1. Trespassers of the World Unite

    Title: Trespassers of the World Unite
    Location: 9 Kingsland Road, London E2
    Description: collaboration artworks from Dicy, Paris, Butch, Late, Bomb, Ekoe, Zime, Crackrock, Influenza, space3, Mr Jago, Will Barrass, Erosie, Phet15 and Rabodiga.
    Start Time: 18:00
    Date: 2009-05-28


  2. United Visual Artists

    Title: United Visual Artists
    Location: The Smithfield Gallery
    Start Time: 18:00
    Date: 2009-06-02

    First solo exhibition for UVA: series of photographic light-boxes, based on visits to post-industrial sites around the UK

    The Smithfield Gallery
    16 West Smithfield
    London EC1A 9HY

    www.thesmithfieldgallery.com


  3. Futurism

    Title: Futurism
    Location: Tate Modern
    Date: 2009-06-12

    Futurism was an art movement launched by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909. On 20 February he published his Manifesto of Futurism on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. That moment saw the birth of the Futurists, a small group of radical Italian artists working just before the outbreak of World War 1.

    Among modernist movements, the Futurists rejected anything old and looked towards a new Italy. This was partly because the weight of past culture in Italy was felt as particularly oppressive. In his Manifesto, Marinetti asserted ‘we will free Italy from her innumerable museums which cover her like countless cemeteries.’

    What the Futurists proposed instead was an art that celebrated the modern world of industry and technology: ‘We declare … a new beauty, the beauty of speed. A racing motor car … is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace’ (the celebrated ancient Greek sculpture in the Louvre museum in Paris). From an original blend of elements of Neo-Impressionism and Cubism, the Futurists created a new style that expressed the idea of the dynamism, energy and movement of modern life. The chief artists were Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini and Luigi Russolo.

    Tate Modern celebrates the centenary of this dramatic art movement with a ground-breaking exhibition. Here you’ll see the work of the Futurists accompanied by rooms looking at art movements reacting to Futurism, including Cubism, the British art movement Vorticism, and Russian Cubo-Futurism.

    Highlights include Boccioni’s dynamic bronze sculpture of a man which seems to leap through thin air, Picasso’s Head of a Woman, Nevinson’s Vorticist masterpiece Bursting Shell, and works by major artists such as Braque, Leger, Malevich, and Duchamp.

    on till 20 September 2009.


  4. Kitsuné Maison Party

    Title: Kitsuné Maison Party
    Location: Scala - Penton Rd
    Start Time: 20:00
    Date: 2009-06-20

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    KITSUNE MAISON PARTY
    Saturday 20th June | Scala ,KIngs Cross | 8pm - 4.30am

    Main Rm
    AUTOKRATZ - live
    CHEW LIPS - live
    DELPHIC - live
    INFLAGRANTI - live
    WE HAVE BAND - live
    YOUNG AND LOST CLUB

    Rm 2
    AEROPLANE
    BENI
    GILDAS & MASAYA
    STREETLIFE DJ’s

    Foyer
    LAST FM Dj Team


  5. History Repeats Itself

    Title: History Repeats Itself
    Location: Brick Lane Gallery London
    Description: Exhibition by the Winchester School of Art Graphics Programme
    Start Time: 14:00
    Date: 2009-05-30

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    30 May 2 — 6pm

    A Shared History of Play
    Marie O’Connor & Peter Nencini

    A Short History of Design Publishing — some books from Hyphen Press
    Roland Früh

    A History of Some Self-Initiated Work in Graphic Design
    James Goggin, Practise

    A Future History of the Book
    Sarah Gottlieb

    Seriously Forks #4: History Repeats like a Rehearsal for a Show we are not Meant to Do
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  6. Science and the Nation

    Title: Science and the Nation
    Location: E:vent Gallery
    Start Time: 19:00
    Date: 2009-05-29

    Speakers: Revital Cohen, Martin Conreen, Emily Dawson, Anna Dumitriu, Ben Johnson, Kira O’Reilly & Janet Smith, Rob La Frenais, Brendan Walker

    Guest curated by Tobie Kerridge & Elio Caccavale

    Science and the Nation is the title of a book collectively written by the Association of Scientific Workers and published in 1947, offering a rousing appeal for the transformation of post-war Britain:

    “Scientists can only make things possible, but it is the responsibility of every citizen to get things done”.

    Tired of waiting for the green shoots of recovery from our contemporary crisis? Come and hear alternative manifestos for Science and the Nation from key interdisciplinary practitioners.

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  7. Dexter Sinister: True Mirror Microfiche

    Title: Dexter Sinister: True Mirror Microfiche
    Location: ICA
    Description: Dexter Sinister present True Mirror Microfiche, a lecture with overhead projection that will be performed by a 20-strong cast.
    Start Time: 19:00
    Date: 2009-05-30

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    Dexter Sinister is a New York-based collaboration founded by Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt which ‘publishes’ work exploring the intersection of design, editing, publishing and distribution. For Talk Show Dexter Sinister presents True Mirror Microfiche, a lecture with overhead projection that will be performed by a 20-strong cast, and which itself replicates, revises and recasts two previous performances staged in New York at The Kitchen and the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2008.

    Free. Tickets must be collected 30 minutes before the event starts, or they will be released.

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  8. Damien Poulain: Totem 49

    Title: Totem 49
    Location: Kemistry Gallery (Charlotte Rd)
    Date: 2009-06-04

    Totem 49
    Private view: 4th June 2009
    The exhibition: 4th June - 18th July
    Kemistry Gallery: 43 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3PD

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    Prints of the totems will be available for purchase as well as a book to accompany the exhibition.
    The totems are available for purchase as a collection.

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  9. The Bunker – Residencies opening

    Title: The Bunker – Residencies opening
    Location: The Bunker, Abbot street
    Description: An exhibition curated by The Centre of The
    Universe (Artists: Pim Conradi , Jenny Moore-
    Koslowsky, Justin Gainin and Fede)
    An Introduction to Art & Artists in East London
    by the Bootstrap Company followed by
    Drinks, finger food and music

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    The Bunker is damp – please bring appropriate
    shoes.
    Start Time: 19:00
    Date: 2009-05-26

    Not quite an exhibition, but a deep challenge to an environment. In an abandoned and unidentified post-
    war bunker, spreading out underneath Dalston, East London, this show is a response to the space it inhabits, and
    to the history it recalls.

    THE BUNKER is propelled by the search for different spaces and modes of operation. Pushing our
    expectations for the future forward, we can trigger the motor of history to act, evolve and motion.
    We have invited the following artists to activate the Bunker with us:

    Pim Conradi
    Pim Conradi’s visionstructures are visual sketches of an on-going research. Through his efforts, he aims to
    individuate structures that analyze the relationship between human life and the biosphere, and translate them into
    functional proposals that span from architecture to design. This is his first public appearance.
    Pim is currently artist-in-residence at Area 10, London.
    Jenny Moore-Koslowsky
    Jenny Moore-Koslowsky is an artist, singer, song-writer and architect of the imagination. She navigates her work
    through allusions which are always mobile, questioning power relationships, disrupting balances and menacing
    comfortable confidence.
    She has recently participated in ‘Contested Ground’,2009, at 176/Zabludowicz Collection, London; and has
    performed This is Impractical, for the exhibition ‘Gold&Delicious’, at The Apple Tree, London.
    She is currently completing her MA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths College, London.
    Justin Gainan
    Justin Gainan’s practice is a continuous struggle with objects on the verge between uniqueness and rubble,
    obsession and quietness.
    Recent shows he has participated in include ‘The Shortest Short Story Ever Written,…’. 2008, FormContent,
    London; and ‘ThirtyFive Hours’,2009, HFBK project space, Hamburg.
    He is also completing his MA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths College, London.
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    On the evening, there will be a series of tailored screenings from video-sharing platforms. The show is
    accompanied by a selection of publications, and specially commissioned material that survey the area from a
    cultural perspective - which are freely available to the public.
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    THE BUNKER is curated by Catherine Borra.
    THE BUNKER is produced by The Centre of the Universe, for and with the support of the Embassy of
    Switzerland. Very special thanks to the Bootstrap Company & Antoine Sandoz.


  10. The Art of Hunting

    Title: The Art of Hunting
    Location: Café Oto
    Description: Régis Tosetti in collaboration with Donlon Books cordially
    invites you to the launch of his book \”L\’Art de la Chasse\”
    (\”The Art of Hunting\”) published by JRP|Ringier (Zürich)
    on Tuesday 26 of May at 8.00pm at CAFE OTO.

    Details
    Available in French only (Foreword translated)
    Hardcover, 216 × 286mm
    136 pages
    Images 66 color, 56 b/w
    £17

    Book (Special Edition) and Posters are available on DesignMarketo:
    L’Art de la Chasse and The Initiated and the Beast

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    About the book
    The hunter would have been the first “to tell a story” because he alone was able to read, in the silent, nearly imperceptible tracks left by his prey, a coherent sequence of events. — Carlo Ginzburg

    Young Swiss designer Régis Tosetti (born 1982 in Lausanne) presents an enhanced version of his thesis for ECAL
    (University of art and design, Lausanne), in the form of an artist’s book.

    Located somewhere between ethnographic investigation, photo-novel, and initiation epic, “l’Art de la Chasse” (“The Art of Hunting”) overcomes biased standpoints by inviting us to reconsider some fundamental processes related to this practice. Tosetti explores the universe of hunting with an extensive series of photographs produced in collaboration with Yann Gross, and concludes with texts introducing a selection of trophy-pictures written in collaboration with Joël Vacheron.

    About the author
    Régis Tosetti set up his graphic design studio in Zürich, in 2006 after his studies at ECAL. He came to London at the end of 2007
    and has been collaborating with James Goggin (Practise studio) since June 2008.

    The book launch will be followed by a slideshow screening and a DJ set by toot!. Accompanying the book will be two posters designed specifically for the launch.
    Start Time: 20:00
    Date:2009-05-26