13 October 2007
UP AND OUT
A video By Christian Marclay
Artprojx & White Cube present
In association with the Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain
the UK premiere of
Up and Out
A video by Christian Marclay (1998) 107 mins
Saturday 13th October 2007, 10am-12 noon
Pre-screening brunch in the bar, 9.15am-10am
Screening in the presence of H E The Ambassador of Switzerland Mr Alexis P. Lautenberg.
Christian Marclay will introduce the work.
Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leicester Place
London WC2
Box Office: 020 7494 3654 (open 1-9pm)
www.princecharlescinema.com
Tickets £10
£5 for artists, curators and students
FREE TICKETS for Frieze VIP, Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain and White Cube Guests.
Please RSVP to Margaret MacDonald, Social Secretary, Embassy of Switzerland
Tel 020 7616 6066
E-mail Events@lon.rep.admin.ch by 5th October
Promoted by David Gryn - Artprojx
Contact/info events@artprojx.com
+44 (0)7711 127 848
Additional support from Pro Helvetia
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Artprojx & White Cube present
In association with the Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain
the UK premiere of
Up and Out
A video by Christian Marclay (1998) 107 mins
Saturday 13th October 2007, 10am-12 noon
Pre-screening brunch in the bar, 9.15am-10am.
Screening in the presence of H E The Ambassador of Switzerland Mr Alexis P. Lautenberg.
Christian Marclay will introduce the work.
Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema
Event produced by David Gryn / Artprojx
We are pleased to present the UK premiere of Up and Out. Marclay’s feature length video collage in which Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 masterpiece Blow Up is overlaid with the soundtrack of Brian De Palma’s 1981 thriller Blow Out, itself a homage to Antonioni. The images and soundtrack make a beautiful pair not least because of the fate shared by the films’ protagonists. The photographer in Blow Up (played by David Hemmings) and the sound-effects specialist in Blow Out (played by John Travolta) are both forced into forensic roles, as are the viewers of Up and Out who must use their wits to piece the images and sounds together.
The films combine to produce a mesmerizing, hybrid third reality. Marclay accompanies the images of the original with the soundtrack of the homage, resulting in passages of amusing dissonance and surreal synchronicity. Marclay’s simple yet audacious gesture questions how and why audiences suspend disbelief for the things they hear so much more readily than for the things that they see.
The Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain is delighted to support the UK’s first ever screening of Christian Marclay’s work Up and Out, 1998. We are especially pleased to be involved with such a highly acclaimed Swiss artist fulfilling the Funds mission in bringing the best of Swiss culture to the UK.
For more information please visit www.scfb.org.uk
Additional support from Pro Helvetia
For information on Christian Marclay contact
Sara Macdonald, sara@whitecube.com 0207 749 7471 www.whitecube.com
POST EVENT COMMENTS
Thoroughly enjoyed Up and Out, in fact I was riveted. So congratulations on the whole event.
Isabel Vasseur/Curator
Congratulations on a really successful event. What a fantastic work. Really well done. It's not easy to pull a crowd like that esp when everyone's so knackered from Frieze by then! Be interesting to see what you do next.
Karen Allen/FACT
I enjoyed the surprising experience of watching ChM's piece a lot
Manu Luksch/Artist
I really enjoyed Saturday morning - - a great film!
Nicola Heller/Art Consultant
Thanks for having us! What a lovely way to start the day. Will this become a regular occurrence? It was great - good to see art in the cinema.
Doris Pearce/Tate
I so enjoyed the showing of "Up and Out." What a terrific work and what a wonderful event!
Steven Henry/Paula Cooper Gallery
I loved Up and Out, thanks so much. Everybody (myself included) was glued to the screen – it was extremely watchable, I was surprised. From now on I will ALWAYS watch 2 movies at once that way, so efficient! Congratulations – that was my no. 1 best frieze event.
Gilda Williams/Art Critic
Thanks again for all your efforts and making this event a success.
Christian Marclay
Marclay's film was fantastic ... still don't know how I managed to absorb two films at once - magical piece.
Sabine Unamun/Arts Council
Absolutely brilliant, and gripping, the work created more tension to the combined movies.
Nathalie Hambro
Great picture. Saturday was a real success.
Denis Charriere - Head of Culture – Swiss Embassy
It was a great piece and a thoughtful and modest introduction from the man himself.
Eve Sullivan/Arts Council
On behalf of the SCFB and the Embassy I want to thank you very much for the fantastic organisation of Saturday’s event with Christian Marclay. We felt this was a perfect collaboration
Chaja Lang – Cultural Attache/Swiss Embassy
That was a truly wonderful experience, what a wonderful sound/image. So many strange coincidences: sounds making image poignant, images making sound fantastical.
Jemima Burrill/Artist
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