Dan Graham’s Rock My Religion
(An Expanded Screening)
Sunday, 7 Feb 2010, 4.30pm
Auto Italia South East
1 Glengall Road, SE15 6NJ, London

Dan Graham’s artistic practice has been influenced by music from early on and this interest becomes more explicit in the late 1960s through some of his first writings such as Live Kinks, 1969 a review of a concert by the Kinks. During the 70s and 80s, Graham developed close working relationships with composer Glenn Branca and musician and Sonic Youth founder Kim Gordon, who supposedly started her music career by taking part in one of Graham’s performance pieces, which didn’t quite go according to plan and turned into a fully fledged concert. Through “a shift towards the documentary” as described by LA MOCA’s Bennett Simpson who recently curated a Graham retrospective, the 1980s saw the release of two video works by the artist which explicitly deal with the subject of popular music: Minor Threat from 1983 on a concert of the American punk band of the same name and the more complex Rock My Religion (1982-84), developed in discussions with Branca, Gordon and Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, all of whom contributing to the soundtrack of the work.

LUX Presents - Messages: Guy Sherwin / Alan Wilkinson / John Edwards / Steve Noble
Tuesday 23rd February 2010, 8pm
Café Oto, Ashwin St, Dalston, E8 3DL, UK
Tickets: £5

A night of film and music to celebrate the publication of a new LUX book/DVD Guy Sherwin: Messages.

3 films/3 musicians:
- Filter Beds, 16mm film / John Edwards, bass
- Flight, 16mm film / Steve Noble, drums
- Views from Home Reviewed, digital video/ Alan Wilkinson, saxophone

followed by a session of Edwards/Noble/Wilkinson.

Close-up: Histories of the Avant-Garde Part IV
February 23th 2009, 20h
The Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB, London. Ticket: £5/£3 Close-Up members
Doors open at 7.45 pm
Presented by Close-Up and The Dog Movement

Five American masters all explore dailiness, film as a stage for performance, and most importantly the possibilities of using music with equal importance to image in tonight’s screening.