Wednesday 4 February 2009, 18.30–20.00

In this special screening and lecture performance, The Otolith Group present Nervus Rerum (2008), a film that uses sound, image and text to explore the scarred landscape of Jenin Refugee Camp in Palestine. In the film, various routes through the camp that lead to dead ends are explored and juxtaposed with spoken excerpts from the writings of Fernando Pessoa and Jean Genet.

Founded in 2000 by artist Anjalika Sagar and artist, writer and theorist Kodwo Eshun, The Otolith Group's artistic work rethinks various archives of futurity through moving image, sound, text and curatorial practice. This film powerfully contributes to The Otolith Group's research into the conditions under which histories become visible. This event will be chaired by Paul Goodwin, Curator: Cross Cultural, Tate Britain.

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Tate Britain  Auditorium
£7 (£5 concessions), booking recommended
Price includes drinks afterwards

    

The Otolith Group's films and installations have featured widely in international exhibitions including Lisson Gallery, London, Documenta 12, Kassel, Just In Time: The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Unhomely: 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville, How to Improve the World: 60 Years of British Art, Hayward Gallery, London, Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, New York, and the Tate Triennial.

In 2007, The Group curated and produced The Ghosts of Songs: The Art of The Black Audio Film Collective 1982 -1998 and will co-curate a major exhibition on the work of Harun Farocki in London in 2009. In 2008, the Group were recipients of a prestigious LAFVA Award.