The Not Quite Yet

Some photos from the afternoon viewing of the exhibition with a great performance from the Space Age Sirens.

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After a very successful exhibition with some wonderful work, I would just like to thank everybody who took part in all the events.

Keep an eye up here for all the documentation of the events including photos, sound and video clips from the exhibition, workshops and symposium day.

A pre-exhibition event on Wednesday 23rd January 6pm - 8pm

The ‘Long Table’ discussion is an open public event and we invite you all to come along and give your views, contribute to the discussion and to the exhibition itself.

Introduced by Lois Weaver, the Long Table is an experimental public forum. A hybrid performance installation-roundtable discussion-dinner party designed to facilitate informal conversations on serious topics.
Come along and give your opinion!

Previous Long Tables include conversations on Women and Prisons, Human Rights and Performance, Manufacturing Bodies and Violence And The Politics Of Representations held in London, Rio d Janeiro, Vienna and Buenos Aires.

Lois Weaver is a performance artist, director, writer, teacher and curator with thirty years professional experience. She was co-founder of Spiderwoman Theatre and the WOW Theatre in New York and Artistic Director of Gay Sweatshop Theatre in London. She has been a performer, director, and writer with the Split Britches Company since 1980. Her interests include performance and human rights and performance and technology. Lois was Director for PSi12 Performing Rights, an international conference on the themes of performance and human rights.

Please come along to the opening of The Not Quite Yet

Friday 25th January 6pm-8.30pm

At SPACE

We will all be there!

25 January – 1 March 2008
Exhibition Opening: 25 January 2008, 6–8.30pm

Loraine Leeson Manu Luksch + Mukul Patel

Stacy Makishi Lois Weaver

An exhibition of new work by Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel, Loraine Leeson, Stacy Makishi and Lois Weaver. The artists respond to research with groups of older people in East London and ask how the UK’s ‘ageing’ population can engage with future design processes of Technology.

At [ s p a c e ] , the Triangle, Mare Street, Hackney.

Programme

• ‘Long Table’ discussion on Democracy and Technology: 23 Jan 2008, 6–8pm
• ‘If I could do one thing… ‘ Performance by Lois Weaver: 28 February 2008, 7pm
• ‘On the Margins of Technology’ Symposium: 29 February 2008, 11am–5pm
• Artists Workshops: Throughout February [details]
• Performance Methods for Engaging more People in the Design of Technology - a one day workshop: Wednesday 13th February 2008, 11am - 5pm [details]