Mon Jun 10, 2013 12:00

London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
- PUBLIC ASSEMBLY -
AN ALTERNATIVE SUMMER SHOW

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Free Cooper Union UK (FCUUK) invite you to submit your work to a collaborative project celebrating free education around the world.

The exhibition pays tribute to New York City's last tuition-free university - the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science, whose Board of Trustees voted to abolish its 100% scholarship policy for the first time in 110 years.

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EXHIBITION

The White Building, 7 Queens Yard, London E9 5EN
Sunday 30th June, 5 - 10 pm (real life) / Forever (online)
Free and open to the public

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Students, graduates, and alumni of any institution whatsoever - you are invited to submit work relating to the theme “Free as Air and Water”*.

Work will be compiled into an interactive website, downloadable catalogue, and collaborative installation at the White Building in Hackney Wick in London. For one night only, a special exhibition and graduation party will feature an immersive architectural installation, sculpture workshop, live screenprinting, videos, artists’ bookstore, live webchat, and refreshments.

Following the event, all submitted material will be available online, forming the foundation of a new school - one that will remain free as air and water.

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CATEGORIES

Submissions may be in the following categories:

1. Projects & Research

Drawn from your current practice, student work, or social projects whose production inspires, enables, participates in the freedom of education. This is a broad definition and is open to interpretation. Works can take the form of text, images, websites, audio, (e)books, photos or video.

2. New Media Protest Art

Subversive use of technology is very much encouraged, e.g. Animated GIF protest art; Vine Feeds; Google chat rants, overdubbed blockbusters.

3. Chronicles & Documentation of the Crisis

Written essays, letters, financial statistics, press releases, articles, or other documentation relating to the current crisis in student funding and debt at the Cooper Union and other institutions (movie, JPEG, TXT, PDF)

4. Art Assignments, Design Briefs & Alternative Course Guides

One-page assignments, DIY course descriptions, how-to-instructions, readings, cheat sheets, Dada performance lists. Help others help themselves learn. (PDF)

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DEADLINE

Work must be submitted by Monday June 10th 2013.

Please email files less than 10mb, or links to download/movie/websites to:
publicassembly@lek.co with the category indicated in the subject line.

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*FCUUK have yet to find a sustainable financial model and regrettably cannot offer to pay for transportation of physical work; digital submissions are encouraged.

Organized by Lawrence Lek and Free Cooper Union with the support of SPACE Studios.

Thu May 02, 2013 19:00 - Thu May 02, 2013

London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

'Pyramid Schemes' is a collaborative exhibition organized by Lawrence Lek and The White Review to showcase a collection of short stories about real and imaginary buildings. Drawing inspiration from the work of Victor Hugo, Apollinaire and Jorge Luis Borges, the project invites forty-eight contemporary artists and writers to submit 100-word texts that explore architectures of their own creation.

For one night only, an immersive installation at The White Building in Hackney Wick will shape the collected texts into a panoramic cityscape. Please join us on Thursday 2nd May from 7-10pm to celebrate the spectacle of this fictional city. A limited edition of fold-out artists’ books will be produced to accompany the event.

Featuring:

Darran Anderson ▲ David Bainbridge ▲ Anna Blair ▲ Jorge Luis Borges ▲ Martin Byrne ▲ Jen Calleja ▲ Steven Chodoriwsky ▲ S.J. Christmass ▲ Calvin Chua ▲ Holly Corfield-Carr ▲ Rishi Dastidar ▲ Adrian Dannatt ▲ Alexandre Dumas et al. ▲ Rachel Falconer ▲ Jon Ferguson ▲ Adam Nathaniel Furman ▲ Niall Gallacher ▲ Patrick Goddard ▲ Oliver Griffin ▲ Evan Harris ▲ Rye Dag Holmboe ▲ John Holten ▲ Victor Hugo ▲ Matt Hutchinson ▲ Miranda Iossifidis ▲ Daniel Ivec ▲ Claire Jamieson ▲ Verity-Jane Keefe ▲ Clare Kirwan ▲ Miles Klee ▲ Alana Kushnir ▲ Léopold Lambert ▲ Patrick Langley ▲ Lawrence Lek ▲ Bella Marrin ▲ Dorrell Merritt ▲ Thomas More ▲ Amanda Oosthuizen ▲ Daniel Rourke ▲ Andi Schmied ▲ Jack Self ▲ Camila Sotomayor ▲ St. Augustine ▲ Viktor Timofeev ▲ Karen Whiteson ▲ Eley Williams ▲ Nathan Witt ▲ Alan Worn

The project continues themes explored in Lek’s essay ‘Pyramid Schemes: Reading The Shard’, featured in The White Review No. 7 alongside works by Luc Tuymans and John Stezaker.

Supported by SPACE Studios and the White Building.

www.thewhitereview.org
www.lawrencelek.com

Mon Mar 04, 2013 23:59

London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The White Building
Sunday 10.03.2013
6-9pm
After party at CRATE brewery

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BYOB - ‘Bring Your Own Beamer’ is a series of one-night exhibitions hosting artists and their projectors. It celebrates the moving image and explores how we interact with the virtual world. Today we define information. Tomorrow it will define us. BYOB gives us a glimpse of what that future might look like.

We invite you to transform the White Building into a collaborative work of movement, experimentation and spontaneous interaction. All you need is to bring your own projector and something to project. This is open to interpretation: AVIs, GIFs, 3D worlds, live streams, reel-to-reel films, overhead projectors, TVs, and oscilloscopes are all welcome.

To register to take part, please send your name, website, and link to the work you will be showing to: lawrence [at] lek.co

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Curated by Lawrence Lek and Omar Kholeif.

BYOB was initiated by Rafaël Rozendaal in 2010. Since then over 80 events have taken place around the world.

The White Building is London’s new cultural venue focusing on innovation and creative practice at the intersection of art, technology and ecology.