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The fifth lecture in this series supported by the Outset Contemporary Art Fund is by Sissel Tolaas who has dedicated her life to something we all take for granted: the sense of smell. Obsessively researching and exploring our most primal and yet unnoticed sense in all its facets, Tolaas has shared her research in many ways: from research projects with hospitals and institutions such as MIT or Harvard...   [more]

Artist collective Elephants Head are running a reading group at ANDOR in conjunction with Pieterjan Ginckel's exhibition S.P.A.M. OFFICE. After an initial discussion texts have been selected for reading prior to the next event. Next reading group: Wednesday 20th February at 7pm. The texts include:(1). THE THIRD INTERVAL - FROM PAUL VIRILLIO’S OPEN SKY (2). NOTES ON THE INORGANIC, PART I: ACCELE...   [more]

Film director, set designer, artist, writer and polemicist Derek Jarman (1942-1994) is widely recognised as one of the most influential artists of his generation. His early experimental super 8mm films preceded a career that included Caravaggio (1986), Jubilee (1978) andWittgenstein (1993).Stuart Comer is Curator of Film at Tate Modern, overseeing moving image work for the Tate Collection and Di...   [more]

A screening curated by Anne-Sophie Dinant with Electra, departing from the practice of Boudry/Lorenz.     [more]

A screening of works by Alex Bag, Brice Dellsperger, Vivienne Dick, Wynne Greenwood, Ursual Pürrer/Hans Scheirl, Jack Smith and Ryan Trecartin. This programme brings together film and video by international artists and filmmakers who escape formal filmic narratives through the use of direct, sometimes exaggerated performances for the camera. Mixing over-arranged mise-en-scène and dressing up with mo...   [more]

Join poets Luke Wright, Clare Pollard and Ross Sutherland as they read their selection of poems inspired by the Themes in Man Ray’s portraits. Part of Man Ray Portraits exhibition.   [more]

Continuing the Taking Interiors lecture series organised by the MA Interior Design programme. Edward Jones, is Director of London based practice Dixon Jones, and architects to most notably the Royal Opera House, The National Portrait Gallery, the East Wing of the National Gallery and the recently completed Exhibition Road.  He was senior tutor at the Royal College of Art from 1973 to 1983 and...   [more]