Katharina Sieverding has left a mark on Salzburg, beginning in 1967 when she was assistant stage designer in the Teo Otto production of the “Zauberflöte” (Magic Flute), and especially since 1995 as an annual professor of the photography class at the Summer Academy for Fine Arts. 2008 will be her 10th year.
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As an overspill of the Hackney Wicked Art Olympics and co-inciding with the Beijing Games in China. On Sunday August 10th, Calum F. Kerr leads a workshop, training people to Pole Vault over the Blue Boundary Fence that surrounds the Olympic 2012 site. This 11 mile long, ten foot high barrier keeps the Olympic nightmare hidden and slices through the arterial veins of Hackney Wick and Stratford.

Calum will start the training around 2pm at the Art Car Booty Sale along Wallis Road and later fully trained participants will head down to the fence and commence the vaulting.

For further Vault The Fence! info email: calumfkerr@artserve.net

For further references to the Fence and the Wick see this article:
Iain Sinclair - The Olympics Scam - LINK

Work out how high YOU can jump with the Physics of Pole Vaulting - LINK

“A Smack in the Face”

The official book launch of “Proboscis Boss” the second volume in the Adventures of Randos series by
SEXTON MING, Also on the night will be a mini exhibition of new collages, paintings and prints by Sexton FRIDAY 8th AUGUST 6.30 – 9.00pm

PRIVATE VIEW INVITATION

GROUP: FOCUS II: JOHN SIMPSON
THURSDAY 7 AUGUST 6 - 9PM

WITH WORKS BY ETIENNE CLEMENT, SANDERS NICOLSON, RYAN McCLELLAND AND ROB CARTER

John Simpson, Actaeon with Hounds, 2008, Monotype, 100 x 150 cm, 34 x 59 in

ICA, Brown Mountain College, lecture, Those That Can…8pm,
Brown Mountain Alumni Luke Roberts took up string saving at the age of 81. By the time he died, aged 86, Roberts’s 300-pound ball had picked up second prize in a hobby show and over 30 miles of string.
4 August 2008

Brown Mountain College of Performing Arts, led by Sally O’Reilly, Ben Roberts and Mel Brimfield, was established to commission and present performance. Its activities bring together artists, dancers, actors, film-makers, political activists and comedians. For Nought to Sixty BMC presents on evening of skill-sharing, with a wide range of contributors performing within an overarching narrative.

Forster Gallery has just announced Dan Baldwin’s forthcoming solo show, ‘Dead Innocent’, a much anticipated collection of new works, including paintings, ceramics and installations, and his only UK exhibition in 2008. Having enjoyed phenomenal acclaim amongst critics and collectors, Dan Baldwin has spent the past year away from the art world’s gaze, creating a new body of work that resonates even more strongly than before with images and references borrowed from popular culture, art, religious and political history. He paints with excitement and energy, combining symbolic images that rouse the subconscious, challenge beliefs and ideas, and creates an unsettling microcosm of our history, religions and conflicts.
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Thursday July 31st
3 a.m. Eternal (after): an exploration of club culture
In collaboration with the Super Super magazine, Alexandre Pollazzon and SuperSteve present 3 a.m. Eternal (after). The show addresses the experience of nightclubbing and presents a series of works by artists who have been influenced by contemporary club culture.
6-11pm, info: www.ltbfoundation.org more info on the show here LINK
Also Tonight
Flowers East, Domestic Appliance, group show, 6-8pm, info: www.flowerseast.com
Glenys Barton,Glen Baxter,John Bellany,George Blacklock,Boyd & Evans,Edward Burtynsky,Stephen Chambers,Bernard Cohen,Ken Currie,Anthony Earnshaw,Jane Edden,Amanda Faulkner,Noel Forster,John Gibbons,Kleio Gizeli,Friedemann Hahn,David Hepher,Josef Herman,Nicola Hicks,Roger Hilton,Derek Hirst,Carole Hodgson,Peter Howson,Patrick Hughes,Claerwen James,Neil Jeffries,Lucy Jones,John Keane
Michael Kidner,John Kirby,Tim Lewis,John Loker,Paul Neagu,Jiro Osuga,Freya Payne,Tom Phillips,Robert Polidori,Steve Pyke,Carol Robertson,Tai-Shan Schierenberg,Jack Smith,Richard Smith,Trevor Sutton
Renny Tait,Brian Wall,Gary Wragg