The next installment of Restaurants in Residence is here with hosts Shacklewell Nights.
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Faisal Abdu’Allah, one of London’s most exciting contemporary artists, presents a new video work, Double Pendulum, that explores breathing, movement and air quality. The film is a collaboration with Olympic athletes and doctors from Kings College and Brunel University.
The exhibition runs as part of Invisible Breath, curated by Alice Sharp from Invisible Dust, and as part of the Create 11 Festival.
Screening from 30 June – 17 July 2011, 10am-6pm at The View Tube, E15 2PJ,
For more info, please see www.invisibledust.com
Film produced and edited by Emma Crouch (www.isayraar.com)
The CREATE Art Award Folly for a Flyover features in todays (10/07/11) Observer paper and also online.
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Art on the Underground presents Acts of Kindness – a new art project for stations and trains on the Central line created by Michael Landy, in collaboration with London Underground customers and staff. Landy is one of the UK’s leading visual artists who grew up in east London where he still lives, and throughout his life most of his journeys have started out on the Central line. This project celebrates the ordinary acts of generosity and compassion that take place every day on the Tube. From 18 June, Acts of Kindness invites users of the Underground, as well as Central line staff, to share stories of kindness that they have witnessed or been part of while travelling by Tube or on duty. Customers should look out for posters across the Tube network or go to art.tfl.gov.uk to submit their stories. Landy will select from these stories and place them as poster artworks in stations and trains along the Central line, adding more to look out for over time. The first Acts of Kindness stories will be debuted at four Central Line stations from the weekend of 23 July. More stories will be published at the Acts of Kindness web page. In the future, trains travelling on the line will also carry the stories.
Landy’s major projects include Break Down (Artangel, 2001), where he destroyed all his material possessions. The experience led him to reflect deeply on the value of the small acts of compassion that connect us with others, triggering his idea for Acts of Kindness. His other projects include Semi-Detached (2004), for which he reproduced his parents’ house to scale inside the galleries of Tate Britain, and Art Bin (2010) at the South London Gallery where he invited artists to come and throw away their work. Landy is currently Associate Artist at the National Gallery. In recognition of his major contribution to contemporary art, he was made a lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 2008.
To find out more about Acts of Kindness and submit your story visit art.tfl.gov.uk/actsofkindness
Michael Landy will be conversation with Mark Vernon on Wednesday 20 July, 7pm, Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial Street, London E1 This is a free event, with booking essential. To find out more please see HERE ››
Still a few FREE places left for Smog, Art and the East End. 05 JULY at The View Tube
Bicycle Thieves is a unique outdoor show, combining theatre, BMX choreography and pedal-powered sound.
IInspired by Luigi Bartolini’s novel ‘Ladri Di Biciclette’, Bicycle Thieves updates the classic father and son story from post-war Rome to London today, and replaces bicycles with BMXes. A timeless drama with a contemporary edge.
Script by Kieran Lynn
Conceived and directed by Henriette Baker
Bicycle Thieves is part of the View Tube art programme curated by Alice Sharp and runs as part of CREATE11 Festival from 7-8pm, 1-6 July at the View Tube and 17 July at Folly for a Flyover.
Book tickets at www.pipproductionsltd.com
www.theviewtube.co.uk
Film produced and edited by Emma Crouch (www.isayraar.com)
Win a pair of tickets to the 1234 Shoreditch on 9th July at 11AM (two pairs to give away)
Video produced at the A12 flyover, Hackney Wick, London as part of a workshop hosted by architects Tomas Klassnik & Magnea Gudmundsdottir 25.6.2011. In association with Folly For A Flyover and the Barbican’s Watch Me Move exhibition.
This workshop explored the relationship of the body to our road network infrastructure through film making. Conventionally experienced from within the safe separation and enclosure of a vehicle, participants set out to discover relationships between themselves and this architecture of utility and speed. Using their bodies to measure and map the monumental forms, textures and activities of this unexplored terrain referencing the speed, energy and materiality of this concrete picturesque landscape.
See the art and culture on your doorstep with a weekend of late-night gallery openings, special events and exhibitions. Pick from the top art shows, follow a cultural trail or join in with events for the whole family.
Thursday 7-Sunday 10 July
Various galleries across east London
Free
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Space Productions presents A Doll’s House
Performed at Arcola Theatre, Studio 2
29th June – 30th July 2011
8pm