Salon de Refuses Olympique: Alternative Legacies

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Join us at 5pm on Tuesday 3rd February 2009 At Elevator Gallery Mother Studios Queen's Yard,White Post Lane, Hackney Wick, London E9 5EN www.elevatorgallery.co.uk www.motherstudios.co.uk Presentations followed by refreshments and debate Salon organised by Hilary Powell. Thanks to MUF, Elevator Gallery and event sponsors: Pudding Mill River: Purveyors of Sporting Spirits and Foodstuffs. Contact: hilary@optimisticproductions.co.uk for more details October 2009's ‘ Salon de Refuses Olympique' as part of TINAG Festival (www.thisisnotagateway.net) proved to be a very interesting affair and we have been invited by MUF architects (www.muf.co.uk) to reconvene and expand the session to enable visiting architecture students from Yale a chance to enter into both the official and unofficial attitudes to the Olympic development. Join us for this manifestation of what began as the initiated ‘Olympic Artist Forum' - an evening of presentations and discussion exploring creative responses to the changing London 2012 Olympic site and surrounding regeneration zone. The salon gives voice to those operating alongside official cultural programming and offering a more critical stance - from outright rejection of the ‘Olympic story' to ironic critique and adaptive actions. Primarily this salon aims to address practices that attempt to engage audiences and participants with the Olympic-led regeneration and changes happening in East London in the run-up to 2012 in a thought provoking way and creative way. The event will feature short presentations of work by participants using their vision and visuals as prompts to engage with key questions raised within the salon, most specifically in this case, alternative legacies and what this could mean.