Friday 5 May 2017

Serpentine Galleries - Final Days to see John Latham and Speak, plus Family Weekend and Saturday Talks

Serpentine

LAST CHANCE
A WORLD VIEW:
JOHN LATHAM


UNTIL 21 MAY
SERPENTINE GALLERY
FREE

Discover John Latham's world view in this holistic exhibition that spans the career of one of the pioneers of British conceptual art. Explore the artist’s iconic spray and roller paintings, one-second drawings, films and his seminal work, Five Sisters (1976), from his Scottish Office placement with Artist Placement Group
 
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SPEAK: TANIA BRUGUERA, DOUGLAS GORDON, LAURE PROUVOST, CALLY SPOONER

UNTIL 21 MAY
SERPENTINE SACKLER GALLERY
FREE

This group show brings together contemporary artists – Tania Bruguera, Douglas Gordon, Laure Prouvost, Cally Spooner – whose diverse work has affinities with Latham’s ideas. The exhibition proposes Latham as an ‘open toolbox’ for artists, revealing how his concepts of time, language and society resonate today

 
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PUBLICATION
CATALOGUE
A WORLD VIEW: JOHN LATHAM

ONLINE AND AT SERPENTINE GALLERIES
£20

Published on the occasion of the Serpentine Galleries Spring Season, this volume traces the trajectory of John Latham’s practice and brings together archival material, including documentary photographs, texts, correspondence and various ephemera, in order to build a picture of the artist’s life and work.

The volume includes a selection of interviews conducted by Hans Ulrich Obrist with John Latham, Barbara Steveni and Douglas Gordon and a series of visual contributions and interventions by Tania Bruguera, Rita Donagh, Liam Gillick, Douglas Gordon, Yoko Ono, Laure Prouvost and Pedro Reyes
 
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FAMILY WEEKEND
FAMILY WEEKEND: LUNG SONGS - AN EXPERIMENTAL CHOIR
 
SATURDAY 6 AND SUNDAY 7 MAY, 1 - 5PM
SERPENTINE GALLERY
FREE, DROP IN

Throughout this two-day voice workshop, artist Jenny Moore and a group of singers from F*CHOIR invite you to join their temporary experimental choir. Using words, breathing, moving, drawing, shouting, listening, clapping, stomping and singing, we will make songs about breathing -- finding voices inside the air waves. Get lost in the lights, vibrations, whirly tubes and strange sounds
 
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LIVE AND ONLINE
FILM: A WORLD VIEW


SERPENTINE YOUTUBE
 
Hear John Latham's colleagues, friends and family talk about this extraordinary artist and the works within A World View: John Latham. Includes interviews with David Toop, Laure Prouvost, Ismail Saray, Douglas Gordon and John-Paul Latham
 

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SATURDAY TALKS:
A WORLD VIEW: JOHN LATHAM
 
SERPENTINE GALLERY
FREE, DROP IN
 
6 May, 3pm: Join Assistant Curator, Joseph Constable, for a tour of the exhibition

13 May, 3pm: Flat Time House Curator/Director, Gareth Bell-Jones, leads a tour through the show
 
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FROM OUR FRIENDS
ALEX MARTINIS ROE:
TO BECOME TWO

UNTIL 10 JUNE
THE SHOWRROM
FREE

This new film installation by Alex Martinis Roe stems from her ongoing engagement with international feminist communities and their political practices. Across six films it traces the stories of six different, yet connected, feminist groups from the 1970s to the present 
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PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE
(1979-1992)

ONLINE ARCHIVE
THISISLIVEART.CO.UK
FREE

Between 1979-1992 Performance Magazine documented an extraordinary period in the development of art in the UK. Sixty-six issues have been digitised and are now accessible online and available at LADA's Study Room

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