The Journey Travelled
18th June - 13th September 2008
The Islington Museum
245 St. John Street
London EC1V 4NB
Stories by and about women in Islington, classified as refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants.
Poulomi Desai is showing new video works of animations, installations, and projections, which have been developed through a series of intimate interviews, workshops, and collaborative film-making over the last four months with individual women and groups in Islington.
Opening Event Tuesday 17th June 2008 6pm till 9pm
Commissioned by All Change Arts and I.R.I.S
For further information ring: 0207 689 4646
Hyperbolic Crotchet reef
Wednesday 11 June 2008 - Sunday 17 August 2008
The Hayward Project Space and Royal Festival Hall Level 2 Foyer
Poulomi's Hyperbolic Crotchet reef structure entirely created from recycled Indian and English plastic bags is part of the show at the Southbank.
It's a really wild show!
This large-scale, constantly mutating series of handmade crochets replicate the forms of natural coral. The project, organised by the Los Angeles-based Institute For Figuring is a direct response to the plight of coral reef from pollution and global warming. Fusing science and mathematics with fine art and handicraft, the reef is constantly updated by an ever-expanding group of participants from around the world. The Crafts Council in partnership with Southbank Centre.
DEMONSTRATE!!!!!
George Bush Not Welcome
Sunday 15 June 2008
Assemble 5pm, Parliament Square
"We must ensure that people do not forget. This is not an ordinary political mistake which was committed in Iraq. This was the supreme international crime, which led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Those people were not killed in the ordinary sense; they were murdered. And they were murdered by the authors of that war, who are the greatest mass murderers of the twenty-first century so far." George Monbiot
On Sunday 15 June, the mass murderer-in-chief George Bush will be visiting Britain to meet with Gordon Brown, who continues to collude obediently with Bush's war crimes. Take to the streets and send the message:
war criminals are not welcome here!
"There is no more suitable candidate for Leading War Criminal than George Bush. The only person that comes anywhere near him is Tony Blair. They are both beneath contempt. Bush should certainly be arrested and sent to Guantanamo Bay where he can rot forever." HAROLD PINTER, playwright and Nobel prize winner
Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US control by By Patrick Cockburn
No Borders - No Nations - No Prisons
An Invitation To The Gatwick No Border Camp 2007
19th to 24th September 2007
From 19th to 24th September 07 Gatwick Airport will be the location of the first No Border Camp in the UK. This camp will be a chance to work together to try and stop the building of a new detention centre, and to gather ideas for how to build up the fight against the system of migration controls.
This camp is continuing the tradition of the No Border camps across the world since the late 1990s, and like the camps taking place this year in the Ukraine in August and on the US/Mexican border in November.
No Borders is a network of groups struggling for the freedom of movement for all and an end to all migration controls. We call for a radical movement against the system of control, dividing us into citizens and non-citizens. We demand the end of the border regime for everyone, including ourselves, to enable us to live another way, without fear, racism and nationalism.
More information here
Priceless Exhibition
2 Mobile sound installations, 4 Film Soundtracks and 6 Compositions written in canon form, by Poulomi Desai
12 films directed by Dan Saul
Monday 7 – Sunday 27 August 2006
10am – 5pm Admission Free
Exhibitions and sound installations on Exhibition road at the Natural History Museum, Science Museum, Serpentine Gallery, V&A and The Royal Geographical Society
This is a motiroti commission directed by Ali Zaidi
More information here
Red Threads - Platform for Arts
Usurp is proud to have organised an exhibition of digital portraits by local people in Harrow Middlesex which Platform for Arts made into 72 posters displayed at North Harrow Station. The portraits were produced in workshops devised by Poulomi Desai and took place at Harrows focal points for arts and culture: Fovea Gallery, Harrow Museum and Harrow Arts Centre.
The works were inspired by imagery from Poulomi Desai’s book and exhibition Red Threads, which explored personal and visual identity.