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> UBS Openings: The Long Weekend
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> Friday 26 May – Monday 29 May 2006
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> Tate Modern
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> Futurist Friday
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> 26 May 2006
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> Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (directed by Walther Ruttmann, 1927)
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> accompanied live by DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid
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> Turbine Hall, 21.00
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> Admission £15.00
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> Berlin, Symphony of a Great City was last accompanied live by DJ
> Spooky That Subliminal Kid in 2001. The film, directed by German
> avant-garde film pioneer Walther Ruttmann (1887-1941), presents a
> typical day in Berlin from dawn until midnight. The cinematography
> is by Relmar Kuntze, Robert Baberske and Laszlo Shaffer, and most
> of the film is said to have been shot using cameras concealed in
> suitcases. Many of the sequences are metaphorical, for example a
> crowd scene is juxtaposed with a shot of cattle, and dancers in a
> chorus line imitate a speeding train. As in his purely abstract
> films, Ruttmann presents the energy of movement and shapes which
> reflect the modern city in motion.
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> DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller, born 1970, Washington DC) is a composer,
> musician, multimedia artist and writer. His written work has
> appeared in The Village Voice, The Source, Artforum and Rapgun
> amongst other publications. Miller’s work as a media artist has
> appeared in a wide variety of contexts such as the Whitney
> Biennial; The Venice Biennial for Architecture (2000); the Ludwig
> Museum in Cologne, Germany; Kunsthalle, Vienna; The Andy Warhol
> Museum in Pittsburgh and many other museums and galleries. Miller’s
> recent albums include Optometry (2002), a collaborative jazz
> project and Dubtometry (2003) featuring Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Mad
> Professor. Miller’s latest collaborative release, Drums of Death,
> features Dave Lombardo of Slayer and Chuck D of Public Enemy
> amongst others.
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> Surrealist Saturday
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> 27 May 2006
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> Dreams that Money Can Buy (Directed by Hans Richter, 1946)
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> accompanied live by The Real Tuesday Weld
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> Turbine Hall, 21.00
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> Admission £15.00
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> Realityfilm and Tate Modern present a 21st century
> psychoanalytical, cinematic cabaret with live music by The Real
> Tuesday Weld and narration by English alchemist David Piper and
> Brazilian chanteuse Cibelle. Dada artist, filmmaker and writer Hans
> Richter created the extraordinary colour sound film Dreams That
> Money Can Buy (1946) which features a penniless protagonist who has
> the ability to create dreams and devises a business selling them to
> others. Amongst his customers are some of the greatest names in the
> Dadaist/Surrealist movements, all of whom make a very personal
> contribution to the film, and whose works will also be shown in the
> new displays at Tate Modern. Man Ray, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp and
> Fernand Leger appear, for example, and their work comes to life in
> saturated Technicolor.
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> The Real Tuesday Weld, aka British singer-songwriter Stephen
> Coates, has with collaborators composed an original score for the
> film. This was last performed at the BFI National Film Theatre in
> April 2005. Stephen Coates became (The Real) Tuesday Weld in 1997,
> inspired by Al Bowlly and the American actress Tuesday Weld, and
> influenced by 1930s jazz, Gainsbourg and Morricone. The band,
> having grown from one to three to six in just under two years, now
> includes Jacques Van Ryijn (a descendant of Rembrandt) on clarinet,
> Clive Painter on guitar, Jed Woodhouse on percussion, Don Brisnan
> on Bass and Brian Lee on piano and violin.
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> Abstract Sunday
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> 28 May 2006
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> Borderline 1930 (Directed by Kenneth MacPherson, 1930)
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> accompanied live by Courtney Pine
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> Turbine Hall, 21.00
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> Admission £15.00
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> Borderline is a classic of the British avant-garde, an experimental
> film depicting the inner states of characters involved in an inter-
> racial love triangle. Groundbreaking for its treatment of race and
> sexuality, the film was directed by Kenneth Macpherson (1903-1971),
> editor of the intellectual film journal Close Up (1927-33), the
> first British journal dedicated to film as a modernist art form.
> Borderline stars the poet HD (Hilda Doolittle) and Macpherson’s
> wife, writer Winifred Bryher. The militant black American singer
> Paul Robeson and his wife Eslanda play the leading roles in this
> film, which attempts to recreate the logic of dreams, while denying
> the viewer a traditional narrative. The present is
> indistinguishable from the past, and the imagined blurs into the real.
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> World-renowned jazz saxophonist Courtney Pine has been commissioned
> to write a new score for Borderline through Necessary Journeys, an
> Arts Council England funded initiative in partnership with the
> British Film Institute’s Black World. Pine’s soundtrack will re-
> cast Borderline in a new light with an alternative set of meanings.
> Pine (born 1964, London) is an acclaimed British jazz musician
> known primarily for his saxophone playing but he also plays the
> flute, clarinet and keyboards. His recent music has attempted to
> integrate modern British music such as drum and bass and garage
> with contemporary jazz styles. Pine was awarded an OBE in 2000 for
> services to jazz.
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> Minimalist Monday
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> 29 May 2006
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> ULTRA: Extreme Economy in Electronic Music and Visualization
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> Ryoji Ikeda, alva noto (Carsten Nicolai), Robert Henke aka Monolake
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> Turbine Hall, 21.00
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> Admission £15.00
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> Ultra-Minimalism is one of the latest scenes of Minimalism which
> started during the mid 90s, characterised by the most extreme
> economy of elements, tonalities, rhythm and recurses in the musical
> language, using electric impulses and digital tones. These
> performances combine live electronic music with large scale
> projections of computer generated graphics.
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> Each of the three artists in the programme will perform a 30 minute
> piece. Ryoji Ikeda will perform a new work, datamatics which has
> been co-commissioned by AV Festival 06 and ZeroOne San Jose and
> ISEA 2006 Symposium. This piece was first performed as part of the
> AV Festival in Newcastle, March 2006. alva-noto (Carsten Nicolai)
> will perform the world premier of a brand new work titled xerrox.
> Robert Henke (aka Monolake) will be performing a new development of
> an ongoing series of work, previously existing in both concert and
> installation versions, titled Atlantic Waves - an improvisational
> audiovisual performance, in collaboration with Torsten "T++"
> Pröfrock performing remotely from Germany.
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> Ryoji Ikeda and alva noto performances are produced by forma.
> datamatics is funded by Arts Council England and the Japan
> Foundation through the Performing Arts JAPAN programme.
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