Event
Phantoms Of The Avant-Garde
18 Jul 2015
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Address
- Southwark Park
- London
England - SE16 2DD
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses 1, 47, 188, 199, 225, 381, C10, P12 all stop at Canada Water
- Canada Water on Jubilee and London Overground Lines
- Canada Water on London Overground Line
About
Screening event featuring work by Lucy Skaer, Laure Prouvost, Ursula Mayer, Mark Aerial Waller, Jimmy Robert and Beatrice Gibson.
Free event, booking essential. Please book via Eventbrite
Phantoms of the Avant-Garde is the first in a series of monthly events (July to October 2015) exploring lines of connection and points of dialogue between the LUX archive and the Cranford collection. The first screening is presented in collaboration with CGP London at Dilston Grove. The series has been curated by Matt Carter (Distribution Manager, LUX) and Louise Chignac (Special Projects Manager, Cranford).
Taking Laure Prouvost's Wantee, a work centred around her fictional grandfather and his relationship to the Surrealist artist Kurt Schwitters, as a starting point, the works in this screening draw upon avant-garde legacies within contemporary practice. Through explorations of the past, the artists in the programme deconstruct their own canonical heritage, creating new histories through the very apparatus they disassemble. Dislodging of time forges new associations and the tension between an inescapable past and the endless potential of the future, highlight an absurd futility inherent in artistic practice but also an unrelenting and admirable fervour.
