London

SUMI INK CLUB
Performance Mar 13, 2010 3:00pm
Fishbeck and Rara's ongoing drawing collective called Sumi Ink club, since its instigation in 2005, has had a mandate of being non-hierarchical and allowing "all ages, all humans, all styles". In these sessions communal drawings are made in ink on paper and the windows of the space as a way of documenting and creating social interactions that extend into everyday life. All invited, all welcome, ink brushes and paper provided.
AUTO ITALIA SOUTH EAST

LUCKY DRAGONS (LIVE)
Performance Mar 13, 2010 6:00pm
Lucky Dragons is a communal music experiment from Los Angeles based artists Fischbeck and Rara. Live performances involve participation between audience and band and aim to generate equal power-sharing situations. Created in the spirit of celebration Lucky Dragons is a communal music experiment relying on show goers to to compliment each other by linking themselves and the audience through sound to video, dance, and interactive technology.
 
Lucky Dragons will perform their ongoing project 'Making a Baby', a piece which involves sound production by creating human circuits through touch. Using cyber-psychedelic imagery and circuit jammed synths, Lucky Dragons challenge hierarchy and rhetoric and focus on communal music production and contact. Field recordings, feedback loops, and found sounds are mixed with thematic references to folk tradition and protest songs placing the emphasis on the experience of live music and togetherness. Lucky Dragons injects humanity into typically 'cold' technologies and uses these to inspire friendship, solidarity and discovery.
£5 www.wegottickets.com/event/70888
AUTO ITALIA SOUTH EAST

Regions

IAN BREAKWELL EXHIBITION : SEMINAR
Mar 14, 2010
Includes contributions by scholars and experts and special screenings of Breakwell's short film works Auditorium (1993, 30 min), and Variety (2001, 20 min)
QUAD

London

DEUX FOIS (1969) BY JACKIE RAYNAL
Screening Wednesday 17 March, 7pm
Screening and discussion with Marina Vishmidt and Nina Power.
 
Part of 'Visions, Divisions and Revisions: Political Film and Film Theory
in the 1970s and 80s', a programme of screenings and discussions organised
by Petra Bauer and Dan Kidner, taking place during the exhibition 'A
History of Irritated Material' at Raven Row, 25 February to 2 May 2010.
 
'Visions, Divisions and Revisions' revisits the idea of ‘film as a
political practice’, as it was practiced and theorised in the 1970s and
80s in the UK. Over the course of six events we will look at some of the
key debates that enlivened these years: issues around authorship; the role
of the audience; the relation of theory to practice; the use of
psychoanalysis in film; and different ideas of collectivity.
Events are free but booking is essential as space is limited. Please emailinfo@ravenrow.org to reserve a place.
RAVEN ROW

London

ROBIN MACKAY
Gallery Talk Mar 18, 2010 7:00pm
Robin Mackay, philosopher and editor of the journal 'Collapse', discusses how Florian Hecker's engineering of perception - as - hallucination invokes a fundamental philosophical question that haunts the scientific discipline of psychoacoustics: What is an (auditory) object?
CHISENHALE GALLERY

THE INDIAN PORTRAIT IN CONTEXT
Gallery Talk Mar 18, 2010 1:15pm
Rosemary Crill, co-curator, will discuss the exhibition with a special focus on portraiture in the Rajput Courts.
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
FREE
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

London

VAN GOGH : A MAN OF LETTERS
Gallery Talk Mar 19, 2010 6:30pm
Following over fifteen years of dedicated research, Leo Jansen and Nienke Bakker of the Van Gogh Museum have published a new edition of Van Gogh’s letters, regarded as some of the most valuable documents in the world of art. They join exhibition curator Ann Dumas to discuss this unique project.
6.30–7.30pm; £14/£6 reductions* (includes exhibition entry and a drink), £10 (includes a drink)
Telephone 020 7300 5839 (open Monday–Friday, 9.30am–5.30pm)
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS

Regions

FIONA CRISP
Artists Talk Mar 19, 2010 7:30pm
Fiona Crisp discusses her work and exhibition 'Subterrania' at Newlyn Art Gallery.
FREE.
NEWLYN ART GALLERY / THE EXCHANGE PENZANCE

London

GOING HOME - SOUTHWARK WALKS
Mar 23, 2010 7:30pm
Fuse Arts hosts two evenings of newly commissioned contemporary classical music by acclaimed composers in support of the SLG. The compositions have been written in response to a series of walks in Southwark and are performed by the Kreutzer Quartet and the Lontano ensemble with a special appearance by students at the City of London Academy.
Proceeds from these events directly support our education and outreach programmes.
£15/12 concs.
To book tickets contact mail@southlondongallery.org or 020 7703 6120.
SOUTH LONDON GALLERY

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IAN BREAKWELL EXHIBITION : CURATORS TOUR
Gallery Talk Mar 24, 2010 12:30pm - 1:30pm
QUAD

London

FORMAT: THE FIRST WOMEN’S PHOTOGRAPHIC AGENCY
Gallery Talk Mar 25, 2010 1:15pm
Maggie Murray and Michael Ann Mullen talk about Format, the all-women Photography Agency who documented the world from different perspectives.
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
FREE
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

STEVE MCQUEEN
Artists Talk Mar 25, 2010 7:00pm
Steve McQueen in Conversation with Adrian Searle.
Turner Prize winning artist Steve McQueen will talk to Adrian Searle, chief art critic of the Guardian, about Queen and Country, the artwork he created in his capacity as Official War Artist for Iraq. The conversation will consider the role of the war artist in the setting of a modern conflict and explore Queen and Country in the wider context of McQueen’s work.
The talk coincides with the display of the work at the Gallery from 20 March - 20 July 2010.
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Tickets: £8/£6 concessions
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

GOING HOME - SOUTHWARK WALKS
Mar 25, 2010 7:30pm
Fuse Arts hosts two evenings of newly commissioned contemporary classical music by acclaimed composers in support of the SLG. The compositions have been written in response to a series of walks in Southwark and are performed by the Kreutzer Quartet and the Lontano ensemble with a special appearance by students at the City of London Academy.
Proceeds from these events directly support our education and outreach programmes.
£15/12 concs.
To book tickets contact mail@southlondongallery.org or 020 7703 6120.
SOUTH LONDON GALLERY

DAVID ADJAYE ON CHRIS OFILI
Gallery Talk Mar 25, 2010 1:00pm
Chris Ofili's The Upper Room was first displayed in 2002, to great critical acclaim. This installation, on show in the current exhibition, consists of thirteen works in a chapel-like environment designed by David Adjaye.
Here the award-winning architect speaks about this collaborative experience and his thoughts on the work nearly a decade on.
Tate Britain Clore Auditorium.
£5, booking recommended.
For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888
TATE BRITAIN

Regions

THE MAB FILM EXERCISE : PLACEMENT AND PRACTICE
Screening Mar 25, 2010 6:30pm
DAVID HALL / JOHN LATHAM
John Latham’s Erth (1971) in the original 16mm. This will be screened alongside David Hall’s TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces) (1971).
Presented by Elisa Kay, curator at Flat Time House, John Latham’s former residence in Peckham, South London.
Produced by Media Art Bath
Free but booking recommended. Call 0117 917 2300
ARNOLFINI

London

CAST : CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY BUS TOUR
27 March 2010
£50 including lunch
CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY

EMILY WARDILL
Artists Talk Mar 27, 2010 3:00pm
In this seminar, Emily Wardill will discuss her new feature-length film, Game Keepers Without Game (2009).
Game Keepers Without Game is based on the seventeenth-century play Life is a Dream (La Vida es Suena) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. The film takes Calderón's story of an imprisoned prince and translates it into the context of contemporary London. The original's themes of morality, incarceration and truth resurface in Wardill's present-day narrative of a violent child, put up for adoption at an early age, who re-enters the family home as a teenager and a stranger.
Emily Wardill is a London-based film-maker. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including solo projects at Spacex, Exeter (2009); ICA, London (2008); Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London (2005 and 2006); and STANDARD (OSLO) (2008). Her work has been screened at the Art Now Lightbox, Tate Britain; the International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Witte de With, Rotterdam; and the London Film Festival. In 2008, Wardill was nominated for the Jarman Award and performed Life is a Dream at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 2007.
£5 entrance fee.
THE SHOWROOM

London

THE ‘PAKISTANI LITERATI’
Panel Discussion Apr 08, 2010 7:00pm
Award winning authors Kamila Shamsie (Burnt Shadows), Daniyal Mueenuddin (In Other Rooms, Other Wonders) and Ali Sethi (The Wish Maker) discuss their books and the contemporary geopolitics that have changed the world’s awareness of their country and their writing. Chaired by Moni Mohsin, author (Diary of a Social Butterfly) and columnist for Pakistan’s Daily Times.
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Tickets: £5/£4 concessions and Gallery Supporters
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

THE MANY HEADED MONSTER
Gallery Talk Apr 08, 2010 6:30pm
The Many Headed Monster : The Audience of Contemporary Performance.
Across a range of disciplines, artists are placing the audience at the heart of their work in innovative and creative ways. The Many Headed Monster is a new critical and practical resource investigating the role of the audience in contemporary performance. Joshua Sofaer presents this performance lecture as an introduction to its extensive uses.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£10 (£8 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk/modern
or call 020 7887 8888
TATE MODERN

Regions

ELLEN GALLAGHER IN CONVERSAT ION WITH ROMI CRAWFORD
Artists Talk Apr 08, 2010 6:00pm
Gallagher is a key figure within international contemporary art and her incredibly layered work an integral feature of the Afro Modern exhibition and its narratives. Tate Liverpool is delighted to present this in-conversation with Gallagher and US-based academic Romi Crawford as an insight into her work in the exhibition (Deluxe 2004-5 and Bird in Hand 2006) and her wider practice.
Ellen Gallagher lives and works in New York and Rotterdam. She received the American Academy Award in Art in 2000, the Joan Mitchell Fellowship in 1997 and the 1996 MacDowell Colony Award.
Romi Crawford is a professor of Literature, Africana and Visual Critical Studies in the Liberal Arts Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was previously Curator and Director of Education and Public Programmes at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
£8 (£6 concessions), booking recommended.
For tickets, call 0151 702 7400.
TATE LIVERPOOL

London

MAT COLLISHAW IN CONVERSATION
Artists Talk Apr 13, 2010 6:20pm
Mat Collishaw in Conversation with Elisabetta Fabrizi, BFI Head of Exhibitions, exploring the inspiration behind the Retrospective and its development.
For further information please visit www.bfi.org.uk/whatson or www.bfi.org.uk/gallery
BFI GALLERY

London

ORAL PORTRAITS : WILLIAM HOGARTH
Gallery Talk Apr 15, 2010 1:15pm
Lucinda Hawksley discusses one of the most witty, intriguing and innovative artists of the 18th century. His works were a major infl uence on 19th-century writers and artists and continue to inspire us today.
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
FREE
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

THE LAST JEWS OF KERALA
Gallery Talk Apr 15, 2010 7:00pm
British-Indian journalist and author of Holy Warriors, Edna Fernandes explores the rise and fall of the Jewish community in Kerala - a community which will cease to exist within the next generation.
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Tickets: £5/£4 concessions and Gallery Supporters
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

BLACK GOLD OF THE SUN EKOW ESHUN ON CHRIS OFILI
Gallery Talk Apr 15, 2010 1:00pm
In 2005 Ekow Eshun, Artistic Director of the ICA, wrote Black Gold of the Sun, a book relating his experiences of growing up in London as a black African, and his journey to discover home and identity. At this talk, he discusses his relationship to Chris Ofili’s work, and the connection between Ofili and this book.
Tate Britain Auditorium
£5, booking recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk/britain
or call 020 7887 8888.
TATE BRITAIN

London

CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY STUDIO VISIT
Apr 17, 2010
3 Artists per tour, £60.
CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY

London

ATOM EGOYAN ON ARSHILE GORKY
Gallery Talk Apr 21, 2010 6:30pm
Independent filmmaker Atom Egoyan talks about a number of his installations and short films that relate to Arshile Gorky’s life and artistic legacy in relation to the Armenian massacres, which are widely regarded as a genocide.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£10 (£8 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk/modern
or call 020 7887 8888
TATE MODERN

London

PHILLIP DE LÁSZLÓ
Gallery Talk Apr 22, 2010 1:15pm
Phillip de László: ‘An Air of Nobility … a Spirit of Humanity’.
Sandra de Laszlo talks about the artist’s extraordinary life and work in the context of the paintings that are on view in Room 33.
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
FREE
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

FATIMA BHUTTO - SONGS OF BLOOD AND SWORD
Gallery Talk Apr 22, 2010 7:00pm
Fatima Bhutto, political commentator and fearless niece of Benazir, is one of the most outspoken critics of Pakistan’s current regime. Her new book examines the interweaving of the Bhutto dynasty, politics and
violence in Pakistan over the past 30 years and discusses the building of a more empowered and democratic future for the country.
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Tickets: £5/£4 concessions and Gallery Supporters
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

AUGUST SANDER : PEOPLE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Gallery Talk Apr 22, 2010 2:30pm
In the mid 1920s the Cologne photographer began to gather his images of people into a larger scheme that he envisaged as a survey of his contemporaries and that he called ‘People of the 20th Century’. It became a classic project of social observation: poignant, immediate and timeless. To coincide with a new display of Sander photographs, Reiner Holzemer’s 2005 documentary will be followed by a discussion with Gerd Sander, the photographer’s grandson and an expert on his life and work.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
Free, no bookings taken
Seated on a first-come, first-served basis
TATE MODERN

London

TATSUO MIYAJIMA
Artists Talk Apr 24, 2010 2:00pm
Since 1987, Tatsuo Miyajima has been using small LED counters that display flashing numbers, arranging them in grids or around sculptural forms. His installations invite viewers to reflect on the passing of time in both personal and more abstract terms, while alluding to structures as small as a single cell and as large as a planetary system.
Tatsuo Miyajima is in conversation with art historian Marcus Verhagen.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£9 (£5 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk/modern
or call 020 7887 8888
TATE MODERN

London

MATTHEW SPENDER ON GORKY
Gallery Talk Apr 26, 2010 6:30pm
Following his emigration from Armenia to America in 1920, Arsile Gorky was a key figure in the New York art world during the 1930s and 40s. With strong links to contemporaries like Willem de Kooning and European war exiles such as the Surrealist Andre Breton, his connection to the worlds of Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism makes him a pivotal figure. Gorky expert, biographer and son-in-law Matthew Spender will lead a tour through the exhibition, combining a critical assessment of his work with personal reflections on the artist’s life and numerous myths that surround him.
Tate Modern, in the exhibition
£10 (£8.50 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk/modern
or call 020 7887 8888
TATE MODERN

VAN DOESBURG AND THE INTERNATIONAL AVANT-GARDE
Gallery Talk Apr 26, 2010 6:30pm
Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde Curators' Conversation.
DeStijl moved beyond painting to encompass design, architecture, furniture, film, music and more, examples of which are presented in the Van Doesburg exhibition. Curators Gladys Fabre and Michael White discuss key aspects of the show, including its interdisciplinarity and the contribution made by van Doesburg and De Stijl to the European avant-garde.
Tate Modern In the exhibition
£15 (£12 concessions), booking recommended
Price includes entry to the exhibition
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk/modern
or call 020 7887 8888
TATE MODERN

London

TANYA RAABE
Artists Talk May 04, 2010 3:00pm
Artist Tanya Raabe is creating portraits of ten disabled sitters as part of a project exploring identity, body image and disability culture. Watch Raabe create a portrait of Baroness Jane Campbell, a Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and speak to them both. Raabe will draw on the Tate Modern displays for visual representations of disabled people.
Tate Modern Studio C Level 3
Free
TATE MODERN

London

AFTER POST-COLONIALISM
Panel Discussion May 08, 2010 2:00pm
After Post-colonialism : Transnationalism or Essentialism?
What are the implications of regional or ‘ethnic’ narratives of contemporary art in a global context? Do they reflect a new approach to ‘multiple modernities’ or are they another form of essentialism? This panel brings together artists, philosophers and curators to discuss if this approach contradicts the move towards the integration of other histories in the larger narrative of the museum and the art-historical canon.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£12 (£10 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk/modern
or call 020 7887 8888
TATE MODERN

London

HIS DARKENED IMAGINATION : SURREALIST MOORE
Gallery Talk May 13, 2010 1:00pm
Moore’s Recumbent Figures are now so well known that familiarity can blind us to their surreal, and often disturbing disjointedness. Professor Andrew Causey, author of The Drawings of Henry Moore, shows how Moore’s drawings from the 1930s and 1940s reached beyond the possibilities of sculpture, and shared the darkened imagination of Surrealism.
Tate Britain Clore Auditorium
£5, booking recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk/britain
or call 020 7887 8888
TATE BRITAIN

London

SIR ANTHONY CARO
Artists Talk May 19, 2010 6:30pm
2010 marks the twentieth anniversary of the death of the influential and controversial art critic Peter Fuller. To mark this occasion Sir Anthony Caro will be in conversation with Paul Moorhouse, Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, to discuss his own work and to reflect on the role and influence Peter Fuller had during his lifetime.
Tate Britain Auditorium
£10 (£8 concessions)
Price includes drinks afterwards
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk/britain
or call 020 7887 8888.
TATE BRITAIN

London

ALIA SYED
Artists Talk May 21, 2010 2:00pm
Alia Syed’s work embraces a wide range of film practices, eluding a single, definable form. Her art problematises the image particularly in relation to notions of gender and cultural difference. In this talk and gallery visit, Syed explores the multiple histories and hidden rituals that pass underneath the site known as Tate Britain.
Tate Britain Manton Studio
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk/britain
or call 020 7887 8888.
TATE BRITAIN

London

DECOLONIZING ARCHITECTURE
Panel Discussion May 25, 2010 6:30pm
Edifices built and used under colonial rule are informed by the ideologies and power relations used in their construction. In Bethlehem, Algiers, Johannesburg or Berlin, de-colonizing the architecture of a liberated landscape is a condition for the re-negotiation of collective identities, based on new geo-political terms. This process encourages both imaginative and practical planning about the areas that already have or will be released from direct colonial control and opens up questions about the future of these sites and their inhabitants. How can the architecture of domination be reused, recycled or re-inhabited by those it dominated? What are the processes involved in planning and implementing the decolonization of a site? How can one inhabit the house of one’s enemy?
Bethlehem-based architectural practice Decolonizing Architecture members Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman present some of the ideas that inform their work in conversation with artist Lorenzo Pezzani, Abdoumaliq Simone, urbanist and Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College and film curator Rasha Salti.
The work of Decolonizing Architecture has been exhibited internationally, including recent exhibitions at Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles (BOZAR, 2009), the Venice Biennale for Architecture (2008), the 11th Istanbul Biennale (2009) and the Rotterdam International Biennale of Architecture (2009).
This event runs concurrently with the ‘Decolonizing Architecture’ film season at The Delfina Foundation curated by Rasha Salti.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£12 (£10 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets, call 020 7887 8888
TATE MODERN