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HEX

HEX

MARLIE MUL : NO ODUUR

XEROXLORE

BLACKBOARD #5: STUART ELLIOT

Aaron Angell: Bluebell Dance Desk Organiser

Jimmy Merris - ECONOMICS 101

ECONOMICS 101

Terry Dennett: ECONOMICS 101

The Anti-Library

exhibitions

20 Jan–04 Mar 2012 exhibitions

HEX

GALLERY: Moving image work by Hex, a rave-culture period collaboration between video graphic artists Hardwire and DJ/producers Coldcut.     

20 Jan–04 Mar 2012

MARLIE MUL : NO ODUUR

ANNEXE: Cigarette will be gone soon, Cigarette is guilty, has apologized a thousand times. There is no place for cigarette, Cigarette, In a smoke-free world.     

20 Jan–04 Mar 2012

XEROXLORE

LIBRARY: Indigenous to offices and shared workplaces around the world, xeroxlore - defined as anonymously printed and photocopied urban folklore - comes in the form or cartoons, mottoes, poems, sayings and parodic memoranda.     

20 Jan–04 Mar 2012

BB #5: STUART ELLIOT

BLACKBOARD: Stuart Elliot - Object Lesson. At the Blackboard's main site behind the gallery reception an improvised site-specific work has been made by arranging various elements from the artist's studio in order to consider the question of what counts as a tool, support, trace, filter, frame or container.     

04 Nov–17 Dec 2011

AARON ANGELL: THE DEVIL'S ARSE

GALLERY: Bad studio pottery, rural and craft culture, obscure folk music, art-house porn – just some of the many marginal reference points informing The Devil’s Arse, an exhibition of ceramics and walls paintings by Aaron Angell.     

04 Nov–17 Dec 2011

Terry Dennett and Jimmy Merris: ECONOMICS 101

ANNEXE: In 1902 American author Jack London, dressed head to toe in shabby second hand clothes, took lodgings in the East End and set about exploring the realities of that area’s chronic social deprivation.     

04 Nov–17 Dec 2011

The Anti-Library

LIBRARY: The possibility of an anti-library, as well as ideas of anti-knowledge and un-learning, informs a new project in SPACE’s LIBRARY gallery.     

04 Nov–17 Dec 2011

BB #4 PETER KENNARD

BLACKBOARD: Peter Kennard - Blackboard@Earth. For over forty-years, Peter Kennard’s photo-based work has represented a singular commitment to the political effect of images.     

21 Oct

Lucky Dragons

PERFORMANCE: Live-performance by the LA based experimental group. In conjunction with Upset The Rhythm     

02 Sep–15 Oct 2011

Bevis Martin & Charlie Youle: A Parade of Problems

GALLERY /// A Parade of Problems continues Bevis Martin and Charlie Youleʼs ongoing, more or less directionless, exploration of human knowledge via the production of handmade approximations of mental structures.     

02 Sep–15 Oct 2011

Rhododendron (II)

ANNEXE /// SPACE presents an exhibition of work by an international group of young artists whose three-dimensional work, while founded in media art or Internet culture, or made using software, nonetheless expresses a profound enthusiasm for the physical form of the art object (size, material, colour, shape, composition, etc.).     

02 Sep–15 Oct 2011

WATCH OUT KIDS

LIBRARY /// In 1972 writer and musician Mick Farren, collaborated with artist Edward Barker to produce Watch Out Kids.     

02 Sep–15 Oct 2011

BB #3 BANNER REPEATER

BLACKBOARD: Banner Repeater: The Diagram Series. Banner Repeater is an artist led project space and reading room based on platform 1 of Hackney Downs railway station in East London. The project was initiated by SPACE studio artist Ami Clarke in 2009.     

20 May–25 Jun 2011

Roy Ascott: The Syncretic Sense

SPACE is proud to present the first major retrospective of Roy Ascott, the British artist, theorist and teacher who has inspired generations of artists. The Syncretic Sense is a touring exhibition from Plymouth Arts Centre curated by Paula Orrell in partnership with i-DAT and the University of Plymouth.     

25 Mar–07 May 2011

Jack Newling: then again

GALLERY /// Graphics, social design and ocular illusion feature in an exhibition of new works by Jack Newling.     

25 Mar–07 May 2011

SOME VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF BOB

ANNEXE AND LIBRARY /// A retrospective exhibition exploring the work of artist and poet Bob Cobbing (1920 - 2002). Some Variations on a Theme of Bob is curated by Lawrence Upton     

25 Mar–07 May 2011

BB #2 Vicky Wright

BLACKBOARD: Vicky Wright. For the next Blackboard, Vicky Wright presents a continuation of her Extraction and Guardian series, an ongoing project focusing on the paradoxical nature of portraiture, politics and patronage.     

21 Jan–05 Mar 2011

Georgie Nettell - Ultra

GALLERY A new cycle of paintings by the London based artist. In two-tone colour (beige and grey), Nettell traces the recurrence of a single stenciled motif over multiple variously sized canvases.     

21 Jan–05 Mar 2011

Good Morning Mr. Orwell (1984)

ANNEXE On New Years day 1984, Nam June Paik orchestrated an ambitious intercontinental television experiment. Connecting WNET TV in New York with the Pompidou centre in Paris via a live satellite link that also took in broadcasters in Germany and South Korea, Good Morning Mr. Orwell reached an audience of over 25 million worldwide.     

21 Jan–05 Mar 2011

Session_14_Structure

LIBRARY (Reuters) - Space officials in Russia and the United States are tracking hundreds of pieces of debris that were spewed into space when a U.S. satellite collided with a defunct Russian military satellite.     

21 Jan–05 Mar 2011

BB #1: MODERN ACTIVITY

: BLACKBOARD: Modern Activity. A new project involving artists who have studios with SPACE.     

05 Nov–08 Jan 2011

Mary Barnes

In 1965 radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing co-founded an experimental therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall in Bow, East London. Presenting herself on the brink of a serious mental breakdown, Mary Barnes (1923-2001) was Kingsley Hall’s first resident. Under the guidance of Laing and his colleague Joseph Berke, Barnes underwent a near total behavioral regression. Refusing to eat, dress or wash, she was in her own words “going down.”     

03 Sep–16 Oct 2010

Charlie Woolley - Mysterious Cults

GALLERY An exhibition of photo and poster collage, textiles and installation work accompanied by the artist’s ongoing Radio Show project and a cycle of broadcasted events. RADIO SHOW is broadcasting now. Click HERE to listen...     

03 Sep–16 Oct 2010

STAGES & SCREENS - Peter Davis, Villon Films and Friends

ANNEXE A multi-screen film and archive presentation by Peter Davis exploring culture and counter-culture in the UK and America through the 60s.     

03 Sep–16 Oct 2010

Reanimation Library - Hackney Branch

LIBRARY A presentation by Brooklyn's Reanimation Library plus a group exhibition featuring Nina Beier, David Horvitz, Ruth Beale, Hans Diernberger, Richard John Jones, Raphael Hefti and Damien Roach.     

03 Sep–02 Oct 2010

!MEDIENGRUPPE BITNIK: Too Big to Fail Too Small to Succeed

COURTYARD An Intervention into the financial systems of London and Zurich: From Crisis to Crime to Punishment.     

03 Sep–16 Oct 2010

Luke Dowd

Presenting new work by the London-based artist.     

13–15 Aug 2010

Hype Williams - Gyptian Lover

GALLERY This August the SPACE programme will reopen with an exhibition and performance cycle by Hype Williams.     

13 May–19 Jun 2010

Ben Sansbury: AMAXAMA

GALLERY: with subcutaneous lunges soft bullets and hard caresses a plinth of technosavagery*     

13 May–19 Jun 2010

Gavin Watson: RAVING '89

ANNEXE Raving ’89 is an exhibition by celebrated British photographer Gavin Watson.     

13 May–19 Jun 2010

North Drive Press

LIBRARY In the second of a new cycle of publication themed exhibitions, SPACE’s independent publications and periodicals Library hosts a retrospective exhibition by New York based North Drive Press.     

19 Mar–17 Apr 2010

Nick Laessing: Light | Reading

Nick Laessing’s work revisits the utopian aspirations of scientific rebels, autodidacts and amateur experimenters.     

19 Mar–17 Apr 2010

Adam Thomas: Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously

ANNEXE Characteristically condensing around the visual dimension of language, Adam Thomas’ practice suggests new and intuitive models for rendering the art/language binary.     

19 Mar–17 Apr 2010

The Librarians

LIBRARY Installed by Guestroom (the collaborative project of artists Maria Benjamin and Ruth Höflich), The Librarians is a series of 8 video portraits concerned with personal libraries and collections.     

18 Mar–17 Apr 2010

Ben Woodeson

FOYER Ben Woodeson creates works that aim to tease and unsettle the viewer and the exhibiting institution.     

22 Jan–20 Feb 2010

DESTROY ALL MONSTERS: Hungry for Death

Formed at a house party in 1973, Destroy All Monsters played their first gig at a comic book convention using prepared guitars, a drum machine, tape loops, and various other instruments. They were asked to leave after ten minutes.     

22 Jan–20 Feb 2010

Rachel Cattle and Steve Richards

FOYER Same Old Scene was the third in a new rotation of works presented in the gallery foyer space.     

06 Nov–19 Dec 2009

Ruth Beale: WHAT I BELIEVE (a polemical collection)

GALLERY A project by Ruth Beale based around her artwork/collection of political and ideological pamphlets: Pamphlet Library (2008 — ongoing).     

06 Nov–19 Dec 2009

Wigan Casino: dir. Tony Palmer (1977)

ANNEXE Tony Palmer’s paean to the Northern Soul club scene.     

06 Nov–19 Dec 2009

Dafna Talmor

FOYER Dafna Talmor continued the rotation of work presented in the gallery reception area with new photographic work-in-progress.     

04 Sep–17 Oct 2009

Tom Ellis: Get me a show in China

GALLERY Paintings and 'fictionally-readymade' furniture from the London based artist.     

04 Sep–17 Oct 2009

Richard John Jones, PROH-SOH' PA-PEER, Part II

ANNEXE I. A participatory event and real time video shoot taking place at auto italia south east.
II. A 6-week video installation at SPACE, exactly a month after the original event.
    

04 Sep–17 Oct 2009

Camilla Lyon

FOYER Camilla Lyon inaugurated a new rotation of works presented in the gallery reception area, with 'Rorschach' (2009).