Title: Arnold Circus Picnic
Location: Arnold Circus
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2009-07-26

Title: Barterama
Location: Barbican Conservatory
Description: This will be great, come and swap your books, t-shirts, mugs, see more at occasional papers website
Start Time: 11:00
Date: 2009-07-26
End Time: 17:00

Title: V&A village fete
Location: V&A
Description: This year is the tenth year of the fete with pretty fun games and workshops in perspective with a set of really good design studios holding stands
Date: 2009-07-24

Title: Anthony Burill
Location: Kemistry gallery
Description: \’exploration of industrial processes and materials with large scale laser-cut perspex pieces…\’
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-07-23

Title: Ritmo
Location: Life Bar
Start Time: 22:00
Date: 2009-07-18

Join residents Secondo and Laurence for a crisp selection of house, disco and body music of all types. Sadly for us, Uncle Benzo is away this time spinning the platters that matter at the fantastic Salon Des Amateurs in Düsseldorf (Boo!). Fortunately though, he has kindly left us all a little going away present in the form of this lovely mix (Yay!). Please help yourself here and get your rollerskates warmed up in time for the once a month hand clapping festival they call Ritmo.

Ritmo
Saturday 18 July 2009
10.00PM — 2.30AM
£0

Life Bar
2—4 Old Street
London
EC1V 9AA

Title: Sound Escapes
Location: Space / Mare street
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-07-24

Co-curated by Irene Revell (Electra) and Angus Carlyle (LCC)

Sound Escapes is an exhibition to mark the culmination of a radical interdisciplinary
research project that brought artists together with acousticians, engineers and social
scientists from institutions across the UK in an endeavour to move beyond the notions
of negative noise towards the idea of positive soundscapes.

Alongside a public interpretation of the central research strands of the project, the
exhibition includes artists who work with soundscapes across a wide range of practices
and whose work is in conversation with the scientific and sociological questions posed
in the research. Significantly, the works have emerged from a listening process that
challenges what counts as positive; work that understands the auditory world in a more
inquisitive way, indeed an interrogation of what even counts as sound.

Title: Aurélien Froment - Froebel Suite
Location: Gasworks
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-07-07

Aurélien Froment, Werner Herzog (detail), 2002, Scale model, mixed media, 75 x 200 x 160 cm, Collections Fonds national d’art contemporain, Paris

9th July 2009 - 16th August 2009

Private view: Wednesday 8 July 2009, 6.30-9pm

Froebel Suite, Aurélien Froment’s first solo exhibition in a UK public space, continues the artist’s ongoing reflection on the function and semantic power of images.

Having previously worked as a projectionist, Aurélien Froment remains interested in cinematography and in how the production of knowledge varies according to the way images are sequenced. This is evident in works like Instruction manual for a 35mm projector (2007) and Théâtre de Poche (Pocket Theatre) (2007).

Instruction manual for a 35mm projector is a series of photographs documenting the gestures and actions required to operate the projector. The work shows the artist’s interest in the process of assembling images and how these become steps within a process of self-learning. In the film Théâtre de Poche (Pocket Theatre), a magician produces images from his pockets which he places in front of the camera to reveal a sequence. He then shuffles them before rearranging them to propose new visual combinations. By introducing this element of illusion, the film adds a layer of doubt to the question of visual communication and its authority.

At Gasworks, Froment presents new works that turn images and objects into the subjects of scrutiny. In these works, a brick, a maritime knot and the image of the boat on the hill taken from Werner Herzog’s film Fitzcarraldo (1982) are presented out of their own contexts and dissected in a series of sequential photographs or, as it is the case with the latter work, through a conversation between the artist and Herzog.

Another piece within the installation is Cinemeccanica, a free-standing wall with two windows from which one can see the gallery from the perspective of a projectionist. This piece gives the exhibition a new reading and highlights each works’ function within a wider narrative.

These works illustrate the idea of “education through self-activity”, championed by the German 19th century educationalist Friedrich Froebel, best known for developing the kindergarten model. Froebel, who lends his name to the title of the exhibition, believed that the acquisition of knowledge is achieved through a series of steps, each requiring a level of interaction. It is this process of active learning that gives viewers of the exhibition the opportunity to create different narratives and forms of engagement with the surrounding space.

A further element of the exhibition is Like the cow jumped over the moon, a booklet edited by Aurélien Froment, designed by Åbäke and co-published by Gasworks and Dent-De-Leone. Based on an interview between Aurélien Froment and Werner Herzog, the publication focuses on the image of the ship on the hill, which symbolises Fitzcarraldo’s plot and the myth that has surrounded the film and its production. The booklet is available for sale at £3 in the gallery.

Froment lives and works in Dublin. Recent solo exhibitions include: La ligne dure, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2008); Calling the Elephant, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2007); A Hole in the Life, Store, London (2006). Recent group exhibitions include: The Way in which it Landed, Tate Britain, London (2008); Word Event, Kunsthalle Basel (2008); P2P, Casino Luxembourg, (2008); The Great Transformation, Frankfurter Kunstverein, (2008). Aurélien Froment is represented by Motive Gallery, Amsterdam.

Title: Johanna Billing - I\’m Lost Without Your Rythm
Location: Camden Art Center
Date: 2009-07-10

Swedish artist Johanna Billing has been commissioned to make a new film which is the second project in the 3 Series; a collaboration between Camden Arts Centre, Modern Art Oxford and Arnolfini.

Shown alongside other work, this exhibition is Billing’s first major solo exhibition in a public gallery in London.

Johanna Billing’s videos reflect on routine, rehearsal and ritual with an emphasis on the fragility of individual performance and power of collective experience.

Her new work is based around the recording of a live performance of dance ‘learned’ or performed by amateur Romanian dancers in Iasi (pronounced ‘yash’), during Periferic 8 Biennial of Contemporary Art “Art as Gift” in October 2008.

The film links several days’ activity into a continuous process, in which dancers were watched by an audience who were free to come and go as they pleased.

Johanna Billing’s skill lies in combining the choreography of individuals with facilitating their freedom to perform naturally, bringing the whole together through editing hours of footage.

There is no final performance, the whole is a collaboration between choreographer, dancers and local musicians. The unfolding dramas hold the viewer enthralled and moved.

Part of the 3 Series: 3 artists, 3 spaces, 3 years, funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and supported by the Embassy of Sweden