The Otolith Collective and The Showroom are delighted to announce the UK premiere of artists Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson's new film In Search of UIQ (2013, 72 min).
In Search of UIQ: It took forever getting ready to exist Part 1 Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson at The Showroom, London
30 January–2 February
Thursday, Friday, Sunday screenings 12pm, 1.30pm, 3pm, 4.30pm
Screening and discussion with Silvia Maglioni, Graeme Thomson, Kodwo Eshun, Mark Fisher and Federico Campagna- Saturday 1 February, 1pm-6pm
Screenings: Thursday, Friday, Sunday 12pm, 1.30pm, 3pm and 4.30pm. Free admission.
Special screening and discussion with Kodwo Eshun, Mark Fisher, Federico Campagna and the artists: Saturday 1 February, 1–6pm. Tickets: £5/£3.
At The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ
Moving surreptitiously between the modes of essay, documentary and fiction, In Search of UIQ unfolds the story of philosopher Felix Guattari's attempts to produce a science-fiction blockbuster from his original screenplay, Un Amour d'UIQ (UIQ in Love). Guattari's script imagines a hyper-intelligent, invisible, protean life force dubbed UIQ (Infra-quark Universe) that makes contact with a community of outsiders while simultaneously causing havoc to global communications networks as it begins to develop consciousness. Guattari began work on Un Amour d'UIQ at the beginning of the 1980s – collaborating at one time with the independent filmmaker Robert Kramer – and his radical vision for a subversive 'popular' film would occupy him on and off for the next seven years.
In Search of UIQ sees Maglioni & Thomson reveal key moments in the development of Guattari's ambitious project. The film has three movements: the first evokes the prehistory of Guattari's previous film projects around the free radio and the Italian autonomist movements; the second is part documentary and part fiction and reenacts Guattari as an unlikely alien visitor in Hollywood; and the final movement enfolds the artists research into Guattari's archive around the enigmatic figure of a Finnish filmmaker who appears to have his own plans for the Un Amour d'UIQ script. More
A special event will be held at The Showroom on Saturday 1 February, with a screening of In Search of UIQ, presentations by writer Federico Campagna, artist and theorist Mark Fisher and Otolith Collective's Kodwo Eshun on the themes of 1980's science fiction cinema, collectivity, mutation, Hollywood cinema and the Autonomist movement and concluding with a discussion led by the artists.
Tickets £5 / £3 concessions. Please note that no paper tickets will be issued. Names and proof of concessionary rate, if applicable, to be given at the door. Purchase tickets here
Travel
By tube: The nearest underground stations are Edgware Road (Bakerloo, Circle and Hammersmith and City Lines)
By bus: Routes 6, 16, 98, 332 and 414
By train: The nearest mainline stations are Paddington and Marylebone.