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See the Tate Events leaflet for further details.
Talks and Discussions
'Imagination without chains' - Surrealism on 3
Tues 25 Sept
21.30-23.00
Starr Auditorium
Richard Coles presents an evening of debate and performance broadcast
live on BBC Radio 3; with a panel of artists, performers and cultural
critics including Dawn Ades and Mary Ann Caws.
Tickets are free but must be booked in advance. Call Tate Ticketing
on 020 7887 8888.
A collaboration with BBC Radio3 90-93FM
This event was webcast, see the webcast archived at www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/archive/surrealism.htm.
Conroy Maddox - A Practising Surrealist
Fri 5 Oct
18.30
Starr Auditorium
The painter Conroy Maddox, now in his late eighties, talks about
his life and work, with Roger Cardinal (University of Kent). Described
recently as 'the oldest practising surrealist painter', Maddox met
and was encouraged by Dalí and, in the late 1930s, was part
of the surrealist movement in London.
Tickets £6 (£3 concessions)
Lightbox
Friday 19 October
6.30 - 8.30 pm
East Room, Level 7
Lightbox is a new evening seminar programme. Informal and lively
in style, the two previous events have used the exhibitions 'Century
City' and 'Arte Povera' as a basis for exploration and discussion
of ideas by practicioners across art forms.
Aimed at artists, Southwark neighbours, colleagues involved in
community and formal education and students, we have previously
programmed a range of contributors from the disciplines of film,
theatre and contemporary print. Jules Wright, Artistic Director
of the Womens Playhouse Trust and Shaheen Merali, artist and curator
will join us to give their responses to the exhibition Surrealism:
Desire Unbound and make links with their own areas of arts practice.
These speakers, influential in their field, will start the evening
followed by time for audience response and discussion.
The event on Friday 19 October is linked to Surrealism: Desire
Unbound, including good things to nibble and a glass of wine to
help the Friday night mood.
Book your ticket in advance, call Tate ticketing 0207 887 8888
Tickets £5 (£3 concessions)
Surrealism and Film 1
'From Ready-Made to Moving Image' + Surrealist shorts
Tues 23 Oct
18.30
Starr Auditorium
Ramona Fotiade (University of Glasgow) traces the evolution of the
surrealists' fascination with cinematic imagery. The event will
include screenings of Emak Bakia (Man Ray, 1927, 18'),
L'Etoile de mer (Man Ray, 1927, 15') and Un Chien andalou
(Buñuel/Dalí, 1929, 16').
A collaboration with the Forum for European Philosophy, supported
by FrameStore and The Computer Film Company
Tickets £6 (£3 concessions)
Surrealism and Film 2
'Madness and the Surrealist Self' + Spellbound (Hitchcock, 1945)
111'
Tues 30 Oct
18.30
Starr Auditorium
The surrealists defined their project in relation to delusion and
paranoia as well as to dream and wish-fulfillment, but what traces
remain of surrealism's 'madness' in its cinema? Johanna Malt (Kings
College, London) explores the issue and looks at what happens when
surrealism goes to Hollywood. The talk will be followed by a screening
of Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound.
A collaboration with the Forum for European Philosophy, supported
by FrameStore and The Computer Film Company
Tickets £6 (£3 concessions)
Conference: Desire Unbound?
Sat 3 Nov
11.00-18.30
Starr Auditorium
This day of discussion asks what is at stake in taking desire as
life's sole motivating principle. Contributors include: Lisa Appignanesi
author of Freud's Women and Memory and Desire; violinist
Mieko Kanno; and Graham Ward whose books include The Postmodern
God, and Radical Orthodoxy.
Tickets £10 (£5 concessions)
Surrealism and Film 3
'Image and Emotion in Surrealism' + Lost Highway (Lynch, 1997, 135')
Tues 6 Nov
18.30
Starr Auditorium
Patrizia Lombardo (University of Geneva) looks at how cinematic
imagery plays on our emotional responses. A screening of David Lynch's
Lost Highway follows the talk.
A collaboration with the Forum for European Philosophy, supported
by FrameStore and The Computer Film Company
Tickets £6 (£3 concessions)
Sade, Surrealism and Since
Sat 10 Nov
14.00-18.30
Starr Auditorium
This half-day symposium examines the significance for surrealism
of the life and thought of the Marquis de Sade, and asks what significance
Sadism holds in a wider, contemporary theoretical and cultural context.
Tickets £10 (£5 concessions)
Psychoanalysis in the Time of Surrealism
Sat 1 Dec
14.00-18.30
Starr Auditorium
This half-day symposium is divided into two sessions: 'Clinical
practice' takes a historical look at the nature of psychoanalytic
practice in the 1920s and 1930s, specifically in France. 'Surrealist
reception', looks at the ways in which the surrealists adopted,
and adapted elements of psychoanalysis. Speakers include: leading
historians of psychoanalysis Alain de Mijolla and Julia Borossa,
and David Lomas author of The Haunted Self: Surrealism, Psychoanalysis,
Subjectivity.
Tickets £10 (£5 concessions)
Course
Surrealism: Subversion and Enchantment
Tutor: Robert Short
6 Monday evenings
18.30-20.00
15 October-26 November
Surrealism was the first art movement to openly address love, sex
and sexuality as part of a philosophy of total revolution. This
course illuminates some of the key themes and principles of this
daring, rebellious group.
Fee: £50 (£35 concessions)
Music
George Antheil's La Femme 100 têtes
Nicolas Hodges, piano
Mon 1 Oct and Mon 8 Oct
19.30
Starr Auditorium
Max Ernst's Surrealist classic La Femme 100 têtes was
published in 1929 with a preface by André Breton. Four years
later, the American piano virtuoso George Antheil composed a 35-minute
suite inspired by it. Nicolas Hodges is one of the leading pianists
of his generation. This event was webcast, see the webcast archived at www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/archive/antheil.htm
Tickets £6 (£3 concessions)
A collaboration with Music Projects/London Trust, supported
by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
Film and Video
Tickets £3.50 (£2 concessions) unless otherwise stated.
Chaplin and the Surrealists
Sun 23 Sept
15.00
Starr Auditorium
The surrealists hailed Chaplin as a subversive icon of popular cinema.
The Fireman (Chaplin, 1916) 27', Dough & Dynamite,
(Chaplin,1914 ) 26', College, with Buster Keaton (James W
Horne 1927) 65'.
French bedfellows
Sun 30 Sept
15.00
Starr Auditorium
A selection of silent shorts that inspired Surrealist eulogies,
including: Voyage á travers l'impossible (Georges
Méliès, 1904) 15' and A la Conquête du pole,
(Georges Méliès, 1912) 20'.
Surrealist Classics
Tues 9 Oct
18.30
Starr Auditorium
Some of the most incendiary surrealist excursions into cinema, including:
Entr'acte, (Rene Clair, 1924) 23', La Coquille et le Clergyman
(Germaine Dulac, 1928) 29', Le sang d'un poète, (Jean
Cocteau, 1930) 53'.
Surrealist Classics
Sun 14 Oct
15.00
Starr Auditorium
Mad love, shocking objects, dazzling juxtapositions, including:
A propos de Nice, (Jean Vigo, 1930) 26' and Dreams that
Money can Buy, (Hans Richter, 1946) 80'.
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