Title: The Collection: Dance and Artworks
Location: Siobhan Davies Dance Studios and Victoria Miro Gallery

Description: This spring Siobhan Davies collaborates with leading London gallerist Victoria Miro to present The Collection.For nearly three weeks, performers and artists present specially commissioned dance and artworks at Victoria Miro Gallery in North London and Siobhan Davies Studios in South London.

Tues 24 March - Thurs 9 April 2009
Admission free, no booking required
Date: 2009-03-24

Form / Content

The Collection is a series of ambitious collaborations that look at the interfaces of contemporary art and dance, where these worlds intersect and how they might inform one another. At the heart of The Collection is a mutual curiosity for potential exchanges across both art forms, and an exploration of the connections and disconnections within them.

Architecture / Space

The Collection will open two different but equally interesting architectural spaces to the public. Sitting atop a refurbished Victorian building, Victoria Miro 14 affords sweeping views of the city, with its minimalist sculptural form and soaring interior spaces. Climbing to the top of the building visitors will encounter a new work by Siobhan Davies Dance.

Dance / Art

For The Collection, Siobhan Davies creates a new work with Catherine Bennett, Matteo Fargion, Henry Montes, Deborah Saxon and Matthias Sperling. Presented as a series of succinct pieces of movement, physical imagery and sound in a white cube the work is performed continuously for six hours each day. The dance is juxtaposed with Doldrum by the artist Anri Sala, which comprises a drum programmed to produce its own rhythm. Located in Victoria Miro 14, visitors can move freely around the space to create their own time frame and perspective of the work.

Art / Dance

Located at Victoria Miro 16 is a group exhibition of works that allude to movement, repetition or a physical engagement with space. The artists presented here work across diverse media, from film and photography, to dance, painting, sculpture and sound. There are several new works on view, including Lying in Wait, an exciting collaboration by Idris Khan and Sarah Warsop, and commissions by Alex Hartley and Susan Philipsz. Works by Francis Alÿs, Yayoi Kusama, Cildo Meireles, Roman Signer and Sarah Sze offer varied and often subtle introductions to ideas around movement in visual artistic practice.

Futher information regarding dates and location

http://www.siobhandavies.com/thecollection/details.php

Title: One Hour Catalogue
Location: Barbican
Description: Part of A Day in the Life of Le Corbusier

A.b.a.k.e. & Finn Williams invite you to learn about Le Corbusier’s activities as a magazine and book publisher, typographer, and manifesto-maker. How does the very distinctive graphic language he developed compare to those of his contemporaries and architects today?
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-03-07
End Time: 20:00

Title: Denys Lasdun:The Architects Who Made London
Location: Royal Academy of Arts
Description:

Denys Lasdun’s bold and dramatic designs of the 1960s, like the National Theatre and the Royal College of Physicians, are among the most notable buildings to come from the theoretical energy that made London an important centre for architectural thought in the 1950s.

Dr Barnabas Calder, University of Strathclyde, reveals Lasdun’s very personal interpretation of archetypal forms, which Lasdun believed to be the essence of architecture and city-making.

Royal Institution, Albemarle Street, W1S 4BS;6.30–8pm; £10/£5* (includes a drink)
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-03-09
End Time: 20:00

There is a fearful energy to Monika Grzymala’s drawing installations: layer upon layer of black lines scrawling up the gallery walls as if she’s suffering a manic bout of brain fever. They have a similar intensity to Henri Michaux’s shaky scribbles made while high on mescaline.

Using strips of sticky tape, Grzymala builds up a complex web of lines determined by the architectural space around her.

Her new installation will be a visual crescendo inspired by the chaos of the London skyline.

Title: # Lars Müller # Communicating Architecture
Location: ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION
Description: The lecture will investigate the potentials of the book as a medium for the communication of architecture. Editorial conditions and design rules have changed since the challenges of digital media emerged. Lars Müller will analyse the structural and functional differences between analogue and digital media and their abilities and limits in the expression and communication of architectural atmosphere. His evaluation will focus on the book and its exclusive attributes and will feature its characteristics as an object and its materials, the structure, the content and the handling of text and image.

Lars Müller is founder of Lars Müller Publishers, known for books on design, art, photography and architecture on, among others, Peter Zumthor, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron and Steven Holl. Recently, it has expanded its catalogue to include social and political subjects. The Face of Human Rights and Who Owns the Water? are examples of publishing as a democratic and humanistic effort. Müller teaches a course entitled Communicating Architecture at Harvard University.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-02-19

* image found on Lars Müller Publishers website

Title: Joseph Grigely — Exhibition Prosthetics
Location: ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION
Description: ‘Exhibition Prosthetics’ is a term used to describe a loosely ordered array of exhibition conventions. These conventions include labels, titles, checklists, exhibition announcements, press releases, and catalogues; and in some instances, exhibition publications that manifest themselves outside the physical space of the gallery. In this respect, moving closer to the artwork involves moving away from the artwork – to look closer at fringes and margins and representations, and ask what seems to be a very fundamental question: to what extent are these various exhibition conventions actually part of the art – and not merely an extension of it? How might it be that ‘art’ is subsumed by the various representations that we make for it? This talk will focus on situations in which the representations are art – not merely re-presentations of art.

Artist Joseph Grigely’s lecture ‘Exhibition Prosthetics’ is the first in the Excursus lecture and publication series initiated by Bedford Press, a small-scale private press and publisher operating under the auspices of the Architectural Association.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-02-18

Bedford Press: Excursus Series
Artist Joseph Grigely’s lecture Exhibition Prosthetics is the first in the Excursus lecture and publication series is initiated by Bedford Press, a small-scale private press and publisher operating under the auspices of the Architectural Association.

Exhibition Prosthetics, Joseph Grigely
Exhibition Prosthetics is a term used to describe a loosely ordered array of exhibition conventions. These conventions include labels, titles, checklists, exhibition announcements, press releases, and catalogues; and in some instances, exhibition publications that manifest themselves outside the physical space of the gallery. In this respect, moving closer to the artwork involves moving away from the artwork–to look closer at fringes and margins and representations, and ask what seems to me a very fundamental question: to what extent are these various exhibition conventions actually part of the art–and not merely an extension of it? How might it be that ‘art’ is subsumed by the various representations that we make for it?  This talk will focus on situations in which the representations are art–not merely re-presentations of art.

Title: Le Corbusier - The Art of Architecture
Location: Barbican Art Gallery
Date: 2009-02-19

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: The Rule Of Regulations
Location: The Architecture Foundation: Somerset House

Description: Architectural designs and photography exploring the effects of current UK housebuilding legislation and asking how Le Corbusier’s buildings would look if built within these regulations.
Start Date: 2008-08-29
End Date: 2008-09-13

Finn Williams & David Knight: The Rule Of Regulations at The Architecture Foundation: Somerset House runs from Friday, 29th August to Saturday, 13th September