ALMA: A contemporary arts event - a-n The Artists Information Company

Venue: ALMA
Starts: Friday, April 21, 2017
Ends: Saturday, April 22, 2017
Address: 41 Spelman St, London, E1 5LQ
Location: London
Organiser: We Are Alma

ARTISTS
Aoife van Linden Tol, Sean Rogg, Gui Pondé, Ana Lumack, We Are Alma

Explosive installation will be live from 9pm-10pm each night
Live musical journey by We Are Alma at 8pm and at 10pm
Bar open 7pm-11pm

WARNING
Please beware of uneven surfaces when moving around the building. There will be fire and smoke. For your own safety, please keep your distance from the explosive installation as instructed AT ALL TIMES. If the smoke becomes uncomfortable you will be allowed to leave. If you are asthmatic please inform the steward and follow their advice.Materials may be used in the installation which could stain garments.

ALMA is a contemporary arts event featuring powerful and moving work from leading London based creative practitioners Aoife van Linden Tol, Sean Rogg, Gui Pondé and Ana Lumack as well as We Are Alma, a performance collective formed as a direct response to the project.

Held at The Alma, a derelict public house in the heart of the East End, this unique event will see the artists breathe life and fire into the building one more time before it is razed to the ground for development.

ALMA was conceived as a unique opportunity to bringing diverse multi-disciplinary practitioners together to display their video, movement, installation and explosive works over four separate floors in this inspiring Victorian building. At once visual art exhibition, performance space and experimental playground for the artists. The public are invited to wander through the building and experience ambitious works presented in the context of its crumbling frame.

The bar will be serving two specially commissioned beers, blended from the exact 1854 brewer’s recipes recovered from the Alma archives, created using replica yeast strains and matching water content.

Aoife van Linden Tol

Aoife van Linden Tol is a London based artist, working with explosives fusing her interests in nature, cosmology, Beginning in 2000 Aoife van Linden Tol's work with explosives fused her interests in nature, cosmology, chemistry and physics. A multi-disciplinary artist, as well as blowing things up, her practice spans sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, film and performance. She creates abstract works which often examine concepts of time, density and matter as well as deep human emotions and motivations. With a minimal aesthetic, a sense of balance and an appreciation for natural forms Aoife van Linden Tol's work is beautifully raw and dynamic. The explosive medium can result in devastatingly ravaged and torn pieces, such as with the Meta series of bombs on sheet copper and aluminium, which command a powerful visceral connection with the viewer. The work has thus evoked strong emotional responses from audiences where viewers have spontaneously shared intimate and sensitive histories with the artist. Yet her versatility and skill with the medium allows her to make surprisingly small, delicate, and even humorous works. With The One I Love series she asked the public to contribute photographs of someone they loved. X's were then exploded onto the photographs with tiny amounts of gunpowder thus 'blowing kisses' to loved ones. A joy of learning, constantly questioning mind and a keen analytical nature feed a scientific process of research, testing and making. Graduating from Central St Martins College of Art and Design in 2002, with a BA Hons in Art & Design, Aoife van Linden Tol has exhibited internationally including at the ICA, London, the San Francisco MOMA, USA and the NGBK Berlin. Aoife has recently worked with Imperial Collage, researching light spectra for a series in neon and was invited by Disney to design a limited edition Star Wars BB-8 robot. She was Artist In Residence at the European Space Agency and Ars Electronica Futurelab in 2017.