2013
(28/MAY) FILM CURATION
Unrolling Processes. Works by Laida Lertxundi, Hollis Frampton and James Benning.
18:30hrs. Irish Film Institute, Dublin, Ireland.
www.ifi.ie
www.experimentalfilmclub.blogspot.com
(24-29/MAY) PRIMAVERA ALUCINANTE
Encuentro Cine Hipnótico-Expansivo. Laboratorio organizado por Collective Happines Now (Los Angeles- Vitoria- Madrid).
www.azala.es
(1/MAY) WRITING
Discursos para el Final de los Tiempos
(Sobre la obra de net-cinema de Mario Santamaría)
www.mariosantamaria.net/film
(11/ABR) CONFERENCIA
Paracinema: Definición y Tendencias
17:30hrs. Facultad de Letras, Universidad de Murcia, Spain.
www.um.es
(6/ABR) MUSIC EDITION
Dos Gajos, "Dos" (12" Vinyl, Repetidor Disc).
Presentation: 22 hrs April 6 *Heliogabal*, Barcelona, Spain.
www.dosgajos.blogspot.com
www.repetidordisc.com
(30/MAR) PUBLICATION
Paracinema: the Dematerialization of Film in Art Practices
(Cinema, Body and Brain)
www.experimentalconversations.com
(30/MAR) PUBLICATION
Peter Tscherkassky: Attractions, Instructions, and Other Romances
www.experimentalconversations.com
(26/MAR) SCREENING
'Horses' in Experimental Film Society.
Ormston House, Limerick (Ireland).
www.ormstonhouse.com/
(MAR) MA SEMINAR/WORKSHOP
Paracinema: planteamientos plásticos, experimentales y adisciplinares del cine (taller teórico-práctico).
Máster en Prácticas Escénicas y Cultural Visual de Artea.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía y Centro Cultural Matadero, Madrid, Spain.
www.arte-a.org
www.museoreinasofia.es
(4-8/MAR) GROUP SHOW
'Blood of M' and 'Glimmering Light' in Femlink (international video collage).
Latvian Centre of Contemporary Art. Riga, Latvia.
www.lcca.lv/en/news/
(11/FEB) PUBLICATION
Aqui y Ahora: El Cine de Laida Lertxundi.
www.lumiere.net
(31/JAN) SOUND PUBLICATION + PRESENTATION
Asociacion Artistica L E V E presents Grabaciones de Campo #01 (10" Vinyl), a selection of field recordings and songs that intervene in the soundscape.
Presentation at 8:30 pm - Salon de actos, Musac, León, Spain.
www.musac.es
www.aaleve.grabacionesdecampo.com
(11/JAN) SHOW
The Gas Works (screenings and performance). A series of unique films conceived as instable performances of sonic light. Made and projected by hand, the author describes them as "ephemeral collages in motion or gaseous light sculptures in which cinema is derailed and subject to stitching." The project explores performative aspects involved in mechanical projection such as the plasticity of luminous space, the reading of optical sounds, and the microstructures of the interval.
6.30pm - Xcéntric's Hall, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain.
www.cccb.org
(11/JAN) PERFORMANCE
Threaded Cocktail. The Consecutive Impostor's Operation Rewrite (Esperanza Collado and Maximilian Le Cain) presents a new performance piece in collaboration with Irish Theatre maker John McCarthy.
Funded by Culture Ireland.
7pm - Xcéntric's Hall, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain.
www.cccb.org
(1/JAN) FEATURING IN A FILM
Areas of Sympathy. Maximilian Le Cain’s latest solo work is a visually raw collage of home movies, performance documentation and found footage that knits together into a frustrating but highly exhilarating series of abandoned science fiction / thriller narratives without beginning or end. The film features John McCarthy and myself and is now available online.
www.vimeo.com/maximilianlecain
2012
(17-19/DIC) SEMINARIO/WORKSHOP
Paracinema: planteamientos plásticos, experimentales y adisciplinares del cine. Taller teórico.
Facultad de Bellas Artes, Cuenca UCLM, Spain.
www.bellasartes.uclm.es
(16/OCT) EFC FILM-PROGRAMME
White Noise. From Berlin’s Arsenal archive, the Experimental Film Club present a selection of works with the theme ‘White Noise’ curated and presented by Florian Wüst. This event centres on legendary German underground film icons Wilhelm and Birgit Hein.
8pm - Irish Film Institute, Dublin, Ireland.
www.experimentalfilmclub.blogspot.com
www.ifi.ie
(19/OCT) CONTACT PRINTING
I'll be attending the Contact Printing Workshop offered by No.w.here in London to get internegatives for The Gas Works.
www.no-w-here.org.uk
(7/OCT) PERFORMANCE/INSTALLATION
Manila Sand Trap, a new Operation Rewrite performance.
16mm and Super8 film projections, choreographed actions, sounds, objects. and Irish theatre writer, director and performer John McCarthy 3pm, Sunday Lunch at The Guesthouse, Shanon, Cork, Ireland.
www.guesthouse.ie
View the trailer
(SEP/OCT) ARTIST RESIDENCY
The Guesthouse is a visual artist-led initiative whose objective is to create a place for production, meeting and cross-practice peer exchange that includes various forms of public discourse and encounter.
The Guesthouse, Cork, Ireland.
www.guesthouse.ie
(21/SEP) DUO SHOW
Matter and Return: a screening of new film works by Aoife Desmond and Esperanza Collado.
6pm-8pm, The Guesthouse, Cork, Ireland.
www.guesthouse.ie
(21/SEP) FILM CURATION
Of Ruins and Light. Curated by Esperanza Collado and Aoife Desmond. Their chosen films present expanded representations of time and space.
9pm, Coal Quay carpark, Cork, Ireland.
www.culturenight.ie
(7/SEP) FILM CURATION
Landscape Plus: el Cine de Laida Lertxundi. Selección de películas y diálogo con Laida Lertxundi. DOCUMUSAC.
20 hrs, Salón de actos del Musac, León, Spain.
www.musac.es
(5/AUG) PUBLICATION
Cine: ¿Cuerpo o Cerebro?
www.salonkritik.net
(3/AUG) PRESENTACION DE LIBRO
Paracinema: la Desmaterialización del Cine en las Prácticas Artísticas. Ganador del VII Premio Escritos Sobre Arte de la Fundación Arte y Derecho y publicado por Trama Editorial (Madrid, 2012).
8pm, Biblioteca del Musac, León, Spain.
www.musac.es
(18/JUL) GROUP SHOW
The Tanks: Art in Action. My photograph documenting a screening of Tony Conrad's The Flicker is now on show at the Tate Modern's new programme of performance and installation art: ‘The Tanks’. The piece can be seen in the foyer of the performance area, in a dynamic timeline of performance and live art that highlights key moments and works by the most influential practitioners from around the world.
18 July-28 October. Tate Modern, London, UK.
Database of Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA.
www.tate.org.uk
www.greenenaftaligallery.com
(13/JUL) LIVE PROJECTION
The Illuminating Gas (Gas Works II). A site-specific installation/performance that explores perceptual and sculptural aspects of cinema and its connection to the train.
Trendelenburg, Museo del Ferrocarril, Gijón, Spain.
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www.elcomercio.es
(25/JUN) LIVE CINEMA + THE BUZZ ALDRIN ALLSTARS
Moon. A selection of the most abstract and extraordinary sequences from the Apollo Moon Landing archival footage are assembled live in multiple simultaneous 16mm film projections.
Black Rock Castle Observatory, Cork, Ireland.
www.corkmidsummer.com
(24/MAY - 16/JUN) DUO SHOW AND PERFORMANCE
The Consecutive Impostors' Operation Rewrite III. The third in the constantly evolving and mutating series of Operation Rewrite exhibitions by Esperanza Collado and Maximilian Le Cain is the inaugural show in the new Cork Film Centre Gallery. This event will include a unique film-performance, Feather Mirror.
Cork Film Centre Gallery, Ballincollig, Cork, Ireland.
www.corkfilmcentregallery.com
www.operationrewrite.net
(26/MAR) SCREENING
Friends of (An)Other Irish Cinema, a selection of works by Rouzbeh Rashidi, Donal Foreman, and Max Le Cain that includes my film Horses.
University of Philippines Film Institute.
anotheririshcinema.blogspot.com
(20/MAR) GROUP SHOW
Experimental Film Society. Curated by Rouzbeh Rashidi.
Sample Studios, Cork (Ireland).
sample-estudios.com
www.experimentalfilmsociety.com
(APR) BOOK PUBLICATION
My book Paracinema: La Desmaterialización del Cine en las Prácticas Artísticas -winner of the 7th 'Writings on Art' Prize from Fundación Arte y Derecho Madrid, Spain, has been just published by Trama Editorial (2012, Madrid). It is avaible in specialized bookshops.
www.tramaeditorial.es
Mi libro Paracinema: La Desmaterializaciòn del Cine en las Prácticas Artísticas recibe el Premio 'Escritos Sobre de Arte' de la Fundación Arte y Derecho en su VII y última edición. La publicación, a cargo de Trama Editorial (Madrid) ya está disponible en tiendas especializadas.
www.tramaeditorial.es
(01/FEB - 31/JUL) LECTURING
I will be lecturing on History of Cinema and History of Photography on a weekly basis for the next 6 months at the Faculty of Fine Arts, UCLM, Spain.
www.bellasartes.uclm.es
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www.experimentalconversations.com
El Cine Pedia un Cuerpo o la Politica de la Alfombra Roja.
www.blogsanddocs.com
Aurelien Froment's Calling the Elephant: the Folds of Representation. In Forms of Imagining #1, edited by Tessa Giblin.
Project Press, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 104-114.
www.projectartscentre.ie
Kill Your Timid Notion.
www.experimentalconversations.com
Paracinema and Happening in Dublin.
www.experimentalconversations.com
EFC: el Club de Cine Experimental de Dublin.
www.blogsanddocs.com
Experimental Features in Arrebato.
www.experimentalconversations.com
Selected curatorial texts / Programme notes
El Cine como Máquina de Guerra: Crítica y Sublevación en la Vanguardia más Radical.
Read here
More or Less Annihilated by Saccadic Enchainment by the Sea:
On the Impossibilities of Writing About this Programme.
Read here
Margenes: Experimento y Praxis.
Read here
T:O:U:C:H:I:N:G the Architectures of Perception: Cinematic Enchainment and Sentient Machines.
www.experimentalfilmclub.blogspot.com
Other
Experimental Spaces, by Donal Foreman.
www.donalforeman.com
What is Margenes?, by Maximilian Le Cain.
www.experimentalconversations.com
Margenes 09, by Maximilian Le Cain.
www.experimentalconversations.com
Cinema as Magic: Notes Towards Reinvention, by Donal Foreman.
www.donalforeman.com
Unrolling Processes
May 28 2013. Irish Film Institute, Dublin (Ireland).
LEMON, Hollis Frampton
THE ROOM CALLED HEAVEN, Laida Lertxundi
TEN SKIES, James Benning
www.ifi.ie
www.experimentalfilmclub.blogspot.com
Of Ruins and Light
Co-curated with Aoife Desmond.
September 21 2012. Coal Quay carpark, Cork (Ireland).
SCOTCH TAPE, Jack Smith
THE END, Patrick Keiller
STELLAR, Stan Brakhage
ORIGIN OF SPECIES, Ben Rivers
REDSHIFT, Emily Richardson
THE CUP AND THE LIP, Warren Sonbert
OBSERVANDO EL CIELO, Jeanne Liotta
TRANSIT OF VENUS, Nicky Hamlyn
www.culturenight.ie
www.experimentalfilmclub.blogspot.com
Landscape Plus: el Cine de Laida Lertxundi
September 7 2012. Con la presencia de la autora.
Documusac, Musac (Leon, Spain).
FOOTNOTES TO A HOUSE OF LOVE
MY TEARS ARE DRY
LLORA CUANDO TE PASE
A LAX RIDDLE UNIT
FARCE SENSASIONELLE
documusac.es
laidalertxundi.com
El Cine como Máquina de Guerra. Crítica y Sublevación en la Vanguardia más Radical
Jueves de noviembre y diciembre 2011 Musac (Leon, Spain).
WAVELENGHT, Michael Snow
ROHFILM, Birgit Hein/ NOSTALGIA, Hollis Frampton
REFLECTIONS ON BLACK, Stan Brakhage
30 SOUND SITUATIONS, Ryszard Wasko
SO IS THIS, Michael Snow,
ALLEGRETTO, Oskar Fischinger, etc.
www.musac.es
More or Less Annihilated by Saccadic Enchainment by the Sea II:
a Selection of Irish Experimental Films
21 March 2010 Close-Up Film Centre, London (UK).
Followed by live projection by Alan Lambert.
FILM, Samuel Beckett
EMTIGON, Joe Comerford
SHE HAD HER GUN ALL READY, Vivienne Dick
ANNIHILATED AT THE SAME TIME AS THE WORLD, Fergus Daly
SISTER MARY OR MARY THE JUNKIE, Christopher O’Neill
AFTER & BEFORE, Barry Ronan
HEREAFTER, Patrick Jolley, etc.
www.closeupfilmcentre.com
More or Less Annihilated by Saccadic Enchainment by the Sea
Co-programmed with Maximilian Le Cain
29 May 2009 Margenes, Biblioteca Histórica de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
MAKING A HOME, Maximilian Le Cain
FILM FROM THE SEA, Alan Lambert
EXPERIMENTAL CONVERSATIONS, Fergus Daly
SAINT FRANCIS DIDN'T RUN NUMBERS, Christopher O'Neill
SELF PORTRAIT WITH A RED CAR, Bob Quinn
FILM BY THE SEA, Donal Foreman
UN PEU MOINS ( A LITTLE LESS ), Donal O'Ceilleachair and Konstantin Bojanov, etc.
www.visual-ma.com
> download Spectrum #6 Márgenes 09 brochure
The Films of Vivienne Dick
May 28 2009 Presented by the artist.
Margenes, Biblioteca Histórica de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
SACCADE
SHE HAD HER GUN ALL READY
A SKINNY LITTLE MAN ATTACKED DADDY
www.visual-ma.com
Flecks of Interruption
Nov 15 2009 Experimental Film Club
Odessa Club, Dublin (Ireland)
POINT OF DEPARTURE, Maximilian Le Cain
TOWERS OPEN FIRE, Anthony Balch/ William S. Burroughs
ARTWAR ⌗ 3: IRRESISTIBLE ATTACK, Jeff Keen
THE FLICKER, Tony Conrad
experimentalfilmclub.blogspot.com
Venom, Eternity and Other Discrepancies
Co-programmed with Donal Foreman.
February 22 2009 Experimental Film Club
Ha'penny Bridge Inn, Dublin (Ireland)
THE DANTE QUARTET, Stan Brakhage
TRAITE DE BAVE ET D'ETERNITE, Jean-Isidore Isou
BLACK FILMS (Black Is, Black Trip 1, Black Trip 2, Blackout), Aldo Tambellini
experimentalfilmclub.blogspot.com
Touching the Architectures of Perception
(Cinematic Enchainment & Sentient Machines)
Invited artist: Maximilian Le Cain
January 25 2009 Experimental Film Club
Ha'penny Bridge Inn, Dublin (Ireland)
MAKING A HOME, Maximilian Le Cain
LEO ES PARDO, Ivan Zulueta
CHROMO SUD, Etienne O'Leary
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G, Paul Sharits
experimentalfilmclub.blogspot.com
The Practice of Anti-Illusion
A selection of materialist film works followed by a film performance by invited artist John Super8 Porter (Canada)
August 31 2008 Experimental Film Club
Ha'penny Bridge Inn, Dublin (Ireland)
DECASIA: THE STATE OF DECAY, Bill Morrison
OUTER SPACE, Peter Tscherkassky
CALENDAR GIRL, John Porter
SCANNING (S8 FILM PERFORMANCE) John Porter
experimentalfilmclub.blogspot.com
Márgenes: Experimento y Praxis
June 12-25 2008
Thisisnotashop Gallery, National Gallery of Ireland, public space, Dublin (Ireland).
A month of Spanish contemporary experimental art and cultural exchange. Invited artists and curators: Marta Fernandez Calvo, Oriol Sanchez, Antoni Pinent, Albert Alcoz, Maximiliano Viale.
www.thisisnotashop.com
> download Spectrum #5 Márgenes 08 brochure
Play and Destruction
Co-programmed with Donal Foreman
Invited artist: Vivienne Dick.
May 18 2008 Experimental Film Club
Ha'penny Bridge Inn, Dublin (Ireland)
SHE HAD HER GUN ALL READY, Vivienne Dick
LA IMITACION DEL ANGEL, Adolfo Arrieta
FLAMING CREATURES, Jack Smith
experimentalfilmclub.blogspot.com
Zero Degree : the New Image of Thought
Oct 18-20 2007
Thisisnotashop Gallery, Dublin (Ireland)
Works by William S. Burroughs, Peter Tscherkassky, Paul Sharits, Stan Brakhage, Takahiko Iimura.
http://thisisnotashop.wordpress.com
> download Spectrum #4 issue
Structural / Materialist Film
June 2007 Darklight Symposium
Irish Film Institute and Filmbase, Dublin (Ireland)
WAVELENGHT, Michael Snow
ZORNS LEMMA, Hollis Frampton
LINE DESCRIBING A CONE, Anthony McCall
www.darklight.ie
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