11 & 12 December 2020
Limit as Material: Brian Fuata, Graham Kelly, Carolyn Lazard & Adeena Mey
https://lux.org.uk/event/limit-as-material
To celebrate the launch of the website for the artistic estate of Ian White, LUX hosted a two-day online broadcast programme called Limit as Material, curated by Eleanor Ivory Weber in collaboration with Mike Sperlinger.
Limit as Material took its title from the late writings of Ian White. White consistently returned to the idea of the ‘productive limit’: those invisible or unstated conditions for the experience of art which could potentially be made explicit, and therefore negotiated or contested. Or as he put it on his blog Lives of Performers in 2012: ‘what there is to be jubilant about is that limit is everyone’s material and it is always here. And this is where to start.’
2020 produced, or revealed, new limits to our experiences of art and of each other. Artists Brian Fuata, Graham Kelly and Carolyn Lazard and researcher Adeena Mey were given open-ended invitations to respond to the idea of ‘limit as material’. Their four responses were broadcast online over two days to a live audience, with a Q&A with all the participants on the second day.
The individual videos were subsequently made available on this page until June 2021 and have now been archived.
Each day’s broadcast featured an interlude made by artist Rachel Reupke for the occasion. These are still available to watch below.
In parallel with the broadcasts, Limit as material included a specially commissioned essay on White’s performance works by writer Frances Whorrall-Campbell which you can read on this site.
Limit as material was made possible by the generous support of DAAD, Berlin.
Friday 11 December 2020
Adeena Mey: Return to the Kinomuseum
Adeena Mey is a researcher and curator. He has written and published on the intersections of experimental film, exhibition history, cybernetics, and Southeast and East Asian contemporary art. His curatorial projects include VideoArt Festival Locarno: A Prospective, Elisarion, Switzerland (with François Bovier, 2019); Neo Geography I & II, Centre d’art Neuchâtel, Switzerland; and Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul (with Kyung Roh Bannwart, 2017). He is managing editor of Afterall Journal in London and a lecturer at Ecal in Lausanne.
Interlude – Rachel Reupke
Carolyn Lazard: Untitled
Carolyn Lazard is a Philadelphia-based artist and writer working in video, sculpture, sound, and installation. Lazard has exhibited work at various institutions, including the Walker Art Center, the New Museum, The Kitchen, Kunsthal Aarhus, Camden Arts Centre, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Lazard has published writing in the Brooklyn Rail, Mousse, and Triple Canopy.
Saturday 12 December 2020
Graham Kelly: Skull Island Part III
Graham Kelly is a visual artist and filmmaker. His practice is situated in the interfaces between contemporary forms of images, physical bodies, and environments. By considering these interactions as engulfing and continuous states or effects, his work seeks to expose and dissect power structures that are cast, distorted, or enforced within them. His works have been screened and exhibited in a number of international contexts that include: Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Kino der Kunst, Lo schermo dell’arte, EYE Filmmuseum, TENT, Transmission, NEST, Intermedia, Generator Projects and The Moscow Biennale for Young Art. He was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy in 2015/16 and at AIR Berlin Alexanderplatz in 2018.
Interlude II – Rachel Reupke
Brian Fuata: Mountains dissolved (ext. #2)
Brian Fuata is based on Gadigal Country of the Eora Nation (Sydney). He works in the improvisation of live or mediated performance, writing and objects. Using the image of the ghost as an exploitative strategy to produce and order content, his performances are timed, wherever he and whatever state the site is in when the alarm rings, is the end of work. He uses multiple registers of performance, persona and public speaking to produce from a given institutional context of site, body and presence a dumb zone of dramatic affects.