 | |  Vivienne Dick: No Wave Films
Thursday, February 3, 6:00 p.m.
Gene Siskel Film Center
(164 N. State St. / 312.846.2600)
Still from She Had Her Gun Already (Vivienne Dick, 1978). Courtesy the artist and LUX, London.
"The quintessential No Wave filmmaker." - J.Hoberman
One of the most important filmmakers to emerge from New York's seething No Wave scene, and currently enjoying a resurgence of interest in her work, Ireland-born Vivienne Dick created a series of Super-8 films in the late 1970s that balance stripped-down narratives with visceral and moody performances by artists and musicians like Lydia Lunch, Pat Place, Adele Bertei, and Ikue Mori. Writes Ed Halter in Artforum , "Obsessed with exhuming repressed traumas, voicing beaten-down identities, and generally meandering through a complex matrix of bad vibes, Dick's works...are unapologetically messy, subjective, and political-thereby proposing that so, too, is life." This evening's program features her No Wave small-gauge masterpieces, She Had Her Gun Already (1978) and Beauty Becomes the Beast (1979), among others. 1978-79, Vivienne Dick, USA, Super-8mm on PAL Digibeta video, ca. 80 mins.
VIVIENNE DICK (b. 1950, Donegal, Ireland) studied Archaeology and French at the University College Dublin and received an MA in film and video at the University of Arts, London. In her early hears, she lived in France and Germany and traveled throughout India. Moving to New York City in the mid-1970s, she was part of a loose group of filmmakers, artists, and musicians. Her early films initially screened in music venues, later traveling to many independent cinemas across the US and Europe. She moved to London in 1984 and returned to the west of Ireland in 1999, where she continues to make films and videos. Her work has screened at many festivals, including New York, Edinburgh and Berlin, and museums, including the Tate Britan, MoMA, The Whitney Museum of Art, the Walker Arts Center, and the IMMA Dublin. She was the recent subject of several large scale retrospectives at the Tate, Crawford Art Gallery, and Artists Space in New York.
CATE is organized by the School of the Art Institute's Department of Film, Video, New Media & Animation collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and the Video Data Bank.
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UPCOMING PROGRAMS:
2/10 - The Wild Triumphs of Martha Colburn (Martha Colburn in person!)
2/17 - Rose Lowder's Bouquets (Rose Lowder in person!)
2/24 - Andrea Geyer: Criminal Case (Andrea Geyer in person!)
3/3 - Radical Closure
3/10 - Yael Bartana: A Declaration (Yael Bartana in person!)
3/17 - The Disappointment: Or, The Force of Credulity (Brian Springer in person!)
3/31 - Tony Cokes: Notes on Evil (and Others) (Tony Cokes in person!)
4/7 - Botborg! (Live performance! Joe Musgrove and Scott Sinclair in person!)
4/14 - Aberration of Light: Dark Chamber Disclosure (Live performance! Sandra
Gibson, Luis Recoder, and Olivia Block in person!)
LOCATION AND TICKETS
Programs take place Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State St.), unless otherwise noted.
CATE is FREE to SAIC students with a valid student ID. Tickets are $10 General public, $5 Film Center members, $7 students, and $4 SAIC faculty and staff and Art Institute of Chicago staff.
Any person with a disability who would like to request an accommodation for this program should contact the Disability and Learning Resource Center at dlrc@saic.edu or 312.499.4278 as soon as possible to allow adequate time to make proper arrangements.
About the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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