Wednesday 23 March 2016

DARK: Festival of the Unseen (Thurs Opening 7:30-10:00PM)

Okay, this is a bit of a rushed blog post on my part, as I've only just found that I'm now actually free, after all, to take part in DARK: Festival of The Unseen which opens tonight at the Hundred Years Gallery in Shoreditch/Hoxton (just north of Hoxton Train Station and the Geffrye Museum). This group art exhibition opens at 7:30pm tomorrow night (Thursday 24th March), and I've not even managed to deliver my entry, 'Jarred', to the gallery yet. I'm hoping to get it there and have it hung by 6:30pm – so no rush or anything!


So please excuse my laziness but here's all the exhibition info that you'll need - painstakingly lifted direct from the gallery's own website:


DARK: Festival of the Unseen - Return of the DRON is the third exhibition organised by Jill Rock in collaboration with Hundred Years Gallery.

Following the success of previous exhibitions, DrONUltImARAtio 2012 and WHITEOUT 2014, DARK is an exhibition featuring the work of 20 artists, and a programme of improvised music, performance and poetry over the Easter Weekend March 25th to 28th. The title is there to be interpreted individually by participants and visitors alike. The fascination in this exhibition is that diversity is at its core, embracing fears and joys, dark and light the symmetries and asymmetries of life. Central to the show is the Dron, an icosidodecahedron, mirrored internally with unaccountable acoustics which becomes Plato’s Cave, an ergasterion for improvised music and poetry. The exhibition of visual work runs alongside the programme of live events .

Participating artists: Anna Burel, Nicky Scott Francis, Jaime Valtierra, Curtis Radclyffe, Joanne Roberts, Martin Lau, Mary Lemley, Jason Gibilaro, Noel Macken, M. Profil, Peter Woodcock, Max Reeves, Helen Elwes, Jolanta Jagiello, Mervyn Diese, Rita Says, Phil Baird, Gudrun Sigridur Harraldsdottir, Elizabet Chojak-Mysko, Li Williams, James White, Maria Lusitano, Neville Sattentau, Jill Rock.

Sound piece by Montse Gallego


OPENING – Thursday March 24th 7:30 - 10:00pm

BLAKE NIGHT – Friday 7 – 9.30pm -an evening of poetry inspired by William Blake by The Blake Congregation, solo flute by Nicky Heinen, celtic harp & songs by Sheila Moylan.

PERFORMANCE – Saturday 7-10:30pm : The Re-Awakening Of James Joyce’s Night-time novel, The Wake, The Sandman Returns to Meet where Term’s Begin, a collaboration between poet and performer Grassy Noel, artist, performer and musician Giles Leaman, improvising ensemble  KMAT, dancer Sofia Figueiredo, and film-maker Mervyn Diese. Piano recital by Gabriel Keen.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON – 4- 6.30pm, RabelaisDADA with Robert Robertson, electronic music by Cos Chapman with dancer Svenja Buhl, open conversation amongst the participants and visitors chaired by Jill Rock, and a closing performance by Mervyn Diese.

Hundred Years Gallery
13 Pearson St.
London E2 8JD 

+44 (0)20 3602 7973


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