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INSIDE ISSUE NUMBER 13   THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES
Sadly the summer is drawing to an end and it is back to work for all or most of us... This week's issue has been sent out later than usual but it is full of great events so make sure you check it out. Next week's will go out as normal around lunchtime on Tuesday GMT.

This is the third week of Vera Lutter's residency (to see her first issue go to no. 11 and her second issue, no. 12). The image above is both stunning and unique. It was included in this year's Whitney Biennial. Just in case you did not know, Vera hails from Germany but lives and works in New York City. To find out more about Lutter got to her Bio Page or to learn more about her technique and work, go to her Essay Page.

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ART: YesteryearNowadays; Santiago Sierra; The Mind Is A Horse; The Virgin Suicides & William Eggleston; Stepping In and Out; Richard Wentworth
CLUB: Wang; Laurent Garnier; London Xpress/The Remix Boat Party
CONCERT: Brick Lane Festival; The Butterflies of Love
DESIGN: Peugeot Design Awards; Ken Adam
DJ: S.U.M.O.; Laurent Garnier
FESTIVAL: Brick Lane Festival; Latin American Film Festival
FILM: Latin American Film Festival; The Mind Is A Horse; The Virgin Suicides & William Eggleston
PERFORMANCE: Santiago Sierra
TALK: Ken Adam; The Virgin Suicides & William Eggleston; State of the Novel
THEATRE: New Shakespeare Company

Thursday 5th September  
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THE VIRGIN SUICIDES & WILLIAM EGGLESTON

Thursday 5 September (8:30pm also on Friday 13.09 at 6:15pm)
@ National Film Theatre, South Bank, SE1 (020.7928.3232) Tube: Embankment/Waterloo
Price: general £7.20 | concessions £5.50
Links:  NFT | Hayward Eggleston Exhibition | Salon.com on Eggleston | Eggleston Images
In conjunction with an exploration of the work of photographer William Eggleston, NFT will be showing Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides. Coppola, though a limited actress, was strongly influenced by Eggleston's work in her beautiful adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides' novel. The Virgin Suicides is a haunting tale that remains with you and nobody should miss the chance to experience this superior cinematography on a big screen. It is also worth noting that Euginides' new novel, Middlesex will be published on the 7th of October.

NB: At 6:30pm tonight Shotgun Democracy: William Eggleston's Way of Seeing takes place -- an illustrated talk and debate on how Eggleston has developed the language of colour photography and his influence on both photography and film (Chaired by Mark Haworth-Booth, Senior Curator of Photographs at the V&A, with Mark Holborn, writer, curator and Editorial Director, Jonathan Cape; Kate Bush, Senior Programmer at The Photographers' Gallery, London, and Martin Parr).
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STEPPING IN AND OUT

Thursday 5 September (Daily 10am - 5:45pm; Wed until 10pm)
@ Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Rd., SW7 (020.7942.2000) Tube: South Kensington
Price: FREE
Links:  Victoria & Albert Museum | Stepping In and Out
Eight different documentary photography projects will be presented in this long awaited exhibition at the V&A. The title of the exhibition is an image of the two different working methods used by the photographers represented in the exhibition. The implication is that some of the photographers have "stepped in" to a community or milieu that is not their own to document something they were previously unfamiliar with, and others have "stepped out" of a community or milieu that they are closely connected with to document that milieu as an "objective" observer. Let us step in and out of a world that we are both familiar and unfamiliar with.

NB: The artists taking part in the show are: Roger Ballen, Tina Barney, Oliver Chanarin & Adam Broomberg (creative editors of Colors), Deirdre O'Callaghan, Clare Richardson, Allan Sekula, Albrecht Tubke and Donovan Wylie (the exhibition ends 02.02.03)
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NEW SHAKESPEARE COMPANY

Thursday 5 September (8pm; Mat 2pm)
@ Open Air Theatre , Inner Circle, Regent's Park, NW1 (020.7486.2431) Tube: Regent's Park
Price: £8.50 – £25
Links:  Open Air Theatre | Romeo And Juliet | BBC on the Open Air Theatre | Tickets/Seating Plan
Summer is still lingering and you have three more days to see some outdoor theatre... Thursday, Friday and Saturday are your last chance till next year to watch the New Shakespeare Company in Regent's Park theatre; Outdoor Theatre. Thursday will be your chance to enjoy classic Romeo and Juliet, but if your taste is more comic than tragic, As You Like It will make it to the stage on Friday and Saturday. Bring a picnic basket and soak up the last of the summer nights.

NB: Ends on Saturday 07.09
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STATE OF THE NOVEL

Thursday 5 September (7pm)
@ Cine Lumiere, 17 Queensberry Place, SW7 (020.073.1350) Tube: South Kensington
Price: FREE
Links:  Institut Francais | IMPAC Literary Award | Guardian Atomised Review | Guardian Platform Review
Michel Houellebecq of Les Particules Elementaires (Atomised) and Plateforme (released today in the UK as Platform), is one of the most famous/infamous contemporary French writers -- depending on who one asks as critics tend to diverge immensely on both sides of the extreme. He is renowned for his bleak views and harsh/crude representations of modern every-day society. Tonight, he will be discussed at a round table with Rod Liddle (Today Programme), David Sexton (literary editor of the Evening Standard), writer and British enfant terrible Will Self and Sylvain Bourmeau (from the French magazine Inrockuptibles), following a BBC4 screening of a documentary made by Louise Wardle. Certainly worth the trip, as no matter what, it should prove to be interesting. The controversy that this man generates is incredible yet his depictions of contemporary human behaviour (could be) are a reality.
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Friday 6th September  
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PEUGEOT DESIGN AWARDS

Friday 6 September (Daily 11am - 6pm)
@ Oxo Tower, Bargehouse St., SE1 (020.7401.2255) Tube: Waterloo
Price: FREE
Links:  Oxo Tower | Article on the Awards
The Oxo/Peugeot Design Awards were established in 1998 to reward "Excellence in Design". They are open to all UK-based designers at any stage of their careers, and the Awards are for objects designed and manufactured in the preceding 12 months. The winner receives £16,000. If you're into discovering new future trends, or looking at ingenious use of latest techniques and technologies from across five disciplines (furniture, lighting, ceramics/glass/polymers, textiles and applied metal design), you've got to check out this year's show. If you don't agree with the judges decision, get involved with the judging process yourself -- the winner of the public vote is announced at the end of the exhibition.

NB: Ends on Sunday 06.10
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LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL

Friday 6 September (check website for details)
@ Various locations (check website for details)
Price: check website for details
Links:  Latin American Film Festival | Film Programme
Latin American cinema has certainly experienced a boost in the last couple of years, and from the 6th till the 19th of September there are plenty of events taking place at various locations around London. Much of the festival this year will focus on Cuban cinema, but young talent from a range of other countries will also be featured. In addition, there are welcome opportunities to revisit Latin American and Spanish language films most of us have heard of. Watch out for the double bills at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith this weekend -- featured are three Almodovar movies (Dark Habits, Live Flesh and All About My Mother), also inlcuded in the festival are last year's audience stealer Y Tu Mama Tambien, Nine Queens and Amores Perros.

NB: Festival starts on Friday 06.09 and ends on Thursday 19.09 - check programme for films and times
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THE MIND IS A HORSE

Friday 6 September (7pm - 9pm)
@ Bloomberg SPACE, 50 Finsbury Sq., EC2 (020.7330.7959) Tube: Moorgate
Price: FREE
The year of the Horse (...1966, 1978, 1990, 2002) is always one of thriving activity, constantly on the hoof, so Chinese astrologers say. Thus it seems appropriate that Bloomberg over the course of the next 4 weeks, are allowing our minds to race with a series of documentaries, films, performances and even footage shots taken during the Second World War, all by artists or about artists. Tonight, in conjunction with the show, see films by Ed Ruscha (King of LA cool), Chris Burden (anything by him is bound to provoke, outrage and generally make one question the line where stupidity meets integrity), Marcel Duchamp (the conceptual master) and Gordon Matta-Clark (who made his name literally cutting houses into two).
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Saturday 7th September  
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WANG

Saturday 7 September (11pm - 7am)
@ The Premises, 201-205 Hackney Rd., E2 (020.7729.7593 ) Tube: Old Street
Price: £7 on door
Links:  The Premises | Wang | Warp Records
Wang throw underground parties which attract quality DJs to play cutting edge dance, electro, dub and techno. Tonight's very special guests are Warp records, who're bringing along Chris Clark (live), lady-of-the-moment Mira Calix and Dub Kult. Warp's hip-hop sub-label, Lex Records, take over room two with Dangermouse, Kid Acne, tomm and Nick.K, while the Wang Regulars Electro Elvis, Lula and Ed Chamberlain are just some of the names playing in room three. It's all taking place at The Premises -- a rehearsal/recording studio (with a very impressive client list: Talvin Singh, Lonnie Liston Smith, Ruben Gonzalez and Lee Scratch Perry being just a few) -- where, as well as three rooms of music you'll find a central bar area and an open internal courtyard. It's not a big venue, but one in which you'll feel very at home, and, as the Wangers themselves say, it's "less of a club, more of a party!".
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S.U.M.O.

Saturday 7 September (8pm - 2am)
@ Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, W11 (020.7460.4459) Tube: Notting Hill Gate
Price: Free before 8pm, £6 after
Links:  Notting Hill Arts Club | Hanging with The Sumos
Though one might be excused for thinking so, this night will have very little do with either the mid-eighties Argentinean Latin rock band S.U.M.O. or with overweight Japanese guys huffing and puffing each other out of a ring. To begin with, the two Stockholm guys (DJ Alf Tumble and songwriter Magnus "Combo" Ryden) making up the house act, Swedish Underfed Music Operators, are both rather thin. Secondly, their music has got more to do with Latin jazz than with Latin rock. With Alf Tumble controlling the beats, decks and efx while Combo squeezes his saxophone, we can look forward to some seriously radical rhythms. S.U.M.O.'s music has been compared to that of their Berlin counterpart Jazzanova -- but with more percussion, more vocals and more happiness. So much for suicidal Scandinavians.
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SANTIAGO SIERRA

Saturday 7 September (4pm GMT)
@ Anywhere
Price: FREE
Links:  SS @ PS1 | Flash Art Interview | Design Boom on SS
It is not often in today's business-minded art world that we participate in art-making's radicality, if it's still there at all. At 4pm on Saturday September 7th, Santiago Sierra -- an artist in South London Gallery's 20 million Mexicans can't be wrong (which ends 17.11) -- is encouraging everyone to put their stereos out on the windowsill and play a recording of a demonstration in Buenos Aires where protestors beat sheets of corrugated steel against banks in protest about the economic crisis. This event The Displacement of a Cacerlolada will happen simultaneously in New York (Printed Matter, Inc.), Geneva (Centre d'Art Contemporain), Frankfurt (Portikus), Vienna (Kunsthalle Wien) and Madrid (El Perro). You can ring the S.L.G. to have a disc sent or it will be broadcast live on Resonance 104.4FM. So tune in, and bring the protests back home. After all, in a global economy, recession in Argentina is related to activities conducted on Wall Street, the City and at the World Bank. See you at the barricades, or in this case, the windowsill!

NB: Sierra also has a two part solo exhibition at the Lisson Gallery (inaugural show of their new 29 Bell Street location) -- Part I opens on Tuesday 10.09 and Part II opens on Wednesday 16.10 (private view for Part I is on Tuesday 10.09 at 6pm)
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THE BUTTERFLIES OF LOVE

Saturday 7 September (8pm)
@ The Spitz, Old Spitalfields Market, 109 Commercial St., E1 (020.7392.9032) Tube: Aldgate East/Liverpool St.
Price: £5 in advance/£7.50 on door
Links:  The Spitz
An incongruous and mystifying bunch the Butterflies of Love -- one used to be in the seminal post-hardcore emo band, The Van Pelt (rrrrawk!), while another is a Divinity graduate. Their second long player, The New Patient (on the lovely Fortuna Pop! label), is equally off-kilter -- a soulful and intoxicating blend of pop which has been critically acclaimed here as well as in their native America. They are joined tonight by punk-popsters Sportique (whose album The Dying Fly contains repeated references on how to be cruel to insects and animals) and singer/songwriter Doug Shepherd, with more indie-folk-Americana. No doubt all this will be followed up by the usual Strange Fruit apres-disco-fun, making for a very pleasant musical evening all round.
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LAURENT GARNIER

Saturday 7 September (10pm)
@ Fabric, 77A Charterhouse St., EC1 (020.7344.4444) Tube: Farringdon
Price: general £15 | concessions £12
Links:  Fabric | Interview | Spaced on Garnier | F Com | Laurent Garnier
Farringdon's funky Fabric continues its run of consistently high quality names with the nimble Frenchman, Laurent Garnier. The DJ has been previously described as a "tech-house eclecticist"; which may explain his roots in that familiar late 20th century philosophical movement known as the Hacienda. If your mood requires enhancement of a Saturday evening, Garnier will endeavour to braise you in beats (of the hard, funky dance variety) and rinse you off in a cool bath of chilling melodies. At the same time.
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Sunday 8th September  
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BRICK LANE FESTIVAL

Sunday 8 September
@ Various venues on and around Brick Lane, E1
Price: Free (but some areas require a ticket - see below for details)
Links:  The Vibe Bar
The East End's Brick Lane will be awash with a multicultural mix of sights, sounds and scoff this Sunday. Traditional Bangladeshi and contemporary Somalian music can be heard alongside Asian underground band Joi, DJ Ritu and Sister India, while over at nearby Spitalfields Market you can enjoy Bengali song and dance, Bollywood music and there's a chance to buy Asian arts and crafts. The Vibe Bar plays host to two stages of jazz, pop, dance and DJs from midday till after midnight. The line-up includes Spinsta and Skutta, the Tighten Up Crew, Terry Callier collaborator Z Star and her Afro Punk Experience, funky sunshine dance crew Groove Armada and a live set from The Bays (with members of Jedi Knights and Massive Attack). After which you're bound to have worked up an appetite, so don't forget to sample some of the famous local gastronomy available in the many curry houses (we recomend Bengal Cuisine at No. 12 on the Lane and Cafe Shan around the corner on Hanbury Street).

NB: The Vibe Bar stages are free but you must get a ticket. These can be obtained either in advance or on the day at the Vibe Bar (Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, E1, 020.7426.0491).
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LONDON XPRESS/THE REMIX BOAT PARTY

Sunday 8 September (The Party Boat departs from The Savoy Pier 5pm and returns at 11pm)
@ The Party Boat
Price: £20
Links:  XFM | Nuphonic
London Express and XFM's finest The Remix are all aboard the party boat this Sunday for a buccaneering bootleg, breakbeat bonanza. In the Captain's quarters, The Remix DJ's Eddy Temple-Morris and James Hyman will be at the helm, with quartermaster Simian Mobile Disco. Notorious pirate Osymyso will also be terrorizing the high seas - but don't fear for your gold doubloons - he's sharing out his booty of the serious cut'n'paste bootleg variety. Over on the starboard side, Xpress 2's Admiral Ashley Beedle will be skippering with assistance from able deckhands, The Unabombers. So, assuming you don't all get three sheets to the wind or completely anchored after two many rums from the commissary, it should all be shipshape.

NB: Tickets are available from the Xfm Xchange on 0870 121 1049, Soul Jazz Records and Smallfish
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Monday 9th September  
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KEN ADAM

Monday 9 September (7.15pm)
@ Design Museum, Butlers Wharf, Shad Thames, SE1 (020.7940.8790) Tube: Tower Hill
Price: £10 / £6 Members
Links:  Design Museum | The Art of James Bond | Guardian on Adam's Serpentine Show
If you've seen the 007 classics Dr No, Goldfinger and Moonraker, Kubrick's Dr Strangelove, or indeed any film made after they were then you'll undoubtedly be aware of, if not inspired by, the striking aesthetics and style that Production Designer, Ken Adam pumped into these all time classics -- a style that has influenced many film makers and designers right up to the present day. And, if not, rent all the movies and watch them before you go to this talk. Ken Adam will be discussing his work with Jonathan Glancey of The Guardian. A rare opportunity to hear one of the most influential figures in both cinema and design speak about his work.
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RICHARD WENTWORTH

Wednesday 4 September - Sunday 17 November (Check Website for Details)
@ General Plumbing Supplies, 66 York Way, N1 Tube: King's Cross
Price: Check Website for Details
Links:  Artangel
There cannot be a district within central London that has a reputation as diverse as King's Cross'. From the magnificence and total bewilderment of the St Pancras Chambers abandoned like the architectural Marie Celeste over 10 years ago, to the prostitutes and crack dens of its latter years. At a moment when every building is trembling with uncertainty, you could ask, "Where has King's Cross gone?" If you're confused between whether the heart and soul is being ripped out, or that the Eurostar gateway is going to bring a new lease of life, why not ask the opinion of a local? Sculptor and photographer Richard Wentworth has lived in King's Cross for 25 years and his work is an ongoing conversation with his native habitat. Together with a group of artists, historians and scientists from one of the buildings almost certainly destined for destruction, Wentworth is organizing a series of events exploring the spatial and temporal qualities of the area runs parallel to the program of regeneration.
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YESTERYEARNOWADAYS

Ends Saturday 7 September (Mon to Sat 10am - 5pm)
@ Hales Gallery, 70 Deptford High Street, SE8 (020.8694.1194) Tube: New Cross
Price: FREE
Links:  Hales Gallery
Does good curatorship bring out the best in each artwork? Or is it about the mere components affecting a great show? YesteryearNowadays puts this to the test. It has the breezy feel of a Beach boys song, but where the latter brings out the summer air and beach smells, the former evokes Granny's sofa, bad newspaper memories and ghosts of Christmas past. Paul Housley's paintings, Paul McDevitt's drawings and Marco Maggi's Kitchen Mother recall, remind and hint, at things lurking at the edges of our mind. This is Paul Hedge's show (he's curating) -- its light touch with a hint of seriousness sums up the Hales aesthetic -- a perfect summer moment. In particular, bump into Andrew Bick's rethink of his wax and perspex painting as a 1950s coffee table, and Hew Locke's camp wall sculpture of the Queen in faux-fur and found material... what the ?#!?
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GROOVETECH STREAMS
 
DRUM & BASS:
Marcus Intalex & DJ Lee
ECLECTIC:
Warp present George Evelyn from Nightmares on Wax
ELECTRO:
Haywire sessions with Andrew Weatherall


London's Groovetech rule the Internet airwaves with their world class live DJ broadcasting. As our resident DJs, they will be delivering you three specially selected streams direct to your inbox every week. As well as these, there are also live streams from around the world and a massive archive to check out at groovetech.com. Now is probably a good time to check out the Groovetech Shop where their coveted back catalogue vinyl is available at massively reduced prices as part of their summer sale.

You'll need the Real Audio player to listen to the streams. If you don't already have it, get it here.

BOOK REVIEW
 
30 Bridges
Matthew Wells
Laurence King

For those of you who are interested in ingenuity and design, 30 Bridges offers a meticulous and very well illustrated view into the magic of designing, constructing and more importantly, keeping a bridge standing. Hugh Pearman (of The Sunday Times) gives an introduction with a historical survey of bridges followed by an individual case study of 30 of the world's most interesting bridges, shedding light on the marvels, innovations and achievements of modern design (some of the firms included are Arup, Ben van Berkel, Santiago Calatrava, Future Systems, Techniker, and WilkinsonEyre).

Giveaway: We have one copy of 30 Bridges to give away. It'll go to one randomly picked winner who can tell us the name of architect that designed the bridge next to the Guggenheim in Bilbao (Hint: he also designed Bilbao's airport).

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