Saturday 25 October 2008, 10am

THIS IS NOT A GATEWAY / INAUGURAL FESTIVAL - DAY 2

No Longer Available

Exhibitions:

 

Laura Braun, Dalston Polaroids

A series of images produced over the course of the summer in 2006 in Dalston. The traces of daily life, observed and recorded through a Polaroid camera speak of Braun's solitary encounters with an area of East London.

 

David San Millian Del Rio, Passerby

Black and white photographs produced over the last 6 years on the streets of London. Taken with a concealed toy camera, the collection of portraits show passerby's lost in their thoughts and images that reveal the city to be a place of random encounters and contemplation.

 

Gesche Wuerfel, Tristan Fennel, David Kendall, A Line Is There To Be Broken

Photographs that scrutinise struggles between transformations of 'place' and 'space', examining shifting social policies, economic initiatives and development, and humankind's relationship to a changing climate. The images are studies of disruptions in 'everyday life' and the landscape.

 

Discussions:

 

11 - 12:30pm Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre and Liz Obi, A Closer Look: Do You Remember Olive Morris?

An investigation into the extraordinary life of Olive Morris. Morris, who died at 27, was a Black Panther and founding member of influential organisations that continue to shaper inner city London. The discussion explores the opportunities and challenges of art practice entering other arenas - regeneration, politics, heritage and education. Speakers include Anna Collin (Curator, Gasworks) and Kelly Foster (Black Cultural Archives).

 

1-2:30 Les Braves Garcons d'Afrique, Le Mouvement des Indigenes de la Replublique, R.Style, and Mustafa Traore

Citizenship, Race and Diversity: London & Paris PART 1

Despite a distance between Paris and London being only 135 minutes, the approaches by their governments to citizenship, race and diversity are polars apart. Four organisations from the Parisian suburbs present their experiences of contemporary Paris and specifically the autumn of 2005.

workshops

 

3-5pm Hilary Powell, Salon de Refuses Olympique

Exploring creative responses to the changing London 2012 Olympic site and surrounding regeneration zone. This manifestation of what began as the SPACE initiated 'Olympic Artists Forum' focuses on photographic work coupled with interventionalist strategies and eventful practices. ** Accompanied by cake made from the fruits of the Olympic fringe lands provided by Pudding Mill River.