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Design: Oliver Bothwell, Fraser Lyness, Peter Robertson

Supergraphics Live Feed is a project set up to document the working patterns of the London College of Communication’s Final Year Students during the countdown to their deadline. It provides an ever changing snap shot into students’ working patterns and environments through images captured by participant’s webcams.

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Open late every Thu until 10pm

Trained as a musician and composer, French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways. His installation for The Curve will take the form of a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other instruments and objects. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape.

Michael Landy transforms the South London Gallery into ‘Art Bin’, a container for the disposal of works of art. As people discard their art works the enormous 600m³ bin becomes, in Michael Landy’s words, “a monument to creative failure”.

Landy famously destroyed all his possessions in his 2001 installation ‘Break Down’ and this major new work also raises issues around disposal, destruction, value and ownership. ‘Art Bin’ foregrounds the role of subjectivity in the attribution of value, as well as the significance of emotional attachments. Exposing the ultimate power and influence of both perceived and actual monetary value, the work also questions the relationship between ownership and authorship. ‘Art Bin’ toys with the role of art institutions in making and possibly breaking careers, acknowledges their important role in the art market, and makes reference to the derision with which contemporary art is sometimes treated.

Until 14 March 2010 works can be brought to the South London Gallery to be disposed of in ‘Art Bin’ from Tuesday to Sunday, 12-6pm. Alternatively, artists and collectors can visit www.art-bin.co.uk to apply to dispose of works, multiple applications are welcome.

Sunday 7 March, 4pm

Julie Ault, founder member of the New York artists’ collective, Group Material (1979–1996), talks with Lars Bang Larsen, curator of the exhibition ‘A History of Irritated Material’, about working with Group Material’s archive, which has recently been made available. Group Material’s exhibitions dealt with political and cultural participation, as well as the AIDS pandemic and other issues. Four exhibitions from the eighties and nineties have been revisited for this exhibition. This discussion will focus around ideas of historicising exhibitions and what it means to work with this material again.

This event is free but booking is essential as space is limited. Please email info@ravenrow.org to reserve a place.

‘A History of Irritated Material’ is an exhibition that samples art’s relation to politics and the archive, using examples from each decade since the Second World War. It includes Group Material, Inspection Medical Hermeneutics, Sture Johannesson, Ad Reinhardt, and Lygia Clark, from Object to Event, produced by Suely Rolnik. Activist films from Disobedience, an ongoing video archive are also shown.

The exhibition is designed by John Morgan studio, Gorka Eizagirre and Xabier Salaberría, and curated by Lars Bang Larsen, with Petra Bauer, Dan Kidner, Alex Sainsbury, and Marco Scotini.

‘A History of Irritated Material’
25 February to 2 May 2010

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