Serpentine Gallery

Saturday TalkMichael BracewellSaturday 28 August

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:36:24 +0000

Free talks at 3pm

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars free to the public.

This summer, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition and Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel.

Writer Michael Bracewell will present a talk about the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.

Park NightsAlexandre SinghFriday 27 August

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:59:56 +0000

8pm

Artist Alexandre Singh presents The Alkahest: Chapter 1, a performance of an epic tale in the style of Homer, in which Singh recites the first of three interwoven and fantastical narratives from memory to a small and intimate audience.

The title of the performance, The Alkahest, takes its name from a substance sought after by alchemists throughout the ages of the medieval and early renaissance. It was described as a 'universal solvent', a liquid that could dissolve any matter into it. The universe of The Alkahest is one in which time, geography, narratives and history have been blended together, building a modern epic; a story of our times constructed from a dissolving of all the narratives that have and will continue to populate our consciousness.

Alexandre Singh (born 1980) is a Franco-British artist based in New York. His work explores a variety of media and exhibition formats, working across literature, collages, installations and performances. Recent solo exhibitions include: 3 Lectures + 1 Story = 4 Evenings,: Performa Biennial 09, White Columns, New York, NY; Assembly Instructions (Tangential Logick), Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY; The Marque of the Third Stripe, Monitor, Rome, Italy. Upcoming exhibitions include: Dynasty, Palais de Tokyo/Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Free, New Museum, New York, NY; Manifesta 8: European Biennial, Murcia, Spain.

Park Nights

Park Nights is an annual series of music, theatre, performances, talks and film screenings stages on Friday nights in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, this year designed by Jean Nouvel. Park Nights culminates on the weekend of 16 and 17 October with Map Marathon, the latest in the Serpentine's series of Marathon events, conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Tickets £5/4
Available from the Gallery Lobby Desk
or Ticketweb: (0)8444 771 000
www.ticketweb.co.uk

Learn about the Nouvel-designed Pavilion and the Serpentine's Pavilion programme.

Ultra-red

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:22:37 +0000

Ultra-red is a sound art collective that includes artists, researchers and organisers from a range of social movements. Collectively, the group have produced radio broadcasts, performances, recordings, installations, texts and public space actions featured on their fair-use online record label, Public Record. Ultra-red work with students at St. Marylebone School and local organisations on an opera that explores the politics of citizenship and migration. Their residency is undertaken in collaboration with Raven Row.

The Edgware Road Project

Wael Shawky

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:20:07 +0000

Wael Shawky lives and works in Alexandria, Egypt. His works include Télématch Sadat, a presentation of the events surrounding the assassination of Sadat in 1981 re-enacted by children and Al-Aqsa Park, an animated film installation in which the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is displayed as a fairground carousel. His work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art, New York; the Riwaq Biennale, Palestine; the Moscow Biennial, and Ashkal Alwan, Beirut. His residency is undertaken in collaboration with Townhouse Gallery in Cairo.

The Edgware Road Project

Rania Stephan

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:17:30 +0000

Rania Stephan was born in Beirut. She has worked as a sound engineer, editor, first assistant and producer with renowned filmmakers including Simone Bitton and Elia Suleiman. Her filmography includes: Tribe (1993), Attempt at Jealousy (1995), My First Camera (1998), Arrest at Manara (2003), Wastelands (2005), Lebanon/War (2006). She is currently working on a documentary about the legendary Egyptian film star Suad Hosni, rumoured to have died mysteriously in the Edgware Road neighbourhood. Her residency is undertaken with Ashkal Alwan: The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts.

The Edgware Road Project

Marwan Rechmaoui

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:14:33 +0000

Marwan Rechmaoui studied Fine Arts in the United States. He lives and works in Beirut. He has taken part in many exhibitions and projects, including: Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, the Sharjah Biennial, Homeworks (Beirut) and the Townhouse Gallery (Cairo). His investigation of the Edgware Road can be seen at The Centre for Possible Studies in August and September 2010. His residency is undertaken with Ashkal Alwan: The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts.

The Edgware Road Project

no.w.here

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:10:13 +0000

Formed in 2004, no.w.here is an artist run space in London where the place of the moving image within contemporary art can be explored and expanded. They produce projects, events, facilities, workshops and education programmes. On the Edgware Road, no.where work with actors Khalid Abdalla and Cressida Trew to recall histories of Britain’s Free Cinema movement, producing a collaborative film made by those with links to the neighbourhood.

Actor Khalid Abdalla, known for his lead role in the film The Kite Runner, spent his youth on the Edgware Road. He is currently producer of In the Last Days of the City, a feature length film shot in Cairo, Baghdad, Beirut, Alexandria and Berlin. Abdalla and collaborator Cressida Trew link the Free Cinema School to global independent cinema networks. His residency is undertaken in collaboration with Townhouse Gallery in Cairo.

The Edgware Road Project

Lamia Joreige

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:08:12 +0000

Lamia Joreige's work explores notions of archive through writing, installation and film and video production. She is co-founder of the Beirut Art Center and among many exhibitions, has developed projects for the Sharjah and Venice Biennials. She is engaging in ongoing cinema investigations on the Edgware Road. Her residency is undertaken in collaboration with The Delfina Foundation.

The Edgware Road Project

Hiwa K

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:05:42 +0000

Hiwa K is an artist and musician who is interested in informal knowledge, performativity and the artist as amateur. Born in Iraq, he is now based in Germany. On the Edgware Road, Hiwa has created a 1970s revival band, recalling music and politics from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon. His residency is undertaken in collaboration with The Showroom, where he has co-curated Estrangement, an ongoing exchange between artists in Poland and Iraq.

The Edgware Road Project

Susan Hefuna

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:03:36 +0000

Susan Hefuna takes up everyday aspects of life in her work. Working in photography, video, drawing, sculpture, and digital media, much of Hefuna’s work is informed by her dual heritage (German–Egyptian). Hefuna is working in collaboration with students at Westminster Academy on the production of fantasy architectures for public speech and education. Her residency is undertaken in collaboration with Townhouse Gallery in Cairo.

The Edgware Road Project

CAMP

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:57:35 +0000

CAMP is a Mumbai-based collective that tests the ground between art and the public. Working with people involved in the infrastructures of water, cable TV and the internet, CAMP have developed temporary TV and radio stations, annotated film archives and websites. For the Edgware Road Project, CAMP have created edgwareroad.org, an open publishing platform for local research to be distributed as journals, placemats, pamphlets and webcasts. Their residency is a collaboration with Gasworks and The Arts Catalyst.

The Edgware Road Project

Saturday TalksDavid BusselSaturday 21 August

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:33:53 +0000

Free talks at 3pm

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars free to the public.

This summer, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition and Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel.

Curator David Bussel will present a talk about the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.

Park NightsWolfgang Tillmans and Dimitar SasselovThe Edge of Visibility:A Night of AstronomyFriday 20 August

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:40:40 +0000

7pm

Wolfgang Tillmans has invited leading astronomer Dimitar Sasselov to discuss his involvement in the NASA Kepler mission to find other Earth-like planets, and to explore some of his unanswered questions about light, the beginning of infinity, the edge of visibility and our perception of colour.

Wolfgang Tillmans was born in 1968 in Remscheid, Germany. In 1995, his work was exhibited in the Serpentine Gallery exhibition Take Me (I’m Yours), curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and in 2000 he won the Turner Prize. His most recent solo exhibitions include Freedom from the Known at P.S.1, New York in 2006 (which toured North America), and Lighter at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin in 2008. In 2009 he was included in Making Worlds at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Tillmans lives and works in London.

Dimitar Sasselov was born in Bulgaria, and was educated at Sofia University, where he received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1988, almost concurrently working on his degree at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he received his Ph.D. in Astronomy in 1990. He has been a professor at Harvard since 1998. He arrived at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard, in 1990 as a Harvard-Smithsonian Center post-doctoral fellow. Between 1999 and 2003 he was the Head Tutor of the Astronomy Department. His research explores the many modes of interaction between radiation and matter: from the evolution of hydrogen and helium in the early universe to the study of the structure of stars. He is very fond of unstable stars – ones that pulsate regularly and allow us to determine distances to other galaxies. Most recently his research has led him to explore the nature of planets orbiting other stars. He has discovered a few such planets – with novel techniques that he hopes to use to find planets like Earth. He is the director of the new Harvard Origins of Life Initiative, a multidisciplinary centre bridging scientists in the physical and in the life sciences, intent to study the transition from chemistry to life and its place in the context of the Universe.

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Park Nights

Park Nights is an annual series of music, theatre, performances, talks and film screenings stages on Friday nights in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, this year designed by Jean Nouvel. Park Nights culminates on the weekend of 16 and 17 October with Serpentine Gallery Map Marathon, the latest in the Serpentine Gallery's series of Marathon events, conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Tickets £5/4
Available from the Gallery Lobby Desk
or Ticketweb: (0)8444 771 000
www.ticketweb.co.uk

Learn about the Nouvel-designed Pavilion and the Serpentine's Pavilion programme.

Learn more about the Serpentine Gallery exhibition Wolfgang Tillmans.

Family SundayPavilion Parade12 September12 - 5pm

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:39:02 +0000

Join artists and designers to create and model garments inspired by the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel. Set the trend just in time for London Fashion Week. Make a bright red hat or a tower block body suit and join the parade each hour on the catwalk.

Free, drop in event, all ages welcome

Please note children must be accompanied by an adult

Park NightsEnrique Vila-Matas and Dominique Gonzalez-FoersterFriday 13 August

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:51:35 +0000

8pm

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 designed by Jean Nouvel
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens
W2 3XA

Tickets £5/4
Available from the Gallery Lobby desk or Ticketweb
www.ticketweb.co.uk or 08444 771 000

Though she is a character in Enrique Vila Matas’ latest novel Dublinesca, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is much more than a character. She is a personal friend of the writer and an artist, very much admired by him. Vila-Matas has always been fascinated by the way Gonzalez-Foerster, in her daring installations, marries cities and literature, films and hotels, architecture and abysses, psychic geographies and rain. The exchange of ideas and artistic dialogue between Vila-Matas and Gonzalez-Foerster has existed since they first met in Granada. They arrived at a reception in a hotel at the same moment and recognised one another at once as if they had always known each other. The event at the Serpentine Gallery offers the possibility of a new exchange in their international and animated conversation since they began to 'fictionally' work together.

Enrique Vila-Matas (born 1948, Barcelona) has led a very long and outstanding literary career and is one of the most prestigious and original writers in contemporary Spanish fiction. He is the author of several books which, as a trademark of his genius, mix different genres. Among his works one should not fail to mention: La asesina ilustrada (Tusquets, 1977), Historia abreviada de la literatura portátil (Anagrama, 1985), Extraña forma de vida (Anagrama, 1997), El viaje vertical (Anagrama, 1999. Rómulo Gallegos Prize), Bartleby y compañía (Anagrama, 2000, trans. Bartleby and Co., The Harvill Press, 2004 – New Directions, 2007), El mal de Montano (Anagrama, 2002, trans. Montano’s Malady, The Harvill Press, 2007 – New Directions, 2007), París no se acaba nunca (Anagrama, 2004, trans. Never Any End to Paris, New Directions, forthcoming) and Dietario Voluble (Anagrama, 2008). He is the recipient of several awards such as Premio Rómulo Gallegos 2001 (El viaje vertical). Bartleby y compañía was selected as the best book of the year by French booksellers and was awarded the Ciudad de Barcelona Award and the Fernando Aguirre-Libralire Award. El Mal de Montano (Premio Herralde, 2002) has been granted the Critics Award both in Spain and Chile, as well as the Prix Médicis in France and the Ennio Flaiano International Award. Doctor Pasavento (Anagrama, 2005) won the Fundación Lara Award 2006 and the Real Academia Española Award 2006, and El viajero más lento won the Elsa Morante Litterary Prize 2007. After Dietario voluble, Vila-Matas published Ella era Hemingway / No soy Auster, two short texts published by Alfabia in their Cuadernos Collection. His latest book is the novel Dublinesca (Seix Barral, 2010, trans. Dublinesque, The Harvill Press and New Directions, forthcoming). His works have been translated into 30 languages.

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster was born in 1965 in Strasbourg, France. Among her recent solo exhibitions are projects for The Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London (2008); MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon (2008); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC, Paris (2007); Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (2004); and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2002). Her work was on view in Making Worlds, 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, 2009. She also participated in Skulptur Projekte Münster (2007) and Documenta XI, Kassel (2002). She is the recipient of the 2002 Marcel Duchamp Award, Paris, the 1996—97 Mies van der Rohe Award, Krefeld, and the Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto artist residency in 1996—97. In November 2009, she presented, in collaboration with composer Ari Benjamin-Meyers, a new performance in New York City as part of PERFORMA 09. Gonzalez-Foerster lives and works in Paris and Rio de Janeiro.

Park Nights

Learn about the Nouvel-designed Pavilion and the Serpentine's Pavilion programme.