Telling Invents Told – Book Launch

Telling Invents Told will be launched at Nottingham Contemporary on 6 July 2019 in the context of the major survey exhibition Dissident Lines. Join us for a live reading and in-conversation with Lis Rhodes, Aura Satz and the book’s editor María Palacios Cruz.

Aura Satz is Moving Image Tutor and Reader in Fine Art (Sound and Moving Image) on the Contemporary Art Practice programme at the Royal College of Art. Satz’s practice encompasses film, sound, performance and sculpture. Her work has been performed, screened and exhibited nationally and internationally, including Tate Modern; Tate Britain; Hayward Gallery; BFI Southbank; Whitechapel Gallery; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art; Sydney Biennale; Oberhausen Short Film Festival; the Rotterdam Film Festival; the New York Film Festival; and Anthology Film Archives, among others. In 2012, she was shortlisted for the Samsung Art+ Award and the Jarman Award.

Lis Rhodes: Dissident Lines at Nottingham Contemporary, 25 May to 1 September 2019. Lis Rhodes is a pioneer of experimental filmmaking and a major figure in the history of artists working with film in Britain. Enabled by the Freelands Award 2017, Dissident Lines is Rhodes’ first-ever survey, and will span almost 50 years of work. This is the first time that Nottingham Contemporary has ever dedicated all of its galleries to a retrospective. The exhibition will span Rhodes’ entire career, from iconic pieces such as Dresden Dynamo (1971) and Light Music (1975-77) to a specially commissioned new work.