SPACE

The Olympic Artist Forum is an information and events platform for artists and creative practitioners engaging with the Olympics and the changing cultural landscape of London. With so many people effected by the Olympics there is a wealth of activity occurring in the areas and communities of the five Olympic boroughs. The Olympic Artist Forum events are open to everyone to see and discuss what is happening and what work is being produced in response.

The Olympic Artist Forum is being run by Hilary Powell (Optimistic Productions) and George Unsworth (SPACE).

The Olympic Artist Forum hosts an event every 3 months. The
events are opportunities to see and discuss new work and provide
an information sharing and networking opportunity.

Previous event: 18 June 2008 at 7pm at SPACE
For more information please download the PDF from here

Using the 'Pecha Kucha' 20 slides 20 seconds approach the next
Olympic Artist Forum event features artist, Richard Dedemonici,
heads the evening with his 'Culturail' project before introducing:

Time Jeeves
Grunts for the Arts.  www.gruntsforthearts.com

Thomas Pausz,
Revisiting the Community Shed. www.pausz.org / www.lifeisland.org

Ana Mendez de Andes,
I Love the Olympic Future

Immortal Spirits and Foodstuffs Ltd.

We are running a dedicated mailing list informing those who subscribe of upcoming events, projects, talks and associated news and information regarding the Olympics. The mailout is sent once a month, is plain text, and brings together information we believe to be of interest. To subscribe to the Olympic Artist e-Bulletin Mailing list email: events(at)spacestudios.org.uk with Olympic Artist in the subject title.

To send us information news and event details regarding your activities that you wish to be publicised on the calendar or listed in the email please contact us by emailing: hilary(at)optimisticproductions.org.uk. We look forward to hearing from you.

Thursday 27 March 2008: Jean-François Prost Screening

For the third Olympic Artist Event SPACE screened Canadian artist Jean-Francois Prost's new video work produced during his six month residency at SPACE supported by Canada Council.

The film forms part of his expansive Adaptive Actions project and tackles much of the interventionist interests Jean-Francois has found activitatedby the now infamous Olympic 'Blue Fence'.

Click on the link for more information on other Adaptive Actions  

The archive is currently being updated and all past events will appear here shortly.

Melissa Bliss
www.livingcinema.com
Live and interactive work exploring local issues surrounding people, place and internal and external geographies.

DocuPod
www.docupod.co.uk
Podcasts and audio guides focusing on heritage, social history and contemporary arts & culture.

Alberto Duman
www.albertoduman.me.uk
Artist and academic working around the development of public art practices in the UK.

1:1 Projects
www.1to1projects.org
A curatorial agency and network of artists exploring the changing aspect of the Olympic site and its potential for creative research and artistic intervention.

Stephen Gill
www.stephengill.co.uk
Photographic studies and projects from the area in and around Hackney Wick.

Brian Griffin
www.briangriffin.co.uk
Exploration of innovative and unique ways to portray major UK construction projects through photography.

Roof Unit
www.roofunit.com
An artists-led lens-based media studio launched by Toby Smith and Chris Littlewood, photographers dealing with transient and degraded industrial spaces.

On Site Arts
www.onsitearts.org
Photographic and community-based work from artist-photographers Caroline Christie and Bobby Lloyd based in the Olympic site.

Optimistic Productions
www.optimisticproductions.co.uk
Committed to creating a vision of the city with the potential for playful subversion and sensory and imaginative encounter.

Gesche Wuerfel
www.geschewuerfel.com
Photographer and urban planner observing how urban fabric changes over time.

Newton's Art
www.newtonart.co.uk
Corporate panoramic art installations to lift a busy working environment.

Parchai
www.parchai.com
Photo reportage by artists Brijesh Patel and Sonali Puri profiling 1948 British Olympians and the dislocation of the Clays Lane Community.

Peter Marshall
www.river-lea.co.uk
An extensive ongoing project to photograph all aspects of London, presented across multiple websites.

Liz Cotter
www.lizcotter.com
A Sydney-sider who documented her home-city's transformation into an Olympic City for 2000, now doing the same for London.

Jason Larkin
www.jasonlarkin.co.uk
An artist-photographer who documented businesses evicted from the Olympic site. Currently working with writer/performance poet Francesca Beard on the publication London Tales.

Material City
www.situations.org.uk/projects_materialcity_intro.htm
An interdisciplinary programme focused on the imagination and experience of the urban environment, led by Situations in association with Arnolfini and the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol.

London East Research Institute
www.uel.ac.uk/londoneast
Research and consultancy on issues of urban regeneration, focusing on the economic, social and cultural development of East London and the Thames Gateway.

Industrial Ruins
www.sci-eng.mmu.ac.uk/industrial_ruins
Cultural geographer Tim Edensor promotes the virtues of informal, ruined spaces in contrast to smooth, homogenous urban redevelopments.

Lifeisland
www.lifeisland.org
Online support for the Manor Garden Allotments Society, committed to the inclusion of the Allotments in the Olympic development plans.