Exhibitions – up-coming events
Tuesday 8 - Thursday 31 July 2008
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London Festival of Architecture 2008
Embassies Project: Barbara Holub
On the occasion of this year’s London Festival of Architecture Embassies Project the Austrian Cultural Forum will present More Opportunities, based on Barbara Holub’s first UK solo exhibition at the Plymouth Arts Centre in 2007. Barbara Holub is an artist, architect and urban designer who examines social and personal identities through the modes of visual art, urban intervention and architecture. She lives and works in Vienna.
For more information please visit: www.lfa2008.org/
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Thursday 10 July 2008, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Ambient.Vista: Fahim Amir
The end of time and space (as we know it)
A lecture-performance by Fahim Amir (premiere)
Artist in residence at London-based ambient.vista, Fahim Amir, will present The end of time and space (as we know it), a commission by the interdisciplinary arts production company Ambient Information Systems. Amir’s lecture-performance will feature the city as an ensemble of battlefields and sites of negotiation.
Fahim Amir is a Vienna-based theoretician and cultural producer with Afghan origins. Recently he worked as dramatic adviser of spiel:platz at the dietheater Vienna.
for more information about Ambient Vista visit www.ambienttv.net/content/index.php
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Tuesday 2 - Friday 12 September 2008
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Shannee Marks & Peer Wolfram:
The Faust Series Opus 8 : The Accident Colony
Dramatic Investigations
Triptych from The Dark Night of Suburbia
With the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum London
Performance - Symposium - Exhibition
“Die Welt ist alles, was der Unfall ist.”
A Wittgenstein Victim
Symposium: “Ways out of Wittgenstein”
Dr Simon Glendinning, LSE, London;
Dr Martin Liebscher, IBC-IGRS, London;
Prof Bernard Burgoyne, Middlesex, University London;
Dr Stephen Mulhall, New College, Oxford ;
Rev Dr Simon Francis Gaine, OP, Blackfriars, Oxford;
Chair: Dr Shannee Marks
Performance : Sept 2 , 2008, 18.30h
Symposium: Sept 9,2008, 18.ooh
Exhibition : Sept 2 – 12, 2008
The Accident Colony Triptych - Dark Night of Suburbia investigates a variety of spiritual crises. At the centre of all these crises is some sort of deformation of the will, a species of lostness.
Much of contemporary life takes place in darkness and unknowing. ordinary feelings are labyrinths, passing thoughts can be deadly traps. What one does and what one thinks are miles apart. On the
other hand, life seems to be a perpetual holiday, a capitalist utopia of unlimited self-expression and never having to go to work again. Faustian temptations appear disguised as “life changing experiences”. The devil runs a free introductory workshop. Simple calculations, common sense reasoning lead imperceptibly to madness, fatal indecision masquerades as decisiveness. Impulsive actions end in inexplicable accidents or disappearances. Everywhere one finds evidence of the atrophy of the will.