (2012)
EL ADIOS LARGOS Premiere at Toronto Film Festival /
The world premiere of EL ADIOS LARGOS (2013) will occur on Friday, September 6 at 6:30 PM as part of the WAVELENGTHS section of the Toronto International Film Festival.
EXPANDED CINEMA AT ROULETTE /
EXPANDED CINEMA: ESP Lab // Bradley Eros, Kenny Zoran Curwood & Rachael Guma “Narcolepsy Cinema” // Andrew Lampert // Fern Silva // Jessie Stead
Friday, August 2, 2013 @ 8:00 pm
Roulette
Brooklyn, NY
Roulette presents an evening of multi-screen and mixed-media performances featuring NARCOLEPSY CINEMA, a new work for expanded celluloid, foley, and vinyl by multimedia trio Bradley Eros, Kenny Zoran Curwood and Rachael Guma; ESP Lab with Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie; and short films by Andrew Lampert, Fern Silva, and Jessie Stead.
DOUBLE TROUBLE at MONO NO AWARE /
July 31, 2013 @ 7 PM
Mono No Aware @ CPR (Center For Performance Research)
Brooklyn, NY
Andrew Lampert and Fern Silva are DOUBLE TROUBLE, and together they have in store an evening of double projections and multi-format mayhem. Eschewing logic, they promise to bring far too much material and present it in multitudes of overlapping layers. They do this because they don't know what else to do with themselves. Expect an evening of films made alone and a big mess that they will make together.
Double Trouble (Andrew Lampert and Fern Silva) at Mono No Aware, July 31, 2013
Record Auction At Silent Barn /
June 1, 2014 @ 9pm
Silent Barn
Brooklyn, NY
A gig masquerading as a record sale, or maybe the other way around. A multi-artist musical evening featuring a silent auction of records I'm parting with so that others may enjoy.
KEYNOTE SPEECH AT Bastard Film Encounter /
An excerpt from my opening remarks.
I presented the Keynote Speech and Invocation at the first Bastard Film Encounter, held in Raleigh, NC. A gathering of archivists, artists, aficionados and fellow travelers, the Encounter proved to be a galvanizing weekend of conversations and discoveries in the area of forogtten terrain, disposed entertainment and lost context.
I also presented my first PROJECTOR PARADISE performance.
PROJECTOR PARADISE #1 @ Bastard Film Encounter, 2013
PROJECTOR PARADISE #1 @ Bastard Film Encounter, 2013
Unessential Goes Viennese /
In April 2013, I visited Vienna to introduce a number of shows presented by the Austrian Film Museum in their series THE CLIMATE OF NEW YORK: A TRIBUTE TO ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES. Among the programs was a greatest hits, show-and-tell evening that featured a good many Unessential Cinema favorites.
“TTHE BEST (?) OF UNESSENTIAL CINEMA
(OR THE BESTEST OF UNESSENTIAL CINEMA)
Die riesigen Keller und Hinterhöfe des AFA bilden den Ausgangspunkt dieser panoramatischen Fahrt in die Eingeweide des Kinos. Unessential Cinema, eine lose Anthology-Reihe, bezieht sich auf jene zahllosen Filmkopien und Negative, die über die Jahre aus stillgelegten Laboren, Containern und dem Besitz von Witwen und Weirdos zusammenkamen. Beim Wiener Screening bringt Anthology-Kurator Andrew Lampert eine Auswahl solch verwaister Filme zur Aufführung – eine Demonstration all dessen, was Archive nie und nimmer bewahren können, werden oder wollen. Zu erleben sind u.a. Doppelprojektionen und unvollendete Werke, Lichttöne und unerklärliche Filmstreifen, Kameratests und unfassbare Krimis, Stopps, Starts, Einführungen, Erklärungen, begründete Vermutungen, Dialoge, Kommentare, Kritiken, Analysen, Hypothesen, logische Schlussfolgerungen, chirurgische Schnitte, Rätsel, Home-movies, Gänsehaut, Gelächter, Liebe, Intrigen, Bikinis und Hockey.
Moderation Andrew Lampert”
Jonas Mekas Panel International House, Philadelphia /
April 20, 2013
International House, Philadelphia
I was a panelist alongside Amy Taubin, Ed Halter and Jackie Raynal on the subject of Jonas Mekas, who was in attendance for this conversational event celebrating his life and work in and around cinema. Organized by Herb Shellenburger.
Jackie Raynal shows off her speech.
CONCRETE ESCORT At Guggenheim Museum /
March 22, 2013
Guggenheim Museum
New York
New York based Japanese performance artist Ei Arakawa invites painters, sculptors, dancers, filmmakers, and archivists to form a temporal group addressing Gutai today. Resulting in a performative exhibition tour where the audience will be escorted and repositioned, emphasis will be on the power dynamic within Gutai, women and men; singularity and plurality; performance and painting. Tasked to communicate the diversity of Gutai activities, each tour will journey along a different route. Participants include Ei Arakawa, Simone Forti, Jutta Koether, Andrew Lampert, and Caitlin MacBride.
SYNONYM FOR UNTITLED At Whitney Museum /
SYNOYNM FOR UNTITLED (2013) was staged on March 14 and 15, 2014 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. More on the event can be found at the link above.
Meanwhile, my limited edition postcard set is still on sale in the gift shop. Click below for info.
ALL MAGIC SANDS/CHAPPAQUARotterdam Premiere /
ALL MAGIC SANDS/CHAPPAQUA world premiere at the 2013 International Film Festival Rotterdam. It was shown theatrically as well as in installation form.
ALL MAGIC SANDS/CHAPPAQUA
Programmer Edwin Carrels, the man bold enough to bring this piece to Rotterdam.
The Seanceat Columbia University /
THE SÉANCE
Thursday, January 24, 7pm
Columbia University, New York City
Faculty House (enter on Amsterdam Ave and W 116th St)
Roundtable discussion on the history and scope of the cinematic event with Ed Halter and Thomas Beard (Light Industry), Andrew Lampert (Anthology Film Archives), and Chrissie Iles (Whitney Museum). Co-presented by the Film Studies Program, Department of Art History and Archaeology and Columbia Seminars.
HOME & MORE At CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM, St. Louis /
August 9, 2012 @ 7:00
Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis
CAM is pleased to present an evening of live film projector performances by Andrew Lampert that will include his works HOME (2010), ETKA & MASHA: TEENAGERS OF THE OLD WORLD (2011), and THE GOOD LIFE (2012).
As a filmmaker, programmer, and archivist at Anthology Film Archives, Andrew Lampert explores cinematic relationships by experimenting with their constituent elements, such as sound, live action, and film. Known for his projector performances, Lampert often plays a highly participatory role in his projects, acting as projectionist, cinematographer, and even musician by generating live instrumentation to accompany a screening. His performances often reference the multiple realms and perspectives found within the theatrical experience, drawing upon the intricacies of cinematic time and viewer time. The result is work that exists in two spaces – one within the frame of the screen or film, and the other which contains the viewing audience; the artist refers to this effect as “contracted cinema,” or the reverse of expanded cinema. For Lampert, cinema is not simply celluloid, but the integrative experience of the here-and-now, the audience, and the projected world of the film itself.