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A piece of graffiti by Manor House reads: ‘Herbert Hardwick did more for mankind than
any other man alive’. ‘Who the hell was Herbert Hardwick?’ seems an
appropriate question and is the one posed by Kate Bradbury in one of her drawings shown at
the Vortex over the last few weeks.
The exhibition displays a series of ink drawings, most of which illustrate songs written
and performed by herself and her brother Adam. Einstein’s Little Miracle, Pinochet in
Muswell Hill, Modern Man Barbers, a version of Jack and Jill entitled ‘One Day We
Will Remember What’s Supposed To Happen’. The experiences of the artist’s
friend’s granddad Basil are recounted (after a fashion) as he sat on his own
granddad’s shoulders watching the Titanic beginning its fateful maiden voyage.
Intricate and whimsical, the drawings concoct a world of lyrical beasts and unfathomable
personages. They are busy and curious and explore the rich ground of loose-knit and
haphazard local folklore; they are to be played through: a tapestry of the marvellous. For
more, take a look at www.diegobrown.com.
It is stories of a different nature that seem to be the concern of the Stoke Newington
based and internationally acclaimed performance artists at Pacitti Company.
With a history of compelling and sometimes notorious performance works shown throughout
the world, Pacitti Company are to restage their Finale (originally made in 2001) late this
summer. Spearheaded by Robert Pacitti, the company engage with broad narratives that are
embedded, generated and performed within the social matrix. Discourses surrounding such
themes as the body, sexuality, time, memory, death and desire are explored and
interrogated.
Uncompromising and often explicit, work produced by Pacitti Company is at once challenging
and seductive. With Finale, Emile Zola’s 1867 text Therese Raquin is abstracted;
narrative and character are disposed of, the work being left to describe core themes of
the book: deception, lust, spite and domination. The Company are currently seeking
interested parties for placements and ongoing collaboration, so any artists working in
film, performance, installation or sound should contact info@pacitticompany.demon.co.uk.
Collaboration was the fundamental principle (and in many ways the subject)
of an ongoing work at the Kiosk Project, which ran for six weeks and
ended with an open discussion on 29th June Entitled Fourth, this event was created by the
combined energies of Corinna Till, Eddie Farrell and John Mascaro.
With the primary aim to ‘produce something that none of us recognize as being our
own’, the artists embarked upon an intense exploration of the nature of collaboration
and creative processes. The resulting work of the three stands as ‘that of the
fourth’. Pre-conceived design was absent; the unfolding of the work was given over to
decisionmaking that resulted from daily meetings throughout the duration of the project.
Never allowed to arrive at a stable position, the work evolved through structures
(physical and conceptual) taking shape and disintegrating. Objects arrived, containers
were built, wall drawings made, paint applied. Each stepping stone was a product of
collaborative decisions, each step constructing elusive and scaresomely defined bridges to
the next. The individual’s autonomy was subsumed into the unpredictable workings of
the unit as a whole. More concerned with process than with finding meanings for objects,
Fourth proposed the vital question of how to negotiate the strange new entity that is
produced in the meeting of separate subjectivities. What results from our interactions is
surely other than the sum of its constituent parts. For more details see www.thekioskproject.com
Other summer entertainment includes:
The Rio kids’ programme starts on 18 July with a
charming new animated film, PIGLET’S BIG MOVIE. From 1 August they present KIRIKOU
AND THE SORCERESS, a beautiful animated film set in Africa with original music by Youssou
N’Dour. Following this, there will be more animation with SINBAD LEGEND OF THE SEVEN
SEAS, RUGRATS GO WILD and then the live action SPY KIDS 3D: GAME OVER.
The adult programme starts with an inspiring film from New Zealand, WHALE RIDER. This is
followed by GOODBYE LENIN!, an engaging drama set against the backdrop of the fall of the
Wall in East Berlin. By way of complete contrast, this is followed by a visit to the
sun-baked Sicilian island of Lampedusa for Emanuele Crialese’s RESPIRO, the touching
and evocative story of a free-spirited woman and her family living in an isolated fishing
community. Finally, there is Francois Ozon’s SWIMMING POOL, an entertaining and
intriguing story of a middle aged thriller writer, played by Charlotte Rampling who,
having gone to stay on her own in her publisher’s house in the French countryside, is
at first disturbed and then inspired by the unexpected visit of his carefree and
promiscuous daughter, brilliantly played by rising star Ludivine Sagnier. For details
contact 020 7241 9410 or visit www.riocinema.org.uk
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For full details of the Arcola Theatre’s summer programme, contact
them on 020 7503 1645 or check the website www.arcolatheatre.co.uk
Inspired
by the work of Dennis Morris, a Hackney-bred friend and photographer of Bob Marley, the Hackney
Museum on Mare Street is staging an exhibition of photographs, entitled Re-Focus.
Eleven teenage boys were selected from Homerton College, Morris’s old school, and
taught photographic and documentary techniques. The images on display record their
perceptions of their everyday lives (see photo on this page). Contact Claire Adler on 020
8356 2545 for opening hours and further details.
More locally, don’t miss the evocative black and white photographs of Cuban Life at
Firefly on Church Street and the other rotating art and photography exhibitions at the
Vortex Art Gallery, Ryan’s and Booth’s.