Final weeks - Sheela Gowda: Therein & Besides

Until 12 March 2011
Rivington Place

Exhibition and competition
Your last chance to see Sheela Gowda's dynamic new commission of all people at Rivington Place. The artist explores scale in a playful manner by juxtaposing large colourful painted structures and 10,000 small wooden figures.

Also showing is Collateral, a delicate sculptural installation made from burnt incense ash manipulated into intricate patterns.
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Sheela Gowda is interviewed in Iniva's publication Drawing Space: Contemporary Indian Drawing (2000). For your chance to win a copy answer this question: In which city does artist Sheela Gowda live? Email answers by 13 March to competitions@iniva.org with Sheela Gowda .

Sheela Gowda, of all people, Therein & Besides at Rivington Place, 2011; Drawing Space published by Iniva, 2000.

Keywords lecture: 'Class'

Thursday 10 March, 6:30pm
Rivington Place

In the third of a lecture series evaluating keywords in art, culture and society, cultural theorist and writer Stephen Wright and artist and lecturer Susan Kelly explore the term 'class' in relation to diversity and cultural practice.

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Next exhibition: Rabih Mroué

23 March - 14 May 2011
Rivington Place

I, the Undersigned
The first solo exhibition in the UK by Lebanese artist, theatre director, playwright and actor Rabih Mroué.

Influenced by the ongoing conflicts in Lebanon and the Middle East since the Lebanese Civil War, Mroué looks at issues of historical narration, exclusion and remembrance. For this exhibition he presents a new commission alongside key recent works and a live performance. Find out more

Sign up to the new Rivington Place e-newsletter to find out how you can win tickets to Rabih's performance at Tate Modern on 19 March.

Rabih Mroué, Je Veux Voir (detail), 2010, installation view, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht

The Inivators: Possible Damage

24 March - 14 May 2011
Thu 12 - 9pm, Friday / Saturday 12 - 6pm
Education Space, Rivington Place

New programme of events from the Inivators
Artist Tania El Khoury collaborates with the Inivators (Iniva’s Youth Advisory Board), to present Possible Damage, an archive of the recent student protests.

The archive installation, created in response to themes explored in Rabih Mroué's exhibition, investigates the construction of social memory, and its consequent realities. This is accompanied by a series of public interventions and performances at Rivington Place. Find out more.

Possible Damage: Re-Collection 1
Thursday 31 March, 6:30pm
Book your place for this installation and performance.

Possible Damage

Stuart Hall Library events

Reading Group
Thursday, 10 March, 6-7.30pm

The Stuart Hall Library Reading Group's next meeting focuses on a text relating to art and the economy.

Text for next meeting:
Igor Kopytoff's The cultural biography of things: commodification as process from The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective (Cambridge UP, 1986). The text is available to read in the Library.
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What's happening elsewhere: Nancy Spero

3 March – 2 May 2011
The Serpentine Gallery

A major UK survey of the work of celebrated American artist, feminist and activist Nancy Spero (1926 - 2009).

A feminist pioneer and politically active throughout her life, Spero created work that was often radical, making strong statements against war, violence, male dominance and abuses of power.

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Nancy Spero, Artaud Painting: Then There Will Be… , 1969, Courtesy of Estate of Nancy Spero and Galerie Lelong