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OPEN SOURCE Contemporary Arts Festival 2016

28 May 2016 – 29 May 2016

Event times

2 - 9pm

Cost of entry

FREE

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Gillett Square

London, United Kingdom

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  • Buses: 149, 243, 38, 76, 67, 30
  • Rail: Dalston Kingsland Overground
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OPEN SOURCE 2016 presents 21 artists and 9 specially commissioned works to a diverse audience, across the disciplines of video, painting, installation and performance.

About

OPEN SOURCE is an artist-led initiative based in East London, specialising in time-based media and live events. Presenting 21 artists and 9 specially commissioned works to a diverse audience, OPEN SOURCE 2016 will explore subcultures, identity, fluidity and self-determination, across the disciplines of video, painting, installation and performance.

 

OPEN SOURCE is born from the collision of two worlds: art-world private view meets the public space of Gillett Square, with its domino players, musicians, families and skateboarders. It presents artworks in the midst of real life. It is free and accessible to all.

 

OPEN SOURCE is a new public platform, engages diverse audiences and creates paid opportunities for artists to produce ambitious new works.

 

Already widely known as a hothouse of exciting talent – just a year on from its original inception – this year’s participating artists include Rachel Maclean, representing Scotland at the 2017 Venice Biennale, Simeon Barclay, showing this summer at the Liverpool Biennial, and Lawrence Lek, whose career has undoubtedly been on a roll since winning the Dazed Emerging Artists Award in 2015. Having recently shown at Glasgow International, he has also just been announced as a winner of the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2017.

 

OPEN SOURCE 2016 features a fantastic roster of artists and a strong curation of interactive projects, including: an investigation into Hackney languages; an immersive video game installation; an invasive species of ice cream; a ride into Futuristic Dalston; an obsessive compulsive drone; a bombastic DJ set sampling West African archives; encrypted street posters coming to life; super-responsive T-shirts; experimental hair salons; fleeting manifestations of gender expression; an hallucinogenic tale of austerity and aspiration in a post-X-Factor landscape; the story of a body falling to earth’s centre; and an after-dark infectious apocalyptic VJ set.

 

OPEN SOURCE 2016 CURATORS:

Emily Butler, Christine Eyene, Helen Nisbet, Joe Fletcher Orr & Doug Bowen, Richard Parry and Amy Sherlock.

 

OPEN SOURCE 2016 ARTISTS:

Larry Achiampong, Cory Arcangel, Simeon Barclay, Shiraz Bayjoo, Hannah Black, Flo Brooks, Helen Cammock, Leo Chadburn, Cooking Sections, David Raymond Conroy, Danielle Dean, Benedict Drew, Andy Holden, Joey Holder, Lawrence Lek, Rachel Maclean, Alice Marcelino, Richard Muller, Tai Shani and Mariana Simnett.

 

SPECIAL GUESTS:

Frieze Video, The Exchange and Hackney Pirates.

CuratorsToggle

Joe Fletcher Orr

Amy Sherlock

Doug Bowen

Helen Nisbet

Emily Butler

Christine Eyene

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Cooking Sections

Alice Marcelino

Flo Brooks

Leo Chadburn

Larry Achiampong

Richard Muller

Helen Cammock

Cory Arcangel

Hannah Black

Lawrence Lek

Joey Holder

Joey Holder

Rachel Maclean

Simeon Barclay

Tai Shani

Danielle Dean

Shiraz Bayjoo

David Raymond Conroy

Benedict Drew

Mariana Simnett

Andy Holden

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