An Olympian marathon of salon debates for forthcoming book documenting and highlighting critical creative responses to the official London 2012 Olympic Games site and Cultural Olympiad.
Artist and editor of the book, Hilary Powell has invited and collaborated with each convenor to produce a weekend of five salon roundtable discussions from book contributors and invited participants drawing out some of the issues within the book.
The book will be published in 2012 and will collect the range of critical creative responses that have occurred since the governing bodies choose to bid for the 2012 Games.
The sessions will be recorded and an edited version will form a contribution to the final book.
FULL DETAILS AND LIST OF PARTICIPANTS TO COME IN THE NEXT WEEK
Please contact hilary@hilarypowell.com for more information and to RSVP.
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7.30-9.30pm Friday 30th September 2011
Hackney Wick (un) regulated
Hackney Wick is a place transformed by the Olympics. What was described as an unregulated landscape has been transformed by the Olympics into one of the most highly regulated landscapes possible. The changing characters of Hackney Wick have inspired the work of many artists, curators and commissioners. Hackney Wick un-regulated invites a selected number of practitioners who have worked with Hackney Wick across this phase of transformation to critically examine changes in motivation, praxis and outlook.
Participants so far include:
Rowan Durrant. Artist.
Colin Priest. Studio Columba.
speaker tbc [space].
Caitlin Elster. Muf architecture/art.
Benjamin Sebastian. ]performance space[
Rebecca Whyte. Stour Space.
Joanna Hughes. Mother Studios.
Mimi Mollica. Photographer.
A publicworks Friday Session led by Andreas Lang of public works and Wick Curiosity Shop.
Electric Matchbox. White Post Lane. E9 5EN.
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11-1pm Saturday 1st October 2011
Legacy Visions
The very word ‘legacy’ is perhaps the most discussed and doubted area of Olympic project. This discussion bringing together various projects within the book that question and examine the idea of legacy from analysis and speculation to visionary dystopias and alternative propositions.
Led by Iain MacRury, Director of London East Research Institute, UEL and author with Gavin Poynter of ‘Olympic Cities: 2012 and the Remaking of London’ (2009, Ashgate, London).
Participants so far include:
Oliver Goodall. Member of Architecture/Design studio ‘We Made That.’
Juliet Davis. Research Fellow. Cities programme, LSE.
Jayne Hogan. Writing on Value and Legacy.
Oliver Wainwright . Architectural writer, critic and designer and member of Studio Superniche.
Tim Black. Writer and journalist for spiked magazine.
View Tube, The Greenway, Stratford, London.
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2-4pm Saturday 1st October 2011
Imagining the Olympics
This salon discussion brings together an eclectic body of photographers who have been producing work featuring the spaces of the future Olympic Park. These photographers, all contributors to the book, will debate their own and each others’ work in relation to the official imaging of the site. The overall aim will be to consider the agency of photographic images in urban change, considering photographs as documents, provocations and representations of sites in transition.
Led by Dr Ben Campkin, Director of UCL Urban Lab and assistant director of Architectural Research at the Bartlett School of Architecture whose interdisciplinary research investigates processes and representations of urban and architectural degradation and regeneration.
The salon is inspired by extends and feeds into the collaborative project ‘Picturing Place’ an interdisciplinary research project which critically explores the role of images and image-production in processes of urban change.
Participating photographers include:
Chris Dorley-Brown.
Alessandra Chila.
David George.
Peter Marshall.
Giles Price.
Gesche Wuerfel.
View Tube, The Greenway, Stratford, London.
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5-7pm Saturday 1st October 2011
Building the Dream
Examining the tension between inside and outside both in terms of officially commissioned projects and those (of which the book is primarily made up of) operating outside of this framework and between the park site and its hinterlands through an idea of the ‘fringe’ and infringements both culturally and physically.
Led by Anna Hart who leads AIR, a research, teaching and commissioning studio at Central Saint Martins which explores a durational relationship between artist and site.
Participants so far include:
Tim Abrahams. Journalist and writer.
Adriana Marquez. Principle Advisor. Arts and Cultural Strategy,ODA.
Tomas Klassnik of Klassnik Corporation. ODA commissioned artist.
Neville Gabie. Artist, currently ODA Artist in Residence.
Nina Pope. Artist and partner in Somewhere with Karen Guthrie. 2011 ODA commissioned artist for ‘Inside Out.’
View Tube, The Greenway, Stratford, London.
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3-5pm Sunday 2nd October 2011
Military Urbanism and Surveillance
Convened by Anna Minton, journalist,writer and author of ‘Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21st Century City.’ (To be republished in 2011)
Participants include:
Isaac Marrero. Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Birkbeck College Looking at/for the militant city: political space and audiovisual art in two post industrial, Olympic cities -the case of Barcelona and London.
Giles Price. Photographer.
Laura Oldfield-Ford. Artist, Savage Messiah.
Jim Woodall. Artist.
Stephen Cornford. Artist.
James Field. Urbanist.
See Studio Exhibition Space, 13 Prince Edward Road, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5LX.
And, to end the weekend we’ve been invited to go on to The Yard for a 6pm start of Bill Aitchkinson’s performance ‘2012’ in which he reveals sequences of facts connecting the war on terror, dog cloning, Saddam Hussein’s novels, I Ching predictions, The London Olympics and the end of the world. 2012 concerns itself with the space where conspiracy theories, propaganda, science, art and politics cross over with one another and become indistinguishable. Created in London and Beijing, 2012 blends fact with fantasy offering a snapshot of uncertainty, of where desire, and fear, lead the contemporary imagination.
‘An irresistible hour-long outdoor romp through the most wildly conceived and delusional of conspiracy theories… so good, I really did buy the T-shirt! British Theatre Guide
political and insanely funny. Theater der Zeit
The Yard, Unit 2, Queens Yard, White Post Lane E9 5EN
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Thanks to all convenors, all participants and book contributors, Daren Ellis of See Studio, Rosie Murdoch and all at the View Tube, Joe and all at the Electric Matchbox.
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