Messages from the Tower
Talks on Art, Science, History, Parapsychology and Culture.
Admission free; from 6.30pm, The Round Chapel, Lower Clapton Road, Hackney, London E5 OPU ( booking and info 07906 328 269, email )
Following on from Ringing, an art exhibition in St Augustines Tower, Hackney, Slowfall Projects is hosting two evenings of talks by leading specialists within the disciplines of Art, Science and Culture. The talks aim to provide evenings full of diverse ideas on important contemporary topics while also encouraging a questioning of boundries between art, science, culture and historical context.
Thursday 4th September
Ingrid Swenson is the Curatorial Director of the Peer Trust, and among others, has worked with Martin Creed and Mike Nealson to create site specific installations. She will be giving a presentation which focuses on her work with artists to realise art in unconventional spaces.
Marios Kittenis, a parapsychologist persuing a PHD at the Koestler Institute in Edinburgh, will be talking about contemporary theories and experiments in parapsychology - the study of unexplained human perception, and interactions with matter. Marios will explain ideas of resonance and his own research into anomalous brain wave syncronisation. Read this talk.
Denna Jones, a curator with the Welcome Trust for over seven years, has been a driving force behind creating a cultural platform for science and art in the UK and is perhaps one of the most knowledgable people on the convergence of contemporary art and science. Her talk will focus on the nature of the development of this new language of communication. Read this talk.
Friday 5th September
John March-Russell formerly a CERN theoretical physicist now working at Oxford University, who has been working on theories which question the fundamental nature of space-time. In his talk, John will examine similarities between the thought processes of artists and scientists. He brings our attention to the artificial nature of the cultural split between the Scientist and the Artist in the 20th century. Read this talk.
Gustav Metzger an anti-establishment avant-garde artist who became widely known in the 1960s as the leading exponant of Auto-Destructive Art and part of the Fluxus movement. His career spans from a solo show in Monmouth Street (London 1959), his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (Oxford 1998) to the present. He will be giving a talk on extinction.
Judith Williamson is a freelance writer living in London. She is the author of Decoding Advertisements: Ideology and Meaning in Advertising and currently writes regularly on cultural and political issues for the The Guardian. She will be giving a talk on aspects of the artificial creation of meaning. Read this talk.
Sean Gubbins, an expert on local history, will be giving a talk covering the history of St Augustines Tower and Hackney. Read this talk.
Last updated on 18th February 2007
