Raven Row

As part of the event 'Ina Blom: Video as collaborator. The new spaces of (creative) work, followed by Steina, via Skype from Santa Fe, in conversation with Amy Budd' Thursday 26 May, 6.30pm Art historian Ina Blom discusses the work of Steina and Woody Vasulka and their emphasis on alternative social models made possible by analogue video, in reference also to her new book, The Autobiography of Vid...

As part of the event 'Ina Blom: Video as collaborator. The new spaces of (creative) work, followed by Steina, via Skype from Santa Fe, in conversation with Amy Budd' Thursday 26 May, 6.30pm Art historian Ina Blom discusses the work of Steina and Woody Vasulka and their emphasis on alternative social models made possible by analogue video, in reference also to her new book, The Autobiography of Vid...

Jackie Raynal: Screening and Conversation Wednesday 27 January 2016, 7pm Best known for her elliptical feature length film Deux Fois (1968), screening every Wednesday within ‘The Inoperative Community’, Jackie Raynal was also the editor of a number French new wave films, including Éric Rohmer's La Collectionneuse (1967). Extending ‘The Inoperative Community’ Wednesday screening programme, which fe...

A Night at the Pictures: An evening for Larry Johnson at Tate Modern Friday 26 June 2015, 6.30pm An evening with Bruce Hainley and Wayne Koestenbaum at Tate Modern beginning with a screening of Rosa von Praunheim’s award-winning documentary, Tally Brown, New York (1979), to be followed by a rousing conversation on demi-mondes, queer vocality and stardom. Image: Rosa von Praunheim, Tally Brown, New...

Dan Kidner and Leslie Thornton in Conversation Thursday 14 January 2016, 6.30pm A screening of a selection of short films by artist Leslie Thornton will be followed by a conversation between Thornton and curator of ‘The Inoperative Community’, Dan Kidner, focusing on her work Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding (1984–2015). --- Leslie Thornton (b. 1951, USA) lives and works in New York and Providence,...

Larry Johnson: On Location - Bruce Hainley and Wayne Koestenbaum in Conversation by Raven Row

Larry Johnson: On Location - Bruce Hainley and Antony Hudek in conversation by Raven Row

Larry Johnson: On Location - Bruce Hainley and Lisa Lapinski in conversation by Raven Row

Hannah Silva by Raven Row

Paula Claire by Raven Row

Hansjorg Mayer by Raven Row

David Toop performs as part of 'Bob Cobbiiiiiiiiing Live' at Raven Row, 20 May 2015 In tandem with the Bob Cobbing Symposium, Raven Row hosted a celebratory event of acoustic and vocal performances by Brian Catling, Paula Claire, Beth Collar, David Toop and Hannah Silva, among others. The event was part of Speaking Parts at Raven Row (15–24 May), a live exhibition curated by Amy Budd, which brings...

David Toop performs as part of 'Bob Cobbiiiiiiiiing Live' at Raven Row, 20 May 2015 In tandem with the Bob Cobbing Symposium, Raven Row hosted a celebratory event of acoustic and vocal performances by Brian Catling, Paula Claire, Beth Collar, David Toop and Hannah Silva, among others. The event was part of Speaking Parts at Raven Row (15–24 May), a live exhibition curated by Amy Budd, which brings...

Beth Collar performs as part of 'Bob Cobbiiiiiiiiing Live' at Raven Row, 20 May 2015 In tandem with the Bob Cobbing Symposium, Raven Row hosted a celebratory event of acoustic and vocal performances by Brian Catling, Paula Claire, Beth Collar, David Toop and Hannah Silva, among others. The event was part of Speaking Parts at Raven Row (15–24 May), a live exhibition curated by Amy Budd, which bring...

Panel discussion held on 25 April 2015 with Jennifer Higgie, Jason Farago and Jo Melvin, convened by Antony Hudek and Alex Sainsbury Jennifer Higgie (writer and co-editor of Frieze) and Jason Farago (writer and founding editor of the new art magazine Even) join Jo Melvin (curator of Five Issues of Studio International, Raven Row) to discuss some of the motivations, exasperations and ambitions behi...

Sunday 7 March 2010, 4pm Julie Ault, founder member of the New York artists’ collective, Group Material (1979–1996), talks with the exhibition’s curator Lars Bang Larsen, about working with Group Material’s archive, which has recently been made available. Group Material’s exhibitions dealt with political and cultural participation, as well as the AIDS pandemic and other issues. Four exhibitions fr...

For the exhibition ‘A History of Irritated Material’, Raven Row commissioned the translation into English of part of Suely Rolnik's compendious research project Lygia Clark, from Object to Event, an archive of video interviews on Lygia Clark, focusing on her late project Structuring the Self (1977–87), the culmination of Clark’s life-art. Raven Row hosted a discussion between Guy Brett, close frie...

A Productivist Literature – Esther Leslie, Nick Thurston and McKenzie Wark. Chaired by John Douglas Millar. Wednesday 17 December 2014, 6.30pm Presentations by Esther Leslie, Nick Thurston and McKenzie Wark. Chaired by John Douglas Millar. Esther Leslie is a London-based writer and lecturer. Her most recent book is Derelicts: Thought Worms from the Wreckage (Unkant, 2014). Nick Thurston is an auth...

From Situationism to Sabremetrics: Experiments for the Novel in the Age of Big Data – Helen DeWitt Thursday 8 January 2015, 6.30pm Helen DeWitt on her writing practice, with reference to collaboration, works-in-progress, multilingual texts, the concealed dynamics of commodification, the machinery of cultural capital and the pioneering work of Edward Tufte. With a selection from her personal librar...

Publishing Models and Technologies of Publication – Chris Kraus, Helen DeWitt and Jeremy Akerman Chaired by Antony Hudek Thursday 15 January 2015, 6.30pm Panel discussion with Chris Kraus, Helen DeWitt and Jeremy Akerman about the forms of publication best suited to writing in an expanded field. Chaired by Antony Hudek. --- Jeremy Akerman is a London-based artist, curator, lecturer and co-director...

The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula: A 20th-Century Fable – Chris Kraus Wednesday 14 January 2015, 6.30pm Chris Kraus on her in-progress critical biography of Kathy Acker (1947–97) and her approach to biography as a literary form that exists in the friction between writer and subject. --- Chris Kraus is a Los Angeles-based writer and critic. She is the author of four novels, most recently Su...

Seminar and open discussion about Letterism and its discontents with Iain Boal, Eric Fabre, Catherine Goldstein and Donald Nicholson-Smith. Event as part of Plastic Words at Raven Row - a series of public events that mined the contested space between contemporary literature and art. Iain Boal is a social historian, co-founder of the Retort Collective and founding member of MayDay Rooms, London. Er...

Event as part of Plastic Words at Raven Row - a series of public events that mined the contested space between contemporary literature and art. Conversation between Peter Osborne and David Cunningham, on the relation between contemporary artistic and literary practices in both historical and theoretical context. Chaired by Luke Skrebowski. David Cunningham is a London-based writer, lecturer and me...

Saturday 4 August, 5pm The Murderous Idolatry of the Future: Anarcho-Primitivism and the end of Technology John Zerzan was active in the Sixties in San Francisco and Berkeley. A leading participant in the contemporary anarchist resurgence, Zerzan's political project calls for the destruction of technology. He draws the distinction between tools that stay under the control of the user, and technolo...

Saturday 11 August 4pm, Recital from Memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Monica Ross 5pm, Jim Channon Go Planet! A Strategic Visionary Story and Art for the next Military Century! Jim Channon, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army, is a futurologist and military theorist. As a professional soldier, he commanded five combat units, with two years in Vietnam, and in...