Screening

ON NOTICE // March 22 and 23 / 11 am – 6 pm
Installations of Video by: Joëlle Tuerlinckx // Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska
Curated by Cathleen Chaffee

Consecutive Evening Programs Tuerlinckx // Lewandowska:
March 22, Wednesday 7pm / Tuerlinckx Special Program of Videos / Grande Salle
Joëlle Tuerlinckx installs a program of videos never before screened in New York and drawn from several different series, including extracts from her Film d’attente, and Etude coréen.

March 23, Thursday 7pm / Cummings & Lewandowska Screening / Lewandowska in Conversation with Anne Walsh
A selection of films from two most recent series Sample and Enthusiasts. Following the screening Marysia Lewandowska will discuss her work with artist Anne Walsh.

This is the second in a series of bi-monthly film and video screenings to be held in 2006 at the SI, and is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. Lewandowska’s talk is made possible by the British Council.

Joëlle Tuerlinckx creates a screening room at the SI to complement her current solo exhibition at the Drawing Center. Tuerlinckx’s work proves the richness of signification in coincidence, fragments and intersections. Her real-time recordings stretch the fugitive ‘now’ of experience, and her methods of categorizing the latent information in collections and non-lieu cause a circuit jam—a riveting point-of-view experience of the artist’s relationship to time and the image.

March 22:
11 am – 4 pm / Program on original SI letterhead
4 pm – 7 pm / Program on SI letterhead x 12
7 pm – 8:30 pm / Evening Program / Grande Salle with sound / Program on SI letterhead x 48

March 23:
11 am – 4 pm / Program on SI letterhead x 12
4 pm – 7 pm / Program on original SI letterhead

Tuerlinckx’s work was included in Documenta 11 and recent solo exhibitions including: the Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany (2004); The Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago (2003); Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2001); S.M.A.K. Ghent, Belgium (1999). Joëlle Tuerlinckx's solo exhibition Inventory of Drawing is currently on view at the Drawing Center, 40 Wooster Street from Feb 25 – Apr 22, 2006.

Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska have been collaborators since 1995 under the name Chance Projects. Their practice centers on investigation, collaboration, and exchange. To the artists, the restrictions of copyright and the practical inaccessibility of most ‘free’ film archives withhold creative content as if it were a capital reserve. In their current project SAMPLE, for which the screening at the SI is the New York and US debut, the artists trolled British film and television archives and collaborated with composers Eileen Simpson and Ben White to create new artworks from films and music in the public domain. Henceforth the works are made freely available under a Creative Commons Public Domain License in a gambit that puts inert creative capital back in the world of circulation. Their research frequently interrogates how art institutions interact with and depend on the economic and political realms. Their projects have taken many forms, including exhibitions and publications as well as symposia, historical re-creations and guided walks.

The result of extensive research amongst the remnants of amateur film clubs in Poland under socialism, the Enthusiasts project comprises a series of exhibitions and an archive of beautiful amateur films found, restored and made available on the Internet by Cummings & Lewandowska. Selections from this project will be screened Thursday March 23, at 7 pm. For more information see www.enthusiastsarchive.net

Recent solo exhibitions include, Enthusiasm, Tapies Foundation, Barcelona (2006), Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, and Kunst Werke, Berlin (2005); Free Trade, Manchester Art Gallery (2002); and Capital, Tate Modern, London (2001).