File
under Sacred Music (20 mins DVD with sound) is Iain Forsyth
& Jane Pollard's re-make of an infamous bootleg video documenting
The Cramps legendary performance at Napa Mental Institute, California
in 1978. The film continues to tour the UK and Europe in screenings,
exhibitions and special events. All details are below, with forthcoming
and most recent dates at the top.
9th June - 17th September 2006
Switch
on the Power! Noise and Policies on Music, Vigo
17th October 2006 -
7th January 2007
Switch
on the Power! Noise and Policies on Music, Las Palmas
2nd February - 22nd
April 2007
Switch
on the Power! Noise and Policies on Music, Vitoria
File under
Sacred Music features in the touring exhibition Switch
on the Power! Noise and Policies on Music, curated Xabier Arakistain,
which brings together 28 artists from the world of art and music who
employ similar performative and aesthetic strategies as a means to
construct discourses that often convey alternative values and/or political
critique. The show also features work by Laurie Anderson, Bauhaus,
Leigh Bowery, Diamanda Galas, Dan Graham, Nina Hagen, Lene Lovich,
Genesis P. Orridge, Peaches, Siouxsie Sioux and Andy Warhol.
Touring:
MARCO, Museum of Contemporary Art Vigo, Spain
CAAM, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Spain
Centro Cultural, Montehermoso, Vitoria, Spain
13th April - 23rd April 2006
Metropolis Rise: New Art from London. Shanghai, China
29th April - 14th May 2006
Metropolis Rise: New Art from London. Beijing, China
File under Sacred Music features
in Metropolis Rise: New Art from London, an exhibition curated
by Anthony Gross & Jen Wu (temporarycontemporary). Alongside the
film and various related documents and ephemera Iain & Jane will
present a specially created version of File under Sacred Music (Reverberation)
translated into Mandarin.
CQL Design Center, 50 Moganshan Lu, 200060
Shanghai
Dashanzi 798 Art District, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District,
Beijing
25th February - 26th March 2006
Music for People.
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
File under Sacred Music features
in a series of artists' films about music and performance presented
by the DCA. The season also features work by Johanna Billing, Nick
Raplh & Oliver Payne, Pierre Huyghe, Mathias Poledna, Phil Collins,
Mark Leckey and Mika Taanila. Check out the DCA
web site for full details of the programme and to confirm dates
and times for screenings.
Dundee
Contemporary Arts
152 Nethergate
Dundee DD1 4DY
17th February - 9th April 2006
Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam
File under Sacred Music features
in the exhibition iPod Killed The Video Star curated by Ken
Pratt and Boris van Berkum at Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam. Please visit
the gallery web
site for further information and the full line-up of artists in
the exhibition.
MAMA
Showroom for Media and Moving Art
Witte de Withstraat 29-31
3012 BL Rotterdam the Netherlands
Open Wednesday - Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
Friday 2nd December 2005
Brighton Film Festival 2005
File under Sacred Music will
be screened as part of a programme of film-based works by Iain &
Jane at CineCity, Brighton's 3rd annual Film Festival.
Presented as part of 'The Basement Screenings'
section of the festival, the programme begins at 6pm, and will be
introduced on the night by Michael Connor, Head of Exhibitions at
BFI South Bank and the National Centre for the Moving Image. Admission
is free.
CineCity
2005
The Brighton Fringe Basement
The Argus Lofts, 24 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ
11th November - 10th December 2005
Video London in Espai Ubú, Barcelona
File under Sacred Music
will be presented at the Cultural Centre of Sant Andreu from 11th
November for two weeks. The exhibition will feature work by four artists
and after two weeks the work will transfer to Espai Ubu to be screened
within a compilation of short works by 21 artists for the remainder
of the show.
The programme is co-ordinated by Espai Ubú,
and selected by Keith Patrick and Jennifer Thatcher.
Video London
Young video art from London and the UK
Opening Party + night screening
Saturday 12 November 8 -11pm
Espai Ubú, Plaça Prim 2, 08005 Barcelona
Thursday 3rd November 2005
Side Cinema, Newcastle
File under Sacred Music is being screened in
Newcastle as part of an evening of artworks that engage in the practice
of re-enactment or the technical phenomenon of simulation.
Featuring: Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie,
Ben Coode-Adams &
Marcus Coates, Ulrike Kubatta, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Marisa
S. Olson, and others.
This programme is supported by the University of Sunderland and coincides
with the exhibition “Once More… With Feeling” at
the Reg Vardy Gallery.
The Side Cinema is tucked behind the Side Café on Newcastle’s
Quayside. The cosy little cinema only seats 52 people and shows a
range of films distributed through non- commercial networks.
Further information: www.sidecinema.com
22nd July - 22nd August 2005
Handclaps - at Garage Festvial, Stralsund
Handclaps features films and documentaries oscillating between
music, media and art. It comments on pop music phenomena in a non-linear
and associative way. Programmed by Tim Tetzner, File under Sacred
Music features in the first section of the festival, subtitled 'Pranksters'.
For more information and full screening details visit the festival
web site.
Handclaps
at Garage Festival 2005 / Stralsund
Am Fährkanal 2, 18439 Stralsund, Germany
Garage Festival 2005 info: garage.in-mv.de
Monday 18th July 2005
The Hospital, London
A special one-off screening of File under Sacred Music
takes place in the cinema at The Hospital in Covent Garden, London
on Monday 18th July 2005. Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard's recent
film Anyone else isn't you was exhibited in the gallery at
The Hospital throughout June.
The
Hospital
24 Endell Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HQ
24th - 27th November 2004
18e Rencontres Parralèles, Normandie
File under Sacred
Music can then be seen at the Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie
as part of 18e Rencontres Parralèles. The festival runs from
24th - 27th November.
Le Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie
BP 59 € 7 passage de la Poste € 14200 Hérouville
Saint Clair
Tel 02 31 95 50 87 - Fax 02 31 95 37 60
18th - 22nd November 2004
Viper Basel International
Festival for Film, Video and New Media
File under Sacred
Music has been nominated for Viper 2004 taking place in Basel
from 18th - 22nd November. A temporary installation is being created
at the Gare du Nord in Basel on Saturday 21st November. The festival
features screenings, installations, performances, workshops a conference
and more. More...
Viper
Basel
St. Alban-Rheinweg 64 - 4052 Basel - CH
Tel +41.61.283 27 00 - Fax +41.61.283 27 05
Gare
du Nord
Bahnhof für Neue Musik (im Bad. Bahnhof Basel)
Schwarzwaldallee 200, CH-4058 Basel
Saturday 21st August 2004
Vinyl #2 - Redux, Commercial Street, London E1
Vinyl is a series of collaborations with artists and musicians
that proposes the construction of a social space in the form of a
nightclub, that calls into question its own foundation, in the general
terms of sound and image.
The Vinyl #2 event and party at Redux featured
a screening of File under Sacred Music alongside work by Kalwinder
Bajar, Ellen Cantor, Shezad Dawood, Mark Dean, FLAG, Marc Hulson,
Wolfe Lenkiewicz, Melanie Manchot, Steven Micalef, Derek Ogbourne,
Paul O’Neill, Douglas Park, Esther Planas, Riviera F, Mark Aerial
Waller and music from Paul O’Neill, Riviera F, FLAG; with recordings
by Nikki Giovanni and Soul, Funk and Jazz artists from the Revolutionary
Era of "Soul!” (1968 -1973)
Friday 20th August 2004
Bowieart Film Night- Portobello Film Festival, Westbourne Studios,
London W10
The Bowieart film night was presented as part of the Portobelllo Film
Festival. A highlight of the evening was a screening of File under
Sacred Music.
The Bowieart Film Nights are an opportunity
to catch rarely seen work by a selection of exciting emerging artists
based in the UK and USA working in film today. The most recent selection
includes a mélange of wit, absurdity, twisted narrative, popular
culture and escape into the downright fantastical.
For details visit bowieart.com
26th June - 18th July 2004
From Here To Eternity (and back again) - Generator Projects, Dundee
A group show curated by Dan Howard-Birt featuring File under Sacred
Music as well as work by Katy Dove, Nick Evans, Dylan Shipton,
Kate Street and Mark Titchner.
Generator Projects is located at 25-26 Mid
Wynd, Dundee DD1 4JG, Scotland. For more information contact the gallery
at generatorprojects@yahoo.co.uk
/ 01382 225982.
May 2004
Foundation Adriano Olivetti, Rome
Part of a series of screenings of videos never seen in Italy before,
titled Love Me Before I Die #1 a video survey curated by
Luca Lo Pinto. Inatalled in the Foundation Adriano Olivetti Project
Space at Via G.Zanardelli, 34, 00186 Roma. Visit their web site
at: www.fondazioneadrianolivetti.it
Installation view of File under Sacred Music
and File under Sacred Music (This much is certain)
March - April 2004
This Much Is Certain
- Royal College of Art, London SW7
Presented along with the
original notes and shooting script from making the film. This
much is certain was an exhibition at the Royal College of Art,
London also featuring: Miriam Bäckström, Daniel Baker, Gerard
Byrne, Dexter Dalwood, Jeremy Deller, Huang Yongping, Emily Jacir,
John Massey, Aernout Mik, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Kirsten Pieroth,
Jamie Shovlin, Jeffrey Vallance.
The exhibition catalogue includes a new essay
by writer and critic Tom McCarthy - his
first-hand account of the events on the day of the filming of
File under Sacred Music along with previously unpublished
photographs documenting the making of the project. For more information
visit: www.cca.rca.ac.uk/thismuchiscertain.
More...
Wednesday 11th February
2004
Artist's Films
on Music Culture
National Film Theatre, London SE1
An excerpt was screened as part of Artist's Films on Music Culture
- films and videos by artists including Mark Leckey, Rodney Graham
and David Blandy. The screening was presented in collaboration with
the Hayward Gallery. For more information: www.bfi.org.uk/showing/nft/
More...
Gage Festival Programme
Saturday 7th February
2004
Gage Festival, Hull
Screened as part of an annual festival organised by Hull Time
Based Arts. This special evening event also featured a live performance
by ex-Spacemen 3 main-man Sonic Boom. For more information: www.timebase.org
Friday 19th December 2003
Roadmender, Northampton
Presented at Roadmender on the same night as The Damned played
live as part of their UK tour.
Friday 14th November 2003
Schaufenster, Oslo
A special one-night-only event to premiere File under Sacred Music
in Oslo at Schaufenster, 20 Seilduksgata 31.
Installation view of File under Sacred Music
with Iain and Jane at Charade
October - December 2003
Charade - Impressions Gallery,
York
Installed in one of the lower galleries as part an exhibition exploring
diverse notions of identity, fantasy and performance. Part of SightSonic
2003, York's International Digital Arts Festival. Visit www.impressions-gallery.com
for more information about the gallery. More...
Thursday 28th August
2003
Video Acts ICA Gallery Talk - ICA, London SW1
A gallery talk at the ICA by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard about
the Video Acts exhibition and discussing performance based
video works. File under Sacred Music was screened alongside
selected works from the ICA exhibition including Vito Acconci and
Bruce Nauman.
Installation view of File under Sacred Music
at Bootleg
Saturday 26th July 2003
Bootleg - Spitalfields Market,
London E1
Exhibited as part of a site-specific show curated by Craig Burnett,
Pernilla Holmes, Sarah Grainger-Jones, Pablo Lafuente, Tom Morton
and Catharine Patha. The project took place in Spitalfields Market.
More...
Friday 13th June 2003
We're coming
to take you away hurrah!! - ICA, London
Screened in London for the first time at a special event
at the ICA organised by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. Featuring
live performances from The Parkinsons, Holly Golightly, Banned and
The Courgettes as well as film projections from Core Arts,
performances and DJ's in the ICA Bar. More...
Friday 2nd May 2003
Showroom Cinema, Sheffield
First cinema presentation of the film, presented in association with
The Site Gallery.
March - May 2003
Shooting Live Artists
- Site Gallery, Sheffield
First public presentation of File under Sacred Music. A large-scale
projection was installed in Persistence Works next door to the gallery
for the duration of Art Sheffield. After this, the film was
moved into the gallery as part of the Shooting Live Artists
exhibition. More...
Gage Festival Programme
File under Sacred Music
Tourng...
March 2003 -
For more information, visit the project web site:
www.fileundersacredmusic.com
Video stills from File under Sacred
Music
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