Join us for a day of events exploring and interpreting the notion of ‘Expanded Cinema’ through film and discussion from Anthony McCall and his artist peers, along with a new dance commission with young people from Wakefield.
Expanded Cinema was a loose movement of artists from the mid-1960s through the 1970s concerned with pushing the boundaries of cinematic form, of which Anthony McCall is a seminal figure. Coined by a Film-Makers’ Cinematheque in 1965, Expanded Cinema involved a rejection of the fixed theatrical format of rows of seats facing a single screen with a hidden projection booth. McCall and his peers took film out of the theatre and into simple, empty spaces, sometimes using multiple projectors and multiple screens, and often incorporating live performance. In the process, they created a new emphasis on the ‘here and now’ of the projection event itself.
Expanded Cinema Screenings
12 - 2pm, FREE but advance booking required
With Anthony McCall, Lis Rhodes, Carolee Schneemann, Paul Sharits, Guy Sherwin.
Book your place at our Welcome Desk.
Specially selected by Anthony McCall in dialogue with LUX, Expanded Cinema brings together a programme of important and influential film, video, performance and installation from the 1960s and 70s by artists including McCall, Lis Rhodes, Carolee Schneemann, Paul Sharits and Guy Sherwin.
Regarded by McCall regards as occupying a space where sculpture, cinema and drawing overlap, these works were all significant in the development of the Expanded Cinema movement and include McCall’s seminal first ‘solid light work’ Line Describing a Cone, made in 1973.
See below for programme details.
Read MoreAnthony McCall in Conversation
3 - 4.30pm, £12 / £9 Members / £6 Students
Join Anthony McCall along with researcher, curator and artist Lucy Reynolds and artist Guy Sherwin in conversation around their conceptions of Expanded Cinema and influence of this movement on the wider fields of film and contemporary art.
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Dance Performances
11.00am - 3.30pm, Galleries 7 and 10. FREE, no booking required.
West Yorkshire artists Neil and Simone Kenyon present a movement work choreographed in response to Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works in collaboration with students from local schools and colleges, supported by MA students from Leeds Beckett University and artist and Senior Lecturer in Dance Beth Cassani.
‘Into the Light- 3 responses: plunging, enveloping, colliding’ is a durational performance explores movement, sculptural forms and the use of light, echoing McCalls invitation for the audience to be in the centre of the work, and having no fixed beginning or end. Booking is not required but space in the galleries is limited.
Please feel free to interact with the light installations while the performances take place. All ages welcome.
Special thanks to Cathedral Academy Wakefield, Kettlethorpe High School, Leeds Beckett University and Wakefield College.
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The Expanded Cinema Screening Programme includes:
- Introduction by Anthony McCall.
- Paul Sharits, Ray Gun Virus, 1966.
- Carolee Schneemann, Viet Flakes, 1967.
- Guy Sherwin, Paper Landscape 2, 1975/2017* and Man with Mirror, 1976.
- Lis Rhodes, Light Music, 1975.
- Anthony McCall, Line Describing a Cone, 1973.
The event takes place in The Calder and will include an interval.
*Paper Landscape 2 has been supported by the Sasakawa Foundation.
