Hilary Powell

The Games will screen at this weekend’s ‘Land Of Kings‘ festival of Dalston.

Presenting my current work in progress alongside Jane Madson Joy Sleeman and Matthew Beaumont, Florian Mussgnug and others at UCL FIGS (Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies) Friday forum on COLLAPSE investigating the reasons for our fascination with collapse, decline, ruins, the fall of civilizations.

The presentations throughout the day consider the representation of these topics in modern and contemporary narratives and cultural artifacts, and discuss how collapse is defined and measured in different disciplines. How do ideas of collapse travel from art, literature and popular culture to civil engineering, architectural design, urban planning? Do they have an influence on scientific research? do current responses to fragmentation and decline reflect earlier cultural forms (e.g. elegy, religious eschatology)? How are psychoanalytic models relevant to our understanding of collapsing habitats?….. and more …should be an interesting day.

Friday May 11th 2012.

Thank you to Dr David Pinder, urban and cultural geography and author of Visions of the City for inviting me back to talk about ongoing my work around the Olympic site within the fantastic course module ‘Art, Performance and the City’ as part of the MA Cities and Cultures at QMUL.

‘How To Re-Establish A Vodka Empire’ will be screening in various London cinema’s in March:

Wednesday 14th March 8.30pm – Theatrical Premiere at Prince Charles Cinema

Friday 16th-Sunday 18th and Wed 21st-Thurs 22nd March various times – ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

Monday 19th March 8.30pm. Hackney Picturehouse, Hackney Central.

Saturday 24th March 2pm Special Matinee . Rio Cinema, Dalston.

Monday 26th March 8.30pm. Greenwich Picturehouse

Keep an eye on the blog and facebook page for updates and future screenings.

An outing of the AD issue I have a short article in….
Thursday 16 February 2012, 8.30am-09.30am
LONDON (RE)GENERATION
What does regeneration mean in the London context, how has it been applied and how is it being applied? The latest edition of Architectural Design magazine studies the history of regeneration in London, it’s significance in urban development and the people involved.

This NLA breakfast talk in association with AD will launch the new issue and look beyond the Olympics at the direction in which regeneration is going in a post-recession economy. How can a long-established, highly protected and even cherished city, like London, continue to renew and expand?

Join NLA and AD for an insightful discussion on how a mature city can meet the pressures for change within its existing urban structure.

Speakers include:
Sir Terry Farrell, Principal, Terry Farrell + Partners
Clive Dutton, Executive Director, Regeneration, Planning & Property, LB Newham
Murray Fraser, Professor of Architecture and Global Culture, The Bartlett School of Architecture
Peter Murray, Chairman, NLA
David Littlefield, Senior Lecturer, Planning and Architecture / Guest Editor, UWE / AD (Chair)

A film of my installation (2003) made in the then derelict and squatted London Field’s Lido will be shown at this year’s Lido Love event on 28th Jan 2012 – celebrating the secret histories of the much loved and now fully functioning urban swimming pool.
Thanks to Adriana and the Lido Love team.

Thanks to Dr Andrew Harris for inviting Isaac Marrero and myself to lead a session as part of the Urban Practices module on the Msc Urban Studies at UCL . We’ll be introducing the book we are co-editing ‘The Art of Dissent: Intervening in the Olympic Dream’ (April 2012) exploring its motivation, arguments and aims and some of the content in the core sections ‘ Interventions’, ‘Excavations’ and ‘Exposures.’ The module explores and experiments with multiple ways in which urban issues, problems and experiences are identified and addressed in practice and this year the focus is on urban mega events specifically the London 2012 Olympics. The line up for all the sessions looks fascinating and includes Craig Hatcher, Oliver Goodall and Anna Minton (all contributors to the forthcoming book!)

A belated thank you to Bean, Benjamin, Anna and all at ]performance space[ for inviting me to a lovely dinner to celebrate the launch of the neighbourHOOD residency project. It was also good to meet Enrico Maso of Caucaso Factory working on a film ‘ Default the Brutal’ – look forward to seeing more soon.

Jan/Feb’s issue of AD Architectural Design is out. Guest edited by David Littlefield it includes a short piece about some of my projects ‘ Works in/on/around/behind progress: Artist Hilary Powell describes how her work in film, food and the pop-up book offers playful critiques of regeneration and place making.’

New Year and projects in full swing.The book gathering critical creative responses to the Olympics is in the last stretch as Isaac Marrero and i work on the last edits and our own texts and my ongoing obsessive recording of demolition and the adaptation of the traditions of both pop-up book production and etching as part of my AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts is leading in exciting directions- public outings to come soon….