A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture, a work by Louise Lawler, presented on Tuesday 12 June at 7PM at The Movies in Amsterdam in the presence of the artist. The screening will be followed by an after talk with Sven Lütticken and Andrea Fraser, and with a response by Eric C. H. de Bruyn.

A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture revolves around the announcement and screening of a film chosen by Louise Lawler, and foregrounds the performative aspects of film and of the artist's practice. It was first presented at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica in 1979. A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture can be seen as a piece whose actual and potential consequences for contemporary art and theory deserve in-depth analysis. The presentation is part of a research project undertaken by Sven Lütticken and Louise Lawler, and marks the beginning of their research trajectory within the framework of If I Can't Dance's programme Performance in Residence. In his research proposal, Lütticken describes the work as 'an appropriation of film that is (seemingly) without pictures, a performative intervention in the cinematic context, as a (non) event that stresses the spectators' agency by leaving them in the dark'.