WEDNESDAY 09 SEPTEMBER 09
LUXURY GOODS
An international, interdisciplinary five day, free art festival.
Over 50 artists from all continents band together
to dissect and reframe 'The Meaning of Art' through
art objects, seminar discussion, time based media,
drama workshops, music, poetry and performance.
The festival opens on Wednesday the 9th with
performances and music. Join us on the evening of
Thursday the 10th September (7:00 pm - 10:00 pm)
for a symposium exploring 'The Meaning of Art'. A
panel of artists, critics and academics from
Nigeria, Russia, India and London, including
Anthony Downey (Programme Director, MA in
Contemporary Art, Sotheby's Institute of Art), Azu
Nwagbogu (Chairman, African Artists' Foundation),
Alexis Ashot (Old Masters and 19th Century Art,
Christie's, London) and Peter Kavannagh (Senior
Producer Radio Drama, BBC) lead the discussion.
Come for poetry and performances on Friday, and
Saturday's line up includes videos and
performances.
Luxury Goods London III (a platform for emerging
artists as much as it is a for established artists)
embraces the constraint, financial or otherwise,
that artists often face. All participants submit 50
words (not 49, not 51) on 'The Meaning of Art' and,
in a very literal sense, 'budget', condense and
crystallize their visions - with high impact
results. This structure encourages them to think in
a very real way about how to work with constraint
and not get put off by it. The festival wraps up on
Sunday the 13th with a drama workshop, led by
Tamsin Irwin (Salisbury Playhouse) that evolves
from and develops these texts.
'The Meaning of Art' will be the third in a series
of festivals initiated by Luxury Goods London in
January 2008. The first discussed 'The Cost of Art'
(January 08- February 09) and the second 'The
Value of Art' (April 09). Full texts and images
from both festivals are available from
http://www.luxurygoodslondon.com.
TUESDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 09
new art in the vaults
GREG CHARLTON
new art on the far wall
SOLIDVOID
new art in the basement
WRINKLED FEELINGS
- a photo exhibition of fits of desire and melting wanders -
Tue 15 Sep - Sun 20 Sep
Two people, H and Z, meet. One unrepentantly
nostalgic, the other decidedly erratic. It is only
natural that the two friends want to present a
story about emotions: about being entangled in
them, about pretending not to have any.
Interweaving printed photographs, projected images
and poetry, the double exhibition will show H and
Z's different takes on emotions. They will explore
the themes of passion, solitude and quiet
obsessions, through faces, figures, objects and
architecture. They respond to different types of
emotions, and such is reflected in how they snap
their shots.
Like thieves, they stole private moments of longing
and outbursts -- from Macau to Sarajevo, from Cadiz
to Amsterdam. All those emotions that torture or
elevate us may however be transient, and they are
now nothing but or and now all that's left are in H
and Z's pixels and letters.
The collection of 60 photographs, prose and
illustrations is set to a soundrack of world music
in an inventively re-created space .wrinkled
feelings, their debut exhibtion, celebrates the joy
of photography - and flights of fancy.
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
HAIDER KIKABHOY
Haider finds calm, comfort and serious thrills in
photography. When he picks up a camera, he forgets
everything: he clicks into a highly-charged yet
yogic mode. He's transported to a highly contented
state, where he marvels at the infinite range of
impressions he can make of the world around him by
changing ever so slightly the equally boundless
elements in his photographs. Haider is a human
rights campaigner when he's not taking his own
pictures, some of which have appeared in Time Out
and on the BBC website.
WONG ZIJIA
Zijia is not so concerned with finding answers, as
with finding questions, but taking photographs and
drawing help her make sense of this world.
Sometimes intense, sometimes exhausted, she uses
photography to find out if others feel the same
way. She delights in composing full-frontal shots
that tell her stories, rather than those of others.
Zijia is a writer and web editor whose works have
been published in local and Singapore magazines,
books and websites.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=114797968062&ref=mfWEDNESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 09
Kabarett Spielraum Presents:
MISSION TO PLANET EARTH 4
= The Voyage Home =
The Mission To Planet Earth art exhibition
Space-themed Photoshop mashups of the graffiti to
be found in the basement of The Foundry.
Wednesday 16th September 7.30pm - 11pm
COMEDY, AND STRANGELY INCIDENTAL NOISES FROM...
ROBIN INCE (Coruscating Comedy)
ANDREW BAILEY (Musical Manipulations)
DAVE RUSSELL (Lost Legend)
TRANSFERE PROJECT (Acoustic Antifolk)
+ DJ SPIKE SPIEGEL (Playing The Hits)
TUESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 09
new art on the far wall
ALF GUEDENEY and
KITE SEASON
new art in the vaults
AVNEET PADDA and
JOSH RICHARDS
-=Introverted Extrovert=-
WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 09
new art on the bar wall ALF GUIDENEY
opening night with incidental music by KITE SEASON
TUESDAY 06 OCTOBER 09
new art in the library
TINA VILJOEN
new art on the far wall
PIERRE GERARD
new art in the vaults
A PLACE LIKE HOME
'A Place Like Home' brings together the work of
three photographers who make work about memory and
home. Ewa Bialek's 'In Between' explores the
familiarity that she lost with her Polish homeland
whilst living in London. Ewa photographs spaces of
her past, which have become unfamiliar, leaving the
artist with a sense of loss. Similarly, a quest
for a place to belong is pictured Carolyn Lefley's
work 'Belonging'. Set within the make-believe
world of the dark and somehow uncanny bedrooms of a
doll's house, Carolyn's empty and neglected
miniatures groan with implicit memories and a sense
of longing for home. Mark Denton shows his new
work, 'Domestic'.
new art on the bar wall
HEATHER BLOCKEY Silent types
recent photographs
new exhibition in the basement
JERUSALEM DISPOSSESSED
An exhibition by the Palestinian Israeli
photographic collective ActiveStills documenting
the dispossession of indigenous Palestinians from
their native city, Jerusalem, amid rapid expansion
of Israeli settlements, Separation Wall and home
demolitions.
Talk on Wed October 7th, 8pm
Linda Ramsden, UK director of the Israeli Committee
Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), on the impact of
house demolitions and how they contribute to
Israel's policy of ethnic cleansing.
http://www.palestinecampaign.org
WEDNESDAY 07 OCTOBER 09
JERUSALEM DISPOSSESSED
opening night / talk
Linda Ramsden, UK director of the Israeli Committee
Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), on the impact of
house demolitions and how they contribute to
Israel's policy of ethnic cleansing.
THURSDAY 08 OCTOBER 09
PIERRE GERARD
opening night with performance by the artist
TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 09
new art in the basement
JULES LILY
new art in the vaults
WARREN GARLAND
new art on the bar wall
HEATHER BLOCKEY
Rainbow study and other fleeting comments
mixed media canvases
new art on the far wall
JEANNETTE PETRIK
Currently studying Product Design at Central Saint
Martins College of Arts and Design Jeannette Petrik
expresses an analytical way to look at things in
her art in form of photography, drawing, film or
three-dimensional art and design.
For this exhibition she has produced a series of
photographs inspired by selections of modern
literature with a particular emphasis placed on the
theme of identity.
The garbage-bins of all the houses in the street
were full of rats.....
TUESDAY 20 OCTOBER 09
new art in the basement
CATHERINE HOWELL
new art on the bar wall
MARK STRINGER
I'm sure it was there a moment ago
The show attempts to explore the forgetful nature
of the artist and his relationship with the
photographic document as evidence.
new art in the vaults
STUART LEECH
SKIMMING STONES
Skimming Stones documents the English beaches that
Stuart visited during his childhood holidays.
Examining his own past, while exploring the British
summer and holidaying at home.
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TUESDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 09
new art in the vaults
GREG CHARLTON
new art on the far wall
SOLIDVOID
new art in the basement
WRINKLED FEELINGS
- a photo exhibition of fits of desire and melting wanders -
Tue 15 Sep - Sun 20 Sep
Two people, H and Z, meet. One unrepentantly
nostalgic, the other decidedly erratic. It is only
natural that the two friends want to present a
story about emotions: about being entangled in
them, about pretending not to have any.
Interweaving printed photographs, projected images
and poetry, the double exhibition will show H and
Z's different takes on emotions. They will explore
the themes of passion, solitude and quiet
obsessions, through faces, figures, objects and
architecture. They respond to different types of
emotions, and such is reflected in how they snap
their shots.
Like thieves, they stole private moments of longing
and outbursts -- from Macau to Sarajevo, from Cadiz
to Amsterdam. All those emotions that torture or
elevate us may however be transient, and they are
now nothing but or and now all that's left are in H
and Z's pixels and letters.
The collection of 60 photographs, prose and
illustrations is set to a soundrack of world music
in an inventively re-created space .wrinkled
feelings, their debut exhibtion, celebrates the joy
of photography - and flights of fancy.
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
HAIDER KIKABHOY
Haider finds calm, comfort and serious thrills in
photography. When he picks up a camera, he forgets
everything: he clicks into a highly-charged yet
yogic mode. He's transported to a highly contented
state, where he marvels at the infinite range of
impressions he can make of the world around him by
changing ever so slightly the equally boundless
elements in his photographs. Haider is a human
rights campaigner when he's not taking his own
pictures, some of which have appeared in Time Out
and on the BBC website.
WONG ZIJIA
Zijia is not so concerned with finding answers, as
with finding questions, but taking photographs and
drawing help her make sense of this world.
Sometimes intense, sometimes exhausted, she uses
photography to find out if others feel the same
way. She delights in composing full-frontal shots
that tell her stories, rather than those of others.
Zijia is a writer and web editor whose works have
been published in local and Singapore magazines,
books and websites.
TUESDAY 06 OCTOBER 09
new art in the library
TINA VILJOEN
new art on the far wall
PIERRE GERARD
new art in the vaults
A PLACE LIKE HOME
'A Place Like Home' brings together the work of
three photographers who make work about memory and
home. Ewa Bialek's 'In Between' explores the
familiarity that she lost with her Polish homeland
whilst living in London. Ewa photographs spaces of
her past, which have become unfamiliar, leaving the
artist with a sense of loss. Similarly, a quest
for a place to belong is pictured Carolyn Lefley's
work 'Belonging'. Set within the make-believe
world of the dark and somehow uncanny bedrooms of a
doll's house, Carolyn's empty and neglected
miniatures groan with implicit memories and a sense
of longing for home. Mark Denton shows his new
work, 'Domestic'.
new art on the bar wall
HEATHER BLOCKEY Silent types
recent photographs
new exhibition in the basement
JERUSALEM DISPOSSESSED
An exhibition by the Palestinian Israeli
photographic collective ActiveStills documenting
the dispossession of indigenous Palestinians from
their native city, Jerusalem, amid rapid expansion
of Israeli settlements, Separation Wall and home
demolitions.
Talk on Wed October 7th, 8pm
Linda Ramsden, UK director of the Israeli Committee
Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), on the impact of
house demolitions and how they contribute to
Israel's policy of ethnic cleansing.
http://www.palestinecampaign.org
We are going to do some 3d collage on the wall and
we will give a title 'joy of knowledge'. It is
going to be assemblage out of ordinal objects from
our life. The photo i send you is my previous work
2008. It is going to be a big collage on the wall
with many objects something similar to the image.
THE HOSTS
Voices from the past in present.
Part of a collection presenting close-ups of
faces belonging to statues and angels who look over
those who rest at Kensal Green Cemetery.
http://www.susanjmartin.co.uk
http://imeldasinatra.blogspot.com
http://artists.gawker.com/5344532/imeldasinatra
