Odds & Ends V
Jem Cohen Retrospective
A real treat programmed by Gareth Evans: the Whitechapel Gallery, Barbican and Hackney Picturehouse are presenting a film and music season for the first comprehensive UK retrospective of Brooklyn-based filmmaker Jem Cohen (b. 1962) from 31 March to 28 May 2015. Whitechapel press release with full details .
The season starts with a performance at the Barbican on 31 March. Tickets are selling fast .
Whitechapel tickets .
Hackney Picture House tickets .
The Gravity Hill Newsreels are screening at The Whitechapel on 11 April. Jem has a vimeo site with the films here and, as a taster, here’s Gravity Hill Newsreel No. 1:
Time and Revolution
“Every conception of history is invariably accompanied by a certain experience of time that is implicit to it, conditions it, and thereby has to be elucidated. Similarly, every culture is first and foremost a particular experience of time, and no new culture is possible without an alteration in this experience. The original task of a genuine revolution, therefore, is never merely to ‘change the world, but also – and above all – to change time.”
Giorgo Agamben, Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience (quoted by Marquand Smith in his essay to accompany the exhibition How To Construct A Time Machine at MK Gallery)
Image: Jem Cohen, Still from Gravity Hill NEWSREEL No. 2, 2011
“To make things visible. This and nothing else.” Joseph Conrad.