EUROPA
Adam Donen with Omar Ghazal, Kevin Green, Hugh McEwen, Catrina Stewart and Freddy Tuppen of Ada.
An dramatic musical and architectural performance about the European Union as part of the Bloomsbury Fete in Bedford Square yesterday. These photos don’t do justice to the scale, ambition and energy of this immersive performance. We can only hope for an encore.
EUROPA EXHIBITION - Tonight Thursday 30th May
Artworks and limited edition prints by some of the founding members of Ada, Catrina Stewart, Hugh McEwen , Kevin Green, Freddy Tuppen, Omar Ghazal.
34 STORE STREET
Bloomsbury
London
WC1E 7DB
Ada, formerly Group 41, are running a series of two week schools in London, Warsaw & Poncé-sur-le-Loir this summer.
CAN will be tutoring at London II and are in the process of recruiting enthusiastic and exciting students for:
CONSTRUCTING PERFORMANCE
This two week course, based in central London, will combine the fields of performance art and architecture, using techniques from both to guide participants in how the internet can be used as a tool to generate anything from a 2d image to a full performance piece.
During the first week students will be taught how to take a 2-dimensional image and distort/glitch and extrapolate it in such a way as to generate the unexpected. Various form generating techniques will be used to guide the students, teaching them how to explore ideas quickly. Each day a new performance piece will be produced from an idea with everyone working together to document, present and discuss their unique piece. Students will be introduced to the work of various performance artists alongside the piece generation techniques.
The internet will be used as the departure point for this exploration and we will encourage students to see this vast resource not just as a research tool but as a starting point for creativity.
During the second week, the pieces produced in the first week will be brought together, and as a group, the students will develop, design and build a larger piece which will be shown in a final performance on the last day of the school. The students will learn the tools of collaborative working, set design and building as well as developing their performance work from the previous week.
Throughout the course, everyone will act as artist and teacher, finding new ways to talk about the work and their contribution. This course will include visits to key venues such as ‘The Live Art Agency’ and other London exhibition venues.Please Apply online at Adaprojects
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EUROPA by Ada and Adam Donen
We’re five architectural designers, members of a newly formed collaborative group called Ada, working with a composer Adam Donen, and we’ve been given a major square in the middle of London for a day. We are going to fuse architecture with music and performance, and create the first ever dramatic piece with a stage as the lead actor.
The Bloomsbury Fete will be filled with pieces of interactive architecture - there will be see-saws, slides and tables all of which will be used by around 3000 people that will be drawn to the festival. They will all be beautiful and functional, but also built very cunningly so that at lunchtime they can take part in the main performance of Europa. These apparently separate pieces will ‘subsume’ Europa as it happens.
Hugh McEwen, Catrina Stewart, Freddy Tuppen, Kevin Green and Omar Ghazal are founding members of Ada, a Bloomsbury-based collective of professional artists and architectural designers who work together to create spectacles of forward-looking architecture. Ada believe that by combining individuals who are the best in their field from different disciplines, the most aesthetic and intellectually stimulating results can be achieved. Since early 2012 the collective has been working closely with local organisations to produce interactive architectural pieces.
This is a crowd funded event so please do help this happen if you can, there are lots of great thing on offer for the donations! http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/europa/x/2545657
If you’re in London, come along, play with the architecture, and watch the show - it’s free. 14 June. 1pm.
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Experiments with viscous glazes by Christina Schou Christensen. Thanks to Catrina Stewart for showing me her work!
(ICARUS: FINAL FLIGHT?)
at Vessels exhibition, Exhibition Road, South Kensington.
INFORME/DEFORM: Mass experiments.
White stoneware, PVC film, salt and twine.
Unfired vase prototypes for the Group of 41’s ‘Vessels’ exhibition.
VESSELS: Group of 41 on Exhibition Road with a collection of prototype vases. 31/01/13.
VESSELS: prototype.
Clay formed around a sack of salt, wrapped in clingfilm, and bound with string.
Exhibition opening 31/01/13, 10-12 Exhibition Row, South Kensington.
Tempelhofer Feld: Pionierfeld Oderstraße, Berlin
After the airport’s closure in 2008, and reopening as a temporary public park in 2010, limited portions of Tempelhof airfield were offered for short-term “pioneer” applications, pending more extensive redevelopment of the park in time for the International Horticultural Exhibition in 2017. In September, it was decided that the exhibition would instead take place in the suburb of Marzahn: in light of the positive developments already undertaken by community groups in the “pioneer fields,” the Berlin Senate suggests that more circumspect development is in order.
Among the temporary projects now free of the imminent threat of the Horticultural Exhibition are a Shaolin temple and a unicycle school. Pictured above is the Allmende-Kontor, an office dedicated to claiming and proliferating a new Commons, alongside the Berg, the mountain proposed by Mila during the Senate’s initial ideas competition. Widely popularised, the Berg suggests the boundless possibilities offered by the airfield, so long as it remains largely empty.
