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The Queen of Versailles

7 September 2012 - 28 September 2012

 £10 / £8 concessions / £7 ICA Members

Lauren Greenfield’s documentary concerns septuagenarian Florida timeshare mogul David Siegel, his surgically enhanced 43-year-old trophy wife Jackie, and their many children and unhousetrained pets.

Greenfield began filming long before the 2008 financial crash jeopardised the construction of America’s largest residence, their tacky homage to the Palace of Versailles (by way of Las Vegas). However, the Siegels gamely let her continue even as their ostentatious lifestyle descended into a comi-tragedy of pet poo, unpaid servants and recrimination. As Jackie whines that the federal bank bailout was “supposed to help people like us”, David threatens to replace her with “two 20-year-olds” if she can’t curb her retail addiction, which basically means going to Wal-Mart… in a stretch limo. In all its compelling, often hilarious ghastliness, The Queen of Versailles is both a cautionary tale of sub-prime property speculation and an unflinching study of taste-free wealth on the slide.

Dir. Lauren Greenfield, USA/Netherlands/UK/Denmark 2011, TBC minutes.

Calendar

Date	Time	Venue	Book
Friday 28/09/2012	3:00 pm	Cinema 2	Book

The Master Plan is an artist’s book, authored by Stephen Hodge of Wrights & Sites, as a complementary project to the public art programme commissioned by Situations and Field Art Projects for Weston-super-Mare. The programme formed part of Sea Change, a national initiative to support the revitalisation of British seaside towns in 2010. Wrights & Sites, an artist/academic collective, were one of the six artists commissioned. This book takes as its inspiration the collective’s reconnaissance material collected whilst researching their permanent commission ‘Everything you need to build a town is here’. The unpublished transcript of a public meeting for the post-war redevelopment of the town acts as a catalyst for a visual exploration of redevelopment and regeneration from the ‘fantastic acropolis’ of Portmeirion to SimCity master-builders. Hodge annotates the transcript of this 1947 meeting with historical and contemporary newspaper cuttings, found material and photographs, concluding with a conversation which explores the context of regeneration as an inspiration and hindrance for contemporary artists.

The Master Plan by Stephen Hodge, is co-published by Book Works and Situations, as part of Co-Series, in an edition of 1,000 copies, full colour and b/w, 96 pages, soft cover. Designed by Polimekanos, 210 x 297mm

http://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/1743 

ASIF
KHAN &
PERNILLA 
OHRSTEDT

Please follow this link for more images and information for Beatbox, Coca-Cola pavilion at the Olympic park.

Mikhail Karikis’s work emerges from his long-standing investigation of the human voice as a sculptural material and a conceptual compass, which he employs to explore notions of community and politics of work, impossibility and address of difference. Karikis's interdisciplinary approach embraces visual art, performance and sound, often generating collaborative projects which engage other art practitioners or specific communities positioned outside the mainstream. His work ranges from the poetic to the theatrical, and activates the potential for ruptures both in perception and ethical concerns.

Karikis's work has been shown at the Danish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, Manifesta 9, Thessaloniki Biennale, Tate Britain and elsewhere. Below is a brief list of some of Karikis's projects. For more information, please contact the artist's studio here.

ROCA Gallery

Pernilla Orhstedt former sixteener has artifacts currently on show at Roca Gallery, where she has also developed a backdrop for fashion week, assisted by former year on Greenwich students, and it is well worth a trip as the gallery was designed by Zaha Hadid.

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Welcomes

Introducing  our new teaching partner at UNITSIXTEEN:

Jonathan Hagos

Born in Amsterdam, brought up in the UK and of Eritrean origin, Jonathan holds a 
Bachelor of Science and Post Graduate Diploma in Architecture from the Bartlett 
School of Architecture, UCL. His work focuses on the ‘re‐illustration’ of post‐colonial 
themes such as freedom, identity and migration executed through diverse media 
such as cartography through to film and full‐scale installations. Jonathan is 
interested in the 'Architect as Cartographer' and the making of maps as 
interpretations of  our surroundings to form representations of perceived, or 
possible, realities. Jonathan's work has featured in international design journals, 
publications and exhibitions, including 'Freedom of Speech in the City’ in Barcelona 
which he curated, Tokyo Designers Week and London Design Festival.

Jonathan was Lead Tutor of the Architecture Foundation programme at the Cambridge 
School of Visual and Performing Arts, and continues to act as a visiting design critic 
at design schools around the UK. He taught with Professors Andrew Holmes and 
David Greene on the MArch course at Oxford Brookes University and will be joining 
the new undergraduate unit, Unit H at Oxford Brookes University for the upcoming 
academic year 2012-2013. 

    Welcome Back . . . . . . 

    UNITSIXTEEN                         HERRON + ISA + HAGOS

RESTORATION . . .

Unitsixteen will continue to explore the myths of the near future. Last year we studied the emerging territories of Stratford City and the Westfield center, proposing alternative Olympic legacies, a fresh new world of dreams, unparalleled, unnatural beauty and wonder.

Returning to the heart of the metropolis this year, we will consider the boundaries between wealth and power at the center of the Common-Wealth. Trafalgar Square will form the focus of our study. Imagined as a public space by John Nash, Sir Charles Barry, most recently re-modeled by Sir Norman Foster. A complex paradoxical landscape, surrounded by the symbols of lost tribes, failed ideologies and faded power. Restoration - is a collective call to challenge, to re imagine the utility and function of the institutions of state, rejecting traditions, proposing new futures for social change democracy and protest.

The year will begin with a short speculative exercise, supported by tutorials and seminars. You will be asked to reflect on the urban context of site, to uncover individual agendas and trajectories of interest. Final year students will further develop these themes into individual thesis projects. First year students will apply their findings to “The Robinson Institute” an alternative proposal for National Gallery extension site as their major building project for the year.

Field Study: To be confirmed.

Unit Support: Alford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects will continue to provide Year 4 Practice support. 

Sixteener's News And Views Coming Soon. . . 
2012-13