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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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Hayward Gallery Project Space
Saturday 14 January 2012 - Tuesday 14 February 2012
Euan MacDonald: Open Tuning, features the recent video 9000 Pieces (2011), which focuses on a piano-testing machine in a Chinese musical instrument factory (the title refers to the number of separate parts in a piano).
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Hayward Gallery Concrete
Tuesday 17 January 2012 - Sunday 18 March 2012
Artist Vicky Falconer has produced three new works for Concrete at Hayward Gallery. These site-responsive works take their cue from the architectural features of the south bank, continuing the artist's ongoing historical, formal and conceptual interest in architecture.
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Level 2 Foyers at Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 28 January 2012
Enjoy three free tours of the 'Boxed' coffin exhibition, with tours at 12 noon, 12.45pm and 1.30pm.
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Hayward Gallery
David Shrigley: Brain Activity
Wednesday 1 February 2012 - Sunday 13 May 2012
British artist David Shrigley is best known for his humourous drawings that make witty and wry observations on everyday life.
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The Hayward
Tours Of David Shrigley: Brain Activity
Thursday 9 February 2012
An opportunity to visit the exhibition in the company of Cliff Lauson, Hayward Gallery Curator and curator of the exhibition.
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Yellow Room, Spirit Level
Saturday 11 February 2012 - Sunday 19 February 2012
Drop in and get creative as different publishers introduce you to their favourite children's characters and stories. Wear clothes to get messy in!
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The Clore Ballroom
Shrigley Inspired Art Workshop
Sunday 12 February 2012
British artist David Shrigley is best known for his humorous drawings that make witty and wry observations of everyday life.
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Festival Village
Saturday 18 February 2012 - Saturday 18 February 2012
Come and help design what a key part of our Festival of the World, the Festival Village, will look like.
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Hayward Gallery
Wednesday 22 February 2012 - Sunday 13 May 2012
A hugely influential artist for much of the past two decades, Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller has helped to rewrite the rules of contemporary art in many respects.
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Purcell Room
20 Questions: Jeremy Deller with Matthew Higgs
Thursday 23 February 2012
On the occasion of his mid-career survey exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, artist Jeremy Deller answers 20 questions from artists, critics, friends and enemies in the company of curator Matthew Higgs.
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Festival Village
Thursday 23 February 2012 - Thursday 23 February 2012
Come and help design what a key part of our Festival of the World, the Festival Village, will look like.
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The Front Room at QEH
Sounds From A Room: Heiner Goebbels' Up River Book
Sunday 26 February 2012
The German composer Heiner Goebbels, known for his compositions for ensembles and large orchestras, gives a musical response to Joseph Conrad's 1890 journal 'Up-River Book'.
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Hayward Gallery
Tours Of David Shrigley: Brain Activity
Thursday 8 March 2012
An opportunity to visit the exhibition in the company of writer and critic John Slyce, who presents his individual reading of the exhibition.
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Purcell Room
Birds Eye View Sound & Silents: Mary Pickford Revived
Friday 9 March 2012
Birds Eye View return with another programme of specially-commissioned live music to silent film.
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Level 5 Function Room
Through the Polygon Window: Hidden Histories of British film and TV
Wednesday 14 March 2012
Rob Young is a music writer, journalist and editor-at-large of The Wire.
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Hayward Gallery
Tuesday 20 March 2012
View David Shrigley, Brain Activity and Jeremy Deller, Joy in People away from the crowds and enjoy a tour of both exhibitions.
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Blue Room, Spirit Level
Sounds From A Room: Laurie Anderson
Sunday 25 March 2012
Artist and musician Laurie Anderson, who has released numerous acclaimed albums, films, books and exhibited in museums and galleries around the world, creates and performs a new sound piece.
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Level 5 Function Room
Crowd Control: Miranda Sawyer with Jeremy Hardy and Stephen Reicher
Monday 26 March 2012
Journalist and broadcaster Miranda Sawyer is joined by social psychologist Professor Stephen Reicher and comedian Jeremy Hardy in a discussion on the intelligence of crowds and crowd manipulation.
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Blue Room, Spirit Level
Neil Mulholland: The Anatomy of Shrigley-ism
Thursday 29 March 2012
Neil Mulholland, Professor of Contemporary Art and Director of the MFA at Edinburgh College of Art, discusses the recurrent themes in Shrigley's work.
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