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: The First Pictures I Enjoyed
Location: Frieze Talks
Description: Writer and artist Alasdair Gray in conversation with novelist and artist Tom McCarthy.

Start Time: 15:00
Date: 2008-10-17

Title: The Ideology of the \’Iconic\’
Location: ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION
Description: Love her or loathe her\’ says Kirsty Wark of Madonna, \’you cannot underestimate the impact she has had on music, or her iconic status.\’
The word \’iconic\’ might be the best way into a discussion of where postmodernism\’s collapse of high and low has led us: to a situation in which opting out of mass market phenomena simply isn\’t considered to be an option. The \’iconic\’ as an ideology means that, regardless of taste, we all have to pay attention to – and analyse, preferably in a sub-Barthesian manner infused with terms like \’guilty pleasures\’ and \’getting my fix\’ – a new canon in which commercial status and cultural status are one and the same thing. As a result, even in the academy quantitative terms have swamped qualitative ones, and criticism – co-opted and confounded by the comforting repetitions of celebrity culture and PR – is in crisis. As we approach the end of this postmodern tyranny, Momus signals what he calls Unpop as one possible exit strategy.

Momus is a singer, writer and artist living in Berlin. As well as 18 albums of \’disorienteering\’ pop music, he\’s written for Wired, Frieze, and has a weekly design and culture slot on the website of the New York Times. His first novel, The Book of Jokes, will appear in 2009, when Sternberg will also publish his Book of Scotlands, a piece of speculative non-fiction listing 1000 parallel world Scotlands.

Future guests in the ‘Pop and Populism’ Lecture series include Sam Jacob.

Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-10-14

Title: Trattoria Al Capello
Location: Somerset House
Description: Designer Martino Gamper and friends design every aspect of the guerrilla restaurant, including the furniture, tableware, cutlery and food. Join them for this one-off dining event in the gallery.
(Limited capacity)

Date: 2008-11-03

Title: Dot Dot Dot Magazine Evenings
Location: Somerset House at The Studio
Description: Dexter Sinister organise three nights of talks, which will create the content for the next issue
of internationally renowned arts journal Dot Dot Dot. Dexter Sinister will effectively compose a \’live\’ issue of the complete journal, existing in ‘real’ time before being hardened into printed form.
(Limited capacity)
Wednesday 29 October, Thursday 30 October, Friday 31 October

Date: 2008-10-28

Title: ZineSwap Launch
Location: Bricklane - RAQ Factory

Rag Factory
16-18 Heneage Street
(Just off brick Lane)
Description: Zine Swap Shop:
This will be a chance for you to bring along your zines and swap them with other people. You will give us your zines, and in return will be given a selection of other people\’s work.

Zineswap aims to be a resource through which people can swap their zines with one-another.

It also aims to become a vast archive of contemporary zine publishing, existing as both an online catalogue
and an annual exhibition.

They are looking for contributions from people that self-publish their own zine or magazine. Content is not limited in anyway, your zine can be about anything.

Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2008-11-01

URL: http://www.zineswap.com/

(* bring your own booze)

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Title: Aurélien Froment / After Party
Location: Bird Cage / Columbia Road
Start Date: 2008-08-01
Start Time: 08:00
End Date: 2008-08-02
End Time: 02:00