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E V E N T . H O R I Z O N
BEYOND THE HORIZON... Installation, social events, and performance by Spartacus Chetwynd (Helmut Newton Ladies Nights), Bob & Roberta Smith with Le Suisse Marocain and Leonardo Ulian (kiosk & piano bar), Mark Titchner (psychosomatic acid test), Gail Pickering (convention centre), Tai Shani (tableau performance), Reza Aramesh (street occupation), Alexander Hidalgo (fashion/music event), Lindsay Seers (cinema performance), Pil and Galia Kollectiv (sci-fi banquet), Anthony Gross (LED eyes), Luke Oxley (shop), Adam Nankervis (performance), Paul O’Neill (General Idea films and DJ set), David Burrows and Kit Poulson (contacting angels), David Blamey and Craig Richards (sound). LAST DRINK FOR 1000 MILES... Live music by the Apathy Band, the Readers, the No No Band, Victor Mount, Leigh Clarke. ‘Sawing off the Branch I’m Sitting on’: Selection by John Millar with Ruby Pester & Nadia Rossi, Hysteria On Film (films by Carol Morley and Richard Squires), Cara Ball Tolmie, Omnivore Demon, Let Me Feel Your Finger First, Ming Ming and the Ching Chings and Colin Miller & David James Grinly. Mark Pearson (stagtronic). Jason Underhill (karaoke). Evel Gazebo play Hawkwind's 'Space Ritual’. Young UK fashion show, Poker All Stars, Bistrotheque Monday Cabaret with Bourgeois & Maurice and Jonny Woo, and more. Event Horizon traces the spirit of London’s artistic avant-garde as ‘sculpture becomes event’ through experimental installation, performance and action. With a taste for the transformative and the spontaneous, this series of new commissions often ephemeral in nature appears throughout the season, radiating from the Senate Room into the adjoining neo-classical spaces, cinema, shop, portico, neighbouring streets and online. Hosting over 30 days of live events and artists residencies, Gross & Wu’s Event Horizon Social Club is an installation and curatorial infrastructure evoking historical spaces of social gathering and revolutionary transformation. At its heart shifting and unstable, Event Horizon constantly occupies a space of dualism, generating modes of new collective experience beyond the visible horizon. The Event Horizon, where art dissolves and evolves into social activity. A DIY social space environment in a stunning neoclassical function room at the entrance to the galleries. From a working café and late night bar radiates a series of major new commissions - ephemeral occupations in the form of installations, performances, residencies, club nights, and more. http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/gsk-contemporary-season/exhibitions/event-horizon/ The Green Room Studio by Catherine Borra and Nina Trivedi, an evolving backdrop and curated project with Event Horizon interviews, documents and links: http://www.supercream.org.uk/green_room/index.html  Conceived to explore the dynamics of contemporary art and its relationship to other art forms, the GSK Contemporary season is curated by David Thorp. A broad range of international artists from Europe, Asia and the US will participate in over 100 exhibitions, live events, film screenings, symposia, performance, experimental theatre and music.
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