Gropius’ Impington: power and space, art and the rural exhibition + symposium
Marking the 75th anniversary of Impington Village College – designed by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and British architect Maxwell Fry, and Gropius’ only public building in the UK – artist Elena Cologni has devised a series of artworks (pictured above) and events that consider the use of the building by its rural community, alongside questions of power and space. A symposium on art and the rural will take place on Saturday 31 October.
24 October – 1 November 2015, Impington Village College, New Road, Cambridge.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/gropius-impington-power-and-space-art-and-the-rural-exhibition
(undercover) Festival of Flipbooks
This exhibition sends the audience on a treasure hunt trail through the library shelves to seek out books that have been adapted, doodled on and thoughtfully transformed by artists into animated flipbooks. With a playful aura of the practical joke, one can only imagine the enjoyment the artists, organisers and library staff must have had in putting this exhibition together.
Until 7 November 2015, Darlington Library, Crown Street, Darlington.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/undercover-festival-of-flipbooks
Rogue studios 20th anniversary
Manchester’s Rogue Studios celebrates 20 years in the Chapeltown Mill with an open studios weekend. Rogue’s three floors houses 97 artists, project spaces and changing artist-led initiatives. For this weekend the first floor project space has been handed over to artist collective Toast, who curate a ‘surprise’ group show that playfully references Airbnb. In the fourth floor project space, Between then and now (and now) is another group show, this time from a selection of current BA students exploring the concept of time.
24-25 October 2015 (Opening, 23 Oct, 6-9pm), Rogue Studios, Chapeltown Street, Manchester.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/rogue-20th-anniversary-open-studios
PROVOCATIONS – ART IS POLITICS
The first in a series of public discussions and debates initiated by artists Mark Carr and Martin Gollan that aim to consider the role of art and its political agency today. Exploring what a contemporary Guernica might look like, the provocation seeks to understand the political role of media such as painting and sculpture, pitching them in relation to online activism and critical theory.
29 October 2015, 6.30pm, Biscuit Tin Studios, Warwick Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/provocations-art-is-politics
Mysterious Objects at Noon
Five artists from Singapore and five from the UK have collaborated online in a contemporary game of ‘exquisite corpse’ to develop a series of time-based, installation and wall-based works. The five resulting, mysterious objects and actions will be exhibited at Art Lacuna‘s space in Battersea.
30 October – 1 November 2015, Art Lacuna & DEMprojects, 48 Falcon Road, London SW11.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/mysterious-objects-at-noon
All of the above are taken from a-n’s Events listings section, featuring events posted by a-n’s members
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