“LOUDER THAN BOMBS” Art, Action & Activism

Stanley Picker Gallery and the Live Art Development Agency present

“LOUDER THAN BOMBS” Art, Action & Activism

- 9 February to 27 March 2010

- 7 Weeks, 7 Residencies, 7 Ways to Activate Change

- STEVEN LEVON OUNANIAN & THOMAS THWAITES ÁINE PHILLIPS / SEAN BURN / ANSUMAN BISWAS / STACY MAKISHI & YOSHIKO SHIMADA / PRICK YOUR FINGER / THE VACUUM CLEANER

“Art that cannot shape society and therefore also cannot penetrate the heart questions of society, [and] in the end influence the question of capital, is no art.” Joseph Beuys 1985

Over the course of seven weeks, the Stanley Picker Gallery in Kingston is handing over its entire exhibition space to host a series of week-long Live Art residencies – details below.

Co-curated with the Live Art Development Agency, London, through an open call for proposals “Louder than Bombs”: Art, Action & Activism is an ambitious programme of public workshops and live events that will focus on challenging social, political and global issues of the day, addressed through the seven invited artist/activist’s individual working practices and the Gallery audience’s direct participation and responding involvement.

Its title borrowed from a compilation album by iconic anti-establishment beaus The Smiths (in turn borrowed from Elizabeth Smart's extended prose poem By Grand Central Station I Sat down and Wept), “Louder than Bombs”: Art, Action & Activism addresses the highly charged political possibilities of Live Art that have been taken to new levels by a new generation of politically invested artists who are blurring the boundaries between art and activism in exciting and engaging ways.

Please visit www.stanleypickergallery.org for further information on the artists and the exact times and details of public events, workshops and activities taking place during each residency.

Stanley Picker Gallery, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, Kingston University, Knights Park, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2QJ

t 0208 417 8074 e picker@kingston.ac.uk

Gallery Open: Tues - Fri 12-6pm; Sat 12-4pm

www.stanleypickergallery.org