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Sunday 1 January 2012 - Monday 31 December 2012
A Room for London is a major new collaboration between Artangel and Living Architecture, in association with Southbank Centre.
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Purcell Room
The Caught by the River Variety Show
Friday 25 May 2012
After several summers hosting a packed out stage at the Port Eliot Festival, the hugely acclaimed nature and culture website Caught By The River celebrates its 5th year online with a one-off variety show featuring authors, musicians and journalists.
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Hayward Gallery Room 2
Monday 11 June 2012 - Tuesday 12 June 2012
Lucy + Jorge Orta lead a two-day workshop on Cloud Architecture.
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Hayward Project Space Back
Monday 11 June 2012 - Tuesday 12 June 2012
Aleksandra Mir presents a 45-minute lecture on two people with an unlikely but beautiful connection - the legendary rock star Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991) and Czech sculptor Irena Sedlecka (b 1928).
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Hayward 5 Sculpture Court
Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Economics
Monday 11 June 2012 - Sunday 17 June 2012
Fritz Haeg will organise and lead a drop-in centre for classes, demonstrations, seminars, talks, and workshops related to GLBT homemaking, inspired by the program of 'home economics' developed in the 19th century to educate young women in domestic duties.
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Hayward Gallery Room 1
Monday 11 June 2012
Meschac Gaba's work explores the cultural and economic repercussions of colonialism in current exchanges between Africa and the West.
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Hayward Gallery Room 1
Monday 11 June 2012 - Wednesday 13 June 2012
Using food as a medium for trust and intimacy among strangers, each of these three evening events features a meal cooked by Lee Mingwei for five participants and himself.
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Hayward Lecture Theatre
Just what is it that makes today's public spaces so different, so appealing...
Monday 11 June 2012
In this talk, artist Bob and Roberta Smith joins journalist Anna Minton to discuss the importance of public space both physically and intellectually.
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Purcell Room
Still Being: a conversation about time in art
Tuesday 12 June 2012
Celebrated artist Antony Gormley talks with critic and writer Michael Newman, Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths College.
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Hayward Gallery Lecture Theatre
Theoretical and practical explorations of space
Tuesday 12 June 2012 - Thursday 14 June 2012
In these one-day intensive courses, you can explore the history of Western scientific thinking about space from Descartes to string theory, asking how do mathematicians and physicists conceive of space?
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Hayward Gallery Lecture Theatre
Choreographies: reception and production of the visual
Tuesday 12 June 2012
Using some of his choreographies as study cases, French dancer and choreographer Xavier Le Roy addresses notions of spectatorship, and the reception and production of the visual within contemporary choreography.
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Hayward Gallery Room 2
Wednesday 13 June 2012
Raqs Media Collective (Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta) lead a three-day course of conversations and considerations on time and timeliness.
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Hayward Gallery Room 2
Wednesday 13 June 2012
Raqs Media Collective (Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta) present two related lectures on the subject of time: 'On the Qualities of Time' and 'Two or Three Things We Know About the Future'.
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Level 3 Function Room
Wednesday 13 June 2012
A spirited journey of discovery across the Lowlands, Highlands and Islands of Scotland tasting what is undoubtedly the country's most famous product - Scotch Whisky.
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Hayward Lecture Theatre
Jane and Louise Wilson in conversation with Caroline Wilkinson
Wednesday 13 June 2012
Jane and Louise Wilson join Caroline Wilkinson, Professor of Craniofacial Identification at the University of Dundee, in a conversation about the forensic sciences and forensic tendencies in art.
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Hayward Gallery Room 2
Thursday 14 June 2012
Jane and Louise Wilson lead a workshop on forensic tendencies in art and film.
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Hayward Lecture Theatre
Thursday 14 June 2012
Jeppe Hein discusses the topic of invisibility and sensory perception, with particular emphasis on smell.
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Hayward Gallery Room 1
'teach us teach us everywhere'
Friday 15 June 2012 - Sunday 17 June 2012
Audacious interventions, anarchic art events and wanton happenings are Gelitin's trademark.
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Hayward Gallery Room 3
The discovered discovers the discoverers
Friday 15 June 2012
Benin artist Georges Adéagbo examines what globalization and the one-way transfer of African cultures to the West means to his his practice and how he reverses the roles of both explorer and explored.
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Hayward Gallery Room 3
Oral and written Knowledge - transfer in Adéagbo's practice
Friday 15 June 2012
In this class, Benin artist Georges Adéagbo discusses his methods of storytelling, assessing the role of printed matter (newspapers, books, texts on textiles) in his installations, and looking at how this communicates with objects not only from Africa, but also from local flea markets.
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