The Life Project Showcase
The Cut, (C) Jessie Brennan 2011
Openlab Workshops
Permacultures Residency Call
Ania Dabrowska - studio interior 2010
MzTEK workshop
events + projects
18 Jun events
Tuesday Talks: Gardens Beyond Eden: Bio-aesthetics, Eco-Futurism, and Dystopia at dOCUMENTA (13)
7:00 PM–9:00 PM Internationally renowned art historian and critic, T.J. Demos will unpack dOCUMENTA (13)'s relation to conflicts in political ecology.
08 Jun
Vandalism, Politics and Public Art: The Canals Project seminar day
The Canals Project (Street Art for the Waterways) presents a full-day of discussion and interaction exploring Hackney borough’s rich graffiti and street art heritage and some of the wider issues regarding the global street art phenomenon.
02 May
Pyramid Schemes: A Collaborative Project
7:00 PM–10:00 PM Pyramid Schemes is a collaborative project organized by Lawrence Lek and The White Review to showcase a collection of short stories about real and imaginary buildings.
28 Apr
April Open Studio Exhibition at The White Building
12:00 PM–6:00 PM Artists Una Knox, Hannah Black and Renee Carmichael will be presenting an exhibition of their work at the White Building residency studio
23 Apr
Tuesday Talks: Reflections on Art and Ecology
7:00 PM–9:00 PM Join Michaela Crimmin, curator, writer and tutor at the Royal College of Art, London for a presentation and discussion on the role of art and ecology.
26 Mar
Tuesday Talks: James Bridle – Talking About the New Aesthetic
7:00 PM–9:00 PM The New Aesthetic is an ongoing research project and blog by internationally-recognised artist and writer James Bridle, investigating the intersections of culture and technology, history and memory, and the physical and the digital.
10 Mar
6:00 PM–9:00 PM Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB) is a series of one-night events, so far held in over 80 cities across the world.
10 Mar
Open studios at The White Building
2:00 PM–5:00 PM Join Tobias Revell and Jamie George for an Open Studio exhibition.
07 Mar
RAYMOND PETTIBON: VIDEO NIGHT #2
SPACE and Upset the Rhythm presented two evenings of video and music as part of HUMAN WAVE: The Videotapes of Raymond Pettibon
15 Feb
Raymond Pettibon video night #1
SPACE and Upset the Rhythm presented two evenings of video and music as part of HUMAN WAVE: The Videotapes of Raymond Pettibon
12 Feb
Tuesday Talks: Our cosmic environment - the ultimate frontier
The third in a series of talks at The White Building, exploring current ideas at the boundaries of science, technology and philosophy.
15 Jan
TUESDAY TALKS: Ultimate and Proximate - Exploring an evolutionary basis for art
From rap to abstract painting - do we have specialised psychological mechanisms for art?
01 Dec
As part of his Blackboard project Dawdle, curator and SPACE studio tenant Gareth Bell-Jones programmed a special event exploring the history, philosophy and psychology of boredom.
27 Nov
Tuesday Talks: Why do we think there are Many-Worlds?
7:00 PM–9:00 PM /// FULLY BOOKED/// LSE's Dr Foad Dizadji-Bahmani explains the Many World's interpretation of quantum mechanics where all possible alternative histories and future are real, each representing an actual world.
15 Nov
SEMINAR: The Persistence of a Peripheral Position
6:00 PM–9:00 PM This seminar presents a critical reading of three works by Argentine artists Oscar Masotta, Oscar Bony and Liliana Maresca.
12 Jul
Nina Power + Laura Oldfield Ford: Jo Spence exhibition tour
6:30 PM–8:00 PM Nina Power, senior lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University and artist Laura Oldfield Ford lead an informal tour of SPACE's current Jo Spence retrospective
05 Jul
Levi R. Bryant: Denaturing Nature
SPACE host a lecture by Levi R. Bryant, a leading thinker in the emerging fields of Object Oriented Ontology and Speculative Realism
17–21 Jul 2012
The Crystal World Open Laboratory
The Crystal World Open Laboratory is a five day lab of experimentation, crystallization and de-crystallization starting from the premise that computers are highly ordered set of minerals.
14 Jun events
Jo Spence: Work (Part I) --- An Informal Tour
Terry Dennett, the curator of the Jo Spence Memorial Archive, photographer, social historian and workshop organiser, will lead an informal tour of Jo Spence: Work (part I) at SPACE.
23 Jun
PRACTICAL UTOPIAS Midsummer with YKON
4:00 PM–11:00 PM SPACE and Electra invite you to spend Midsummer with YKON, a special event featuring the YKON Game, an outdoor cinema, an exhibition, refreshing spirits and a hot surprise.
29 Jun–08 Jul 2012
Five SPACE studio building open their doors to the public for a Summer 2012 open studios extravaganza
22 May
IN CONVERSATION: Terry Dennett and X Marks The Spot discussing the work of Jo Spence
In advance of the exhibition Jo Spence: Work (Parts I and II) at Studio Voltaire and SPACE, and as part of Not Our Class, Terry Dennett and X Marks the Spot will discuss the work of Jo Spence.
27 May
Douglas Scholes: A Walk through the forgotten-landscape
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Canada Council for the Arts international resident at SPACE Studios Douglas Scholes leads a walk though Hackney Wick as part of his ongoing project The Condition of Things.
24 May
Silicon Hackney - FOOD THAT STARTS ONLINE
7:00 PM–9:00 PM This Silicon Hackney is part of Digital Shoreditch, so to make it even more special than usual we're holding it at The White Building, our brand new art, technology and sustainability focused creative venue in Hackney Wick, by the Olympic Park.
20 May
To celebrate the end of Again, A Time Machine: Stewart Home, SPACE and Book Works invite you to A Night of Psychedelic Noir.
12 May
Patrick Staff --- The Nudist in Two Parts / part one, A Play, In Rehearsal
7:00 PM–8:00 PM The second and final performance of A Play, In Rehearsal: part one of The Nudist In Two Parts by Patrick Staff
17 Feb
TALK: KERNEL //// UTILITY MODELS: Georgios Papadopoulos
6:30 PM–8:00 PM As part of their new series of collaborations “Utility Models”, art collective KERNEL present a talk by economist and philosopher Georgios Papadopoulos on his 2011 book “Notes Towards a Critique of Money”.
events projects
The Cut: Jessie Brennan, Chris Dorley-Brown and Daniel Lehan
Artists Jessie Brennan, Chris Dorley-Brown and Daniel Lehan's works explore personal testimonies and histories of a place at the London’s edge where the Romans settled, the invading Danes raided the Anglo Saxon kingdom, and which fostered inventions in chemicals, dyes and petrol, Bakelite, dry cleaning and many more.
La Bête (1975) - Walerian Borowczyk
7:00 PM–10:00 PM SCREENING: As part of Aaron Angell's exhibition at SPACE, on Saturday November 26th we will be screening Walerian Borowczyk's erotic-comedy-horror-drama La Bête (The Beast) (1975).
20 Oct
6:00 PM–9:30 PM Come and meet up with other Hackney-based creative media and technology people, and find out what they are up to.
13–14 Oct 2011
6:00 PM–9:00 PM Openlab Workshops and SPACE are excited to present a showcase of the results of a new type of collaborative workshop project. 6pm - 9pm Thurs 13 and Fri 14 October MediaLab
