4th March 2010

Barbican Art Gallery

6:30pm - 10pm

 

The Wallis Gallery's Vanessa Carlos has curated this and a series of other events for the Barbican to compliment the Ron Arad Exhibition.

 

Inspired by Arad’s studio, this is a night of unique things. Young artists and designers create one-off pieces for you. Rough Trade complete the night with music from the 1980s. Free to same day ticket holders or £8/ £7 Concessions

 

 

Artists on the night include:

 

KEVIN GRENNAN, J.PAUL NEELEY, KA FAI CHOI

Dancing Cream

Strut your stuff in front of the world's first dance controlled ice cream sundae machine. Your dance moves are translated to create a unique tasty treat. Is your footwork knickerbocker glorious? Find out with Dancing Cream.

 

STEFFEN FIELDER, CHARLOTTE JARVIS, LUDWIG ZELLER

We Play Bodies

An interactive piece devised to transform people– and their individual physical, mental and emotional responses–into instruments that can be played by another individual, be it lover, mother or stranger.

"We dream of an orchestra of people, each instrument paired with a musician who has carefully learnt to play them. We wonder which people will make the best instruments. Who will emerge as a shrill piccolo, a smooth bassoon, a crude drum, or a wailing cat? Who will make the best players? Will it be the manipulative or the most empathetic amongst us? What is the best technique to play a person? Tenderness, torture or titillation?"

 

PROPWORK (FREDDIE YAUNER, MARC OWENS, GREGOR TIMLIN)

Selfless Mirror

A little less self-image. At first shocking and intriguing, the mirror gives endless enjoyment manipulating and exchanging individual facial features.

 

EVGUENIA JOKHOVA

Second London

'Second London' takes its inspiration from virtual realities such as 'Second Life' wherein players build their ideal environment. The piece involves a collection of drawings, prints and photographs of buildings in London that form puzzle-like elements that can be compiled in any sequence or shape by the audience collaboratively to form a new cityscape. The images of structures are gritty and often derelict in contrast to what one would wish to create in their virtual reality, they include warehouses from the Whitechapel and Hackney areas, Victorian terraced houses from Finsbury Park, market stalls, conservatory extensions and more.

 

WILLIAM KHERBEK

the page is blank until/the first line follows the next/and the next follows

On demand Haiku. The audience provides one word and an overall mood and a Haiku is produced to his or her specifications.

 

ANNA SCHWAMBORN

The London based designer who has been working for Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood displays the prototypes of her jewellery collection of post-mortem memorial pieces which include hair and cremated ashes. Cremated human ashes are mixed with black bone china, the world’s highest class porcelain. The objects are designed to be worn close to the body of the mourner, symbolizing a lasting physical connection between two individuals. This collection reminds the wearer of fragility and appreciation of life and most importantly, acts as a keepsake.

 

EDWARD FORNIELES

Your idol's name on a t-shirt! Made on the spot for you by artist Edward Fornieles

 

TOM ROSENTHAL

Almost Instant Songs

The musician will be asking gallery goers for their personal stories, thoughts and ideas. With this information he will custom-compose quick fire songs which will be performed on the piano in the gallery.

 

ALEXANDER BRENCHLEY

Customised Tales

A choose-your-own-adventure comic book where you decide the fate of your character, and an option of 1 of 5 CDs containing mystery audio-short stories, narrated by the artist.

 

PAUL HAWORTH

Paul's Badges and Mystery Photo Poems

Painter and writer Paul Haworth has made a new collection of badge originals - content and materials including tabloids, abstraction, hair, drawing, space - as well as a selection of original photographs with hand-written poems...these come in envelopes, it's a secret what you get.

 

JO GLOVER

A stall of the designer's unique bags and t-shirts

 

LADY LUCK

Customised jewellery made on the spot for the audience

 

ROBERT RIVERS & LPR HOMER

Play On Your Own

The advert studded frontage of the celebrity "pose-wall" combines with seaside photo booth as Robert Rivers and LPR Homer create an opportunity for the audience to interact with their environment and have their picture taken, creating an individual Polaroid souvenir of the night for them to take home.

 

 

 

Absolut Bar

Absolut Vodka have joined up with designers Tom Foulsham and Valentin Vodev - Ron Arad ’s ex-students - to celebrate Ron Arad:Restless with a drinking experience like no other. Tom and Valentin, who have created the mechanisms in the exhibition that make Arad’s designs rock, wobble and bounce, have produced a playful rotating bar which will appear every Thursday evening at Barbican Art Gallery providing visitors with a completely interactive experience.

 

Barbican Centre

Silk Street

London EC2Y 8DS

 

Tubes nearby: Barbican, Moorgate, Liverpool Street

 

 

www.barbican.org.uk