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Guest Projects' 10 Year Anniversary Weekend

25 May 2018 – 27 May 2018

Event times

Friday: 7 pm - 12.30 am
Saturday: 10 am - 11 pm
Sunday: 10 am - 10 pm

Cost of entry

FREE OPEN TO ALL

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Guest Projects

London, United Kingdom

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2018 marks Guest Projects’ 10-year anniversary. To celebrate this very special occasion, Guest Projects is hosting a weekend of performance, dance, theatre, and music, along with a series of interactive workshops, all hosted by past residents of the space.

About

FRIDAY 25TH MAY: 7PM - 12.30AM

To celebrate Guest Projects’ history and oeuvre of multi-disciplinary artist projects, curators Linda Rocco and Cairo Clarke have explored the archive of residencies from the past ten years to curate an evening of performance and artist interventions. By blurring the lines between art and celebration, the curators consider how the presence and absence of narratives invites visitors to think about how their own bodies occupy space. The concept of an art ‘opening’ or ‘private view’ comes with its own performative rituals and anxieties, and so the evening has been programmed to stay in keeping with Guest Projects' ethos, whilst celebrating the space it provided us all at times of experimentation and developing our practices.

Performances by:
Tangle
Doug Fishbone
Ilona Sagar
Larry Achiampong
Suzannah Pettigrew
Harriet Middleton-Baker
Zinzi Minott
Raju Rage

DJ AJ Kwame aka Peter Adjaye (Music for Architecture)
Instagram / Facebook: @music4architecture 

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SATURDAY 26TH MAY  10AM - 11PM


OPEN SCHOOL EAST 10AM - 2PM
Open School East is a space for artist learning that is free, experimental, collaborative, and brings together diverse voices. They provide tuition and studio space to emerging artists, run learning activities for young people and adults, commission artists to develop participatory projects, and produce and host cultural events and social activities, that are always free to attend. Open School East are hosting a workshop that draws on the local space surrounding Regent’s Canal by exploring movement and journeys, and investigating the way in which humans move and how we navigate space: pathways and waterways. OPEN TO ALL *RSVP*

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ALTMFA 'THE FUTURE'
2PM - 6PMTo celebrate their busy year leading ‘The Future’ programme, AltMFA invite you to join them for an afternoon series of short moments at Guest Projects. Through discussion, food making and conversations they will explore communal ways of instigating future modes of collective learning and being.
AltMFA is an alternative ‘Master of Fine Art’ course established by artists for artists, as a free alternative to studying a university-based MA in London. The course has no fixed premises; the programme takes place in a range of private and public venues. AltMFA incorporates the most desirable elements of an MFA course; space to work, collaborators to argue with, a social sphere to move within. Unlike a conventional MFA, AltMFA is a common space in which there are no fees; time and facilities are all offered in kind.  OPEN TO ALL *RSVP*

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SCHOOL OF THE DAMNED 'BEING IN THE BODY' 6PM - 11PM
"Being in the Body" plays out within a temporary assembled environment that borrows from communal spaces intrinsically linked to the tactile, it sits somewhere between a ‘wellbeing’ studio and late night club; essentially places where one attempts to reach another level of understanding through the body.

There will be two phases: A phase of intimacy, and a phase of opening. Starting with a smaller group the event and environment will then open up and adapt becoming a place where people can gather to further explore these ideas of friendship and collaboration by dancing together using free movement and music.

Phase I: From the Inside to the Outside 18.30 - 20.00 *RSVP*
Phase II: Bodies are no longer fleshy lumps of tissue and bone detached from the mind, they are portals. OPEN TO ALL: 20.00 - 23.00

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SUNDAY 27TH MAY  10AM - 10PM

CASSIOPEIA 'SPEAKING SIGNS' 10AM - 2PM
Cassiopeia are performing Speaking Signs at Guest Projects. Speaking Signs explores the things that come together in a flash to form a constellation, offering snapshots of Cassiopeia's working practice at a particular moment in time, touching on hidden histories, modular images, cryptography and more. Each time Speaking Signs is performed it mutates to become something new. Cassiopeia are Hannah Rae Alton, Irene Vidal Cal, Amy GoodwinAnne Harild, and Catrin Morgan. OPEN TO ALL *RSVP*

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LABORATORY OF DARK MATTERS 2PM - 6PM
On Sunday 27th May, Laboratory of Dark Matters invites you to an afternoon of live readings and open conversation on the unknown nature of the universe. A selection of short texts which have a relationship to the exploration of dark matter as a scientific or philosophical concept will be presented to stimulate questions and encourage shared knowledge across disciplines and perspectives. The event is designed to be informal, inclusive and accessible for all with no prior knowledge or up-front reading required. Laboratory of Dark Matters is a response by artists to scientific investigations into the mysteries of the universe. It invites everyone driven by curiosity to explore fundamental questions about matter and consciousness... OPEN TO ALL *RSVP*

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THE SYLLABUS 'SYLLABUS MIX' 6PM - 10PM On Sunday 27th May, The Syllabus are hosting 

Syllabus Mix, an evening of screenings, performance and sounds from Syllabus i, ii & iii. Including work by Frederica Agbah,Chris AltonMira CalixIlker CinarelFaye ClaridgePhoebe DavisFreya DooleyMike HarveyE. JacksonTyler MallisonJill McKnightMathew ParkinTom SmithLucy SteggalsThomas WhittleLaura WilsonRafal Zajko.
#syllabusmix OPEN TO ALL *RSVP*

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Guest Projects is an initiative that was conceived by Yinka Shonibare MBE in 2008, which offers the opportunity for early career artists and practitioners of any artistic discipline to have free access to a project space for one month, to host exhibitions, events and workshops. Guest Projects provides an alternative universe and playground for artists and curators, encouraging them to collaborate and create new experimental works in a space where they can fail; It is a laboratory of ideas and a testing ground for new thoughts and actions.

Each year Guest Projects hosts up to six artist residency groups and also offers a Talks and Events programme in which groups can apply to use the space for up to three days for book and magazine launches, workshops, presentations, and symposiums. At Guest Projects we also host a bi-monthly supper club entitled The Artist Dining Room, which collaborates with London-based chefs to hold a series of unique and bespoke artist-led supper clubs, offering an alternative dining experience where creative minds can engage and immerse themselves in the life and works of an artist through food.

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