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Propaganda Machine
Saturday 30 June – Sunday 1 July

Part of Local Operations at The Serpentine Gallerys
11 am – 6 pm
Organised by Chris Hammond, MOT

Saturday 30 June:Training and Indoctrination
11am ADVENTURE, Showdown at the pig palace… by Mark and Stephen Beasley
Taking the form of an experimental radio play, ADVENTURE weaves together a fictional dialogue between two teenagers with a measured description of the architectural specifications of a typical shopping centre, from the excavation of virgin soil to the addition of fixtures and fittings. The play is accompanied by a soundtrack, composed and performed by Nicholas Bullen (Napalm Death, Scorn, Black Galaxy).

2pm The Complete history of MOT, lecture by Chris Hammond

CONTROL Still from Falk, Amanda Beech 2006
 

All day Tom Ellis will be building Exhaustion Structure
Simon & Tom Bloor will be making one hour turnaround time booklets/ zines, with content culled from stuff throughout the day, and as much sloganing and cod-political theory as they can muster....

5pm repeat of Adventure

Sunday 1 July: The Role of Women
12 pm screenings
Amanda Beech’s “Little Private Governments”, 2005, 6min dubbed collapses the historical narrative of New York’s economic and democratic adventure into a series of metaphysical camera sweeps, hard edits and a transcendental-style textual narrative, which entangle the idealistic

language of democratic poetry (such as Walt Whitman) with the corporate mantras of the dot-com venture capitalist boom.

State Line, 2007 (16 min dubbed), filmed at the Cal Neva Lodge, Lake Tahoe, infamous for its Mafia-Kennedy connections, embodies the violence of neo-liberal individualism, where mobile subjectivities articulate the force, the site and the shape of law.

Elizabeth Price's
AT THE HOUSE OF MR X (video, 20 minutes)
This new video by Elizabeth Price takes as its subject the home of an anonymous art collector, designed and built in the late 1960s. Only briefly inhabited, the House and its contents remain immaculately preserved.

2pm Lecture by Dr Andrea Phillips, The fetish of the local; its political ambivalence, and its institutionalised remnants

3.30 Clunie Reid presents her digital archive of images

4pm repeat of the morning Screenings

This is part of Local Operations (23 May - 1 July 2007) is a free series of self-organised events, talks, screenings and workshops by writers, curators, theorists, independent groups, not-for-profit spaces and students at The Sackler Centre of Arts Education at the Serpentine Gallery. All discussions will be available as free podcasts from www.serpentinegallery.org after the events. No reservations, first-come, first-served Serpentine Gallery Kensington gardens London W2 3XA T 020 7402 6075 Nearest Undergrounds: Knightsbridge, Lancaster Gate and South Kensington Buses: 9, 10, 52, 94, 148