Saturday 21 January 2017

Winter at the Serpentine - Zaha Hadid and Lucy Raven exhibitions plus Serpentine Cinema and more

Serpentine

WINTER AT THE SERPENTINE
ZAHA HADID: EARLY PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS
UNTIL 12 FEBRUARY
SERPENTINE SACKLER GALLERY
FREE
“Makes you aware again of her boundless energy and talents” The Independent
On the occasion of the exhibition Zaha Hadid: Early Paintings and Drawings, virtual reality experiences have been developed in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture to allow you to immerse yourself in four of Hadid’s paintings. The exhibition is presented in partnership with Swarovski
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LUCY RAVEN:
EDGE OF TOMORROW
UNTIL 12 FEBRUARY
SERPENTINE GALLERY
FREE
“Raven exposes film’s nuts and bolts, but imbues them with new magic” Evening Standard
What happens behind the camera or between the frames of a film or animation? Lucy Raven’s works take you into the marginal spaces at the edges of image production, converting the Serpentine Gallery into a series of dramatic cinematic spaces
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UPCOMING SCREENINGS
SERPENTINE CINEMA
CURATED BY LUCY RAVEN
SELECTED TUESDAY EVENINGS, 7PM
SERPENTINE GALLERY
TICKETS £5/£4 CONC.
For the duration of her first solo UK exhibition, New York-based artist Lucy Raven turns the gallery into an intimate, velvet-curtained space, playing host to a series of Serpentine Cinema film nights, programmed by Raven and produced in collaboration with MUBI. The series culminates with Arthur Jafa presenting two films, including a work in progress, on Thursday 9 February at Picturehouse Central

Tuesday 24 January: Introduction by Karen Alexander
Anemic Cinema (Marcel Duchamp, 1926, 7’)
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993, 101’)

Tuesday 31 January: Introduction by Janet Harbord
Hacked Circuit (Deborah Stratman, 2014, 15’05’’)
Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981, 108’)

Tuesday 7 February: Introduction by Victoria Brooks
All that Jazz (final scene) (Bob Fosse, 1979, 9’50’’)
Miracle Mile (Steve Jarnatt, 1988, 87')
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DIGITAL COMMISSION
JAMES BRIDLE: CLOUD INDEX
UNTIL 12 FEBRUARY
THE MAGAZINE RESTAURANT AND ONLINE
FREE
The Serpentine’s third digital commission, James Bridle’s Cloud Index, explores the many aspects of the term ‘cloud’, from modern computer networks to the English mystical tradition, from the history of weather forecasting to climate change and contemporary conspiracy fears. Cloud Index is an online platform that consumes vast amounts of historic weather data from satellites and correlates it with polling data on the major political events that define our time
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LIVE AND ONLINE
FAMILY DAY: PAPER UTOPIA
SATURDAY 11 FEBRUARY, 1 - 5PM
FREE, DROP IN
Studio OOMK invites you to design and construct your own paper utopian cityscape. Share your ideas and watch the collective metropolis grow throughout the afternoon. Family Days are suitable for families with children of all ages
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MIRACLE MARATHON PODCASTS
EPISODES 1 AND 2:
HOLLY WHITE AND SIMON SCHAFFER
The Miracle Podcasts are presented by Tabitha Thorlu-Bengura and Lucia Pietroiusti with some of today’s most interesting and innovative artists and theorists responding to the theme of miracles. New episodes released each Monday at radio.serpentinegalleries.org
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FROM OUR FRIENDS
BRUCE CONNER
EVENING
24 JANUARY 2017
BFI SOUTHBANK
TICKETS FROM £8.75
The BFI presents a tribute to one of the foremost experimental artists of the post-war era. The event includes a screening of the new 4K scan of Crossroads, Conner’s collage film of the 1946 nuclear test at Bikini Atoll
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SOAK, STEAM, DREAM: REINVENTING BATHING CULTURE
UNTIL 28 JANUARY 2017
ROCA LONDON GALLERY
FREE
Explore a renewed interest in communal bathing culture through the work of contemporary architects and designers, including Peter Zumthor's baths in Therme Vals and a Japanese public bath by Shigeru Ban
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