Camden Arts Centre Camden Arts Centre's contemporary art exhibitions and events put you in direct contact with artists and making. http://www.camdenartscentre.org Copyright 2009 Camden Arts Centre Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:07:21 +0100 en-us CAC100689 Introductory Talk: Johanna Billing & Alexandre Da Cunha Jenni Lomax, Director of Camden Arts Centre, leads an informal tour of the exhibitions in conversation with the artists.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/exhibitions Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:07:21 +0100 CAC100682 SWAPSHOP: A Chance To Redeem Your Unloved Items! 12.00 - 5.30pm

A chance to redeem your unloved items! Everything is welcome from buttons to small furniture or even art, come to explore and exchange. To book your own stall, call Ben Roberts on 0207 472 5500.

With Artist in Residence Alexandre da Cunha.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/talksandevents Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:09:54 +0100 CAC100680 Perform With A Lie Detector...on Saturday Night TV 7.30 - 8.30pm, Kings Cross - venue TBC

For the finale of William Hunt's artist's residency "I don't believe you, you're a liar" he presents a major new installation and performance work in King's Cross. A battle of the bands, X Factor hybrid, the work features live music and tough talking judges.

Acts perform linked up to a lie detector and are critiqued not only on their singing talent but on their genuineness. The final is judged by a ‘celebrity panel’ along with the audience who are asked to shout “play loud, play real loud” or “I don’t believe you, you’re a liar”. Join some members of the audience by dressing as Bob Dylan.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/talksandevents/ Sun, 03 May 2009 12:42:03 +0100 CAC100679 Michael Raedecker Exhibition Talk: Dr Joanna Woodall 7.00 - 8.30 pm

Lecturer in Dutch painting at the Courtauld Institute, Dr Joanna Woodall leads a tour of the Michael Raedecker exhibition with particular emphasis on connections to historical Dutch painting.

Book a place]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/exhibitions/?id=100645 Sun, 03 May 2009 12:30:12 +0100 CAC100678 Michael Raedecker: Line-up - Introductory Talk
Book a place]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/exhibitions/?id=100645 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:19:14 +0100 CAC100665 Film Of The Mircea Cantor Exhibition http://www.camdenartscentre.org/exhibitions/?id=100607#video Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:44:33 +0100 CAC100663 Ranters' Cafe: DIY Regeneration 7.00-8.30pm
Join in the debate, come to watch and have a drink.

Large regeneration projects have been implemented across the country during the past decade. The London based artist and architects collective public works is inviting individuals and organisations to set precedents for further steps.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:25:40 +0000 CAC100662 Transitions Exhibition Artist Emma Hart has installed her innovative 'Question Department' in the Artists' Studio, part of the Transitions project.

Be part of performances-in-progress and multi layered projections exploring how an artist can operate within a school. She asks 'Who should be making art, for whom and where?'

Showing until 05 April.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:21:26 +0000 CAC100659 Film Of The Liz Arnold Exhibition Take a short walk around the Liz Arnold exhibition with Director Jenni Lomax, film edited by Craig Kao.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:41:32 +0000 CAC100656 Screening: Magic Lantern 6.45-8.30pm

See the premiere of artist Alex Schady's new short film EVERYTHING MUST GO made in collaboration with young people from the local Lithos Road Estate, fusing live footage with animation.

This 10 minute film will be repeated in the Artists' Studio throughout the evening.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:16:40 +0000 CAC100655 Perform With A Lie Detector Artist in residence William Hunt is inviting singers and songwriters to come and perform their songs while attached to a polygraph machine.

Hunt has transformed the Artists' Studio into a temporary recording studio.

To book your performance with the polygraph machine call 0207 472 5500

'I don't believe you, you're a liar' is part of Junction - a series of artists' projects for King's Cross organised by Camden Arts Centre and supported by Bloomberg.

Find out more about the residency.

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:09:07 +0000 CAC100653 Screening: Smashing Time (1967) 3.00-4.30pm

Directed by Desmond Davis, this rollercoaster tale focuses on two young women struggling to make it in swinging London.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:50:38 +0000 CAC100649 Live Art Performance: William Hunt 7.30-8.30pm
The UK premier of 'I Forgot Myself, Looking At You'.

William Hunt is artist in residence at Camden Arts Centre from April - June, he presents a series of performances and other events, transforming the Artists' Studio into a recording studio.

Find out more about William Hunt.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:16:45 +0000 CAC100648 Talk: Andrew Graham Dixon On Liz Arnold 7.00-8.30pm
£5 (Friends and concessions free)
Critic and broadcaster Andrew Graham Dixon leads a discussion of the Liz Arnold exhibition with artists Brighid Lowe, Daniel Sturgis, Bridget Smith and Richard Kirwan.

To book call 020 7472 5500.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:12:41 +0000 CAC100646 Screening: The Tenant 7.00-8.30pm
In Polanski's sinister, classic, Parisian tale, a new tenant finds the neighbours have designs on his life.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:11:06 +0000 CAC100647 Screening: The Tenant 7.00-8.30pm
In Polanski's sinister, classic, Parisian tale, a new tenant finds the neighbours have designs on his life.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:11:06 +0000 CAC100644 Talk: Ellie Reid - King's Cross Artist In Residence 2.30-3.30pm
Hear Ellie Reid talk about her residency on the King's Cross site and her wider work.

Based at King's Cross Central, one of the most significant developments in central London, Reid responds to the changing environment, incorporating materials found on-site into her work.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:14:49 +0000 CAC100643 Coming Soon: Mircea Cantor And Liz Arnold Exhibitions Two perceptive and unsettling exhibitions open soon at Camden Arts Centre by Mircea Cantor and Liz Arnold.

Romanian artist Mircea Cantor sets up physically and psychologically unsettling situations for the viewer.

Liz Arnold  (1964-2001) was one of the most original painters to emerge onto the London art scene in the 1990s.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:59:44 +0000 CAC100622 Free Exhibitions Tours Wednesday 04 February, 7.00pm
Join a tour of the Daan van Golden exhibition with curator Anne Pontegnie.

Sunday 08 February, 3.00pm
Jenni Lomax, Director of Camden Arts Centre, takes you on an informal tour of the Daan van Golden and Andro Wekua exhibitions.

Find out more about the exhibitions.

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:23:47 +0000 CAC100620 Art World Subscription - Special Offer Art World celebrates contemporary art and is packed with news, reviews, interviews and essays by the likes of Germaine Greer, Will Self, Michel Houellebecq and Jeanette Winterson – as well as the unique New Work section, which showcases 10 very different artists every issue.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:14:48 +0000 CAC100619 Ranters' Café 7.00-8.00pm
Come to debate, spectate and have a drink in the Café at this informal discussion and exchange of ideas. Speakers are invited to talk on "Can artists deny their political references?"

Find out more about the speakers.

Beers £2 on Wednesday nights only, 6-9pm.

Organised in collaboration with Ruth Beale, artist and founder member of Industrialised Culture Research Network.

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:29:13 +0000 CAC100618 Screening: Alberto Giacometti - What Is A Head/A Man Among Men (1963) 7.00-8.30pm

Focusing on the sculptor Alberto Giacometti, these two documentary films were made forty years apart.

Selected to accompany the Daan van Golden exhibition.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:15:13 +0000 CAC100617 Exhibition Tour 7.00-8.00pm, admission free

Writer and curator Daniel Bauman takes you on an informal tour of the Andro Wekua exhibition.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:12:45 +0000 CAC100616 Screening: Les Yeux Sans Visage (dir. Georges Franju, 1960)
7.00-8.30pm, admission free
Near Paris, the famous surgeon Dr Genessier destroyed the face of his beloved daughter in a car accident. He becomes insane and tries to restore her face by transplanting those of pretty women.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:00:48 +0000 CAC100615 Screening: The White Castle (dir. Johan van der Keuken, 1991)
7.00-8.30pm, admission free
Interweaving images of Spain, Ohio and the Netherlands, this film illustrates the alienation that modern economics produces around the world.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:57:33 +0000 CAC100612 Festive Opening Hours Camden Arts Centre's Daan van Golden and Andro Wekua exhibitions, the Café and Bookshop are open 27-31 December (closed Mondays)
Closed 24-26 December and 01 January
Closes at 4pm on 31 December

'In with the New' holiday events 30 & 31 December - find out more.

Admission to the exhibitions and events is free.

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:02:17 +0000 CAC100610 View A Short Talk With Daan Van Golden See an introductory film with Daan van Golden in conversation about the exhibition and an extract from an informal talk with Director Jenni Lomax.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:10:20 +0000 CAC100609 Screening: Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence 7.00-8.30pm
(Director Oshima Nagisha, 1983)

In 1942 British solder Jack Celliers is sent to a Japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honour and glory.

Selected by Daan van Golden to accompany the exhibition.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:55:19 +0000 CAC100606 In With The New - Holiday Events 30 & 31 December 2008
12.00-4.00pm

Take part in 2 days of animation workshops, screenings and activities. Make your own sculpture to appear in a film and see selected animations from the Animate archive.

Produced in collaboration with artist Alex Schady.

Find out more about the events.

 

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:10:39 +0000 CAC100603 Future Film 7.00-8.00pm

See a selection of films from students at London's art colleges: Central St. Martins, Slade School of Art and Wimbledon School of Art.

The films will be screened in the Café - wine, beer and snacks are available.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:36:48 +0000 CAC100602 Final Weekend & Exhibition Tour 3.00pm

Writer and critic John Slyce leads a tour of the Wallace Berman and Allen Ruppersberg exhibitions on their final day.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:35:07 +0000 CAC100590 Live Art Performance: Emma Hart 7.00-8.00pm

Emma Hart works in performance and video, creating events, interventions and happenings.

She explores the experience of getting lost as part of the Transitions project.

Find out more about Emma's work.

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:08:33 +0000 CAC100589 Live Art Performance: Publish And Be Damned Sunday Supplement 12.00-4.30pm

Join the production line of a printing press. Do reporting, be part of a fashion shoot and literally make the news. Produced in association with Publish and Be Damned.

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:44:22 +0000 CAC100588 Screening: Le Sang D'un Poet, 1932 (Dir. Jean Cocteau) 8.00-9.00pm

 

Cocteau's first screen work, which he describes as "a way of using the mechanism of the dream without sleeping, a crooked candle, often mysteriously blow out, carried about in the night of the human body. "

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:36:47 +0000 CAC100587 Live Art Performance: Tom Pickard 7.00-8.00pm

 

Celebrated poet Tom Pickard presents a series of readings from his latest collection, within the Ruppersberg installation.

Part of the Did you know, for instance? - An exchange of general knowledge programme of talks, screenings and performance which looks at the sharing of knowledge and experience and how new, independent histories can appear.

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:31:28 +0000 CAC100586 Exhibition Tour 7.00-8.00pm

Join a tour of the Allen Ruppersberg installation with writer and critic John Slyce.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:14:54 +0100 CAC100583 Ron Haselden: Closing Talk And Event 3.00-5.30pm

Join exhibiting artist Ron Haselden in the Garden, hear about his extraordinary installation which appears to hoover above the grassy slope.

Last chance to see, this is the final day.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:25:39 +0100 CAC100581 Screening: Easy Rider 7.00-8.30pm

Exhibiting artist Wallace Berman has a cameo role in this seminal biker road movie.

To book a place call 020 7472 5500.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:49:15 +0100 CAC100580 Live Art Performance: Serena Korda's Wonder Book Lectures 3.00-4.00pm

Artist Serena Korda performs a series of anarchic live lectures based on the Wonder Books first produced in the 1930s. The final event asks 'why and what?'

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:46:47 +0100 CAC100579 Exhibition Tour 3.00-4.00pm
Join an informal tour of the Wallace Berman exhibition with Paris-based writer and academic Sophie Dannenmuller.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:44:08 +0100 CAC100576 Frames Of Reference: Bradley Eros 2.00-5.30pm

Moving image artist Bradley Eros takes part in a talk and performance tracing lines of influential thought through his practice.

Produced in collaboration with no.w.here as part of the Reverberations series.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:00:58 +0100 CAC100575 Talk: Art Is Love Is God - The Legacy Of Wallace Berman 7.00-8.30pm
£3 (Friends and concessions free)

Join a talk and screenings with Stuart Comer, curator of Film at the Tate Modern discussing the work of Wallace Berman and its exhilarating mix of death, life, mysticism, politics and pop culture.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:12:45 +0100 CAC100573 Future Film 7.00-8.00pm

A selection of films from students at London art colleges screened in the Café.

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:22:39 +0100 CAC100572 Ranters' Cafe: Manifestos For Change 7.00-8.30pm

Come to debate, spectate and have a drink in the Café.

This informal discussion and exchange of ideas takes the theme of 'Manifestos for change'.

Organised in collaboration with Miss B who recently showed in the ICA's 'Nought to Sixty'.

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:13:18 +0100 CAC100570 Artists' Films - Strange, Surreal, Cool 12.00-5.30pm
£3 (Friends and concessions free)

This unique series includes work by Wallace Berman, Allen Ruppersberg and Andy Warhol.

Find out more about the films including a rare Andy Warhol screening.

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:43:09 +0100 CAC100569 Screening: The Cool School 7.00-8.30pm
(Dir. Morgan Neville, 2008)

Documentary about the infamous Ferus Gallery, with Frank Gehry, Ed Ruscha and Dean Stockwell.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:41:11 +0100 CAC100562 Live Art Performance: Craig Coulthard September 27 & 28, 2.00-3.30pm

Watch a series of gripping performances in which artist Craig Coulthard reconstructs a series of historical events from Hampstead's bohemian past. He stretches time and fact to challenge the idea of 1 single version of events.

Part of Open Rehearsal Weekend.

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:35:31 +0100 CAC100558 Building Tour: Artists' Projects 3.00-4.00pm

Join a special tour of the building, part of Open House London.

Find out about artists' projects which have utilised the building and garden , their features and function with Ben Roberts of Camden Arts Centre.

 

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:28:22 +0100 CAC100536 Exhibitions Tour - Final Day 3.00pm
Take a free tour of the Chantal Akerman and Anya Gallaccio exhibitions on the final day with Exhibitions Organiser Anne-Marie Watson.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:47:58 +0100 CAC100531 Chantal Akerman Feature Length Films See feature length films by Chantal Akerman and find out about Akerman the film director as well as the artist.

Toute une nuit (1982)
Sunday 07 September, 3.30-5.30pm

La Captive (2000)
Wednesday 10 September, 7.00-8.30pm

Find out more about the films.

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