Loads of exhibitions relevant to Image as Spectacle vs Image as Situation
Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera‘s Turbine Hall installation 10,143,210 at Tate Modern responding to the migration crisis through participation and interaction. 2 October 2018 – 24 February 2019
Mika Rottenberg exhibition at Goldsmith’s Centre for Contemporary Art (where the Justice for Cleaners action took place) 8 Sep–4 Nov 2018. ‘Rottenberg’s elaborate visual narratives draw on cinematic and sculptural traditions to forge a new language that uses cause and effect structures to explore labour and globalisation, economy and production of value, and how our own affective relationships are increasingly monetised’
Mikhail Karikis’s No Ordinary Protest commission at the Whitechapel Gallery 16 Aug 2018 – 6 Jan 2019. ‘Can sound mobilise socio-political and physical change? Working across film, sound and performance, Greek-British artist Mikhail Karikis (b. 1975) adopts the children’s science fiction novel ‘The Iron Woman’ (1993) by British writer Ted Hughes (1930–98) as an ecofeminist parable in which communal listening and noise-making become tools to transform the world’ in collaboration with East End school kids.
A Journey to the Heart of East London FRI 5 OCT - FRI 21 DEC at Rich Mix. Exhibition of original maps and drawings by East End artist and cartographer Adam Dant - relevant if you’re interested in psycho-geography
and finally, DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politics at the Hayward Gallery 22 Aug 2018 – 14 Oct 2018. This one is also relevant for issues of representation we’ll be exploring in a few weeks, but it’s ending soon - the exhibition ‘features the work of more than 30 artists who have used drag to explore or question identity, gender, class and politics, from the 1960s to the present day.’
