Outside the Box Gallery Talks: Andrew Lampert on Chris Burden: Extreme Measures by melinda shopsin

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December 14, 2013, 2:15 PM
New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002

This fall, the New Museum launches a new lecture series, OUTSIDE THE BOX, a roster of gallery-based talks given by a variety of guest speakers over the course of a season. In this new series, lecturers with diverse backgrounds and affinities will address the New Museum’s current exhibition(s), kicking off with CHRIS BURDEN: EXTREME MEASURES in forty-five to sixty minute presentations taking place exclusively in the Museum’s galleries. As a way to emphasize the Museum’s strong commitment to new art and new ideas, Outside the Box talks are open to the public and are intended to provide participants with multidisciplinary perspectives on New Museum exhibitions. To this end, lecturers will speak about the exhibitions or themes emergent in artists’ works from the various positions they occupy, be they academic, personal, political, etc., and engage in rich investigations that illuminate and probe the Museum’s current exhibition program.

As an artist, Andrew Lampert regularly uses moving images, live performance, and recorded sound to address the contemporary condition of cinema spectatorship in its waning days. He is concerned with time as experienced on screen, in the course of production, and most especially by the audience in a theater. He has exhibited at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA P.S.1, the Getty Museum, the British Film Institute, the New York Film Festival, and is distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). Lampert is also Curator of Collections at Anthology Film Archives, where he is responsible for the daily management, photochemical preservation, and digitization of the moving image and audio collections, as well as co-programming the quarterly screening schedule. He has preserved more than two hundred movies by artists including Wallace Berman, Robert Breer, Bruce Conner, Tony Conrad, Manuel De Landa, the Kuchar Brothers, Marie Menken, Carolee Schneemann, Paul Sharits, Stuart Sherman, Michael Snow, and many others. Lampert teaches in the Film Department at Purchase College, and is currently editing a book titled THE GEORGE KUCHAR to be published by Primary Information.

A Stom Sogo Tribute at Mix Festival by melinda shopsin

A STOM SOGO TRIBUTE
MIX New York Queer Experimental Film Festival
Thursday, November 14, 2014 @ 9PM

Featuring SLOW DEATH (2000) and many other surprises. Organized with Gina Carducci.

SLOW DEATH (2000) by Stom Sogo

SLOW DEATH (2000) by Stom Sogo

A dynamo whose thunderous potential was cut short by his premature death, Japanese moving-image artist Stom Sogo (1975-2012) remains a romantic rebel if ever there was one. For over two decades he created a hair-raising body of aggressively beautiful films and videos. This 70-minute program features the acclaimed film SLOW DEATH and the rest is, well, a surprise. As we type, tons of new and enticing discoveries are being made in the boxes of over 1200 films, videos and tapes that Sogo left behind. Did we just find a 400-foot reel mysteriously titled 20 CENTURY PORNO? How many abstract adaptations of Dennis Cooper novels did Stom make? We are carefully opening hundreds of envelopes of unknown film reels and you just won’t believe what we have found. This all Super-8 program will feature films projected on film, the way that Stom used to show them during his bacchanalian all-night screenings.

A Conversation with John Zorn by melinda shopsin

John Zorn in Henry Hills' MONEY (1985)

John Zorn in Henry Hills' MONEY (1985)

Sunday, September 23, 2013 @ 5 PM
Anthology Film Archives, NYC

A conversation on the art of scoring films and survival with John Zorn as part of his city-wide 60th birthday celebration.

EXPANDED CINEMA AT ROULETTE by melinda shopsin

EXPANDED CINEMA: ESP Lab // Bradley Eros, Kenny Zoran Curwood & Rachael Guma “Narcolepsy Cinema” // Andrew Lampert // Fern Silva // Jessie Stead

Friday, August 2, 2013 @ 8:00 pm
Roulette
Brooklyn, NY

Roulette presents an evening of multi-screen and mixed-media performances featuring NARCOLEPSY CINEMA, a new work for expanded celluloid, foley, and vinyl by multimedia trio Bradley Eros, Kenny Zoran Curwood and Rachael Guma; ESP Lab with Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie; and short films by Andrew Lampert, Fern Silva, and Jessie Stead.


DOUBLE TROUBLE at MONO NO AWARE by melinda shopsin

July 31, 2013 @ 7 PM
Mono No Aware @ CPR (Center For Performance Research)
Brooklyn, NY

Andrew Lampert and Fern Silva are DOUBLE TROUBLE, and together they have in store an evening of double projections and multi-format mayhem. Eschewing logic, they promise to bring far too much material and present it in multitudes of overlapping layers. They do this because they don't know what else to do with themselves. Expect an evening of films made alone and a big mess that they will make together.

Double Trouble (Andrew Lampert and Fern Silva) at Mono No Aware, July 31, 2013

Double Trouble (Andrew Lampert and Fern Silva) at Mono No Aware, July 31, 2013


KEYNOTE SPEECH AT Bastard Film Encounter by melinda shopsin

An excerpt from my opening remarks.

I presented the Keynote Speech and Invocation at the first Bastard Film Encounter, held in Raleigh, NC. A gathering of archivists, artists, aficionados and fellow travelers, the Encounter proved to be a  galvanizing weekend of conversations and discoveries in the area of forogtten terrain, disposed entertainment and lost context.

 

I also presented my first PROJECTOR PARADISE performance.

PROJECTOR PARADISE #1 @ Bastard Film Encounter, 2013

PROJECTOR PARADISE #1 @ Bastard Film Encounter, 2013

PROJECTOR PARADISE #1 @ Bastard Film Encounter, 2013

PROJECTOR PARADISE #1 @ Bastard Film Encounter, 2013

Unessential Goes Viennese by melinda shopsin

In April 2013, I visited Vienna to introduce a number of shows presented by the Austrian Film Museum in their series THE CLIMATE OF NEW YORK: A TRIBUTE TO ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES. Among the programs was a greatest hits, show-and-tell evening that featured a good many Unessential Cinema favorites.

TTHE BEST (?) OF UNESSENTIAL CINEMA
(OR THE BESTEST OF UNESSENTIAL CINEMA)
Die riesigen Keller und Hinterhöfe des AFA bilden den Ausgangspunkt dieser panoramatischen Fahrt in die Eingeweide des Kinos. Unessential Cinema, eine lose Anthology-Reihe, bezieht sich auf jene zahllosen Filmkopien und Negative, die über die Jahre aus stillgelegten Laboren, Containern und dem Besitz von Witwen und Weirdos zusammenkamen. Beim Wiener Screening bringt Anthology-Kurator Andrew Lampert eine Auswahl solch verwaister Filme zur Aufführung – eine Demonstration all dessen, was Archive nie und nimmer bewahren können, werden oder wollen. Zu erleben sind u.a. Doppelprojektionen und unvollendete Werke, Lichttöne und unerklärliche Filmstreifen, Kameratests und unfassbare Krimis, Stopps, Starts, Einführungen, Erklärungen, begründete Vermutungen, Dialoge, Kommentare, Kritiken, Analysen, Hypothesen, logische Schlussfolgerungen, chirurgische Schnitte, Rätsel, Home­-movies, Gänsehaut, Gelächter, Liebe, Intrigen, Bikinis und Hockey.

Moderation Andrew Lampert



Jonas Mekas Panel International House, Philadelphia by melinda shopsin

April 20, 2013
International House, Philadelphia

I was a panelist alongside Amy Taubin, Ed Halter and Jackie Raynal on the subject of Jonas Mekas, who was in attendance for this conversational event celebrating his life and work in and around cinema. Organized by Herb Shellenburger.

Jackie Raynal shows off her speech.

Jackie Raynal shows off her speech.

CONCRETE ESCORT At Guggenheim Museum by melinda shopsin

March 22, 2013
Guggenheim Museum
New York

New York based Japanese performance artist Ei Arakawa invites painters, sculptors, dancers, filmmakers, and archivists to form a temporal group addressing Gutai today. Resulting in a performative exhibition tour where the audience will be escorted and repositioned, emphasis will be on the power dynamic within Gutai, women and men; singularity and plurality; performance and painting. Tasked to communicate the diversity of Gutai activities, each tour will journey along a different route. Participants include Ei Arakawa, Simone Forti, Jutta Koether, Andrew Lampert, and Caitlin MacBride.

The Seanceat Columbia University by melinda shopsin

THE SÉANCE
Thursday, January 24, 7pm
Columbia University, New York City
Faculty House (enter on Amsterdam Ave and W 116th St)

Roundtable discussion on the history and scope of the cinematic event with Ed Halter and Thomas Beard (Light Industry), Andrew Lampert (Anthology Film Archives), and Chrissie Iles (Whitney Museum). Co-presented by the Film Studies Program, Department of Art History and Archaeology and Columbia Seminars.

HOME & MORE At CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM, St. Louis by melinda shopsin

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August 9, 2012 @ 7:00
Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis

CAM is pleased to present an evening of live film projector performances by Andrew Lampert that will include his works HOME (2010), ETKA & MASHA: TEENAGERS OF THE OLD WORLD (2011), and THE GOOD LIFE (2012).

As a filmmaker, programmer, and archivist at Anthology Film Archives, Andrew Lampert explores cinematic relationships by experimenting with their constituent elements, such as sound, live action, and film. Known for his projector performances, Lampert often plays a highly participatory role in his projects, acting as projectionist, cinematographer, and even musician by generating live instrumentation to accompany a screening. His performances often reference the multiple realms and perspectives found within the theatrical experience, drawing upon the intricacies of cinematic time and viewer time. The result is work that exists in two spaces – one within the frame of the screen or film, and the other which contains the viewing audience; the artist refers to this effect as “contracted cinema,” or the reverse of expanded cinema. For Lampert, cinema is not simply celluloid, but the integrative experience of the here-and-now, the audience, and the projected world of the film itself.

 

 

 

CONSTIPATION Premiere at SF Cinematheque by melinda shopsin

 February 4, 2012
@ Artists' Television Access
San Francisco, CA

Andrew Lampert's CONSTIPATION (Contracted Cinema) (Cinema Expanded [again!])

presented in association with Oddball Films

Far from the fussiness of his downtown day job—preserving avant-garde classics at Anthology Film Archives—the cinema of Andrew Lampert sprawls with contingency and unscripted accident. Truly placed in the present tense, Lampert’s film/performance hybrids—equal parts stand-up shtick and conceptual conundra—hold the social space between projector and screen to be truly where the action is. Whether making short films or live productions, his work playfully engages structure, storytelling and portraiture to address the contemporary condition of cinema spectatorship in its waning days. Tonight features the premiere of a single-projector expanded cinema performance titled CONSTIPATION, the latest work in his ongoing CONTRACTED CINEMA series. He writes: “CONSTIPATION is a film for filmmakers. A Super-8 love letter/break-up note for Kodachrome fetishists. An entertainment for the public-at-large.” Also expect a few recent works including TASTE TEST, and undoubtedly many surprises. (Steve Polta)

 Spoiler Alert: This trailer contains no footage from CONSTIPATION

LAMP/LAMB AT ODDBALL FILMS by melinda shopsin

February 2, 2012
Oddball Films
18th St. and Capp St.
San Francisco, CA


It had to happen....Andrew Lampert meets/vs Jeff Lambert at Oddball Films in San Francisco. An evening of short films, strange footage, unknowable images selected for your viewing pleasure. Once in a lifetime? You bet. Learn more here: HERE



POPE/LAMP Goes Oslo by melinda shopsin

October 27, 2011
ANX
Oslo, Norway

POPE/LAMP is Andrew Lampert and Greg Pope, This will be a sonic and visual feast (possibly) incorporating 16mm, Super8, video and 35mm slide projections with sound effects, field recordings and the spoken word. A Multi-projection live installation with cracked narratives, fractured concepts and atomised foundations. Text and image contradict themselves to a standstill in this semi-improvised piece and out of this seemingly irredeemable wreckage a burning flame starts to flicker at the end of the tunnel ….