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18.2.09

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Long Time Between Suns

A two-venue solo exhibition by The Otolith Group
15th February 2009 - 5th April 2009

A Long Time Between Suns is produced by Gasworks and The Showroom and will take place in two parts: Part I at Gasworks and Part II at The Showroom's new space, in June 2009. The Otolith Group, comprised of artists Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, approaches questions of archive and futurity through a moving image practice which often adopts an essayistic form. At Gasworks the group present their first two films Otolith (2003) and Otolith II (2007) within a bespoke environment designed by Will Holder.

The Otolith Group's first film elaborates on the idea of a fiction which exiles our future selves from planet earth. It is from this perspective, detached both from the earth's gravity but also the gravity of history, that The Otolith Group considers specific moments in our present and recent past for their potential to evoke alternative futures.

Otolith is set in the 22nd Century, when the human race is no longer able to survive on earth and must live outside its gravitational pull, on an International Space Station. The narrative follows Dr. Usha Adebaran Sagar, the future descendent of Otolith Group member Anjalika Sagar, and her research into life on earth through collected media archives. Otolith imagines a mutant future, described through a montage of archival footage, media documentary and fictional voice-over. This includes images of the 2003 anti Iraq War demonstration in London, historical documentation of Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and footage from WWII era of non-alignment. In doing so, chronology is dismantled and the archive gains new possibilities.

Otolith II is set in the near future and mixes fiction and archival material with footage filmed in Mumbai and Chandigarh. The film explores the pressure put upon inhabitants living in contrasting and competing versions of the city of tomorrow. Chandigarh, the product of Corbusier's 1963 architectural vision and social plan is juxtaposed with contemporary scenes of Mumbai's mega-slums, contemplating a new state of becoming through its dwellers' creative solutions for survival.

Elaborating on themes that have informed the organisation of images and sounds in The Otolith Group's work, the bespoke environment designed by Will Holder acts as a production area. Throughout the duration of the exhibition, Holder will use pinboard panels to collate archival material. Once completed they will provide the content for a series of artist books available for visitors to take away.

The second part of A Long Time Between Suns will take place at The Showroom's new location in June 2009 and will present Otolith III (2009), the final film in The Otolith trilogy.

Screenings take place from Wednesday to Sunday at the following times:

Screening 1
12.00pm: Otolith (2003, 25min)
12.35pm: Otolith II (2007, 48min)

Screening 2
2.00pm: Otolith
2.35pm: Otolith II

Screening 3
4.00pm: Otolith
4.35pm: Otolith II
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Events
Devised with The Otolith Group and supporting institutions, a series of public events will be presented from February to June 2009. The events offer audiences the opportunity to revisit a number of the curatorial and discursive projects formulated by The Otolith Group since 2002.

Wednesday 18 February 2009, 7 – 8.30pm
Communists Like Us
at The Nehru Centre , 8 South Audley Street, London W1K 1HF
A dialogue between photography and subtitles presented by The Otolith group provides the point of departure for an archival constellation of the maoist imaginary.
Organised by the Serpentine gallery as part of the exhibition India Highway.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 7 – 8.30pm
LondonunderLondon
Mark Fisher presents his audio-essay LondonunderLondon followed by a conversation with Sukhdev Sandhu and Kodwo Eshun on the cinegeographies and radiophonic terrains of postwar London.

Sunday 15 March 2009, 3 – 6pm
Facs of Life
Filmmakers Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson present work in progress from their forthcoming film Facs of Life, which takes video footage of Gilles Deleuze’s lectures at the University of Paris VIII, Vincennes (1975–76) as its starting point. The artists will touch on the question of the inarchivé (the unacknowledged or inoperative archive) and their quest for an impersonal cinema of ‘betweenness’.

Wednesday 1 April 2009, 7 – 8.30pm
Collaborative Filmmaking: a Discussion
John Akomfrah, founding member of black audio Film Collective (1982–1998) discusses the histories and potentialities of transnational collaborative and collective filmmaking practices with The Otolith Group.

Events taking place during Part II of A Long Time Between Suns will include a seminar with The Otolith Group in collaboration with Afterall, and screenings of forthcoming work by Eyal Sivan and unseen work by Chris Marker.

Will Holder will design an artist monograph to be launched at A Long Time Between Suns Part II, opening at The Showroom in June 09. Published by Sternberg Press in collaboration with Gasworks, The Showroom and Il Trifoglio Nero, the monograph will feature new texts by TJ Demos and Irmgard Emmelhainz and a conversation between The Otolith Group and curators Emily Pethick and Anna Colin.

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For me, a text is merely a small cog in an extra-textual practice. It is not a question of commenting on the text by a method of deconstruction, or by a method of textual practice, or by other methods; it is a question of what use it has in an extra-textual practice that prolongs the text ..

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in Clinical Critical terms as the hat was in the wind

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How else can one write of those things which one doesn't know, or knows badly? It is precisely here that we imagine having something to say. We write only at the frontiers of our knowledge, at the border which separates our knowledge from our ignorance and transforms the one to the other.
Only in this manner are we resolved to write. To satisfy ignorance is to put off writing until tomorrow -or rather, to make it impossible. Perhaps writing was a relation to silence altogether more threatening that that, which is supposed to entertain with death.
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Difference and Repetition.