++++ SLUMP CITY ++++ June 6th – June 26th 2009 Space Studios, London, UK
As the consequences of the global recession begin to take effect, the regeneration of East London, the traditional home of London’s large artist community, has slowed and the promised Olympic legacy looks in doubt. It is within this context that SPACE presents Slump City an exhibition presenting the work of 3 exciting emerging artists whose visionary and haunting work combines gothic fantasy, poetic social realism and psycho-geography to imagine the urban periphery. More info, http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/blogcategory/Forthcoming_Exhibitions/ ++++ SLUMP SCREENINGS ++++ June 16th 2009, 6.30 - 9 pm Space Studios, London, UK SLUMP Screenings presents a body of film curated by artist Laura Oldfield Ford that includes artists films, activist footage and documentary charting urban social upheaval in the capital throughout the 80s, 90s to the present day. The films are derived from Oldfield Ford's current project 'Britannia:States of Emergency' In which the artist undertakes a process of chorographically mapping the country along the lines of social antagonism by focusing on urban areas where uprisings have taken place. Today many of the areas have been subjected to urban renewal schemes as a direct result of social unrest with Toxteth and the subsequent Liverpool garden Festival being well documnated examples. The main focus of Oldfield Ford's project is the Summer of 1981 when the whole country erupted in riots including Brixton and Dalston. Oldfield Ford examines how architecture and urban planning have been employed as a strategy for ‘designing out’ dissent. The project sets out not to treat social upheaval as a source of leftist nostalgia but as a radical critique of contemporary urbanism. http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/blogcategory/Forthcoming_Events/ Space Studios 129-131 Mare St London, Hackney, E8 020 8525 4330 -- Olga http://www.ungravitational.net http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
