FRI31JAN Remembering Derek @ Kings College London Chapel 18:00-19:00 To inaugurate his 24-hour installation of The Angelic Conversation in Kings College Londons Chapel, Neil Bartlett will speak in conversation with the distinguished art historian, activist and close friend of Jarmans – Simon Watney. They will talk about the art of church memorials, about their own memories of Derek, and about his contribution to the art and politics of queer memory. FRI31JAN-SAT01FEB The Angelic Conversation @ Kings College London Chapel 19:00 An installation in Kings College Londons Chapel to commemorate the life and death of Derek Jarman. The Angelic Conversation is a new installation by author and theatre-maker Neil Bartlett, created to celebrate what would have been Derek Jarmans 72nd birthday. Taking over the stunning Gilbert Scott-designed chapel at Kings College London for a night and a day, the installation will feature a continuous, 24-hour-long screening of Jarmans film The Angelic Conversation, starting at 7pm on Friday 31 January (Dereks birthday), playing through the night and finishing at 7pm on Saturday 1 February. Mixing the religious iconography and architecture of the chapel with memories of the all-night cinema screenings that were such a feature of gay London when the film was made, it will create a unique memorial to a much-loved and much-missed man, and offer visitors the opportunity to experience one of his most haunting films in one of Londons extraordinary spaces. My most austere work, but also closest to my heartDerek Jarman The Angelic Conversation was made in 1985, a year after Imagining October and a year before Caravaggio. 78 minutes long, it is a deeply personal meditation on love, lust, memory and loss, given great power by a soundtrack that mixes Judi Denchs unforgettable readings of fourteen Shakespeare sonnets with music by Coil and Britten. It is one of Jarmans most personal and beautiful films, and one that has grown in power since his death. Visitors to the exhibition will be free to stay for as little or long as they wish, and to visit at any time of day or night, either by daylight, when the chapel will be lit only by its stained-glass windows, or in the quiet of the night. Access to the chapel is via the main entrance to Kings College London, on the Strand. Neil Bartlett is an author and theatre-maker with a long and distinguished record of making innovative work. He has made work for (amongst others) Artangel, the Manchester International Festival, the Aldeburgh Festival, the Brighton Festival, the National Theatre and Duckie. He worked with Derek Jarman on his controversial installation at the Third Eye Centre in Glasgow in 1989. His own previous installation and site-specific works include A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep (in collaboration with Robin Whitmore) at Butlers Wharf (1988), The Seven Sacraments of Nicolas Poussin (also with Whitmore) at the London Hospital and Southwark Cathedral (1998) and The Book of Numbers, a queer monologue for the pulpit of Westminster Abbey (2011). Simon Watney is a distinguished author, activist and HIV/AIDS campaigner. He was a close friend and contemporary of Derek Jarman’s, and is a leading authority on English church-memorial sculpture. kcl.ac.uk/cultural/culturalinstitute/ showcase/current/whatson/talksevents/Jarman-events-programme.aspx
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