Johanna Billing, I'm lost Without Your Rhythm, 2009
Screening in Reykjavik as part of the project Villa Reykjavik, summer 2010

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23 April – 23 May 2010
Benoît Maire and Falke Pisano, The Wave, 2009
Screening at Hollybush Gardens

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19 November 2009, 6.45 pm
Aesthetics of The Differends
A lecture by Benoît Maire and Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield

The Viewing Theatre
Greek Street Annex
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Charing Cross Road
London, WC2H 0DU
 
Free and no booking necesary, but please arrive early.
 
'Differend' commonly refers to a debate between two or more people about (among other things) matters of opinion and interests on which they disagree. One can say for example: ‘They have a differend on this or that topic’. The word has been used since the Middle Ages, though it originally had the more precise meaning of the difference between the price requested and the price offered in a commercial transaction. Jean-François Lyotard gave it its philosophical shape in his 1983 book, simply titled The Differend, where he defines it: ‘As distinguished from a litigation, a differend would be a case of conflict, between (at least) two parties, that cannot be equitably resolved for lack of a rule of judgment applicable to both arguments’.
  
The lecture connects to Benoît Maire’s exhibition of the same title at Hollybush Gardens, London (21 November – 24 January). Maire will also appear with a collaborative work made with Falke Pisano at the ICA, London, in ‘For the Blind Man in the Dark Room Looking For the Black cat That Isn’t There’.
  
Dr Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield is a Reader in Theory & Philosophy of Art at the University of Reading. He has written extensively on continental philosophy and art theory and on the relation of art’s resistance to ethics. His forthcoming books are Derrida and the Visual and Headlessness (with Thomas Hirschhorn and Marcus Steinweg).
  
This event is a collaboration between Hollybush Gardens and Double agents.

5 November 2009, 7pm
An evening within an exhibition by Eline McGeorge
at Hollybush Gardens
Unit 2, BJ House
10 - 14 Hollybush Gardens
London E2 9QP

A reading from Manual (2009), an artist’s book by Eline McGeorge, designed by åbäke, read by Oreet Ashery and Ed Hobbs (pictured: middle).

Plus a screening of two films by  Maja Borg:
Ottica Zero (2007), video, 13 mins;
Construct (Two Moments in Beauty) (2006), video, 8 mins (pictured: top).

To coincide with Eline McGeroge's installation at Hollybush Gardens (pictured: bottom)

Ottica Zero was commissioned by Scottish Documentary Institute in association with Scottish Screen. It was nominated for best Scottish short documentary at Edinburgh Film Festival 2007 and received a special mention at the Prix UIP, also in Edinburgh.

Karl Holmqvist book launch and reading of What is my Name?
Art Basel, Basel, June 2009

Inspired by TS Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’, Karl Holmqvist uses a writing method mainly based on quotes, including a diverse range of sources, from beat and concrete poetry to cut-up lines from films and popular songs often quoted in their entirety. When performed live as spoken word readings by the artist the use of reversals, word games and, not least, endless repetition, the process reveals  a liberatory intent — for both writer and listener, and also for language itself, forcing an escape from the demands of linearity and constraining grammatical correctness that are usually imposed on it.

The book was commissioned and produced by Book Works and further supported by Iaspis and Hollybush Gardens.