Conversations at the Edge: Andrew Lampert: Tables Turned /  by melinda shopsin

CONVERSATIONS AT THE EDGE:
ANDREW LAMPERT: TABLES TURNED
@ Gene Siskel Film Center/School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Thursday, October 9, 2014 at 6:30 PM

Artist, archivist, and curator Andrew Lampert is known for his live media performances and hilarious short films and videos, many of which cheekily turn “cinema” on its head. Lampert uses improvisation, unusual projector placement, and sets of game-like instructions to explore (and exploit) the dynamic relationships between projector, projectionist, audience, and screen. For CATE, Lampert creates a site-specific performance and shows a series of shorts, including EL ADIOS LARGOS (2013), an inspired reconstruction of Robert Altman’s 1973 feature THE LONG GOODBYE from imperfect source material. Various formats. (Amy Beste)

Andrew Lampert will be present for audience discussion.

MURDER MYSTERY @ Microscope Gallery /  by melinda shopsin

Monday, September 29
7:30 PM

Microscope Gallery is pleased to present SLIDE EXECUTIONS a program of live slide performance works by Andrew Lampert, Kenneth Curwood and Alexia Welch as the fourth of five events happening in conjunction with our current exhibition SLIDE SLIDE SLIDE.
 
Each of the artists, who work regularly with the transparent slide, take a different approach in pieces involving a death in some sense, both the literal and figurative. Lampert’s MURDER MYSTERY most closely references the traditional slide show using a storyline – told through an almost complete carousel of slides – of 1950s art world figures, texts, abstractions and Mafioso. Welch’s REMEMBERING, THREE WAYS consists of a carousel of handmade blood-painted slides among other images that over time begin to “sweat” in the heat as the color drains. Curwood’s untitled single slide projection is a stunningly beautiful and complete obliteration of the image as it is bleached before the audience’s eyes.

Program:
Approximately 60 minutes
 
REMEMBERING, THREE WAYS by Alexia Welch, 80 slide carousel projection, 2014, approx. 30 minutes
Colors are drained from the images and then reinserted from memory. A dream is recalled twice.
 
MURDER MYSTERY by Andrew Lampert, slide show projection w/ accompanying sound, 2010, 20 minutes
A carousel of slides mixing text with images and abstractions with a story involving people in the art world of the 1950s (Cage, Cunningham, Raushenberg, Johns, De Antonio) and a real life Mafioso. Sound alternates between works by Bud Powell and Morton Feldman.
 
UNTITLED by Kenneth Zoran Curwood, single slide projection w/ bleach, 2014, approx. 11 minutes

Unessential Cinema: GREATEST SOMETHINGS OR OTHERS /  by melinda shopsin

Unessential Cinema 10th Anniversary!
July 30 2014 at 7:30PM
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003

Has it really been 10 years since the debut of UNESSENTIAL CINEMA? How’d that happen? UNESSENTIAL CINEMA is a regular series dedicated to unleashing the most undocumented, unseen, and unknown films and videos in our vast and confusing collection. Over the past decade we have presented more head-scratching, brain-breaking reels then we can even remember. Each program has featured an overarching theme or particular gimmick, and every show has left us wondering: Why do we have this stuff? Tonight we reflect on a decade of archival discoveries by bringing together some of our all-time favorite finds for a one-time only ‘experience.’ Be prepared to celebrate with double projections, live commentary, audience participation and, quite possibly, cake.

Expect some of these classics:
DISSECTION OF A RAT
HEAD/TAIL
IN THE PANTS OF THE UNIVERSE
FOUR ROSES (Whiskey)
THE ACT OF PUKING WITH ONE’S OWN MOUTH
and many more…

BOMB #128 Launch Party /  by melinda shopsin

Monday, June 16, 7:30 PM
Launch Party: BOMB Issue #128!
Featuring contributors Donald Breckenridge, Michael Coffey, Corina Copp, Steve Dalachinsky, Vincent Katz, Andrew Lampert, and others TBA
Reception to follow

BOMB Magazine, headquartered around the corner from Greenlight in Brooklyn, has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981. Issue #128 is BOMB's most stately issue yet, featuring literature, art, and critical work by Katherine Bradford, Vincent Katz, Sara Jaffe, Corina Copp, and Donald Breckenridge; conversations between Tania Bruguera and Paul O'Neill, John Ashbery and Adam Fitzgerald, and Charlemagne Palestine and Steve Dalachinsky; along with margaritas, sunburns, and accelerated romances. Imagine them all gathered in a park before a storm, covered in dirt from the baseball diamond, stuffed with BBQ, sticky with sweat, in conversation, and you’ll have a sense of tonight’s blowout issue launch event at Greenlight. Help launch the summer 2014 issue of BOMB!

Event date: Monday, June 16, 2014 - 7:30pm
Event address: 686 Fulton Street 11217 Brooklyn NY

 

Talk on Yuji Agemetsu /  by melinda shopsin

A Talk as Part of Agematsu…
Saturday, May 31, 5pm

On Saturday afternoon, Andrew Lampert will give a tour of his friend Yuji Agematsu’s exhibition. I’m not sure what exactly he will talk about, but I imagine he’ll drift into the subject of collecting and archives, as Andrew is an archivist and Curator of Collections at Anthology Film Archives in New York City. There, he organized performances with Agematsu in 2004 and 2013.

THE GEORGE KUCHAR READERbook launch at Yale Union /  by melinda shopsin

A Reading and Screening as Part of KUCHAR…
Friday, May 30, 2014 at 8pm

On Friday night, Andrew Lampert will screen scarce footage of George Kuchar working on the set, serve hot dogs, and read from THE GEORGE KUCHAR READER that he’s been editing these past few years. The book, which Scott Ponik designed, gives us a criminal amount of pleasure and is a serious resource for self-effacement, artistic intelligence (very different from schoolboy intelligence), tales of UFO encounters, and how to write student recommendation letters:

With Title TK at the Stone /  by melinda shopsin

Andrew Lampert with opening act Title TK
Sunday, April 13 @ 10:00 PM
The Stone
New York City, corner of Ave. A and 2nd St.

Title TK (Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen, Alan Licht) are the openers and perhaps headliners for this concert event at The Stone. The hook: Title TK does not know if I am actually coming to do my part of the show, and therefore are in the dark as to how long their set should last. Yikes.

MAKING ROOM FOR MORE At Art Gallery of Ontario /  by melinda shopsin

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April 11, 2014
6 pm – 9 pm
Frank Restaurant, Art Gallery of Ontario

Are you always hungry for more? Then please join us for an inexplicable evening of unheralded discoveries and gastronomic delights at Frank, the acclaimed restaurant of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Filmmaker/Gourmand Andrew Lampert will act as host for a multi-course, moving-image excavation of the darkest shelves found in the AGO’s sprawling collection of 85,000 works of art. Lampert has concocted a come-and-go event that fuses creative culinary dishes, specially created by Chef Jeff Dueck, with a view into the AGO’s never-before-seen, endlessly fascinating, archive. Featuring a live music performance by Michael Snow and sizable servings of sensory overload, Andrew Lampert’s MAKING SPACE FOR MORE will satisfy all your cravings.

This performance can be experienced anytime between 6 and 9 PM. Admission is included with the purchase of food and drink, either with a prix fixe menu through advance reservations or à la carte without reservations on a first come first served basis. Reservations can be made through ago.net/frank or by calling 416 979 6688.

Presented by Images Festival in partnership with the Art Gallery of Ontario.

JOKE ON JOKE /  by melinda shopsin

Union Docs presents:
JOKE ON JOKE
March 30, 2014
7:30 PM

An evening of video artists, performance artists, musicians, and writers reenacting, translating, paying homage to, improving upon, and/or pissing all over classic stand-up routines from some of comedy’s most revered live performers. The artists in this program have been given free reign to choose their sources, and may employ video, music, and other crutches to enhance their 4-6 minute long sets.

Hosted by Ben Coonley and featuring the derivative comedy stylings of Eileen Maxson, Angie Waller, Alina Simone, Joel Holmberg, Sophia Cleary, Cecilia Dougherty, Andrew Lampert, Benjamin Hale, Brian Droitcour, David Kalal, and Jordan Rathus…plus special guests.

 

Single Frame: Vito Acconci /  by melinda shopsin

Anthology Film Archives
March 12, 2014
7:30 pm

A program in my ongoing series SINGLE FRAME featuring Vito Acconci with a performance entitled CLICK-CLICK-SLIDE/SLIIDE//SLIIIDE///

“A possibly mis-directed & mis-guided effort to make the on/off visuals & the cliCLICKclic aurals of an out-dated slide-projector the basis of 3 inter-locking, time-shifting, place-dissolving plots (American-western/detective-story/science-fiction) that are there only to support & camouflage wavering while floating structure-systems as each gradually & in slow-motion explodes into bits & particles & grains & pixels…” –Vito Acconci

FURTHER RITUALS FROM RENTED ISLAND Film & Video Series /  by melinda shopsin

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,.

Outside the Box Gallery Talks: Andrew Lampert on Chris Burden: Extreme Measures /  by melinda shopsin

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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 /  by melinda shopsin

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

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.