Raven Row

The Real Truth. A World’s Fair 28 July to 19 August 2012 A project by Suzanne Treister at Raven Row over four weekends featuring four keynote speeches within a specially designed theatre Saturday 18 August, 5pm A Wilderness of Mirrors: Conspiracy Theories and the Necessary Counter-Intelligence of Everyday Life Richard Thieme speaks professionally about the challenges posed by new technologies and...

The Real Truth. A World’s Fair 28 July to 19 August 2012 A project by Suzanne Treister at Raven Row over four weekends featuring four keynote speeches within a specially designed theatre 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 contempo...

Thursday 20 June 2013, 6.30pm Pádraig Timoney led a tour of his exhibition Fontwell Helix Feely in conversation with Alex Sainsbury. For more about the exhibition go to http://www.ravenrow.org/exhibition/padraig_timoney_fontwell_helix_feely/

Christophe Domino (critic and art historian), Fabien Pinaroli (curator of BAXTER&'s exhibition at Raven Row) and Alex Sainsbury in discussion with IAIN BAXTER&. The conversation takes as its starting point the artist's approach to bagging in the context of works in the exhibition –Pneumatic Judd (1965), 1/4 Mile Landscape (1969), vacuum forms and light boxes. This event coincided with the launch o...

Thursday 31 October 2013, 6.30pm A discussion with Lars Bang Larsen, curator of 'Reflections from Damaged Life. An exhibition on psychedelia' and Alex Sainsbury, Director of Raven Row.

Thursday 8 August 2013, 7pm Adam Chodzko presents Ooze Too, a talk as performance, weaving fact and fiction in a narrative led by image and sound. Assuming the position of narrator and archaeologist of his own ideas, Chodzko attempts to retrieve the elements that led to We are Ready for your Arrival, his installation at Raven Row, in a story that brings together contamination, insects, fires and f...

Wednesday 4 June 2014, 6.30pm This discussion addresses how ideas of transcendence, faith and despair relate to the work of Edward Krasinski, Cerith Wyn Evans and others in the exhibition. The starting point is be Søren Kierkegaard’s reflections on the ‘leap of faith’, and how the existential philosopher’s project coerces the reader to experience polarisations of doubt and hope. The panel leading...

Linder, participating artist in Play What’s Not There, talks to Professor Surinder Singh, musician and founder of the Raj Academy, about the philosophy of Sikh music and its relation to art practice. The ancient tradition of Naad Yoga ­– a yoga that focuses on sound and its resonance in the body, of which Singh is one of the most eminent practitioners and teachers – seeks to bridge music and the s...

Thursday 29 May, 6.30pm A presentation by Michael Bracewell, writer and curator of Play What’s Not There on the motivations behind the current exhibition. The talk references some of the key authors who inspired the project, including Søren Kierkegaard, Tolstoy and W.H. Auden. For more about the exhibition go to: http://www.ravenrow.org/exhibition/play_whats_not_there_/

Friday 11 July 2014, 7pm To mark the opening of her show at Raven Row, Yvonne Rainer was in conversation with Catherine Wood, curator of Contemporary Art & Performance at Tate Modern and Martin Hargreaves, Programme Leader, MA The Body in Performance at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. For more about the exhibition go to: http://www.ravenrow.org/exhibition/yvonne_rainer/

Monday 19 November 2012, 6.30pm During the late sixties and seventies the industrial workplace became the site of considerable social/political tension. APG created a framework that enabled artists to question how they could meaningfully intervene in the workplace and in turn, whether or not host organisations (especially large corporations) could view their interventions positively. Through worki...

Monday 8 October 2012, 6.30pm APG emerged at a time, the turn of the 1970s, when speech (or more loosely, discourse) was starting to be recognised as an art medium in its own right. Since then, dialogic exchange in/as art has only increased in prominence, to the point of becoming a fixture in contemporary art spaces. This session will look at APG's pioneering use of the roundtable discussion, and...

Thursday 13 December 2012, 7pm A composition by David Toop based on John Latham's idea of Flat Time, performed by John Butcher, Aleks Kolkowski, Elaine Mitchener and David Toop. First performed in 2010 at the Whitechapel Gallery as part of a commission to create the soundtrack for the online John Latham Archive, FLAT TIME/sounding is a score of texts and visual elements composed for improvising mu...

Wednesday 17 October 2012, 6.30pm This third public discussion based on APG’s discursive format The Sculpture considers the Group’s complex relationship to sculptural practice. From its earliest placements, APG attracted renowned sculptors such as Garth Evans, Barry Flanagan, David Hall and John Latham. The discussion – with Penelope Curtis, Jo Melvin and Barbara Steveni – will address some of the...

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 6.30pm This fourth public discussion based on APG’s discursive format The Sculpture looks at the complex and often problematic position of John Latham within APG. His 'time-based' theories according to which space and objects are displaced by time and events, played a significant role in how APG identified itself and defined his work on placement with the Scottish Office a...

Saturday 29 September, 6.30pm APG was from the start outward facing, building contacts with artists and institutions in the US and Europe. Germany stands out as particularly receptive to APG's approach, thanks to key figures such as Joseph Beuys, Jürgen Harten, Drs Reimut and Margarethe Jochimsen and Rolf and Ros Sachsse. In this panel discussion, Barbara Steveni, Rolf and Ros Sachsse and former A...