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ATTEMPTS TO GET INSIDE THE WORLD - Natasha Rosling in London



26th AUGUST – 11th SEPTEMBER 2011 AT LEWISHAM ARTHOUSE

ZOE ANSPACH, SOL ARCHER, ANTOINE BERTIN, JACOB BLANDY, CHRISTOPH BOTH-ASMUS, SARAH BOWDEN, ANNA BUNTING-BRANCH, CELINE CONDORELLI, PAULINE CURNIER-JARDIN, ISOBEL DUNHILL, MAGDA FABIANCZYK, CORINNE FELGATE, AMANDA FRANCIS, LINDA FRANKE, LUDOVICA GIOSCIA, JAMIE GEORGE, PER HUTTNER, MICHAEL LEE, ROBERT LISNEY, JOANNE MASDING, SACHI MIYACHI, NATASHA ROSLING, KRISTIN SHERMAN, CHOOC LY TAN, FATOS USTEK, WOUTER VENEMA, JOHN WALTER, VICTORIA WATSON, MICHAEL WHITBY, RICHARD WHITBY, LAURA WHITE, ELEANOR WRIGHT

To round up the summer and start the new season Lewisham Arthouse presents, Attempts to Get Inside the World, an exciting series of events initiated with the support of Vision Forum and the Arthouse’s Graduate scheme. Over the course of these two weeks a range of talks, screenings and performances will take place set within a laboratory-style exhibition. The intention is to reveal the raw edges to many of the processes that feed an art practice, shifting eyes away from the product and into the thick the background. Particular attention will be given to research transgressing the boundaries of the studio – either through grappling with unknown subjects and disciplines, or through direct attempts to thrust oneself into the midst of an often extreme set of physical and psychological circumstances.

The exhibition space will house two main conference events, Retreat: in the City – 27th and 28th August, organised by Michael Whitby, and Navigating Extremes - 3rd and 4th September by Natasha Rosling. Artists, curators, architects, choreographers, and theatre practitioners from across Europe and London will come together to present talks, set-up discussions, screenings and performances under the umbrella of Attempts to Get Inside the World. A series of furnitures and rolling projections will occupy the gallery space - displaying works, artefacts, test pieces, experiments and research material selected by each participant in reference to the practices discussed.

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Lewisham Arthouse, 140 Lewisham Way, London SE14 6PD
Preview: South London Art Map Last Fridays 26th August 6-9pm
Exhibition Open: Wednesday to Sunday, 12-6pm 27th August – 11th September.
Transport: Rail/Underground - New Cross/New Cross Gate; Buses - 21, 36, 136, 321

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CINEMIXA™ is a trio from France that features guest musicians when "sound tracking" abroad. This time, special guest is MORGAN FISHER.

CINEMIXA™ are in demand all over the world for their creative, cultural and entertaining performance. Recent shows have been Algeria, Jordan, Russia, Ethiopia, Ghana, South America and many more.

They have "sound tracked" numerous features and short films such as the expressionist "He, who get slapped" [Victor Sjostrom, 1924], the sci-fi visionaire "Paris sleeping" [René Clair, 1923] or the surrealist tale "Balançoire“ [Noël Renard, 1928]. NAME: CINEMIXA at L’Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo (with special guest Morgan Fisher)
NOTE: This is a small premium film venue with excellent sound and vision. There are only 108 seats.
WHERE: L’Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo, Iidabashi, Tokyo
WHEN: July 28th 2011 (Thursday) Doors Open19:00
START: Show Start 19:30 ~ 21:00
COST: L’Institut Members:1500 YEN　
Non Members: 2000 YEN

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Physics and Psychoanalysis?

“One of the primary blocks to such latent creativity is what Bohm refers to as ‘self-sustaining’ confusion in the mind, in contrast to ‘simple’ confusion. Simple confusion is that which we experience when for instance, we don’t understand directions we are given, or when we can’t find the solution to a puzzle. Self-sustaining confusion, on the other hand occurs ‘when the mind is trying to escape awareness of conflict…in which one’s deep intention is really to avoid perceiving the fact, rather than to sort it out and make it clear’ Bohm points out that this process creates an order of its own: a reflexive state of dullness in which the natural agility of the mind is replaced is replaced with a torpor on the one hand, mechanical and meaningless fantasies on the other. Unfortunately says Bohm, this has come to be considered a normal state of mind, and is therefore endemic to our culture.”

-Lee Nichols, Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition of David Bohm’s “On Creativity”, Routledge 1997.

Depiction?

Alberto Giacometti famously claimed that he wanted to capture the dying and decomposing bodies of the people that he portrayed. The claim is amazingly beautiful because it shifts the outlook on how we perceive time, reality and depiction. The statement obviously turns portraiture upside down, but so much more than that. Just imagine if we could create photographs in the same way. It would make Dorian Gray’s portrait mundane. After all, the body is a short-lived entity that spites the universe’s movement towards higher equilibrium (the second law of thermodynamics). The ageing process on the other hand proves the impotence of this spitefulness.