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Stills from the book. Left to right: Images 1 & 2 are from Vive La Muerte, Arrabal, France 1971 and image 3 is from Frans Zwartjes, Visual Training, Holland, 1969.
Speaking of Vive La Muerte Vogel states: This sensational first film by the famed avant-garde author employs violence and sex as a means of revolutionary purification.
From summer 2009 I was involved in the planning, development and delivery of Lux's contribution to the Zoo Art Fair. The project tooks its lead from Amos Vogel's Film As A Subversive Art, an amazing inventory of revolutionary film compiled around the time Vogel founded Cinema 16 (1947-1963). Cinema 16 was an avantgarde Cine-Club in New York City, inspired by Vogel's love for alternative film.
Lux were invited to take part in Zoo Projects, a series of curated exhibitions within the fair itself. Taking our cue from Vogel's publication we looked to contemporary film that had an element of the subversive. The final exhibition was a series of changing installations, with works and artists changing daily. Each work was left from the from the previous day, leaving layers of each installation to build in the space, creatinh a unique environment with film works interacting and conflicting with one another.
The artists chosen for the exhibiton were Ellen Cantor, who presented Pinochet Porn (2009); Rosa Barba, stating the real sublime (2009); James Richards and Steve Reinke Disambiguation (Bog House Miscellany) 2009 and Francisco Valdes Regan 1973 (2003).
Artist Biographies
Rosa Barba, born 1972 in Agrigento, Italy and currently based in Berlin. Exhibitions shown internationally including solo exhibitions at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow; Kunsthalle Dussledorf, Germany and Kunstverein Fridericianium, Kassel. Notable groups shows include Rooms Look Back, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; 50 Moons of Saturn, Torino Triennale, Turin, Italy and Fare Mondi/ Making Worlds at the 2009 Venice Biennale.
Ellen Cantor, lives and works in London. Exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions and screenings at Serpentine Cinema, London; Transmission Glosgow; and Cabinet, London.
Francisco Valdes, born 1968 in Santiago, Chile and currently lives and works in London. His work has been included in group shows at Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami and ARGE Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano.
James Richards born in 1983 in Cardiff and graduated from Chelsea School of Art in 2006. He took part in the LUX Associate Artists Programme in 2008/9. His work has been included in Nought to Sixty at the ICA, London; Call and Bluff at Tramway, Glasgow and has had screenings at The Whitechapel Gallery, London and Light Industry, New York.
Steve Reinke, born 1963 in Toronto. He is an artist and writer who has exhibited internationally.
The project also included an online platform that I coordinated by inviting artists and curators to contribute works borne out of their relationship with Amos Vogel's book. Participants included Martha Rosler, Shezad Dawood, Mark Aerial Waller, Stuart Home, Maxa Zoller and Marysia Lewandowski. These can been seen on the Lux website (link below), were you can download a podcast with me in conversation with Shezad Dawood, discussing Vogel's publication his relationship with it and how it has influenced his practice.
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