Wednesday Lunchtime Tour

26 June, 1.15pm
Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA
Free

Scat: Sound and Collaboration
Join us this Wednesday for an informal introduction to the Scat exhibition. Meet at the Shutterbug Cafe on the ground floor at 1.15pm.

Tours for this exhibition will take place on Wednesday 26 June and 3, 10, 17 July.

These tours are designed for individuals and small groups.

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Artist Kimathi Donkor leads a tour of his Queens of the Undead exhibition, 2012

Talking about artists making records*

27 June 2013, 6.30pm
Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA
£7 / £5 concession

A panel discussion on sound practices and the sonic in contemporary art
Through conversation and selected sound-based and video material from artists Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Charlotte Prodger, the event explores questions of the manifestation of musical and sonic cultures in artistic practice.

Does contemporary art offer a particular space for irreverence or critical discourse? What is this exchange: what are the specific vocabularies that are at stake; how do modes of production and distribution translate across disciplines and contexts?

*The title of the event comes from an article on the conflation of art and music cultures in a 1982 issue of High Performance #17/18 Vol. V, Nos 1/2, by Judith Hoffberg.

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:-* | 2012 |Courtesy of Charlotte Prodger and Kendall Koppe, Glasgow | Photograph: Adam Reich

The Trouble with Research

27 June 2013, 12-6pm
Stuart Hall Library, Rivington Place
£20 / £10 concession

Stuart Hall Library Symposium
The day will include presentations which recognise research and creativity as a practice and process of questioning, problematising, critiquing culture and which engage with some the following areas:

- Stuart Hall's work on culture and representation
- Artistic and/or curatorial practice
- Filmmaking and media analysis
- Cultural histories - local and diasporic
- Literary Studies including criticism and theory
- Researching visual archives
- The relationship between contemporary visual art and cultural politics

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Photograph of Stuart Hall Library

Ode To No. 6 | The Pitch Sisters Live!

4 July 2013, 6.30pm
Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA
£7 / £5 concession

Sound artist Ain Bailey presents an electroacoustic exploration
Ain Bailey, who colloborated with Sonia Boyce on Oh Adelaide, performs two recent works.

Ode To No. 6, is a meditation on the ‘unheard' that exists within the artist's personal domestic space. The Pitch Sisters Live was originally composed as a multichannel response to a line contained in Leslie Thornton's film Peggy and Fred In Hell: The Prologue. What would a female sonic universe sound like, if we all vocally hung around an A flat below middle C? For this premiere performance, Bailey, together with four invited vocalists, explores this question in a live context.

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Still taken from Oh Adelaide (2010) © Sonia Boyce, courtesy the artist

Moochin' and Messin'

17 July 2013, 7pm-8.30pm
Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA
£8 / £6 concession

Black Bottom Dance Workshop
Taking inspiration from the artist Sonia Boyce's Oh Adelaide! (2013), and the Vitaphone Pepper Pot short: An All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935), this workshop gives a taste of America's south, of smoke-filled, late night "juke joints" of Prohibition.

Lindy Hopper Christine Checinska will show you how to dance classic Black Bottom steps like the Mooch, the Mess Around and the Spank the Baby - all with a blues feeling. Bring your dancing shoes!

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