London

ART AND ACTIVISM
Screening Feb 4 - 5, 2012 11:00am - 4:00pm
This weekend of film screenings presents a rare opportunity to see performance and experimental film work of key individuals and art collectives who explore the intersections of art and activism.
 
Saturday:
 
CONJURING SELVES
Takahiko Iimura, Performance / Myself (Or Video Identity) (1972-1995), DumbType S/N (1995), Cho Yukio, Pandemic (2010) - First UK screening, Yutaka Tsuchiya, Identity? (1993), Mayumi Kimura, Amnesian (2004)
 
RADICAL ACTION REPLAYED
Motoharu Jonouchi Document 6.15 (1961), Shinjuku Station (1974) & Tatsumi Hijikata (1967); Tatsumi Hijikata Summer Storm (2010) - First UK screening, Takahiko Iimura, Fluxus Replayed (1991)
 
Sunday:
 
CONTESTED HISTORIES
Soni Kum, Beast of Me (2005) & Foreign Sky (2005) - First UK screenings, Chikako Yamashiro: Okinawa Tourist (2004), Seaweed Woman (2008) & Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat (2009) - First UK screenings
 
ART, ACTION, ACTIVISM
“Louder than Bombs”: Art, Action & Activism, 7 Weeks, 7 Residencies, 7 Ways to Activate Change (2010) – Steven Levon Ounanian & Thomas Thwaites / Áine Phillips / Sean Burn / Ansuman Biswas / Stacy Makishi & Yoshiko Shimada / Prick Your Finger / the vacuum cleaner - a co-curated live art season by David Falkner, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University and Lois Keidan, Live Art Development Agency (LADA) (supported by Arts Council England and British Council)
 
The Lost Runway Kyoto (2010), collaboration between performance artist Áine Phillips and film-maker Rachel Davies - First UK screening (supported by Culture Ireland, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Japan Foundation)
 
This screening has been curated by Fran Lloyd and Eliza Tan, with special thanks to the participating artists, Stephen Barber and Julian Ross.
 
Daily screenings from 11am – 4pm in the Project Space throughout the weekend.
FREE, no booking necessary.
PUMP HOUSE GALLERY

London

ALAN WATTS : BRAIN-MELT + THE LAWNMOWER MAN (1992)
Screening & Talk Feb 05, 2012
Part of our Hex retrospective.
A listening party based around a short undated archive recording by philosopher and writer Alan Watts (1915 - 1973) followed by a screening of virtual reality science fiction horror movie, The Lawnmower Man (1992).
FREE admission.
S P A C E

London

BIG IDEAS : SIMON SCHAMA
Feb 09, 2012 7:00pm
Historian, broadcaster, critic, and Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University, New York, Simon Schama presents his lecture This was Tomorrow: Whitechapel Gallery, the Independent Group and the promise of the 1950s.
£7.00
WHITECHAPEL GALLERY

London

LINDA BENGLIS IN CONVERSATION WITH GREGOR MUIR
Artist Talk Feb 10, 2012 1:15pm
American sculptor Lynda Benglis joins us for this lunchtime talk with ICA Director Gregor Muir to discuss her practice and the changing shape of culture in the 21st century.
Benglis is known primarily for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures, and rose to prominence during the 1960s and 70s, a time when her singular practice both intersected with and transcended the categories of post-Minimalism and feminist art. Alongside her sculptural output, Benglis created a radical body of work in video, photography, and media interventions that explore notions of power, gender relations, and role-playing.
Tickets £5.
To book please visit the ICA website: www.ica.org.uk/events
ICA, INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS

England

JEANNIE DRIVER AND CHRISTOPHER LUNDIE
Artist Talk Feb 10, 2012 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jeannie Driver and Christopher Lundie explore the conceptual qualities of paper: the way which it begins to articulate a complex set of ideas from repetition, materiality, consumption and production while maintaining its strong aesthetic and creative presence as an art object.
 
Jeannie Driver makes work from the A4 waste office paper. This ubiquitous material is a symbol of immaterial production and a signifier of the bureaucracy. Through re-processing the discarded material, Jeannie makes works that reference issues of consumption, flow and waste. www.jeanniedriver.com.
 
Christopher Lundie is researching the relationship between repetition and printmaking. His work challenges the processes involved in print production. He enjoys the repetitive nature of printmaking and exaggerates this at all stages of production: inconsistencies in the printing press, ink, paper, and matrix are highly controlled to produce small changes to each edition. Christopher is the SHP Resident Artist in Printmaking. christopherlundie.wordpress.com
 
The talk is followed by the Opening Reception of the Ubiquitous Materials exhibition, 7-8.30pm - all welcome!
6-7pm, £10 (concessions & members £8) bookings: 01344 484123; www.southhillpark.org.uk.
SOUTH HILL PARK

London

LAURA BUCKLEY IN CONVERSATION WITH ELIZABETH NEILSON
Artist Talk Feb 11, 2012
Elizabeth Neilson is Director of Zabludowicz Collection, London and will be in conversation with Laura Buckley for CYcLE CLUB on Saturday 11th February 2012.
For further information about times and bookings please contact Femke Oortwijn at Cell Project Space: info@cellprojects.org
To find out more information about CYcLORAMA visit our future page: www.cellprojects.org/shows-future
CELL PROJECT SPACE

London

BEYOND CHAOS
Artist Talk Feb 12, 2012
Roy Ascott and Robert Pepperell (Hex) in conversation.
Part of our Hex retrospective, founder member of Hex Robert Pepperell joins artist and theorist Roy Ascott in a relaxed and open discussion.
SPACE is delighted to welcome Ascott back following his solo exhibition here last year.
FREE admission.
S P A C E

London

RICHARD DYER IN CONVERSATION WITH...
Artist Talk Feb 15, 2012 6:30pm
Please join us for the third in the series of 'In Conversations' at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery. Critic and writer Richard Dyer will be in conversation with the four artists showing in the current exhibition, Means Without Ends: Mark Francis, Ian Davenport, DJ Simpson and Daniel Sturgis. The discussion will look at each artist's practice and some of the links and themes that emerge in bringing their new bodies of work together.
The event will begin at 7pm with drinks at the gallery from 6.30pm. Places are limited: RSVP to Claire Nichols on +44 (0)20 7734 7760 or claire@houldsworth.co.uk.
To listen to previous 'In Conversations' at the gallery including Clem Crosby & Matthew Collings and Expanded Practices of Drawing, please visit our Vimeo page: vimeo.com/pippyhouldsworthgallery
PIPPY HOULDSWORTH GALLERY

ONE PLUS ONE : PICTURE EDITING AFTER BATAILLE
Panel Discussion Feb 15, 2012 6:30pm - 8:00pm
David Evans and Patrizia di Bello in conversation on radical picture editing by historical figures such as Georges Bataille, Bertolt Brecht and Guy Debord, as well as contemporary resonances.
David Evans teaches at the Arts University College at Bournemouth and is the editor of Critical Dictionary (Black Dog Publishing, 2011). Patrizia di Bello teaches at Birkbeck College and is the co-editor of The Photobook (IB Taurus, 2012).
This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Critical Dictionary, which runs 27 January-25 February 2012 at WORK.
The event is free but seating will be limited. Please RSVP to press@workgallery.co.uk to reserve a place.
WORK

London

AKIKO TAKIZAWA IN CONVERSATION WITH DR SIMON BAKER
Artist Talk Feb 16, 2012 6:00pm
Akiko Takizawa is a Japanese artist based in London. The exhibition, Over the Parched Field, showcases a selection of Takizawa’s photographs since 2006, including new works made especially for the exhibition. This is Takizawa’s first solo show in London.
In conversation with Dr Simon Baker, Curator of Photography and International Art at the Tate Gallery.
Contact DAJF for further info.
THE DAIWA ANGLO-JAPANESE FOUNDATION

London

PETER BALLANTINE ON DONALD JUDD
Curators Talk Feb 17, 2012 7:00pm
Peter Ballantine, curator of 'WORKING PAPERS : DONALD JUDD DRAWINGS, 1963 - 93' at Spruth Magers London (13 Jan-18 Feb 2012) will give a talk at the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
For further information please contact Ana Castella: ac@spruethmagers.com
SPRÜTH MAGERS LONDON

London

WORKSHOP WITH ARTIST SONI KUM
Performance & Talk Feb 19, 2012 11:00am - 3:00pm
Soni Kum, a third generation Korean artist born in Japan, will present Sacrifice, Sacral Dance at the gallery on 19 February 2012. Join Kum for a hands-on origami making workshop from 11am-2pm, in preparation for her performance event that will explore notions of dance as a sacred ritual at 3pm. The day will conclude with a talk by the artist from 3pm.
‘…..dance was not only for spectacle but a sacred ritual, it was essential as a healing practice, which integrates our psychosomatic state of being. When our bodies are submerged in daily inertia, the only means to retrieve ourselves is to awaken this subdued dormant state of mind…….’ Soni Kum 2012
Soni Kum is an interdisciplinary artist who was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan as a third generation Korean. She grew up in the North Korean Community in Japan but only spent about 8 days in North Korea when she was a teenager. Kum obtained South Korean citizenship in 2006.
FREE, all welcome.
PUMP HOUSE GALLERY

London

SLAM : LAST FRIDAYS
Artist Talk Feb 24, 2012 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Contact gallery for details:
info@ascstudios.co.uk
www.ascstudios.co.uk
ASC GALLERY

'TIC, TAC, TOE' EXHIBITION TALK
Artist Talk Feb 24, 2012 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Shaun Doyle, Mally Mallison, James Viscardik, Aki ilomaki.
FREE event.
ASC GALLERY

CURATOR'S TOUR : THE CHALLENGER'S REPORT
Curators Talk Feb 24, 2012 7:00pm
Gasworks' Exhibitions Curator Robert Leckie leads an informal tour of the current exhibition.
FREE.
GASWORKS

London

HOTEL PALENQUE & HANNAH PERRY : CYCLE CLUB EVENT
Mar 01, 2012
For one night only.
Hotel Palenque has been invited by Nina Cristante to host the third CYcLE CLUB event at Cell Project Space. Curated by Elise Lammer, Hotel Palenque is a continuous programme of newly commissioned contemporary art projects focusing on producing and presenting new works by emerging artists on a single A0 non-reproducible print.
Hannah Perry will present Hotel Palenque's 5th commission. During this one-night event, the resulting A0 print will be paired with a performance displaying VHS footage collected by the artist. Exploring the notion of decay, the artist will nostalgically stage the death of analog media by recording the progressive disappearance of the moving image by simultaneously exposing the visual flaws and scratches of the artist's continuous mixing, and processing of footage. Displayed on an obsolete RGB projector, deteriorated images of pop culture icons question our ambiguous relation to an irretrievable youth.
CELL PROJECT SPACE

London

ART WRITING IS AN ANTHOLOGY OF EXAMPLES
Mar 06, 2012 11:00am
The MFA Art Writing, Goldsmiths, hosts a new series of seminars in which contemporary issues in art writing are presented and debated. Each public session brings together art writing students and staff members and a visiting speaker, with each seminar themed around one of eleven Statements on Art Writing developed by the programme. Participants will be supplied with reading material and background information in advance of the session. Organised by former Writer in Residence Maria Fusco.
6 Mar: "Art Writing is a possible form of the liberty of the image"
Led by Yve Lomax and Adrian Rifkin with a guest speaker.
£10/£8 conc. Tickets by application.
Applicants should submit their interest in attending an event by emailing a letter with 100-word biographical details and a 100-word statement of interest to nicolasim@whitechapelgallery.org at least a week before the session.
WHITECHAPEL GALLERY

London

FRANZ ERHARD WALTHER AND HANS ULRICH OBRIST
Artist Talk Mar 07, 2012 6:30pm
Franz Erhard Walther in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist (Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London), coinciding with the exhibition – Franz Erhard Walther: DRAWINGS at Drawing Room from 8 March – 28 April 2012.
Tickets: £5 Full price / £3 Concessions
Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment: franzerhardwalther.eventbrite.co.uk
DRAWING ROOM

England

THE STARRY RUBRIC SET EVENT AND PERFORMANCE DAY
Performance Mar 10, 2012 to 12:00am
A Day long series of performances and events including 'The Government of the First and Thirteenth Chair', the performance of a play by John Latham as re-interpreted by Mark Aerial-Waller.
For Further details see our website: www.wysingartscentre.org
WYSING ARTS CENTRE

London

IRENE KOPELMAN
Artist Talk Mar 15, 2012 6:30pm
Artist Irene Kopelman introduces her practice and speaks about the development of The Challenger's Report at Gasworks, offering an insight into her research and working process.
FREE.
GASWORKS

London

THROUGH THE WRITINGS OF LOUISE BOURGEOIS
Seminar/Symposium Mar 17, 2012 9:30am - 5:00pm
This conference draws on the recent discovery of Louise Bourgeois’s psychoanalytic writings. These writings, the focus of the accompanying exhibition, record her reactions to psychoanalysis and suggest new ways of thinking about her creative process. The conference will bring together scholars and practitioners from the worlds of art and psychoanalysis. Speakers include: Phyllida Barlow, Juliet Mitchell, David Morgan, Frances Morris, Mignon Nixon, John Woods.
Registration: £60/£45 Concessions and Members of the Museum.
Advance booking is essential.
For further information email ivan@freud.org.uk or call the Museum on 020 7435 2002
Online registration will be available on 01 February 2012.
FREUD MUSEUM

London

APEIROPHOBIA : KARIN KIHLBERG AND RUBEN HENRY
Book launch Mar 21, 2012
DANIELLE ARNAUD

England

SIOBHAN DAVIES DANCE
Performance Mar 31, 2012 12:00pm
12 noon / 2pm / 4pm.
For one weekend, Siobhan Davies Dance brings ROTOR to Turner Contemporary; an ensemble of sound, installations, artworks and live works inspired by walking.
Performance £5/ £4 concessions.
Further information: www.turnercontemporary.org
TURNER CONTEMPORARY

England

HAMISH FULTON IN CONVERSATION
Artist Talk Apr 01, 2012 7:00pm
Exhibiting artist Hamish Fulton compares notes on walking with explorer Erling Kagge, the most acclaimed living polar explorer and the first to surmount the North and South Poles and Mount Everest.
£5 / £4 concessions.
Further information: www.turnercontemporary.org
TURNER CONTEMPORARY

SIOBHAN DAVIES DANCE
Performance Apr 01, 2012 12:00pm
12 noon / 2pm / 4pm.
For one weekend, Siobhan Davies Dance brings ROTOR to Turner Contemporary; an ensemble of sound, installations, artworks and live works inspired by walking.
Performance £5/ £4 concessions.
Further information: www.turnercontemporary.org
TURNER CONTEMPORARY

England

FELICITY ASTON
Apr 19, 2012 6:00pm
Hear a first person account from Felicity Aston, on her recent attempt to be the first woman to cross the South Pole.
Talk £5 / £4 concessions.
Further information: www.turnercontemporary.org
TURNER CONTEMPORARY

England

GUY TARRANT : AT PLAY ARTIST TALK
Artist Talk 20.04.2012. 5.30-6.30pm.
Guy Tarrant’s artworks challenge the formal processes of art. Guy's first concerns dealt with questioning the very nature of artistic authorship and professional practice. As things progressed Guy became more involved in teaching he shifted his attention to addressing the education process itself. He has become increasingly concerned with focusing on the role and responses of participants behaviour. www.guytarrant.co.uk
10/£8 conc. via Box Office, 01344 484 123.
SOUTH HILL PARK

HAMISH FULTON / LANDMARK
Performance Apr 20, 2012 6:00pm
To celebrate Turner Contemporary’s 1st birthday artists respond to the architecture of the gallery, plus exhibiting artist Hamish Fulton conducts a unique group walk.
FREE.
To take part in the walk email sangiama@turnercontemporary.org
TURNER CONTEMPORARY

England

JANET STREET-PORTER
Apr 26, 2012 6:00pm
Journalist and TV presenter Janet Street-Porter shares her passion for rambling. Complimentary glass of wine with every ticket.
Talk £10 / £8 (includes complimentary glass of wine
Talk + Dinner £30
Further information: www.turnercontemporary.org
TURNER CONTEMPORARY

England

JAMES HAMILTON
Curators Talk May 03, 2012 6:00pm
Turner biographer and curator James Hamilton gives a lecture on how a passionate curiosity about nature underpins Turner’s painting of land, sky and sea and examines how the painter’s powers of observation found echo in scientific discovery.
Talk £5 / £4 concessions.
Further info: www.turnercontemporary.org
TURNER CONTEMPORARY