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Preview
Friday 9th September 6.00 - 9.00pm
Saturday 10th to Sunday 18th 10.00am - 4.00pm
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The editorial team of News From Nowhere will be taking over The Changing Room Gallery to receive reports and sightings of Utopia from around the planet.
They will set up a working office amongst the art, including an international property section that will be selling dream properties, as a real time estate agency.
Experience the chaos of a new world order in the making.
The work of hundreds of artists, writers, musicians, performers and You, all crammed into one tiny space.
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Changing Room Gallery
Aveling Park (Adj. Lloyd Park)
Forest Road
London E17 |
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Preview
Friday 9th September 6.00 - 8.00pm
Saturday 10th September to Saturday 9th October
Tuesday to Saturday and the first Sunday of each month
10.00 am - 1.00pm 2.00 - 4.00pm
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For the first time, a selected group of artists, designers and writers will be given a unique opportunity to place work within the Gallery. Resulting in a series of juxtapositions and interventions alongside the work of Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites, it will feature – the legendary Tony Benn, designers Ralph Ball (Professor of Design at Central St Martins) and Maxine Naylor (Professor of Design University of Lincoln, architect Meredith Bowles (RIBA award winner 2004 designer of the Black House), artists – Stephen Williams, Liane Lang, Anderson Inge, Malcolm Barrett, Luis Gonzaga Barriera Bras, Keith Ball and Steve Wheeler. With sonic work by Isobel Jones and video performance from Claire Robins
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William Morris Gallery
Lloyd Park, Forest Road,
London E17 4PP |
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Preview
Friday 9th September 6.00 - 9.00pm
can be viewed 24 hours a day
runs throughout July - October 8th |
In the run up to the opening of News from Nowhere: Visions of utopia on 10.9.05 catch a glimpse of work in progress. Numerous artists will be exploring the archaeology of utopia on the site of the demolished shopping arcade. See the billboard work of Albert Duman and Peter Ainsworth, concrete airplanes by Bjorn Birk, the tent encampment of hal Satterthwaite, conceptual architecture by Wheeler and Faye, and the chestnut forest of Marigold Hodgkinson.
Members of the public will not have access to the site, either during work in progress or upon completion: there will be three gated viewing points in the perimeter wall, plus a number of strategic “spy-holes” for the micro-utopias that are to be attached to the inside of the wall. These will provide magical glimpses into worlds of other dimensions, featuring the work of Ana Bianchi. For a close up look at what is happening on site got to The Changing Room Gallery between 10th + 18th September or look at the media library on this web site
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Arcadia - the building site
Corner of Hoe Street and High Street
London E17
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| Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th September, throughout the afternoon and evening in the theatre and lounge |
The stage:
"salotto musicale utopista"
non stop fluid soundscapes and ambient music with video and image projections:
music by Lola Perrin, Polaris [Davide Mantovani - Roberto Manes + guests], Roberto Battista & Pepe Sanchez, abigail politely-decided, Matt Groom, Rowland Sutherland, Yelena, Wendy, Frans and more...
visuals by Roberto Battista, Martina von Holn, Nazarin Montag, |
The Utopian Independent Island State - Waltham Forest Theatre, Lloyd Park, to the rear of the William Morris Gallery.
Situated in Lloyd Park, to the rear of the William Morris Gallery is an island surrounded by a water filled moat, only accessible by two bridges. The Waltham Forest Theatre and lounge sit on the Island, Members of the public will have to negotiate their way through border control before they can cross to the Island - an entire site-specific visual and audio installation.
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| see also the moving image section of News from Nowhere with short films by Terry Smith, Gianluca Bonomo, Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen, Hazuan Hashim and Phil Maxwell, Roberto Battista. |
Preview Friday 9th September 6.00 - 8.00pm
Open daily Saturday 10th - Sunday 18th 10.00 - 4.00pm
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The foyer will feature the work of Linda Hughes presenting the future environmental disaster of Walthamstow on Sea with all of its postcard paraphernalia. From here you will enter the main hall, stripped back to its utilitarian shell – an empty stage overlooking SHED, an installation featuring the work of some forty of the country’s top illustrators each presented in that most utopian of spaces: the garden shed.
The lounge
From the main theatre space you will pass on into the lounge, reminiscent of a working men’s club / community hall with shades of the former Eastern Europe. Cleo Broda and Anabelle Moreau provide the visual backdrop to the sound interventions of Guy Carpenter, Paul Lewis and the unearthly resonance coming from Marigold Hodgkinson’s icebergs outside in the moat.The Moat
Home to an array of wildlife, flora and fauna, the moat provides the setting for work that engages directly with this water based environment.
Bjorn Birk will be attempting to escape the Island by building a concrete boat over a period of 24 hours, Dan Wilkinson will create an unrealised project by Lubetkin in the form of a floating viewing platform, and Marigold Hodgkinsdon will provide a series of icebergs. Hidden amongst the undergrowth will be the Bassindale sculptures.
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Lloyd Park’s landscaped lawns, formal gardens will be subject to sculptural interventions and the Pergola will feature the extended wallpaper text work of Emily Power |
Lloyd Park
Formerly the Grounds to the Water House [William Morris Gallery] |
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| Arcadia [the building site]
Peter Ainsworth
Ana Bianchi
Alberto Duman
Kirsty Harris
Trevor Rundle
Rufus
Hal Satterthwaite
Ib Vindbjerg
Steve Wheeler
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The William Morris Gallery
Wendy Anderson
Keith Ball
Ralph Ball
Malcolm Barrett
Luis Gonzaga Barreira Bras
Tony Benn
Meredith Bowles
Anderson Inge
Isobel Jones
Liane Lang
Maxine Naylor
Claire Robins
Steve Wheeler
Stephen Williams
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The Changing Room Gallery
Sarah Andrew
Bal
Bruce Allan
Julie Chou
Elisabeth Condon
Lucy Day
Johnny Diaz
Elizabeth Doering
Fion Gunn
Ursula Hitz
Ross Kelly
Torbjorn Lime
Cherstyn Hurley
Clinton Nalder
Dorota Rapacz
Garijel Savic
Patricia Shrigley
Terry Smith
Systems House
Steve Wheeler |
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Lloyd Park
Michael Carrington
Anderson Inge
Emily Power
Trevor Rundle
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Town Hall
Robert Connolly
Trevor Rundle
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The Moat
Stephen Bassindale
Bjorn Birk
Marigold Hodgkinson
Claudia Kappenberg
Dan Wilkinson
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Lounge
Keith Ball
Beryl Goldberg
Annabelle Moreau
Ruth Calland
Steve Wheeler
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Vestry House Museum
Richard Makin
Trevor Rundle
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| The Theatre - Installations:
Guy Carpenter
Liane Lang
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The Theatre - Films:
Roberto Battista
Gianluca Bonomo
Nikolaj Syum Bendix Skyum Larsen
Martina Von Holn
Hashim and Maxwell
Terry Smith
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The Theatre - Live music:
Lola Perrin (with images by Nazarin Montag and Roberto Battista)
Roberto Battista and Pepe Sanchez
Polaris + guests
Matt Groom
Abigail politely decided
The Langham Research centre
Rowland Sutherland
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| Shed
Robyn Abbott
Peter Bailey
Andrew Baker
Hannah Bryan
Billy O Boy
Robin Chevalier
Marion Elliot
Lizzie Finn
Jon Flynn
Geoff Grandfield
Gero Grundsman
Neil Hadfield
Ian Halley
Peter Hanauer
Gordon Hendry
Fiona Hesford
Martin Harrison
Andrew Kulman
Julia Lohmann
John McFaul
Rusell Mills
Morten Moreland
Mike Nicholson
Simon Pemberton
Chris Sharrock
Paul Slater
Nick Spence
Melissa Thompson
Dominic Trevett
Jane Webster
Louise Weir
Mark Wheatley
Steve Wheeler
Kath Whippey
Bev Whitehead
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Newspaper
Bal
Keith Ball
Malcolm Barrett
Tony Benn
Mick Hume
Jan Marsh
Gabrijel Savic
+ show catalogue
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Performance:
Claire Robins
'An elite experience for everyone'
location: William Morris Gallery - daily screening
The video follows 'Victoria Fielding' a (fictitious) volunteer tour guide around the Morris gallery in search of the utopian social ideals of William Morris and of museums more generally.
Claudia Kappenberg
Flush, or 'The possibility of moving towards an impossible goal'
location: bridge across the moat 2.00pm 17th + 18th Sept.
first performed in Geneva, two performers engage in a ritualistic activity, which suggests an impossible goal.
Ruth Calland
Countess Euphoria's Telepathic Tete A Tetes
location: The Lounge 6.00-8.00pm Friday 9th + 1.00-3.00pm Sun 18th Sept.
Participative performance. Countess Euphoria, resident of Utopia, will receive visitors wearing native costume. Guests to enjoy a face to face telepathic conversation - documentary scrolls will be displayed as they
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The Five Andrews
The Garden of Wrong, 4 men wearing knee-length brown lace dresses and wide-hipped fur trousers enact an exposition derived from their observations in a forest.
Abstracted butterflies and squirrels feature, including a literal hatching from a chrysalis while other specimens dry out from their metamorphosis, palpably swelling as transmogrified life fills their veins. |
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Cleo Broda
Linda Hughes
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Bowling Green
Tribute to Ivor Cutler
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Richard Makin
A ten-minute reading of this text is to be given by Richard Makin on Friday 09 September, sometime between 6 and 8pm, in the corridor of the theatre.
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At the end of the event a CD Rom (PC and Mac) will be available containing the whole News from Nowhere web site, browsable off line + video and audio recorded during the various live events.
Copies cost £ 6 each including mailing.
Click here to download the order form to be filled, printed and sent to the specified address with a cheque in UK sterling.
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