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PAPRIKA @ The Square Gallery

9B Battersea Square, London, SW11 3RA

Archiving Fever: Here I am, there you are.

event Saturday 11am–6pm

This second stage of the project, Archiving Fever will investigate archive through performance.

UNISON

Afloat on the River Lea (north of Bow Roundabout off A12), London, E3 3BA

SERVANT SCALE

event Thursday 6-9pm Friday 4pm Saturday 2pm Saturday 4pm Sunday 2pm Sunday 4pm (you must book in advance for all events)

An investigation of influences, taking place in the site-specific measures of the floating assembly on board UNISON on the River Lea.

Shelf @ Hackney Downs Overground Station

Dalston Lane, London, E8 1LA

Shelf Show: Calvin & A Solution

event Saturday 3pm

A new performance by artist Calvin Laing. Booking essential.

SWAP Editions @ SET

76-89 Alscot Road, London, SE1 3AW

SWAP Editions: AD HOC & TRADE

event Friday 6-8pm Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm

SWAP Editions is an artist run not-for-profit initiative that is sustained by swapping art objects with time and services.

Troy Town Pottery

Hoxton Trust Community Garden, 156 Hoxton Street, London, N1 6SH

Town Gas Hosts: Closing Lunch Conversation

event Sunday 1-3pm

Town Gas welcomes you to an informal conversation, with food, about how we find alternative and shared spaces for making.

Town Gas Hosts: Building Solutions in Clay

event Saturday 12-2pm

A workshop that encourages participants to think about how artists can create new solutions for places and shared spaces.

Town Gas Hosts

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

Exhibition that showcases the varied artworks the Town Gas collective have made over the past year; all exploring the sculptural potential of clay.

POST

at the QE Olympic Park, London, E20 2ST

Two Places at Once

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

An exhibition combining a physical site and a virtual site.

Dye House 451

451 Wick Lane, London, E3 2TB

We Are All Very Anxious

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

An exhibition of new and existing works by Emma Charles, William Mackrell and Manuel Mathieu addressing the ubiquity of anxiety.

Word in Transit

meeting at the entrance of Finsbury Park tube station, London, N4 2DH

WORD IN TRANSIT 2

Event Saturday 9.30pm-10pm

An underground performance and spoken word event that is held on the last carriage of a tube train.

Chalton Gallery

96 Chalton Street, London, NW1 1HJ

Your? ?Friendly? ?Local

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

Nora Silva presents a series of performances that spread along the space of the gallery, the Cock Tavern pub and the local Off License.

KoProjects & Looking at Painting

Fordham Park (Entrance on the corner of Achilles Street and Clifton Rise), London, SE14 6JP

Array

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

Array is a two-dimensional multidisciplinary exhibition that is applied onto a large-scale fabric, situated at Fordham Park.

DKUK @ The Nines

Unit 9A Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Road, London, SE15 3SN

JPEG Crush

event Sunday 2-4pm

Glitch workshop from DKUK with Kaspar Ravel.

Cypher @ The Springfield

133 Bounds Green Road, London, N11 2PP

Billboard: Artists in Conversation with Jon Horrocks

event Sunday 4-5.30pm

Exhibiting artists discuss overlapping concerns within their practices, with reference to their individual responses to the Billboard site.

CAMPerVAN @ 61 Rollins Street

61 Rollins Street (the square opposite Jupiter Woods), London, SE15 1EP

THE SCI-FI POWERVERSE

Event Friday 6-11pm

An extravaganza of art, performance, and discussion; the CAMPerVAN is a queer nomadic performance space which can be deployed anywhere.

12ø @ Peckham Rye

South of East Dulwich Road, London, SE15 3UL

on plon air – Friday

Event Friday 12-6pm

A DIY-on-a-budget sculpture park from 12ø, transported to a new public park each day. Showing sculptures by six artists from across the UK.

bodyfacespace @ Assembly Point Studios

Natalia Janula's Studio, 49 Staffordshire Street, London, SE15 5TJ

bodyfacespace

event Saturday 12-3pm

A project organised by Emily Hawes, Natalia Janula and Sophia Simensky.

Castor

Enclave 8, 50 Resolution Way, London, SE8 4AL

Business as Usual

event Sunday 12-6pm

Site-specific installation by Alan Magee, drawing from exploration into the commercialisation of domestic work and the nature of labour.

performanceClub @ Livesey Exchange

Ledbury Estate, Old Kent Road (entrance off Bird in Bush Road), London, SE15 1QP

Cabaret

event Sunday 4-8.30pm

Rounding off the 2017 festival, performanceClub presents Cabaret: a multi-faceted audio visual event showcasing work from over 15 artists.

numer02

126 Blurton Road, London, E5 0NH

Constellations: Artist Talk

event Saturday 5-6pm

Artist Claudia Sinigaglia discusses her exhibition Constellations at numer02.

Lumen Studios @ St John’s on Bethnal Green

The Crypt, St John's on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9PA

Constellations: Orion

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

An exhibition focused on the constellation of Orion, which will be visible from 1am on the 28th and 29th of September.

Diaspore

[3 Space] on corner of Keeton's & Collett Road, London, SE16 2BT

FavourBank

Event Saturday 2-6pm

Diaspore are starting a bank. It’s called FavourBank and instead of lending money, it lends help.

EXHIBIT Gallery

20 Goswell Road, London, EC1M 7AA

Flat Image

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

Painting, sculpture, print & photography that considers the potential of reduction of scale and space in the present constraints of living.

Number 13

13 Cambrian Close York Hill, London, SE27 0BS

Workshop & Performances

event Friday 12.30-3.30pm

Exhibition workshop and performances from Tom Walker, Carl Gent, and Fritha Jenkins.

Sunday Demonstrations

event Sunday 12.30-3.30pm

Exhibition demonstrations and performances from Amanda Couch, Sarah Gillham and Mindy Lee.

Saturday Demonstrations

event Saturday 1.30-2.30pm

Demonstrations and performances from Catherine Morland as part of Housework/Artwork.

Performances

event Thursday 6-9pm

Performances to mark the opening of exhibition 'Housework/Artwork', by Amanda Couch and Sigrid Holmwood.

Housework/Artwork

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

Group exhibition responding to the theme of Housework/Artwork. Demonstrations, performances and hands on workshops.

SU Gallery Space

272 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7EY

Technologies of Collaboration

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

A site-specific exhibition from artist in residence Kate Anne Miller that explores whether the studio itself can be its own form of technology.

Remakery

51 Lilford Road, London, SE5 9HY

Learning the Washing Machine: Technical Workshop

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

An open drop-in workshop that aims to make new systems for the home from old washing machine parts.

The Nipple Dome

Basement Flat, 72 Haverstock Hill, London, NW3 2BE

Sunday Lunch

event Sunday 12-4pm

Cultural actors from London’s art world are invited for Sunday lunch to share a meal and ideas.

Lunch at the Nipple Dome

Event Sunday 12-8pm

Tais Bean and Florence Devereux have crafted their own animist language and their collaborative relationship is played within this lively field.

The Mons Mensae Pavilion @ Burgess Park

St Georges Way, London, SE15 6QT

Mons Mensae Pavilion: Friday

event Friday 12pm - 6pm

The Mons Mensae Pavilion acts as the 'landing site' for six artists' soundscape pieces.

The Mons Mensae Pavilion @ Peckham Rye Park

Colyton Road, London, SE22 0SB

Mons Mensae Pavilion: Saturday

event Saturday 12-6pm

The Mons Mensae Pavilion acts as the 'landing site' for six artists' soundscape pieces.

Bunkhouse

33 Ayrsome Road, London, N16 0RH

Moon, When the Calves Grow Hair

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

This exhibition, public event and workshop draws inspiration from the main themes of what Harvest stands for: work, community, food and folklore.

12ø @ 12 Orpen Walk

Stoke Newington, London, N16 8HG

on plon air – Thursday

Event Thursday 6-9pm

A DIY-on-a-budget sculpture park from 12ø, transported to a new public park each day. Showing sculptures by six artists from across the UK.

Holdrons Arcade

135a Rye Lane, London, SE15 4ST

Reality a b c

event Friday & Saturday 12-6pm, Sunday 12-3pm

Drop by, have a read/listen to some recent thoughts and group chat outcomes on a new theory known as Reality A B & C with artist Rosa Farber.

Scool of the Damned @ SET

76-89 Alscot Road, London, SE1 3AW

THE FIRST 100% OFFICIAL UNOFFICIAL ART EDUCATION OPEN-DAY

event Sunday 12-5pm

An informal open day exploring the plural experiences of alternative art schools and wider conversations of alternative education all together.

Unit 28b, Penarth Centre

Penarth Street, London, SE15 1TR

Walking Talking Drawing Tour

Event Saturday 12-2pm

Join artist Jake Caleb for a drawing tour through South Bermondsey.

Settle for Nothing Less

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

A group exhibition exploring Audre Lorde's writing on the power of enjoyment.

Houellebecq Girl

event Friday 7.30-9pm

Accents make the heart grow fonder... an innovative and affecting experimental romance film by J Dunleavy and L Dodgson.

Cypher

Domino Houses Billboard, 117 Bounds Green Road, London, N22 8YB

Billboard

Event Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

Cypher launches Billboard with new work by Holly Graham, the first in a series of five site-specific artist responses for a billboard space.

The Swiss Church London

79 Endell Street, London, WC2H 9DY

Biblioclasm

Event Thursday 6–9pm, Friday 12–6pm

A site-specific print installation by Glasgow-based typographer Edwin Pickstone.

_inventory platform @ Old Ford Lock

Regent's Canal Off Old Ford Road Victoria Park, London, E2

Bapor Tabo(o)

Event Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

A boat which flows and glides through London’s canals to showcase artworks vis-à-vis live performances, culminating in conversations.

HOUSERULES

by the River Lee under the East Cross Route highway, London, E9 5JD

Käfig

event Friday to Sunday 3-6pm

Käfig is an experimental piece of theatre evolving over three days through chance methods and improvisation.

12ø @ Light Eye Mind

176 Blackstock Road, London, N5 1HA

‘Group Show’ – Conclusion

Event Saturday 7.30-10.30pm

A conclusion to the podcast series ‘Group Show’: an evening of talking and music with Caitlin Merrett King, Molejoy, Abigails Tails.

3 Ada Road

3 Ada Road, London, SE5 7RW

A problem shared is a problem halved

Event Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

A group exhibition by 3 Ada Road formed as a collaboration with India Dickinson Gallery.

Acme Fire Station

30 Gillender Street, London, E14 6RH

Love/Work

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

Artists Alex Frost and Laura Yuile present an exhibition of sculptural work in the setting of their live/work studio home.

I like to fondle

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

Painting, sculpture, sound and film by Richard Healy and Michelle Ussher will be arranged by Neil Walsh, to create a home show for the homebody.

D!N DINS

event Saturday & Sunday 12-6pm

Performance happening, featuring twenty sonorous performances from emerging artists over two days.

Commission and Commune

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

Group exhibition throughout the Acme Fire Station site.

Acme Fire Station Artist Open Studios

Event Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

Individual and collaborative exhibitions and events across the Acme Fire Station site featuring resident and invited artists.

GRAFT

89 Allen Road, London, E3 5JZ

Big Fat Art Crawl

event Saturday, 12-6pm

For the 2017 festival, Your Beautiful Collective will be running the Big Fat Art Crawl as part of the Art Licks Weekend tours.

Allen Road Sculpture Park: Performance & Discussion

event Sunday 4-6pm

An informal performance and discussion that investigates the function of private spaces in an arts context.

Allen Road Sculpture Park

Event Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

The overgrown back garden of an East London semi-detached is transformed for the festival into Allen Road Sculpture Park.

Gossamer Fog

186a Deptford High Street, London, SE8 3PR

Ambient Occlusion

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

Ambient Occlusion takes its name from a computer graphics process and explores the relationship between artificial CGI realms and the real world.

12ø @ Fordham Park

Fordham Park, London, SE14 6JP

on plon air – Saturday & Sunday

Event Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm

A DIY-on-a-budget sculpture park from 12ø, transported to a new public park each day. Showing sculptures by six artists from across the UK.

Studio Gibson/Martelli

Bell 3, Unit 301, 449 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 9QH

ART//GAMES//HACKATHON

Event Friday 6-9pm

Artists, coders & technologists have hacked experimental art game prototypes, this event offers the chance to try them out and meet them.

St John’s On Bethnal Green

200 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9PA

SPUR: Little Help, Claire de Lune

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

A series of artist ceramic objects acting as collection boxes, highlighting the funding crisis in public arts & importance of support.

Rising

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

Rising: a multi-disciplinary exhibition by thalassophiles.

Artist Film Screening

event Friday 6.30-8.30pm

A collection of artist films about the anthropogenic impact on the coast and sea.

Morley Gallery

61 Westminster Road, London, SE1 7HT

Workshop with Cara Rainbow

event Sunday 12-3pm

Artist Cara Rainbow invites you to a drop-in workshop to collectively create a new city landscape.

City Storeys and Folk Tails

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

Artist Cara Rainbow invites you to enter a landscape where trees walk and buildings talk.

Artist’s Tour

event Saturday 2-3pm

Join artist Cara Rainbow for a tour of her exhibition, City Storeys and Folk Tails.

Brainchild @ Platform Southwark

1 Joan Street, London, SE1 8DD

Nexus Space

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

An exhibition of interactive installation art, responded to by performances and workshops.

Inside technology with Flow Conceptions

event Saturday 2-3.30pm

Explore the technical process and creative thinking used to create interactive, audiovisual art.

Hell-p Me

event Sunday 5-6.30pm

Poetry collective Little Grape Jelly open up the limits of digital communication within the interactive installation Nexus Space.

Goggle-making

event Saturday 12-1.30pm

Artist Emily Motto and Nina Mdwaba invite you to get stuck in and make frames and seeing-devices to explore Nexus Space.

AV double-bill

event Saturday 7-9.30pm

Immerse yourself in dark and dreamy moving image, dance and sound as Feeling Blue collective and digital artist Benni Lava respond to Nexus Space.

Old Police Station

114 Amersham Vale, London, SE14 6LG

The Show Home

event Friday 6-9pm, Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm

A series of performances, converting cells in The Old Police Station into domestic spaces.

Safehouse 1

139 Copeland Road, London, SE15 3SN

Timbral

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

A collaborative work by William Doyle and Ryan MacPhail that displays the fruits of two parallel practices of construction.

The Bomb Factory Art Foundation

The Bomb Factory Art Foundation Boothby Road, London, N19 4AJ

Screening: Female Trouble

event Sunday 6-9pm

Screening of John Water's film Female Trouble.

Pragmatic Approaches to Art Making

event Saturday 6-8pm

Curator, Hannah Thorne leads a Q&A and public discussion with the artists from Female Trouble on Pragmatic Approaches to Art Making.

Open Studio Weekend

event Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm

The Bomb Factory Art Foundation's aritsts open their studios for Saturday and Sunday.

Female Trouble

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

An exhibition of three London-based sculpture and installation artists: Pallas Citroen, Lucia Quevedo, and Sarah Roberts.

Seen Fifteen

Bussey Building Unit B1.1 133 Copeland Road, London, SE15 3SN

SPUR: Little Help, Amy Worral

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

A series of artist ceramic objects acting as collection boxes, highlighting the funding crisis in public arts & importance of support.

Printed Matters: a conversation on economics

event Saturday 3pm

A discussion event that will explore different aspects of the printed matter and its trends.

the icing room

493 Forest Road, London, E17 5LD

Solution 66

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

A playful exploration of droplets, water, a change of state: things sent into the world in different ways, dissolved.

dissolutions

Event Saturday 10pm - Sunday 10am

Join the icing room dissolve and dissolute! An overnight performance party on a Victoria Line tube carriage, from Walthamstow to Brixton.

Kingsgate Project Space

110-116 Kingsgate Road, London, NW6 2JG

Suddenly They Stop

Event Friday 6-9pm

A new performance work by artist Hannah Lees that uses an Ancient Greek water clock method for measuring time.

Passen-gers

110 Foundling Court (Entrance 3) The Brunswick Centre Marchmont Street, London, WC1N 1AN

Performance: Mark Siebert

event Thursday, 7pm

An acoustic performance by artist Mark Siebert.

Multiplex

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

A group exhibition featuring artists from the Passen-gers site-specific exhibition series.

‘Paper, Scissors, Stone’, Evy Jokhova

event Saturday 4pm

Performance - three women dressed in capes made from floor insulation material doing seemingly mundane tasks within The Brunswick Centre.

‘Dark Quartet’

event Saturday 6pm

A vocal performance linked to Julie Hill’s ‘Deserts on the moons of other planets’.

Enclave 7

50 Resolution Way, London, SE8 4AL

Corporeal Computation

Event Thursday and Friday 7-9pm

A performance by Rachel Cheung, which investigates the agency of the human body disentangled from the control of the mind.

KELDER

26A Chapel Market, London, N1 9EN

I WANT MY IDEAL PASTE: SLUDGE

event Friday 7-9pm

An evening of aural and material performances, featuring Col Self p; Body Drift, Sweet Heave, Melanie Börner, Dane Sutherland.

I WANT MY IDEAL PASTE: GOO

event Sunday 3-5pm

A family day with artists from the exhibition leading activities based on goo, slime and gunge. Suitable for children, accompanied by an adult.

I WANT MY IDEAL PASTE: BLOB

event Saturday 3-6pm

Discussion and screenings of artists’ shorts and excerpts from creature features, followed by a screening of a blobby classic…

I WANT MY IDEAL PASTE

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

Group show punctuated by performances and screenings exploring the chaotic potential and sensational joy of the viscous, sticky, the squishy.

Res.

Enclave 1-3, 50 Resolution Way, London, SE8 4NT

Janusware 2nd Cycle

event Friday 7pm

A mutable assemblage of works and workings that experiments with the contamination and redeployment of occult and affective diagrammatic systems.

Why Don’t You…? HQ

31 Shenley Road, London, SE5 8ND

Lucky 7 Rides Again

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

Through this group exhibition a dialogue of cultural and personal stories play out in a domestic setting.

news of the world

50 Resolution Way, London, SE8 4NT

SHADOWS BEFORE

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

The 4th episode of the Day of the Triffids series at news of the world.

Performance: James Bullimore

event Thursday and Friday 7.30-8.30pm

Two performance events from James Bullimore as part of the Shadows Before exhibition.

Bede House

12 Bede House, Clare Road, London, SE14 6PW

don’t shoot the messenger

event Thursday 7.30pm

A new site-specific performance by Philip Ewe.

Capital ‘I’

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

An exhibition of new work by Philip Ewe set in and around the Bede House Estate.

New Cross Learning Library

283 - 285 New Cross Road, London, SE14 6AS

Feelings About Our Libraries

event Saturday 1-1.30pm

A film exploring feelings about our libraries: voluntary run and those lost and threatened with closure.

Assembly Point

49 Staffordshire Street, London, SE15 5TJ

Le Plus Grand Cabaret du Monde

event Friday 8-11pm

An evening of sensational performances organised by Lea Collet and Marios Stamatis.

Assembly Point Open Studios

event Saturday 12-6pm

Assembly Point artists open their studios to the public, with refreshments available from the Work-Form Editions Cocktail Bar.

Turf Projects

Keeley Road, Croydon, London, CR0 1TF

Peaks & Troughs

Event Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

A solo exhibition by Saelia Aparicio Torinos.

AltMFA

Meeting on the beach of the River Thames in front of The Mayflower Pub, London, SE16 4NF

making + re-imagining on the Thames Beach

event Saturday 1.30-5pm

AltMFA present an improvised live art event on the beach of the River Thames in Bermondsey / Rotherhithe.

Vulpes Vulpes

17-21 Blue Anchor Lane London, London, SE16 3UL

Some Kind of Language

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

A display of large banners which explore ways of learning within society and different forms of knowledge.

A-side B-side Gallery

352 Mare Street, London, E8 1HR

The Rebellious Script

exhibition Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

An exhibition of photographic installation and CNC sculpture scanning the area between technocratic social systems and the technological gaze.

Banner Repeater

Platform 1 Hackney Downs Rail Station Dalston Lane London, London, E8 1LA

Live Broadcast Chat Show with Zarina Muhammad

event Saturday and Sunday 2-3pm

Twitter as archive/as sketchbook/as feedback loop/as void/as filesharing network/as an instrument of collaboration/as a megaphone/as therapy.

38b

38b Peckham Rye, London, SE15 4JR

Reet Maff’l’s Drop-in Centre for the Expanded Expansion of the (Your) Mind

Event Thursday 6-9pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12-6pm

Reet Maff’l present two new durational brain expanding performances, inside the domestic-setting-cum-Brain-Centre of 38b.

FIVE YEARS

66 Regents Studios 8 Andrews Road London, London, E8 4QN

Dust Days

event Saturday 6-9pm

What differs between the cultures that have access to permanent methods of recording, creating stone bulwarks against time, and those that don't?

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