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Rivington Place
Rivington Place
Rivington Place London, Greater London EC2A 3BAt : view phone020 7749 1240
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Description
Two major project spaces present exhibitions, film screenings, digital projects and public lectures. Recent exhibitions include solo shows by Hew Locke, Zineb Sedira and Santu Mofokeng and group exhibitions 'States of Exchange' and 'Liminal'.
Hours of work
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 11-6
Thursday 11-9
Saturday 12-6
Last entry: 30 mins before closing
Directions
Nearest Tubes: Old Street/Liverpool Street
NS Harsha: Nations
18 September - 21 November, 2009
192 sewing machines are overlaid with hand painted flags signifying the countries constituting the United Nations. The installation refers to the effects of gloabalisation and labour outsourcing as well as international relationships.
NS Harsha: Nations
Chen Chieh-jen: Factory
Iniva at Rivington Place
18 September – 21 November 2009
NS Harsha: Nations
Nationsis a grand-scale installation by Indian artist NS Harsha, exhibited for the first time in
NS Harsha is an artist known for his sensitivity to the human condition, drawing on details of cultural traditions in
“This work took shape after my visit to a local small scale textile factory in which I personally experienced the realities of ‘human labour’. Hierarchies and exploitation are part of today’s global economic order. Nations engages with these socio-political complexities and cultural entanglements.” NS Harsha
The artist creates a vision of a world divided by flags, he uses a delicate web of threads to link the sewing machines. Nations refers to the outsourcing of labour in response to the demands of world economies, as well as the networks that exist between countries. NS Harsha has exhibited internationally, Nations is his most ambitious installation to date and was shown to critical acclaim at the Sharjah Biennial earlier in 2009.
NS Harsha lives and works in
Picking Through the Rubble, an exhibition by NS Harsha, is showing at Victoria Miro Gallery from 10 October – 14 November 2009.
Chen Chieh-jen: Factory
Taiwanese artist Chen Chieh-Jen’s haunting film Factory is shown for the first time in
In 2003 the artist invited workers to return to the Lien Fu garment factory which had been closed down 7 years earlier. The unscrupulous owners were investigated for refusing to pay retirement pensions and severance.
“In places all over the world, many labourers have had similar experiences – in relation to the ‘transplanted’ and the ‘untransplanted’. In order to find low-priced labour, factories constantly shift locations, but unemployed workers have no choice but to linger on in the same place.” Chen Chieh-jen
In the mid 20th-century
In this derelict garment plant, abandoned objects still remain from 7 years before: calendars, newspapers, punch clocks, manufacturing equipment, the dust that has built up, and the banners left behind from the workers’ protests.
Shots of women textile workers moving around the building are mixed with fragmentary images of their protests, as well as footage produced by the government in the 1960s to promote the new found prosperity.
18 September – 21 November 2009, Education Space
Shiraz Bayjoo transforms the Education Space into a temporary artist run factory. He creates a new workforce in response to the NS Harsha and Chen Chieh-jen exhibitions who will manufacture a communal flag to fill the gallery space.
To join Bayjoo’s workforce in the form of stitching, sewing and conversation, drop in on Thursday evenings between 6-8pm or Saturdays 2-5pm. If you would like to sign up as a group contact tledda@iniva.org or call 020 7749 1254 in advance.
Participation in the projects takes place between 18 September – 15 October 2009, viewing continues until 21 November.
Notes to Editor
NS Harsha biography: NS Harsha lives and works in
Harsha has exhibited internationally, including the following exhibitions: in 2008 - Sharjah Biennial, UAE; Santhal Family, Muhka Museum, Antwerpen, Belgium; Leftovers, (solo exhibition), Maison Hermes, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan; Come give us a speech, (solo exhibition) Bodhi Art New York,; Indian Highway, Serpentine Gallery, London; India Moderna, IVAM Valencia, Spain. In 2007 Prospects, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy; Horn Please, Museum of fine arts, Berne, Switzerland,; New Narratives, Chicago Cultural Centre, USA; Private / Corporate IV, Daimler Chrysler Collection, Berlin, Germany; New Space, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai. In 2006 - Belief, 1st
Chen Chieh-jen biography: born in 1960,
Further press information
Press view – Thursday 17 September 10am-12pm
For high resolution images and further press information please contact:
Head of Communications
Listings Information
Venue:
Exhibitions: NS Harsha: Nations
Chen Chieh-jen: Factory
Dates: 18 September – 21 November 2009
Public opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 11am – 6pm
Late Thursdays: 11am – 9pm (Last admission 8.30pm)
Saturday: 12noon – 6pm
Sunday, Monday: Closed
Admission: Free
Nearest tubes: Old Street & Liverpool Street
For parking & wheelchair facilities or further information
about
About Iniva
Iniva (
Iniva is supported by Arts Council England.
Opened in 2007, Rivington Place is Iniva and Autograph ABP's contemporary visual arts space and the
founding Corporate Partner. Barclays £1.1m contribution is part of a much wider programme of community support.
The
Chen Chieh-jen
18 September - 21 November, 2009
Taiwanese artist Chen Chieh-Jen’s haunting film Factory is shown for the first time in London. Focusing on a group of textile workers, it is set within the context of manufacturing moving abroad in search of cheaper labour.
NS Harsha: Nations
Chen Chieh-jen: Factory
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Iniva presents exhibitions by NS Harsha and Chen Chieh-jen at
NS Harsha: Nations
Nationsis a grand-scale installation by Indian artist NS Harsha, exhibited for the first time in
NS Harsha is an artist known for his sensitivity to the human condition, drawing on details of cultural traditions in
“This work took shape after my visit to a local small scale textile factory in which I personally experienced the realities of ‘human labour’. Hierarchies and exploitation are part of today’s global economic order. Nations engages with these socio-political complexities and cultural entanglements.” NS Harsha
The artist creates a vision of a world divided by flags, he uses a delicate web of threads to link the sewing machines. Nations refers to the outsourcing of labour in response to the demands of world economies, as well as the networks that exist between countries. NS Harsha has exhibited internationally, Nations is his most ambitious installation to date and was shown to critical acclaim at the Sharjah Biennial earlier in 2009.
NS Harsha lives and works in
Picking Through the Rubble, an exhibition by NS Harsha, is showing at Victoria Miro Gallery from 10 October – 14 November 2009.
Chen Chieh-jen: Factory
Taiwanese artist Chen Chieh-Jen’s haunting film Factory is shown for the first time in
In 2003 the artist invited workers to return to the Lien Fu garment factory which had been closed down 7 years earlier. The unscrupulous owners were investigated for refusing to pay retirement pensions and severance.
“In places all over the world, many labourers have had similar experiences – in relation to the ‘transplanted’ and the ‘untransplanted’. In order to find low-priced labour, factories constantly shift locations, but unemployed workers have no choice but to linger on in the same place.” Chen Chieh-jen
In the mid 20th-century
In this derelict garment plant, abandoned objects still remain from 7 years before: calendars, newspapers, punch clocks, manufacturing equipment, the dust that has built up, and the banners left behind from the workers’ protests.
Shots of women textile workers moving around the building are mixed with fragmentary images of their protests, as well as footage produced by the government in the 1960s to promote the new found prosperity.
Workforce: artist
18 September – 21 November 2009, Education Space
Shiraz Bayjoo transforms the Education Space into a temporary artist run factory. He creates a new workforce in response to the NS Harsha and Chen Chieh-jen exhibitions who will manufacture a communal flag to fill the gallery space.
To join Bayjoo’s workforce in the form of stitching, sewing and conversation, drop in on Thursday evenings between 6-8pm or Saturdays 2-5pm. If you would like to sign up as a group contact tledda@iniva.org or call 020 7749 1254 in advance.
Participation in the projects takes place between 18 September – 15 October 2009, viewing continues until 21 November.
Notes to Editor
NS Harsha biography: NS Harsha lives and works in
Harsha has exhibited internationally, including the following exhibitions: in 2008 - Sharjah Biennial, UAE; Santhal Family, Muhka Museum, Antwerpen, Belgium; Leftovers, (solo exhibition), Maison Hermes, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan; Come give us a speech, (solo exhibition) Bodhi Art New York,; Indian Highway, Serpentine Gallery, London; India Moderna, IVAM Valencia, Spain. In 2007 Prospects, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy; Horn Please, Museum of fine arts, Berne, Switzerland,; New Narratives, Chicago Cultural Centre, USA; Private / Corporate IV, Daimler Chrysler Collection, Berlin, Germany; New Space, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai. In 2006 - Belief, 1st
Chen Chieh-jen biography: born in 1960,
Further information is available at www.iniva.org
Further press information
Press view – Thursday 17 September 10am-12pm
For high resolution images and further press information please contact:
Head of Communications
Listings Information
Venue:
Exhibitions: NS Harsha: Nations
Chen Chieh-jen: Factory
Dates: 18 September – 21 November 2009
Public opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 11am – 6pm
Late Thursdays: 11am – 9pm (Last admission 8.30pm)
Saturday: 12noon – 6pm
Sunday, Monday: Closed
Admission: Free
Nearest tubes: Old Street & Liverpool Street
For parking & wheelchair facilities or further information
about
About Iniva
Iniva (
Iniva is supported by Arts Council England.
Opened in 2007, Rivington Place is Iniva and Autograph ABP's contemporary visual arts space and the
The
Progress Reports: Art in an Era of Diversity
28 January - 13 March, 2010
Iniva is re-examining its role in relation to the changing landscape of cultural diversity. To mark this transition we present Progress Reports, an open exhibition & series of events. Key curators & artists select artists, artwork & film programmes.
Lu Chunsheng and Jia Aili: Counterpoints
31 March - 15 May, 2010
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Counterpoints is an exhibition of new work by two contemporary Chinese artists Lu Chunsheng and Jia Aili. Both artists are drawn to subjects of industrial progress, social corrosion and humanity’s relationship with the machine.
Lu Chunsheng and Jia Aili:
Counterpoints
31 March – 15 May 2010
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Lu Chunsheng’s film, The first man who bought a juicer bought it not for drinking juice,mixes documentary and fantasy to theatrical effect. Thecharacters in the film are both human and mechanical, and represent the consequences of the globalised era in their repetition of senseless acts. Orson Welles’ fictional account of an alien invasion in The War of the Worlds which was mistaken for a real news item, is the impetus for the film. It illustrates the influence of technology, mass media and the power of fear.
The two protagonists in the film are a reaper machine, used for harvesting grain, which is given Frankenstein-like characteristics, and a mechanic who cares for and repairs it. The film casts a relationship between man and machine in which humanity is denigrated to serve an alien species born from its own hands.
For Jia Aili’s first solo exhibition in
, he presents monumental new paintings, and an installation specially created for the window overlooking . In his paintings Jia Aili uses a muted colour palette and quick brushwork, conjuring up the disorientating emotions felt in a developing society.
Living and working in
The artist has been selected from a new generation of artists in collaboration with Platform China Contemporary Art Institute.
Counterpoints is curated by David Thorp. Lu Chunsheng’s The first man who bought a juicer bought it not for drinking juice is the product of a residency at Artpace San Antonio, Texas, organised by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Iniva’s staging is organised by Fountain as part of a wider touring exhibition of the film in Europe and
Editor’s notes
Biographies
Lu Chunsheng was born in
Jia Ailiwas born in 1979 and attended Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art in
For further information
For high resolution images and further press information please contact:
Head of Communications
Listings Information
Venue:
Exhibition: Lu Chunsheng and Jia Aili: Counterpoints
Dates: 31 March – 15 May 2010
Late Thursdays: 11am – 9pm (last admission 8.30pm)
Saturday: 12noon – 6py, Monday: Closed
Admission: Free
Nearest tubes: Old Street & Liverpool Street
For parking & wheelchair facilities or further information
about
About Iniva
Iniva (
Iniva is supported by Arts Council England.
Opened in 2007, Rivington Place is Iniva and Autograph ABP's contemporary visual arts space and the
founding Corporate Partner. Barclays £1.1m contribution is part of a much wider programme of community support.
The
Whose Map is it? new mapping by artists
2 June - 24 July, 2010
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Nine contemporary artists from across the globe explore new approaches to mapping. Using film, installation, print and audio, they engage with social and political issues, and new technologies.
Whose Map is it?
new mapping by artists
2 June –
24 July 2010
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A Thames river map focusing on the North-South London divide, an interactive magnetic puzzle map of the
In Gayle Chong Kwan'sSave the last dance for me, a large-scale map tracks the Rumba from
Artist Susan Stockwell’s new site-specific commission,
Other artists such as Bouchra Khalili, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa and Alexandra Handal refer to migration, displacement and colonial imperialism. Esther Polak tracks dairy distributors in
Artists’ projects include Dia Batal’s Cart-og-ra-phy: the unfolding of mobile narratives in the Education Space. She gathers stories from local women and Shoreditch residents to highlight the act of crossing boundaries. Visitors are invited to join her on a tour and add to the Cart-og-ra-phy map. Damian and Delaine Le Bas’ short film, The Strange World of Roderick Wood, maps the lives of a multi-generational family in a single household.
Editor’s notes
Whose Map is it? has been initiated by Iniva with Associate Curator Christine Takengny and Education Curator Teresa Cisneros.
Crossing Boundaries Symposium
2 June 2010, 10am – 5pm at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
Artists, geographers, and theorists of visual culture discuss issues raised by Iniva's exhibition Whose Map is it? and Creative Compass at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). The symposium opens up dialogues about critical histories of mapping and the legacy of involving creative practices.
Tickets are £35 with half price concessions. To book a place visit www.rgs.org
Exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG): The Creative Compass
6 May – 2 July 2010
Co-curated by Iniva, artists Agnès Poitevin-Navarre and Susan Stockwell use maps and mapping to explore questions around globalisation and identity. This exhibition and accompanying programme of talks and workshops funded by the Arts Council England, is an opportunity to see some of their existing work alongside newly commissioned pieces.
1 Kensington Gore,
Whose Map is it? exhibiting artists’ work and biographies:
Milena Bonilla shows Variations on a homogeneous landscape (2006), this series of 27 posters depicts a dislocated map of
Gayle Chong Kwan presents a new commission Save the Last Dance for Me, the work consists of a large-scale map illustrating Labanotation techniques to record the movement and migration of Rumba, accompanied by a sound piece giving gallery visitors dance instructions. Gayle Chong Kwan was born in 1973 in
Alexandra Handal’s Labyrinth of Remains and Migration (2000-01 & 2010) is a series of mental maps charting spaces of obliteration, dispossession, memory and destruction in
Alexandra Handal was born in 1975 into a Palestinian family in
Bouchra Khalili shows the film series Mapping Journey #1, #2, #3 (2008/09) aiming to reveal the underground and hidden maps of displacement that migratory experience produces. Bouchra Khalili was born in 1975 in
Otobong Nkanga includes Delta Stories (2005/06) which is a series of 18 drawings, narrating ecological, political and social transformation in the oil rich Delta region in
Esther Polak’s NomadicMILK (2009) follows dairy transporters and Fulani nomadic herdsmen in
Susan Stockwell’s work is concerned with issues of ecology, beauty, mapping, colonial histories, trade and global commerce. For Whose Map is it? Stockwell was commissioned to produce the site-specific window piece
Oraib Toukan presents The New(er) Middle East (2007), an interactive puzzle in the shape of a territorial map of the Middle East, humorously playing on the so-called ‘New Middle East Map’ suggested by an ex-US Army Lieutenant. Oraib Toukan was born 1977 in
Emma Wolukau–Wanambwa’s new commission, A continuing survey of syntactic parsing, includes charts that juxtapose British narratives of exploration and conquest with touchstones, landmarks, peaks and triumphs of British bourgeois life. Emma Wolukau–Wanambwa was born 1976 in
Related Artists’ Projects:
Dia Batal’s commission Cart-og-ra-phy: the unfolding of mobile narratives explores the lives and journeys of a group of women living in
Damien and Delanie Le Bas’ short film The Strange World of Roderick Wood, documents a day in the life of Roderick Wood through everyday journeys and the home which his mother has occupied since WWII when she moved from
For further information on the Whose Map is it? exhibition and events, as well as
high resolution images please contact:
Head of Communications
Listings Information
Venue:
Exhibition: Whose Map is it? new mapping by artists
Dates: 2 June – 24 July 2010
Late Thursdays:
(last admission
)
Saturday: 12noon –
Sunday, Monday: Closed
Admission: Free
Nearest tubes: Old Street & Liverpool Street
For parking & wheelchair facilities or further information
about
About Iniva
Iniva (
Iniva is supported by Arts Council England.
Opened in 2007, Rivington Place is Iniva and Autograph ABP's contemporary visual arts space and the
The
Whose Map is it? new mapping by artists is supported by Bloomberg; the Colombian Embassy; the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, The Delfina Foundation and the Mondriaan Foundation,
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