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| Tuesday | 9th July |
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ART / PRIVATE VIEW
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BERLIN-LONDON SWAP | |||
| Tuesday 9 July (Tue to Sat 11am - 6pm) | |||
| @ Andrew Mummery, 61-63 Compton St., EC1 (020.7251.6265) Tube: Farringdon | |||
| Price: FREE | |||
| Links: Andrew Mummery | Markus Willeke Images | |||
| This summer several of London's hippest galleries will be taken over through a Berlin-London Gallery Swap, organised jointly by the Goethe Institut and the British Council. This collaboration has transported the enthusiasm and vitality of the Berlin art scene to London. Michael Goring's installation at once suspends and animates time as we witness each of the vases hung from the ceiling gradually crash to the floor as the balloon inside it slowly deflates. Peter Torp's pencil drawings invite us into the mythological, fairy-tale world of his imagination, and Markus Willeke's large-scale paintings mix comic strip culture with stills from horror films, sports events and computer games. Catch them whilst they're here (Private view is on from 6:30pm to 9pm). NB: Galleries taking part in the Berlin-Gallery Swap are Cabinet, Emily Tsingou, Essor Project Space, FA Projects, Laurent Delaye, Rocket, Transit Space and VTO Gallery. | |||
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FILM
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HONG KONG FILM FESTIVAL | |||
| Tuesday 9 July (Check Schedule For Times) | |||
| @ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly | |||
| Price: See Schedule | |||
| Links: ICA | Bright Lights Film Journal | HK Cinema | Article | |||
| The Hong Kong film festival at the Institute of Contemporary Arts will feature a wide array of movies from the last decade to celebrate the diversity that has emerged in Hong Kong cinema. An assortment of highlights from different genres will offer something for every taste - whether it may be Jackie Chan or Maggie Cheung. As a bonus however, ICA offers multiple special guests who will talk on various occasions in conjunction with the programme. Unsure which films to watch? Begin the festival with tonight's talk
by Eastern Asian cinema expert Tony Rayns. NB: See SCHEDULE for all details (festival ends 21.07). | |||
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FILM / TALK
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TIM BEVAN & ERIC FELLNER | |||
| Tuesday 9 July (7:15pm) | |||
| @ Design Museum, Butlers Wharf, Shad Thames, SE1 (020.7940.8790) Tube: Tower Hill | |||
| Price: general £10 | concessions £6 | |||
| Links: Design Museum | Guardian on TB & EF | BusinessWeek Article | |||
| Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are the two masterminds behind British film production company Working Title - "the Miramax of Europe". They have been co-chairmen for ten years now, grossed an awful lot of money and had more than 20 Academy Award nominations (with films such as Dead Man Walking and Fargo winning Oscars). A Greatest Hits compilation would no doubt include Four Weddings and a Funeral (penned by Richard Curtis) and Elizabeth. Hear Bevan and Fellner talk about their backing of the Coen brothers' films (they have worked with them ever since The Hudsucker Proxy), and how they went from a minor operation to become the UK's most successful film producers. | |||
| Wednesday | 10th July |
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TALK
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD | |||
| Wednesday 10 July (6:30p) | |||
| @ National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, WC2 (020.7747.2885) Tube: Charing Cross | |||
| Price: general £8 | concessions £6 | |||
| Links: National Gallery | Westood Shop | Westwood at the Museum of London | Bio, Photos... | |||
| Vivienne Westwood's passion for all things historical is infamous. A well-known magpie of art history, Viv has always conducted her fashion research surrounded by the August walls of the National Portrait Gallery in the company of its masterpieces. Since the good 'ol days of her '70's Pirate collection all her best ideas have come from the men in her life, Malcolm and Andreas, and or the National Gallery - all obviously limitless sources of fashion inspiration. Her talk will take you on a roller coaster ride through centuries of fashion history and focus in particular on fabric. | |||
| Thursday | 11th July |
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DJ / MULTIMEDIA / PERFORMANCE
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SPRAWL | |||
| Thursday 11 July (7:30pm – 12am) | |||
| @ The Lifthouse, 85 Charterhouse St., EC1 (020.7251.8787) Tube: Farringdon/Barbican | |||
| Price: general £4 | concessions £3 | |||
| Links: Sprawl | BitTonic | Si-cut.db | Timeblind | Jetone | Curd Duca | Additional Info | D Benford | Tracks | |||
| Sprawl bring us another evening of international experimental electronic adventuring at their new venue, Farringdon's Lifthouse. This party/label has been providing a platform for the more unusual side of electronic music for more than six years and have featured artists as diverse as Amon Tobin, Scanner, Plaid and Cassette Boy. Co-organisers BitTonic and Si-cut.db (bip-hop / fallt) play tonight alongside mad scientist, Timeblind of the San Francisco label Orthlorng Musork, Montreal-based software-terrorist Jetone (aka Tim Hecker) and Austrian Wagner abstractionist Curd Duca - both from the Mille Plateaux / Force Inc. stable. Hang out and enjoy excellent disc-spinning alongside big screen visuals. Expect odd-beats, minimal moog mood music, dubbed-out techno...and the unexpected. | |||
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DESIGN
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NEW DESIGNERS 2002 | |||
| Thursday 11 July (Thu to Sat 11am - 6pm; Thu until 9pm; Sun until 4pm) | |||
| @ Business Design Centre , 52 Upper St., N1 (020.7359.3535) Tube: Angel | |||
| Price: £9 | |||
| Links: Business Design Centre | New Designers | |||
| Miss the degree shows again this year? School's almost out for summer but 4,000 graduate designers from over 100 UK and Irish colleges have gathered together to see you, in one central London location. British design is considered highly throughout the world and the 17th annual New Designers Exhibition is a significant event in the design calendar. You are invited to discover the next big thing in design and given the opportunity, to meet the emerging design stars of tomorrow and to recruit the best graduates and commission their work before it hits the shelves (Ends Sunday - 14.07). NB: In conjunction with the New Designers 2002, The Architecture Foundation is hosting a free debate Architects in the Fast Lane on Thursday at 7pm (call 020.7253.3334 to make a booking). Participants - Alison Brooks & Iren Konshill (Allison Brooks Architects), Ferhan Azman & Joyce Owens (Azman Owen Architects), Eva Castro & Holger Kehne (Plasma Studio - Young architect of the Year 2002), and chaired by Joe Kerr (Head of Historical and Critical Studies, RCA). | |||
| Friday | 12th July |
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CONCERT
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THE HIVES | |||
| Friday 12 July (7pm ) | |||
| @ Brixton Academy, 211 Stockwell Rd., SW9 (020.7771.3000) Tube: Brixton | |||
| Price: £22.50 | |||
| Links: Tickets | The Hives | Bio | Review | |||
| In retrospect, the title of the compilation by Poptones Your New Favourite Band certainly seems prophetic. Sixth months ago only a few people had heard of this garage five piece from Sweden, but through a media blitz of magazine covers (NME,Kerrang...), celebrity namechecks (Courtney Love) and unexpectedly breaking America - the garage rockers are close to reaching Strokes like levels of adulation. The gig at Brixton Academy should cement their reputation as, yes, your new favourite band. | |||
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FILM
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LA STRADA & LE CARROSSE D'OR | |||
| Friday 12 July (7pm & Also on 14.07 at 4pm) | |||
| @ Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 (020.7887.8008) Tube: Southwark/Blackfriars | |||
| Price: general £3.50 | concessions £2 | |||
| Links: Tate Modern | Fellini Bio | Info On Fellini | BFI on La Strada | More on La Strada | Renoir Bio | |||
| Included in a film program entitled Inspired: A Trip to the Movies with Matisse and Picasso, Tate Modern will be showing the double bill La Strada (won the Oscar for best foreign film in 1956) and Le Carrosse D'Or. La Strada may be an early Fellini film, but it contains all that this master ever had to offer. The apparent simplicity of the script is soon forgotten due to the constant symbolism immersed in spectacular visuals and intense character development. Le Carrosse D'Or (Jean Renoir) continues the appealing visuals with astounding colours and an intriguing theatrical style setting combined with brilliant acting from a fairly unknown cast. Include the MatissePicasso exhibition in your program if you can find the time! | |||
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CONCERT
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ELECTRACOUSTIC | |||
| Friday 12 July (approx. 11pm) | |||
| @ Cargo, Kingsland Viaduct, 83 Rivington St., EC2 (020.7739.3440) Tube: Old St./Liverpool St. | |||
| Price: £4 before 9pm; £8 after; £6 members | |||
| Links: Cargo | Electracoustic | |||
| Jazz funk became irritating after its '90s explosion. Its instant good times baselines pervaded every second rate strip pine gastro bar and sound-tracked every dull party until '98 when people discovered Trojan Records. Luckily, some musicians from Brand New Heavies, Jamiroqai, JTQ, Incognito, Primal Scream and Roots Manuva started jamming over house beats provided by luminaries such as Funky Lowlives and Block 16, and started pushing things forward. Tonight is the first time they all get togeher for a live performance and it is sure to be a stormer with beats provided by half of Faze Action and treats provided by Cargo's ever rocking atmosphere.
Giveaway: We have two pairs of tickets to give away. They'll go to two randomly picked winners who can tell us when Electracoustic's Funkin'Motion hits stores? | |||
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ARCHITECTURE / DESIGN
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TOYO ITO WITH ARUP | |||
| Friday 12 July (Daily 10am - 6pm ) | |||
| @ The Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, W2 (020.7402.6075) Tube: Knightsbridge/Lancaster Gate | |||
| Price: FREE | |||
| Links: Serpentine | Guardian on Ito | Interview & Images | Ito & MoMA | Tower of the Winds | Essay | Arup | |||
| Toyo Ito's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion looks like it is going to the best and most exciting in the series so far. The pavilions from previous years (Zaha Hadid in 2000 and Daniel Libeskind in 2001) were formal exercises in shape making. In contrast to these pavilions Ito has played with a simple rectangular box defined by a single surface which acts as both structure, skin, solid and void. An apparently random pattern of steel ribs criss cross across the surface of the box's creating alternating rhomboid shapes of either glass or metal between the ribs. The outside surface is smooth and flush while on the inside the depth of the steel ribs is set by their structural load, adding a 3-dimensional layer to the internal space. The filtering effect of this 'hyper' skin should be similar to the pattern of light found on the floor of a small forest where out of focus patches of light and dark are formed by the random gaps between the blades of solid metal skin - it should be stunning! NB: On Saturday (13.07) at 3pm Toyo Ito & Cecil Balmond in conversation with Julia Peyton-Jones (Director, Serpentine Gallery), chaired by Jonathan Glancey (writer & architectural critic, The Guardian). Admission is free but seats are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis so get there early! | |||
| Saturday | 13th July |
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CONCERT
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BADMARSH & SHRI | |||
| Saturday 13 July (10:30pm @ the Terrace Bar & Cafe) | |||
| @ The Royal National Theatre, South Bank, SE1 (020.7452.3400) Tube: Waterloo/Southwark/Temple | |||
| Price: FREE | |||
| Links: The Royal National Theatre | Outcaste | Badmarsh & Shri Bio | Time Article | |||
| The release of their second album, Signs, propelled Badmarsh and Shri into the stratosphere of respected producers. The duo's pioneering blend of breakbeat, bhangra, ragga and funk has won them a fanbase of dancefloor nutbars and bedroom purists. Badmarsh ("rascal" in Hindi) cut his teeth in Hackney's rave club Labyrinth whilst Shri trained beside Nintin Sawhney. The result of their union is music with a depth to be taken seriously and beats to seriously lose it to. Tonight they keep the weekend going with a free set and are joined by their vocalists Original Nuttah, UK Apache and Michelle Dreest. | |||
| Sunday | 14th July |
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DJ / MULTIMEDIA / PERFORMANCE
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EXTRA | |||
| Sunday 14 July (3pm - 8pm) | |||
| @ The Foundry, 84-86 Great Eastern St., EC1 (020.7739.6900 ) Tube: Old St. | |||
| Price: FREE | |||
| Links: Slow Sound System | Showcase Mix-CD | Extra Broadcast & DJ Sets | |||
| Hectic, hectic, hectic all week long, then the weekend comes and you go out all night two nights running. Everyone needs a bit of a rest every now and then and the Slow Sound System provide it with style. An afternoon of minimalism, classic ambient tones and soundscapes provided by Datamath (a member of Ladytron) with digital short films from Indigo and Jay Ropinsky and live CCTV interventions from The Foundry. Art, ambience, and no one feeling forced to speak. What more do you want on a Sunday? Lie back, breathe deep, one nostril at a time. | |||
| Monday | 15th July |
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CONCERT
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CESARIA EVORA & FRIENDS | |||
| Monday 15 July (7:30pm) | |||
| @ Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, SE1 (020.7960.4203 or 4242) Tube: Embankment/Rail Waterloo | |||
| Price: £15 - £25 | |||
| Links: Royal Festival Hall | Cesaria Evora | |||
| Originally from the tiny nation of Cape Verde, Cersaria Evora has succeeded in exporting her unique and captivating sound to Europe and the US through her wonderful recordings and exceptional performances. Her string of soulful songs will transport you through the nostalgic melodies of Portuguese sentimental folk tunes evoking the bitter history of isolation and slave trade. The longing and sadness is mixed with the acoustic sounds of guitar, cavaquinho, violin, accordion and clarinet creating a truly moving experience. As one of the great songstresses of our time, comparable to Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, this is a performance that you will not want to miss. | |||
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CONCERT
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CORNELIUS | |||
| Monday 15 July (7pm) | |||
| @ Shepherd's Bush Empire, Shepherds Bush Green, W12 (020.7771.2000) Tube: Shepherds Bush | |||
| Price: £15 | |||
| Links: Shepherd's Bush Empire | Matador | New Site | Old Site | Video Interview/Videos/MP3s | |||
| When Keigo Oyamada released his 1998 album Fantasma under the name Cornelius (taken from the friendly primate in Planet of the Apes) the Japanese sound architect had pretty much taken his fascination with cut and paste technique to the limit, and critics hailed the sample driven album as a post-modern masterpiece. His latest release Point is simpler; he has left more space between sounds giving place for people to put their thoughts, the same musical influences are there, but toned down and mutated into a more cohesive and mature album. Londoners may remember Keigo from his art DVD piece contributed to The Barbican's JAM exhibition as part of London's Tokyo Life festival. Or more recently playing at the Ether Festival, from where the audience stumbled ecstatically, having been blown away by an exaggerated multi media collision that spanned and deconstructed the history of rock and pop, and then reassembled it into a breathtaking spectacle. At the end of the performance the words from the stunned audience that broke the silence were, "is anyone else out there alive?" | |||
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ART
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CLAUDIO ABATE | |||
| Ends Saturday 10 August (Tue to Sat 10am - 6pm) | |||
| @ Sprovieri Gallery, 27 Heddon St., W1 (020.7734.2066) | |||
| Price: FREE | |||
| The byproduct of performance are usually relics and documents. Just like saintly remains, the photographs of these events take their own glowing presence. The '70s were really the heyday of performance, and the photos - large, black & white, and grainy - really capture the ethos. Just as Charles Christopher Hill immortalised Chris Burden in America, it was Claudio Abate's photo that ensure the performance of the European Avant-garde. The photos at Spovieri remind and re-mystify the events of Jannis Kounellis (that infamous event with the horses), Robert Smithson's pours, Joseph Beuys with his felt and margarine, Vito Acconci slapping himself, but perhaps in this country, it is that of Gilbert and George performing their Living Sculpture in 1972. | |||
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ART
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RETURN OF THE BUDDHA | |||
| Ends Sunday 14 July (Daily 10am - 6pm; Fri until 10pm) | |||
| @ Royal Academy, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1 (020.7300.8000) Tube: Piccadilly Circus | |||
| Price: general £7.50 | concessions £6.50 | students £5.50 | |||
| Links: Royal Academy | Guardian Review | |||
| The title of this show may sound like an Asian remake of The Mummy, or an action packed thriller ("The Buddhas were worshipped, until one day they got buried. Now they're back, and like it or not, they're here to stay"!) but its content couldn't be more different. Six years ago, diggers in eastern China discovered a huge pit of 400 Buddhas and bodhisattvas (attendants to Buddha) under a primary school playground. The theories and debate surrounding their deliberate burial - were they buried as a result of religious persecution or was the temple where they were housed destroyed in an earthquake? - are almost as interesting as the symbolism in each detail of their expression and or attire. The audio guide which comes free with each entry ticket is very informative and unpretentious, and the serenity of the exquisite sculptures will stay with you for hours after the show. NB: This show ends this Sunday (14.07). | |||
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ART
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DAVID FALCONER | |||
| Ends Sunday 21 July (Thu to Sun 11am - 6pm) | |||
| @ Modern Art, 73 Redchurch St., E2 (020.7739.2081) Tube: Old St. | |||
| Price: FREE | |||
| Links: Modern Art | |||
| David Falconer is an old friend of the Chapman brothers and studied at the University of East London with them back in the days. Interested in all things miniature and sentient, his previous exhibitions have featured grim piles of dead - how else would they have got on top of each other so evenly? - mice. His technique is not to be sniffed at, since, after graduating from art college, he started working in the back rooms of the Natural History Museum building dinosaurs. This time on show at Modern Art are rats. And, at Chapman Fine Art, a film taken at night in Falconer's studio, of mice running around a structure built by him. NB: David Flaconer is also at Chapman Fine Art, 39 Fashion St., E1 (both shows run until 21.07). | |||
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| Experimental: Council Folk with Riz Maslen (Council Folk) |
| Electro: Haywire Sessions with Andrew Weatherall (TLS) |
| Drum & Bass: Hospital radio feat Tomahawk (Hospital) |
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