1. An evening within an exhibition by Elline McGeorge

    Title: An evening within an exhibition by Elline McGeorge
    Location: HollybushGarden
    Description: What is to be said?
    presents an evening within an exhibition
    by Eline McGeorge

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    at
    Hollybush Gardens
    5 November, 7 pm
    A reading from Manual (2009),
    an artist’s book by Eline McGeorge,
    designed by åbäke,
    read by Oreet Ashery
    and Ed Hobbs.
    Plus
    a screening of two films by Maja Borg:
    Ottica Zero (2007) 13 mins;
    Construct (Two Moments in Beauty) (2006) 8 mins.
    What is to be said? is a year-long programme
    of events, seminars and texts
    curated by Malin Ståhl.
    www.whatistobesaid.org
    www.hollybushgardens.co.uk
    Hollybush Gardens
    Unit 2, BJ House
    10 - 14 Hollybush Gardens
    London E2 9QP
    Tel: 0207 739 9651

    Start Time: 19:00
    Date: 2009-11-05


  2. Anthony Burill

    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


  3. Sound Escapes

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

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    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.


  4. Secret Blisters

    Title: Secret Blisters
    Location: Print Club London, Dalston
    Description: An exhibition of 35 illustrators. 35 edition and hand signed prints with works by Eine, Anthony Burrill, Kate Moross etc
    Start Time: 18:00
    Date: 2009-06-26


  5. Super Contemporary

    Title: Super Contemporary
    Location: Design Museum
    Start Time: 19:00
    Date: 2009-06-02
    Show: 03 June – 04 October

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    At the heart of the exhibition are fifteen commissions from some of London’s most dynamic creatives, as a group they demonstrate the diverse approaches to design in London:

    Bus Shelter by David Adjaye. Gone with the Wind by Ron Arad. Listening Station by BarberOsgerby. Freedom Space by Neville Brody. Batterseum by Nigel Coates. Rain It In by Paul Cocksedge. London Transport by Tom Dixon. Horatio’s Garden by El Ultimo Grito with Urban Salon. Thames Pin by Kit Grover. Vision for the city of London by Zaha Hadid. K9 Post Office Kiosk by Industrial Facility. Lamp Post Chandelier by Thomas Heatherwick. KiosKiosk by Wayne Hemingway. Head to Toe by Ross Phillips. New London Rubbish Bin by Paul Smith.

    * scenography by Martino Gamper and Bibliotheque

    Gallery Talks
    Get right under the skin of all things Super Contemporary by joining one of our free gallery talks. A Design Museum curator or design specialist will be on hand to guide you round the show in one of our 30 minute talks. No pre-booking but spaces are limited.

    Sunday 14 June, 12 noon
    Sunday 19 July, 12 noon
    Sunday 9 August, 12 noon
    Sunday 13 September, 12 noon

    from the DM’s website:

    Design Museum has joined forces with Beefeater 24 to celebrate the fearlessly progressive spirit of London’s greatest creative minds, past and present. London thinks, designs and makes like no other city; it creates and the world follows. A magnet for mavericks and freethinkers, London has nurtured a creative community that continues to rival all other design capitals.

    These creative networks have spurred each other on. This exhibition will illustrate London’s pursuit of new, better and braver, across architecture, industrial design, graphics, fashion and communications alike. Endlessly pushing at the forefront of design and constantly inventing for new worlds, London’s design output is continually Super Contemporary.


  6. 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


  7. 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


  8. 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.


  9. 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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  10. 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.