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The Koppel Project Hive, 26 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2AQ

Many things have happened during the second week of the Zone d’Utopie Temporaire (Z.U.T.) summer residency. 

Find out what the eleven participants have been working on and don’t forget to RSVP at [email protected] to attend The Hive’s launch party and Z.U.T. private view this Saturday 20 August at 6pm.

French artist Julia Dreiski focusing on her installation in progress.

Polish artist Rafal Zajko doing tests.

British artist Orly Orbach presenting her sketches and ideas to the rest of the participants.

Rafal Zajko taking notes during one of our discussions with theorists Hannah Corrie and Lowri Evans.

Hannah Corrie and Lowri Evans talking with French artist Galdric Fleury about utopia and contemporary art.

French artist Maxence Hamard constructing a hologram machine.

French duo fleuryfontaine working on their sculptures.

British artist Thomas Langley’s working tables.

Last Saturday’s talk on ‘The Utopian Turn: the relationship between contemporary art and utopia’ given by art historian Julia Ramirez Blanco.

Celebrating Antoine Fontaine’s birthday at the gallery.

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The Koppel Project Hive, 26 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2AQ

It has already been a week since the Zone d’Utopie Temporaire (Z.U.T.) summer residency started at The Hive. The residency stands as a social and creative experiment whereby a group of selected artists accept the challenge of working together for three weeks to create a Temporary Utopian Zone. 

Here’s a visual summary of what’s been going on so far.

On Tuesday our two theorists from Goldsmiths University, Lowri Evans (specialising in Anthropology) and Hannah Corrie (specialising in Psychology) presented to the nine participating artists on the history of Utopia.

Artist Thomas Langley working in the basement.

Photographer and filmmaker Faustine Levin’s working table.

Artist Julia Dreiski and curator Alice Bonnot.

Artist Maxence Hamard’s working corner.

Night view from The Hive.

04/08 - 10pm - nocturne creative moments at The Hive.

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Three week residency 1 – 20 August 2016 One week exhibition 21 – 30 August 2016 Private view 20 August, 6pm 

Last night our writer in residence Alex Brenchley invited seven artists to fill five minute slots at 93 Baker Street, resulting in possibly the most ‘various’ of variety shows to be seen in London this decade; music, monologues, weaving, video pieces, lectures and mime all made their contributions to the evening. 

Alex Brenchley kicks off the evening with a rendition of Britain.

Nicholas Hatfull reads Notes for another riverbank

A Talk about different Talks that I could have Talked about - Rory Beard.

Anna Reading makes tea as part of Digitalis was his medicine.

Justine Melford-Colegate performing her mime-monologue Every Youth A Painting. 

Duval Timothy demonstrates 5 minutes in blue, a performance drawing on his time learning to weave in Sierra Leone. 

Louise Ashcroft, one of the artists currently showing in our exhibition ‘IT’S ALWAYS THE OTHERS WHO DIE’, invites the audience to get imaginative with vegetables.

Joseph Minden and Johnny Costi curated an evening of readings in the name of the current exhibition, Refuse : Refuge : Re-Fuse.

Featuring sets, experiments and exclamations from the sensational Vahni Capildeo in partnership with the magnificent Jeremy Hardingham, the unstoppable Brother Portrait, the spectacular Will Harris, the superlative Aleksandra Bilic, the gobsmacking Johnny Costi and the resident Joseph Minden.

Will Harris was born in London, of mixed Anglo-Indonesian heritage, and studied at the universities of Oxford and St Andrews. He has since worked in schools and as a tutor, co-edits 13 Pages and organises The Poetry Inquisition: a night of poetry held to account. He is a fellow of the Complete Works III.

Brother Portrait is a first generation in this land. He is a Sierra Leonean Black British writer/rhymer and one third of 'Black/Other' collective. Portrait's interests lie in the importance of cultural production for understanding expression and sense of self.

Johnny Costi was born in London of mixed Cypriot and Irish heritage and is a Performance Artist employing poetry as one of his modes of communication. Central Saint Martin's graduate Costi was schooled in Hip Hop and Grime from a young age and has run Spoken Word events in London since 2010. He has shown internationally and in institutions such as the Tate Modern, ICA and MK Gallery.

Vahni Capildeo has published numerous collections. Her most recent, Measures of Expatriation, was published by Carcanet in 2016 and has been shortlisted for both the TS Eliot and Forward Prizes. http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=1167

Jeremy Hardingham is Manager of the Judith E. Wilson Studio in the Faculty of English basement, University of Cambridge. In this he facilitates, administrates, curates, collaborates & participates in events and research across a range of live & recorded performance practices. The writing and performance work is philosophically curious about the material and abstract relations of language to bodies in spaces and places.

Aleksandra Bilic is from Sarajevo. She has an MA in Creative Writing for Performance from Goldsmiths . Her work has been performed at Edinburgh Festival, Soho Theatre, Southwark Playhouse and was selected for the Royal Court Young Writers programme. After a 5 year hiatus working in documentary production around the world she is embracing her love of words once again especially for this event.