Title: Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa
Location: Rokeby, 37 Store Street
Description: Butcher’s is proud to present the first solo show of Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa with her installation \’A Brush for Robben Island\’ (2008). Taking place at Rokeby by special invitation, Butcher’s presentation is part of Syndicate, a programme of multimedia events featuring a range of artists, curators and architects.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2008-12-10

Between 1961 and 1991, over 3,000 men were imprisoned on Robben Island for their opposition to South Africa’s apartheid government. Although subject to a harsh and physically repressive regime, the inmates of this prison nevertheless developed ingenious strategies to convene and to communicate.

Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa’s installation A Brush for Robben Island re-imagines these prisoners’ covert social space, taking as its starting point three seemingly unstable referents: a gesture that was used to mark this site, the sound that gesture produced, and the language that was used to describe it. The gesture in question is the prisoners’ version of applause, which they made by rubbing their hands together - an action that was termed ‘giving a brush’. Sonically alluding to this site and act of resistance, A Brush for Robben Island invites us to consider our relationship with a history that is fragmenting and fading from view.

A ‘brush’ connotes that most traditional tool of fine art practice, and strategies of representation are also questioned by this installation. ‘A Brush for Robben Island’ explores the potential of a politicised aesthetic, rejecting any assertion of an opposition between formal aspects of an artwork and its political content.

http://butchersprojects.org
http://www.wolukau-wanambwa.net
http://www.rokebygallery.com

Title: Back to Basics
Location: 9 Newburgh St, W1 (nearby Carnaby St)
Description: 30 Graphic designers from the Masters course at the London College of Communication investigate the bare basics of design through the exploration of circles, squares and triangles in a pop-up gallery of Carnaby Street. They will be showcasing personal interpretations of the concept Back to Basics.

An array of works ranging from prints, posters, books, t-shirts and photographic prints will be displayed. Christmas shoppers will be able to browse limited edition design and pick up something special for under £20.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-12-11

Amandine * will be part of the show above - selling the Book as Block poster … * disclosure: Amandine is contributing to Tlktlk.

Title: Don’t Smile Now… Save it for Later!
Location: Donlon Books - 210 Cambridge Heath Road
Description: A new publication is out now! Don’t Smile Now… Save it for Later! The project shows views from London photo booths. By using a mirror, keeping the curtain open and paying the necessary £4, the booth takes a polaroid of its own surroundings. A book launch will be held at Donlon Books (210 Cambridge Heath Road, London) on the 5th of December from 6 to 9pm. Copies will be available for £25.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-12-05
End Time: 21:00

Title: ‘In the eye of the reader’
Location: Cafe Oto, Dalston
Description: Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007 discussion with Roland Brauchli from Graphic Thought Facility and further guests.
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2008-11-28

Title: ‘What makes the book’
Location: Cafe Oto, Dalston
Description: Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007 discussion with Sean Murphy and Corina Neuenschwander from Value and Service
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2008-11-26

Title: ‘Something to say – and the need of that form to say it’
Location: Cafe Oto, Dalston
Description: Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007 discussion with Jost Hochuli, Ron Costley, James Goggin and Laurent Benner
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2008-11-29

Forever
21 November 2008 - 1 February 2009
John Madejski Garden
Admission free

A large video wall will generate infinite variations of digital animations responding to the rhythm of a single soundtrack. Each music video will be different, presenting a unique reaction to the track. The bespoke generative design system at the heart of Forever will spawn countless reactive music videos, everyday, forever.

Title: Forever
Location: V&A John Madejski Garden
Description: This winter the V&A John Madejski Garden will come alive with the latest digital commission by Universal Everything , a multidisciplinary design studio founded by creative director Matt Pyke in 2004.
Start Time: 8pm
Date: 2008-11-21

Title: Digital Cities: London’s Future
Location: The Building Centre, Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
Description: Digital Cities looks at how digital technology helps us understand and improve the planning and experience of our city.
21 November - 24 January 2009
Date: 2008-11-21

Digital Cities looks at how digital technology helps us understand and improve the planning and experience of our city. It looks at the impact on movement in cities: how communication and information technologies enhance a person´s experience of place; how people interpret cities with the use of technology; and how mapping influences the design and planning of cities. It also discusses some of the ‘big brother’ issues such as privacy and security.

The exhibition is presented through a number of research and commercial projects which use technology to provide planning and design and communication tool for the city. It contains live and interactive presentations in a number of digital media, showcasing work by Aedas, atmos, BT, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Cityware, Colin Buchanan, Farrells, GMJ, Hank Haeusler, Intelligent Space, Minimaforms, Ordnance Survey, Proboscis, SENSEable, Smartslab, Space Syntax, UCL, Zmapping

Title: Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007
Location: Cafe Oto, Dalston
Description: The Helvetic Centre and the Swiss Federal Office of Culture would like to invite you to the opening on the 19 November 2008 at 7pm. Hans Muster, director of Helvetic Centre will have a few words and guests from Switzerland will introduce the competition and the catalogue.
Please reserve Saturday afternoon 29 November for there will be a workshop held in the exhibition with guests from London and Switzerland. For further information go to www.helveticcentre.ch
Start Date: 2008-11-19
Start Time: 19:00
End Date: 2008-11-30

Title: Audio Forensic
Location: IMT Gallery- Image Music and Text
Description: Comprising of ambitious works by nine artists who employ sound as the principle media of their practice, Audio Forensics demonstrates the breadth of engagement with sound in the arts, and how it can be re-evaluated in the context of an increasingly noisy world. The artists exhibiting are Libero Colimberti, Jan Hendrickse, Simone Izzi, Nitin Lachhani, Luc Messinezis, Maria Papadomanolaki, Vytis Puronas, Mark Shorey and Mark Wright.

I M T
UNIT 2/210 CAMBRIDGE HEATH ROAD
LONDON E2 9NQ UK

Audio Forensics is an exhibition and symposium presenting the final work of the first MA Sound Arts graduates of London College of Communication. The groundbreaking work in the exhibition demonstrates the high level of critical debate in sonic disciplines fostered by the university’s Department of Sound Art and Design since 1998. The exhibition is co-curated by ELECTRA and IMT
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-11-27

Sound art encompasses a wide range of forms and concerns and has its
precedence across many creative fields, yet, as these artists demonstrate, the
acknowledgment of sound’s significance in the arts is becoming of greater
importance as technologies develop, and as the public become ever more
aware of the interactions between sound, space and artistic practice.

Some of the works make one aware of interactions with sound that are often
overlooked, such as the effect of sonic frequencies on the body in Shorey’s
work. Puronas’s audiovisual installation immerses the visitor in questions
of reality, hyper-reality and the authenticity of digital technology, whilst Izzi
turns installation against the audience as an analogy of the psychological
pressures of contemporary society. Others, such as Messinezis’s collection
of sonic curiosities, in an audio equivalent to the Wunderkammer, or
Lachhani’s extraordinary 3D sculptures of sound waves, translate sound
into contexts more familiar in the visual arts presenting experiences that are
at once recognisable and alien.

Other work in the exhibition explores and re-evaluates major disciplines in
sound art, whether through Hendrickse’s compositional use of air currents
to play both musical and non-musical instruments, or Colimberti’s
subversion of the use of music and the sound effect in film. Likewise
Papadomanolaki and Wright explore the field recording as a discipline
through which to narrate place, the space outside the gallery and the Abbeys
of the north of England respectively, demonstrating the capacity of sound to
evoke absent environments in very tangible ways.

As a whole the exhibition provides an extraordinarily comprehensive enquiry
into how sound, and its manipulation, influences our experience and
understanding of our environment.

On Sunday 30th November there will be a symposium in which keynote
speakers Ben Borthwick, Assistant Curator at Tate Modern, and Steven
Connor, professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck, will address
issues of sonic practice raised by the exhibition. This event will also give
visitors the opportunity to talk to the artists personally about their work.

Audio Forensics is an exhibition and symposium presenting the final work of
the first MA Sound Arts graduates of London College of Communication. The
groundbreaking work in the exhibition demonstrates the high level of critical
debate in sonic disciplines fostered by the university’s Department of Sound
Art and Design since 1998. The exhibition is co-curated by ELECTRA and
IMT.