The Horse Hospital

Thursday 18th Feb
Doors 7:00pm

THE LIGHT & SHADOW SALON
presents
VISUAL ARTS AND THE MOVING IMAGE

This Salon will explore the relationship between the moving image and other disciplines within the Visual Arts, focusing on the way in which film is used by artists who work predominantly in a field other than film, and the way in which narrative is explored within the parameters of the moving image vs 2D representation and live art.
We will be looking at filmmakers who have an unorthodox approach to narrative and filmmaking as a language, who have a background in the fine arts and who use this sensibility/training to carve out an idiosyncratic approach to film.
Also, artists from other visual art disciplines that experiment with film, video and animation.

programme includes moving image work by

ZAELIA BISHOP // FELTUS BROTHERS // YUI HAMAGASHIRA // HELENA HUNTER // JEANNE MADIC // NICHOLAS MCARTHUR // MATTEO PIZZARELLO // JAMIE QUANTRILL // FERNANDA VERON // AGNIESZKA WOZNICKA

and live music by
GEORGE KAPLAN PRESENTS and VANISHING TWINS
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The Light & Shadow Salon is a place for artists, writers and audience to meet and share ideas about the past, present and future of the moving image in all its forms.

The Salon is a place for exchange, interaction and cross-pollination and it welcomes active contributions and interventions from all its participants.

The Salon endeavours to support a structured and informed dialogue around film, the moving image and all that it involves: from magic to science, from sound to the eye, from ritualism to storytelling, from myth-making to hypnosis.

The Salon intends to act as a temporary and ephemeral container for all the work, ideas and people with an independent, radical and idiosyncratic nature, who renounce to find a home in existing movements/institutions but rather embrace the nomadic and transitory nature of art.

The Salon supports individual thought, inquisitive minds and a desire to further knowledge through dialogue and exchange.

'So when you hear yourself invited to 'see', it is not the sight of this eye (of the flesh) that I would have you think about. You have another eye within, much clearer that that one, an eye that looks at the past, the present, and the future all at once, which sheds the light and keenness of its vision over all things, which penetrates things hidden and searches into complexities, needing no other light by which to see all this, but seeing by the light that it possesses itself.'
(Hugh of St Victor)

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Saturday 20th February
Doors 7:30pm

Los Angeles based filmmaker, artist and musician Brian Butler www.brianbutler.com will host the London premiere of his noted short film, 'Night of Pan', along with other works, in London at the Horse Hospital on February 20th at 7:30pm, admission is free. Butler will also perform a live sound performance with projections, accompanied by Death in Vegas' Richard Fearless. The evening will be rounded out with DJ sets from Fearless and Butler, along with other surprise guest DJs.

'Night of Pan' is a seven and a half minute film featuring film auteur Kenneth Anger and actor Vincent Gallo. The film has been screened in various versions internationally - Beijing, Lisbon, Cannes, Athens, Rome, Berlin, Los Angeles and but never in the world center of occultism, London.

In the film, Anger, Gallo, and Butler depict a pagan ritual that symbolizes the stage of ego death in the process of spiritual attainment.

Brian Butler is a multidisciplinary artist who creates works around dark magical themes. He works extensively as a producer on director Kenneth Anger's films. Additionally he has written for Dazed & Confused and performs along with Anger in the band Technicolor Skull.

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New Work by Ole Hagen

Exhibition: Sat 6th March - Sat 27th March
Mon - Sat 12pm - 6pm
Artist Reception: Fri 5th March 7:30pm

Moonhead 2010, Polyfrustrate the Infoplex, Production still, Orbit

On the one hand, all animate and inanimate things, including humans could be holograms enfolded in a holographic universe, the auto-excitation of a super-complete plenum. Each perceived unit of stuff would be like a cell explicating the whole of a gargantuan body with infinite gaseous, liquid, solid, multi-dimensional and nonlocal appendages, tentacles and antennae. The observer and the observed would be one surface only bifurcated by the fractures of a mirror of holographic proportions and impossible curvatures.

On the other hand, humans live in lumpy container-heads, dragged around by clumsy zombie bodies. They obsessively construct architectural boxes of simple geometries, dividing things into inside-outside abstractions, while stubbornly following the unidirectional gaze of their binocular vision with regards to both the visible and the invisible.

In HOLOGRAPHY for Beginners, Ole Hagen presents a series of simple spatial experiments with material bodies. Humanoid or animal figures, embodied by the angles and structures of the Horse Hospital or by the extension of metaphysical space, bluntly manifest their physical limitations while at the same time carry the early signs of impossible spatial acrobatics that marks the appearance of the holomovement.

Ole Hagen is an artist working with video, sculpture and large scale drawings.
Combining found locations with constructed stage sets, masks and sculpted figures with living bodies, the artist produces interior spaces populated by mute characters. The work evokes a parallel reality of a metaphysical, mental or virtual kind. By equating the animate with the inanimate, the physical with the imaginary, a comical and hyperbolic world emerges that is not far from our own. The artist was born in Norway. He lives and works in London and teaches at BCU Birmingham. Ole studied at the National Academy of Fine Art in Oslo, Chelsea College of Art and Design (MA) and Goldsmiths College (PhD). His last show in London was the group show Multiverse that he curated for Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art in 2009.

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Saturday 6th March
Doors 7:30pm
£5 On the door

So it's Saturday night and you've just got paid yes? Your heart's saying 'go go have a time' yes?
You feel an overwhelming desire to Shake Your Money Maker and have your Honeys Hushed? Splendid.
Get your pink pegged slacks on your Long Tall Sallys and Roadrunner it across to London's premier equine infirmary. Celebrate the Rites of Spring with The John Moore Rock And Roll Trio featuring The Loose Moorelles.
There will be singing. There will be dancing. There will be Rock And Roll Music.

The John Moore Rock And Roll Trio

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Hiring The Horse Hospital Screening Room/Gallery

The Horse Hospital Arts Venue
Built in 1797 as stabling for cabby's sick horses, The Horse Hospital is now a unique Grade II listed arts venue situated in an unspoilt mews in the heart of Bloomsbury, midway between the West End and the art district of East London, with easy access from Russell Square underground, buses, and Kings Cross and Euston mainline stations.

Situated on the first floor of this evocative building, the stable room offers a convivial and unusual environment suitable for a wide range of creative presentation, from book & magazine launches to film & TV previews & premieres, artists receptions, product presentations, fashion shows, album launches, educational talks, lectures, creative think tanks, networking evenings, photo shoots, anniversary, birthday and Christmas parties, this versatile space offers something for everyone.

Original features such as the horse ramp entrance, tethering rings, cast iron pillars, barred windows and an amazing cobbled floor, make this an intriguing space with which to impress important clients.

This is a selected list of prestigious organisations who have hired the space for their event, many on a regular basis.

AOG Films Ltd · Allied London · Angel Eye Productions · Artangel · Atlantic Books · BFI · Birkbeck, University of London · Book Works · Camden Arts Centre · Camden Council · Camden LGBT Forum · Central St Martins · Channel 4 · CND · Current TV, LTD · Dalkey Archive Press (UK) · Dedalus Press · Faber & Faber · Fright Nights · Fashion in Film Festival · Granta Books · Haiti Support Group · Kerrang Magazine · Last FM · London International Animation Festival · London College of Fashion · Metro Media Ltd · Murphy Phillips · NFT · One World Broadcasting Trust · Penguin Books · Plan B Publishing Limited · Quadrille Publishing Ltd · Raindance Film Festival · Royal College of Art · Salt Publishing · Sanctuary Publishing · Screen Republic · Serpents Tail · Shash Media · Simon & Schuster · Sound UK Ltd · Slingshot Films · The School of Cinema and Performing Arts · The British Library · The Italian Film Society · Transworld Publishers · Turnaround PSL · The Greater London Authority · 12foot6 · Universal Records · Verso

Available to hire by the evening, day, week or month, we offer seating for up to one hundred people, with a comfortable standing capacity (no seats) of around one hundred and fifty. The Horse Hospital has a bar area, but no in-house caterers, or kitchen facility however customers are welcome to bring in there own pre-prepared refreshments.

The Horse Hospital is a Grade II listed building, that has operated a Not For Profit policy for over 16 years, when considering hiring the venue all visitors are asked to kindly respect the integrity of this historical building.

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Happy holidays to all of you and see you in 2010!
We are back on Monday January the 4th.

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Thurs 3rd December - Weds 23rd December
Mon - Sat 12pm - 6pm

Artist Reception
Weds 2nd December 7:30pm

In the spirit of our eclectic history, The Horse Hospital is proud to present its first annual print show.
Featuring collages, etchings, prints, lino cuts, fanzines, artists books and anything and everything paper by 18 legendary and emerging artists from diverse traditions and disciplines.

Hannah Bays // Christian Brett // Alex Czinczel // Stephen Fowler // Carl Hoare // Serena Korda // Le Gun // Laurie Lipton // Stu Mead // Frederic Morris // Mark Pawson // Patrick Moran // Rob Ryan // Savage Pencil // Gee Vaucher // Cathy Ward // Ski Williams // Joe Wilson // Zeel

Come join us on Wednesday the 2nd of December for the private view and pre-xmas drinks with DJs Nervous Stephen and Rocky.

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