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Premiere of Jordan Baseman’s film Green Lady and launch of the publication 1973.

Tuesday 29 November 2011
Launch with drinks 7–9pm
Film screening 7:45pm (duration 30 mins)
Genesis Cinema, 93–95 Mile End Road
Whitechapel, London E1 4UJ view map

Admission is free but reservations are essential.
Click here to reserve your seat using '1973' in the subject.

1973 is a text and image based extension of Jordan Baseman’s creative non-fiction, interview-based practice: mimicking the process through which Baseman creates the spoken-word narrative soundtracks for his films.

1973 has been developed and produced alongside Baseman’s 2011 residency at St. John’s College, University of Oxford, during which he also made the film Green Lady. Using 16mm film and in-camera motion techniques, Baseman experiments by relinquishing the boundaries of control within a process of image making, celebrating the collision of representation and abstraction.

For this publication Baseman has interviewed the cultural commentators Pamela Church Gibson, Jonathan Griffin and Trish Lyons, documenting their experiences and thoughts in response to Green Lady. Their interviews have since been edited into narratives, soundtracks for hypothetical, never-to-be-made films. These texts are not critical essays, nor commissioned creative texts. They are manufactured prose derived directly from the interview process and each participant’s experiences.

Green Lady and 1973 are thematically linked: dealing with ideas and experiences surrounding the Afterlife, pixies, the paranormal, ghosts, Houdini, Michael Jackson, The White Lady of Barnet and the recently deceased Green Lady of Oxford. A transcript from the film Green Lady accompanies and contextualizes these texts.

1973 is further enhanced by the inclusion of 16 colour images created specifically by the artist for this project.

Genesis Cinema is situated on Mile End Road between Stepney Green and Whitechapel tube stations. view map

Text contributor biographies:

Dr Patricia Lyons

Dr. P G Lyons is Senior Lecturer in Research at the Royal College of Art, London. Patricia critiques and lectures on current art practice and is especially interested in the way artists interact with materials and concepts.

Pamela Church Gibson

Pamela Church Gibson is a Reader in Cultural and Historical Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. Pamela has researched and written widely on the role of fashion and costume in film and has researched the links between film, fashion, fandom and the contemporary star system. Co-editor of Fashion Cultures(Routledge, 2000) andMore Dirty Looks: Gender, Pornography and Power (BFI, 2004), Pamela is now working on a book on fashion and celebrity, whilst also examining the relationship between cities, cinema, consumption and gender in the post-war period.

Jonathan Griffin

Jonathan Griffin is a freelance writer, critic, editor and curator. Born in London, he is currently based in Los Angeles. He contributes to a range of magazines including frieze, ArtReview, Flash Art, Mousse, Tank, Texte Zur Kunst, Manifesta Journal, Picpus, Tate Etc. and Wonderland. Between 2005 and 2009 he was Assistant Editor for Frieze magazine. He recently edited the book Grizedale Arts: Adding Complexity to Confusion (2009), and curated a project by Phillip Lai for 'No Soul For Sale' (2010) at Tate Modern.

This project is generously supported by Arts Council England, St John’s College, Oxford and The University of Oxford

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Biography
Studied 1986-1988 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London; 1979-1983 BA (hons) Fine Art, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Solo Exhibitions 2011 1973, Matt's Gallery at Genesis Cinema, London; Nasty Piece of Stuff, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen 2010 The Most Powerful Weapon in this World, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; Nature's Great Experiment, Modern Art Oxford and Catalyst Arts, Belfast 2009 Blue Movie, Matt's Gallery, London; Dark is the Night, Artsway, Hampshire & The Photographers' Gallery, London; a hypnotic effect, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh 2008 Inside Man, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, University of Wales; The Documentary Imperative, Manchester Museum, Manchester 2007 Joy on Toast, Manchester Museum, Manchester; (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Nature's Great Experiment, Wellcome Collection, London; Tape 1 Tape 2, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2006 luv is gonna get you someday, Maus Habitos, Porto, Portugal; Sunday Morning, Site Gallery, Sheffield 2005 don't stop 'til you get enough, Matt's Gallery, London 2004 July The Twelfth 1984, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2003 City of Angels, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland; EF103 603, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland 2002 1 + 1 = 1 / Under the Blood, Art Gallery + Museum, Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa; Under the Blood / 1 + 1 = 1, Wysing Arts, Cambridge 2001 Raceway Queen, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; Lonesome Town, The Laing Gallery, Newcastle; The Comedians, The Newman Rooms, Oxford 2000 here, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria 1999 the history of existentialism, Wigmore Fine Art, London 1998 SHUP a screenplay/Performance, The Agency, London; more lies, Mario Flecha Gallery, Girona, Spain 1997 The Party and other things, Richard Salmon Gallery, London; blunt objects, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria; Births, marriages, and deaths, The Serpentine Gallery @ Marylebone Town Hall, London 1996 vox humana, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria 1994 F is for love, Mario Flecha Gallery, London and HeberPercy Gallery, Warwickshire 1993 Galerie Guy Ledune, Brussels Group Exhibitions & Screenings 2011 Lone Star Film Festival, Fort Worth, Texas; Edinburgh Documentary Film Festival, Edinburgh; Dark Matters, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Among the Nightingales, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; When the Dead Help the Living, Light Projects, Melbourne; Volta + Armory, Artprojx Cinema, SVA Theater, New York; London Short Film Festival, London; Moving Portraits, De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea; Coming of Age, Great Northern Museum, Newcastle 2010 Los Angeles Animation Festival, California; San Francisco International Short Film Festival, California; ResoVision, Resonance FM @ Frieze Art Fair; The All Sided Game, Edinburgh Film Guild Cinema, Edinburgh; Among the Nightingales, Tatton Park Biennial, Tatton Park; Adding Complexity to Confusion, Late at Tate, Tate Britain; Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia; Fools in Print, Berkley Art Museum, California; Voice/Under, Sixes and Sevens, White Box Studio, Nottingham; Glimmer, Hull International Film Festival, Hull; Gstaad Film Festival, Gstaad, Switzerland; Film, Video, Performance, Wimbledon College of Art, London 2009 New Forest Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Leading Lights, Several Pursuits Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Talk Show/Speakeasy, Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Ways of Living, Guest Room, London; Fool Me, drift, New Media Scotland, Edinburgh ; Salon S1, S1, Sheffield 2008 Stop.Watch., British Film Institute, London ; Reading Experimental Film Festival, Rising Sun Art Centre, Reading; Folie A Plusiers, MCO Arte Contemporanea, Porto, Portugal; Drawn Encounters, Wimbledon College of Art, London; Parallel, Salamanca Art Centre, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; Multi-Channel, ArtSway, New Forest; Art and Strangers, Turnpike Gallery, Wigan ; Alchemy, Manchester Museum, Manchester; Grain, Isle of Grain, Kent 2007 Grain, Isle of Grain, Kent; Heart, Wellcome Trust, London; The Sun Always Shines on the Righteous, Purescreen, Manchester; Alchemy Artists, Manchester Museum, Manchester 2006 Open Video Library, Zaim, Yokahama, Japan; Hospitality, Accademia Tedesca, Villa Massimo, Rome; No Place Like Home, Beacon Art Project, Boston, Lincolnshire; Arcade, ACAVA Studios, London; Vox Pop, Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle; Contingency Plan, C.A.S.T., Tasmania, Hobart, Australia; Et Tu Tribute, Embassy Rooms, Edinburgh 2005 Variety, De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea; Crossing Borders, Berwick Film Festival, Berwick upon Tweed; Our Surroundings, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee; Size Matters, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire 2004 Six Thousand Chairs, Crystal Palace, London; Bad Behaviour, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire; AGORA, Transition Gallery, London; Feast of Silenus, Embassy Rooms, Edinburgh; Island Art Film/Video Festival, UGC Cinema, Docklands, London; Wonderful/Visions of the Near Future, Arnolfini, Bristol (National Touring Exhibition); Volume, Moving Pictures, St. Georges, Bristol; Brides of March, Embassy Rooms, Edinburgh 2003 La Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome; Radio Radio, The International 3, Manchester; In Good Form, Yorshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire; Animality, Blue Oyster Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.; The Human Zoo, University of Newcastle, Newcastle; Further Up In The Air, Linosa Close, Liverpool; Spike Open, Spike Island, Bristol; Don’t Look Down, The Nunnery, London; Infallible: In Search of the Real George Elliot, ATP, London; CHOCKERFUCKINGBLOCKED, Jeffrey Charles, London Turpentine, Studio Voltaire, London 2002 Medicate, Art Gallery + Museum, Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa; Somewhere, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Telling Lies, Forde Gallery, Geneva; Going Continental, University of Applied Arts, Vienna; Hygiene, THRILLER, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; TV Swansong, THE LAST BROADCAST: http://www.swansong.tv/index2.htm; Regards..., Galerie Alain le Gaillard, Paris; it rocks, but gently... Folly Gallery, Lancaster; Second Skin, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds; file sound art, City Space, Birmingham; No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith, Central Space, London 2001 Interstanding 4:End Repeat, Estonia Center for Contemporary Art, Talin; Project: Film and Video, Pittville Room, Cheltenham; The Great Escape, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria; things are not what they seem to be, Galway Arts Center, Galway 2000 a different kind of show, Whitechapel Gallery, London; ...not enough, Velan Contemporary Art, Turin; The Grizedale Show, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria; Conversation, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes; Now Festival, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Brief Encounters Film Festival, Bristol; Visions, City of Westminster Arts Council, London; Art in Motion Film Festival, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; SelfService, 5 Years, Underwood Street, London; John, I’m Only Dancing. Collective Gallery, Edinburgh 1999 The Anagrammatical Body, New Museum, Graz, Austria; East Wing Collection, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London; The Passage, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London; Saatchi at Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Tension, Greene Gallery, Geneva; Passion, Gasworks, London; 1998 Fun de Seicle, Walsall Art Gallery, Walsall; Art Futures, Royal Festival Hall, London; Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; fly, work for the eye to do/King Mob, London; Personal Effects, Spacex, Exeter 1997 Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Craft, Richard Salmon Gallery, London; Oak Repels Lightning, Science Museum, London; The Look of Love, Rear Window, the approach, London Recent Acquisitions, University of California, Berkeley 1996 A Cloudburst of Material Possessions, Purdey Hicks Gallery, London; Young British Artists VI, Saatchi Gallery, London; Plastic, Richard Salmon Gallery, London + Arnolfini, Bristol; Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; love and death and all that, Galerie H S Steinek, Vienna; The Gas Station, The Ruskin School, Oxford; Love at Firstsite, Firstsite, Colchester; British Art Show 4, South Bank Centre, National Touring Exhibition 1996 Care and Control, Rear Window, Hackney Hospital, London; Real Time, London; composite, adj., Arnolfini, Bristol; Fetishism, South Bank Centre, National Touring Exhibition 1996 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; The Curator’s Egg, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London; Vitrines, Galerie Guy Ledune/Acte, Brussels; Miniatures, The Agency, London; 1992 With Attitude, Galerie Guy Ledune/British Council, Brussels; Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Double Vision, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London; EAST/SOUTH, Norwich Gallery, Norfolk Institute of Art and Design 1991 EAST, Norwich Gallery, Norfolk Institute of Art and Design 1990 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Commissions & Awards 2011 R.I.P., Wellcome Trust Arts Award, London; Artist in Residence, Tokyo WonderSite, Tokyo; 1973, Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England; Artist in Residence, St. John's College, University of Oxford 2010 Rough Machine Commission, Animate Projects, London; Best Film (Dangerous Experiments), Los Angeles Animation Festival; Best International Short Film, Melbourne Underground Film Festival 2009 Identity Project Award, Nature's Great Experiment, Wellcome Trust; Blue Movie, Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England, Henry Moore Foundation and Matt's Gallery London; Commonwealth Suite, a hypnotic effect, Collective, Edinburgh 2008 dark is the night, ArtSway and Photographers' Gallery, London Stop.Watch., Animate Projects and RSA Film Commission; 2007 Perfume Disco Coma, Widnes Waterfront Commission, Widnes; (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Hatton Gallery, Univ. of Newcastle; Tape 1 Tape 2, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2006 Alchemy Fellowship, Manchester Museum, University of Manchester I Hate Boston, Boston Hates Me, Beacon Art Project, Lincolnshire; Nature's Great Experiment, Research and Development Award, Wellcome Trust and Arts Humanities Research Council; Visiting Artist Fellowship, University of Tasmania, Australia; Sunday Morning, Site Gallery, Sheffield 2005 don't stop 'til you get enough, Matt's Gallery, London; Grants to Artists, British Council, London; Life All Over It and More Than Religion, DCA, Dundee, Scotland 2004 Visiting Artist Fellowship, Monash Univ., Melbourne, Australia 2003 Henry Moore Sculpture Fellow, British School at Rome, Italy; CACTASIA! Eden Project, Cornwall; City of Angels, National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland 2002 How to Hover, Further Up In The Air, Liverpool; 1 + 1 = 1 and Under the Blood, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge; THRILLER, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 2001 TV Swansong, THE LAST BROADCAST: www.swansong.tv 2000 The Comedians, Arts Council of England Film and Video Awards Commission for DA2, Bristol/The Laboratory, Oxford; Film/Video Bursary, Westminster Arts Council, London; Artist in Residence, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria

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