Past Events
Thursday 5 November 2020
Artist Sam Contis talks to Joanna Biggs, editor at the London Review of Books, about Day Sleeper, her revelatory response to the work of Dorothea Lange. They discuss archives, labour, motherhood, and the somnolent figure that gives the book its name. In collaboration with the London Review Bookshop.
Thursday 29 October 2020
Join Jörg Colberg and Lewis Bush as they dig into the compelling, provocative ideas in Colberg’s new book Photography’s Neoliberal Realism. Considering the work of some of the world’s most successful photographers, they discuss fabricating reality, the aesthetics of camp, and the mechanics of ‘cancel culture’.
Sunday 25 October 2020
Join Alec Soth as he calls his friend and correspondent C. Fausto Cabrera in the Rush City prison facility in Minnesota. They will reflect on the origins of their new book The Parameters of Our Cage, and talk about confines and creation, influence and nostalgia, and the power of human connection in isolating times.
Thursday 15 October 2020
In this special event, Alessandra Sanguinetti speaks to her collaborators and friends Guille and Belinda from their homes in rural Buenos Aires Province. In a wide-ranging discussion, the cousins recall the joys and mishaps behind the images in The Adventures of Guille and Belinda, revealing hidden histories and reflecting on the dreams that animated their childhood. Conversation in Spanish with English subtitles.
Thursday 8 October 2020
Live from the opening of his new exhibition House of Card at M Leuven, Belgium, renowned artist Thomas Demand discusses his work's deep relationship with architecture and the use of construction as a practice and conceptual framework.
Wednesday 30 September 2020
Studio A is an ongoing series of experimental events from Erased Tapes and MACK. A musician and an artist are bought together for a live, collaborative performance straight from The Premises Recording Studio in Hackney, London.