<videovortex> www.tank.tv at Tate Modern 19.09.08 - 21.09.08

[Geert Lovink]

> www.tank.tv
> *tank.tv at Tate Modern
> Friday 19 September – Sunday 21 September 2008*
>
> tank.tv has the pleasure of holding a weekend of screenings from  
> its 2008
> Guest Curators Programme. www.tank.tv invited some of the world's  
> foremost
> curators of artist's film and video to create exhibitions  
> exclusively for
> its online platform. Four of these shows have been re-thought and
> re-constructed specifically for screening at Tate Modern. Book now!
>
> *Ken Jacobs
> Return to the Scene of the Crime
> Friday 19 September 2008, 19.00*
> The weekend begins with experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs' *Return  
> to the
> Scene of the Crime* : "The heartwarming story of a boy who didn't  
> know it's
> wrong to steal. Running off with the pig seemed like a good idea at  
> the
> time." In a contemporary riff on one of his landmark works Ken  
> Jacobs uses
> new technology to both interrogate and arouse a theatrical tableau,  
> shot in
> 1905, based on Hogarth's Southwark Fair.
>
> *The Young and Evil
> Curated by Stuart Comer
> Saturday 20 September 2008, 19.00*
> The digital glow of the internet has largely replaced the dark  
> space of the
> cinema as the site where furtive desires are first expressed and  
> encountered
> on flickering screens. *The Young and Evil* is a collection of  
> films chosen
> by artists including Emily Roysdon, Drew Daniel and Daria Martin,  
> which
> reconsider the historical contours and shifting relationships of  
> sex and
> community in the digital age. This screening coincides with the  
> current
> online exhibition at  www.tank.tv in which the artists were invited to
> select one contemporary video under the same theme.
>
> *She doesn't think so but she's dressed for the h-bomb
> Curated by Negar Azimi for tank.tv
> Sunday 21 September 2008, 15.00*
> The current moment is one marked by an abundance of mega-narratives,
> sweeping arm
> gestures, climactic dips, and ascents. How we talk about the  
> present is
> almost always wrapped up in some version of the past. In an afternoon
> screening 'She doesn't think so but she's dressed for the h-bomb'  
> explores
> the weight of diverse histories in defining the current moment -  
> whether
> manifest in the form of national myth, ritual, architecture or pop  
> culture.
> Including works by Ziad Antar, Yael Bartana and The Atlas Group.
>
> *The Whole World
> Curated by Ian White for tank.tv
> Sunday 21 September 2008, 17.00*
> Online The Whole World is an ongoing open archive to which anyone can
> contribute - an uncensored list of lists inaugurated by considering  
> it as a
> formal and political device. Originally selected and submitted  
> works are
> reorganized and augmented into this single programme. Works by  
> Uriel Orlow,
> Michael Robinson, Hollis Frampton are screened alongside many  
> others to
> create an extraordinary list of lists, of the world as we know it –  
> the
> whole world.
>
> For more information and to purchase tickets go to
> http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/tank.tv.htm
> www.tank.tv
>
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> Now showing:
> *The Young and Evil*
> Curated by Stuart Comer
> 14th July - 21st September 2008
>
> Fresh Moves - Out now! Order your copy on www.tank.tv
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> "A significant archive of creative practices in the early years of
> twenty-first century England"
> Tyler Coburn, Tomorrow Unlimited
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> video. Dedicated to exhibiting and promoting emerging and established
> international artists, www.tank.tv acts as a major online gallery and
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