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Public Meeting: Jeff Keen
Wednesday 28 July
6.00pm: Doors & Bar
6.30pm: Meeting begins
At: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington St, Brighton BN1 4AJ
Entry: Free
The work of one of Brighton's most important artists, Jeff Keen,
faces an uncertain future. His family and friends are asking for
support in securing the future of his invaluable body of work.
Lighthouse are hosting a public meeting which will gather together
concerned friends, researchers, curators, institutions, and collectors.
Jeff Keen's daughter, Stella Keen, will giver an overview of the
current situation, and outline ways that the community in Brighton
can help.
Brighton’s art and film community can help save this major body of
work, but we need to act now.
Jeff Keen is one of the most significant experimental filmmakers in
Britain, and one of Brighton's most important artists. He is best
known for his underground film and expanded cinema work. His
contribution to cinema was recently acknowledged in a major
retrospective of his film and video work at the BFI, to coincide with
the launch of Gazwrx, the definitive collection of his film work in a
DVD box set.
Less well known is that Keen has been an incredibly prolific visual
artist since the 1940s. His extraordinary body of visual artwork
includes paintings, drawings, prints, collages, hand printed books of
poetry, sculptures and assemblages. Most of this work is has been
unseen by the public.
Jeff Keen is suffering from terminal prostate cancer and has - at best
- one year to live. He and his wife are being evicted from their
house on 13 September 2010. Their only option is to move into
Keen's studio. To make the studio habitable, Stella Keen needs to
move his art collection out of the studio as soon as possible.
We urgently need to help Stella find somewhere to house Keen's
exceptional collection. Even a temporary safe storage location would
be considered at this stage. In the longer term, the collection needs
to be formally archived and catalogued. But at present, the critical
urgency is ensuring the safety of the work.
Lighthouse are urging anyone who appreciates Keen's work, or feels
they may be able to help Stella, to come to this meeting. We will
warmly welcome representatives from universities, museums,
galleries, archives, libraries, councils, and individuals who feel they
may be able to contribute advice, support or space at this difficult
time.
To find out more about Jeff Keen, please visit:
http://www.kinoblatz.com
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1359564/index.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/feb/13/1
RSVP
To RSVP to the meeting please contact: emma@lighthouse.org.uk
RSVP date: Monday 25 July
Facebook event:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137382379623646
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