Tuesday 20 March 2012, 6.30pm at The Gate Cinema, W11

Lili Reynaud Dewar: Speaking of Revolt, Media and Beauty
With Pierre Giquel & Lili Reynaud Dewar
Featuring Un Chant d’Amour, A film by Jean Genet

CINACT: Serpentine Cinema presents Speaking of Revolt, Media & Beauty, a new film performance by Lili Reynaud Dewar at The Gate Cinema. 

The performance takes as its starting point a series of sculptures by the artist Four Walls Speaking of Revolt Media and Beauty dedicated as an anti-monument to the work of poet, philosopher and activist Jean Genet. It is the final performance in a trilogy of the same name, the first part presented at Nottingham Contemporary and the second at Tramway in 2011.

Using props from the sculptures and featuring Genet’s film Un Chant d’Amour, Reynaud Dewar will perform alongside French poet Pierre Giquel, who was Reynaud-Dewar’s teacher at art school, translating his words against the backdrop of a recent film focusing on Genet’s politics and aesthetics.

Lili Reynaud Dewar was born in La Rochelle in 1975 and currently lives and works in Paris. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include This is my place / Ceci est ma maison, Magasin, Grenoble (2012); Some Objects Blackened and a Body too, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2011); Jean Genet’s Walls, Speaking of Revolt Media and Beauty, for Tramway, Glasgow (2011) and Interpretation, Performa/Calder Foundation, New York (2011); Cleda’s Chairs, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld (2011); Interpretation, Kunsthalle Basel and Im3, Lausanne (2010). Selected group exhibitions in 2011 include Le Château, CAPC musee d’art contemporain de Bordeaux; The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam and Jean Genet, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham.

Tickets £6/£5

The Gate
87 Notting Hill Gate
London
W11 3JZ

Tickets available from The Gate or www.picturehouses.co.uk / Please check with the cinema for information updates

Serpentine Cinema is presented by Serpentine Gallery, The Island and Picturehouse Cinemas. Kindly supported by Institute Français.

Serpentine Cinema: CINACT is a series of regular screenings and events at Picturehouse Cinemas in London presenting artists’ film and performance in a cinema context.