7th July 2007 — 22nd July 2007
Shows by Marcia Farquhar, Paula Kane, Aura Satz, The Society of Wonders, Ludovica Gioscia, Bonnie Camplin, Today is Boring
Workshops for Children from the House of Fairytales: Josie Barnard,
Gavin Turk, Deborah Curtis & Amber Trentham, Claudia Boulton,
Matthew Jenkins
A Tea Room opens for the duration of the Spice Festival, presenting
amongst the tea and cakes, a confection of specially commissioned
artwork that imparts a certain theatricality. Please check the website
for full details www.spicefestival.com
Some of the fun events still to come include:
The Society of Wonders - The Punch & Judy Project - Saturday 14 July, 7:30pm
Whales, snakes, the sea; half remembered biblical tales become new
stories, set to an operetta performed on a small harmonium and
borrowing the form of a traditional Punch & Judy show.
Ludovica Gioscia - Highway E154 - Thursday 19 July, 6 - 9pm
Trundling around the Tea Room, with various degrees of speed and
enthusiasm, will be a series of über-embellished remote control objects
- a tea set, perhaps a doughnut. Hyper-baroque, Gioscia's work is a
collision of aesthetics, eras and ideas, which stubbornly disallows the
notion of décor as background.
Bonnie Camplin - Summer Goats - Friday 20 July, 6 - 9pm
Bonnie Camplin and Susanne Oberbeck (No Bra) go head to head in a darts
tournament. It will be a highly ritualised event that pays specific
attention to the details of televised darts: that, in this context,
become a creepily exaggerated caricature.
Today is Boring - Film Programme - Saturday 21 July, 11am - 9pm
This, the very first specialist Arthouse video store in the East End,
presents a selection of obscure and re-discovered treasures that
explore a light-hearted internationalism, provocative global
consciousness, and real and imaginary worlds.
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