EVENT TWO
Friday 14 May 6-9pm

Round table discussion starts at 6.45pm followed by the film screening.

‘Beginnings and unreliable Translations’
A round table discussion between Nicolas de Oliveira (chair), Jeremy Millar and Eleanor Vonne Brown.

Argument (1978), 81 mins, 50 secs
Anthony McCall and Andrew Tyndall
Argument is a dense and provocative feature-length essay examining one issue of the New York Times magazine to investigate the ideology of news, the language of fashion and the construction of masculinity.

film screenings curated by Gilly Fox

Biographies:

Anthony McCall (b. 1946) is an avant-garde film maker, who is most well known for his explorations of the physicality of film in his ‘light projecting’ series.

Andrew Tyndall is a film maker and news commentator.

Nicolas de Oliveira is a Curator and Writer and Head of ‘Curating the Contemporary’ at London Metropolitan University and Whitechapel Art Gallery.

Jeremy Millar is an artist living in Whitstable. His current and forthcoming exhibitions include ‘Given’, National Maritime Museum, London; HICA, near Inverness; ‘Inside the Island’, Veli Brijuni, Croatia; ‘As Witkiewicz’, Muzeum Etnograficzne, Krakow; ‘Amongst Others’, Plymouth Arts Centre; and ‘Cage Mix’, Baltic, Gateshead. He also conceived the exhibition ‘John Cage: Every Day is a Good Day’ for Hayward Touring which opens at Baltic in June.

Eleanor Vonne Brown is a London based artist and independent publisher.  She is the editor of ‘The Newpaper’, a newspaper about newspaper artworks, ‘LET’ a series of experimental writing and set up ‘X marks the Bökship’ in Donlon Books where she is currently running the Publication as Practice series.

from top:
Eleanor Vonne Brown and Jeremy Millar
Nicolas de Oliveira and Eleanor Vonne Brown
Gilly Fox
photography by Christian Hagen