Events: chair sculptures, live algorithms and the politics of identity

The Lounge Lover, the Faker, the Ikea Expert
Paula Smolarska‘s steel sculptures take their influence from chair design, notably pieces from the 1990s that reference the 1950s/’60s school chair. The artist is interested in the way that the scale of the human body, particularly when viewed through furniture and architecture, becomes part of a larger pattern within the build environment. Accompanying the objects are a photographic series showing Smolarska seated in other people’s chairs.
2 December 2016 – 1 January 2017, Passen-gers, The Brunswick centre, London WC1N.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/paula-smolarska-the-lounge-lover-the-faker-the-ikea-expert

Algorave Birmingham
Vivid Projects culminates its 2016 exhibition season with a rave party where the electronic music is generated from live algorithms. Partygoers will be able to visually experience the way the music is created through ‘live coding’ environments, as the code will be projected on large screens. Expect to hear noise, rave, electronic and glitch audio and experience generative video works by a number of artists, including Ryan Hughes, Canute, hellocatfood and Sarah Walden.
Saturday 3 December 2016, Vivid Projects, 16 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street, Birmingham.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/algorave-birmingham

Elements
Since his childhood, Eric Hill has walked the remote highlands of Moidart and Arnamurchan on the West Coast of Scotland. In 2014, Hill set out to capture the atmosphere and character of these places and exhibits the resulting series of monochrome photographs at Wasp studios in Dundee.
Friday 2 – Saturday 3 December 2016, Wasp Studios, Third Floor Meadow Mill, Dundee.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/elements

Both Sides Now 3: Final Frontiers
A touring programme of 12 film and video works by artists from China and Hong Kong. This is an insight into ‘the ongoing dynmaics of cultures in Hong Kong, China and the UK’, with themes of displacement, migration and memory reocurring throughout the programme.
Saturday 3 December 2016, screenings at ICA London and Exeter Phoenix.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/both-sides-now-3-final-frontiers-london-screening
www.a-n.co.uk/events/both-sides-now-3-final-frontiers

Connect:Katowice
This year-long project connects 12 UK-based artists with 14 artists/collaborative groups from Poland to explore a number of concerns relating to the politics of identity and communication, including the influence of Polish-British migration during the second world war. For this leg of the journey artists from each country have been collaboratively paired up to work together through a series of workshops at Hornsey Town Hall. The audience is invited to view this evolving process and attend a public talk on 7 December that will be held at Chelsea College of Arts.
2-16 December 2016, Ply Gallery, Hornsey Town Hall Arts Centre, London N8.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/connect-katowice-london

All of the above are taken from a-n’s Events listings section, featuring events posted by a-n’s members

Images:
1. Paula Smolarska, ‘The Lounge Lover, the Faker, the Ikea Expert’
2. ‘Algorave’ poster
3. Eric Hill, ‘Elements’
4. WANG Yue, Lepus, 2015, 4’57”, HDV
5. ‘Connect:Katowice’ flyer

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