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Frederick Wiseman, Public Housing, 1997
screening at the ICA, London, 7.50pm 15 Jan

Selected Events

• Saturday Sketch Club
  Royal Academy of Arts, London, Sat 10 Jan 10.30am
• Museum of Hypothetical Lifetimes: Pedro Reyes Performance
  South London Gallery, London, Sat 10 Jan 1.00pm
• Frederick Wiseman In Focus: Public Housing Screening
  Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Thu 15 Jan 7.50pm
• Raven Theatre
  Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Fri 16 Jan 7.30pm
• João Conceição in Conversation with Laetitia Yhap
  De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, Sun 18 Jan 12.00pm
• Symposium: What Can We Learn from Artists?
  Reading International, Reading, Wed 21 Jan 11.00am
• Talk on The History and Possibilities of the Photobooth
  The Photographers’ Gallery, London, Fri 23 Jan 6.30pm
• Talk on The Mystical and the Mineral in the Work of Suzanne Treister
  Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, Sat 24 Jan 2.00pm
• An Evening of Performance, Music, Talks and More
  Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Wed 28 Jan 6.00pm
• Constable Slow Looking Session
  Tate Britain, London, Thu 29 Jan 11.00am
• Motionhouse Dance Circus: Hidden
  The Lowry, Salford, Fri 30 Jan 8.00pm
• Conference: Between Two Worlds: Photography’s Unfixed Future
  Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Sat 31 Jan 12.00pm
• Kamina Walton and Hannah Sullivan: Performance
  Arnolfini, Bristol, Thu 5 Feb 7.00pm
• Ted Rogers: Mindful Movement
  Turner Contemporary, Margate, Fri 6 Feb 5.00pm
• Mr Bongo Record Club X Corner
  Tate Modern, London, Sat 7 Feb 6.00pm
• Land, Material, Memory: Performance Evening
  Tate Britain, London, Sat 28 Feb 7.00pm

Selected Exhibition Openings

• Nostalgia
  Cross Lane Projects Vestry St, London, opens Sat 10 Jan | PV 9 Jan
• Members’ Show
  Ort Gallery, Birmingham, opens Sun 11 Jan | PV 11 Jan
• Elizabeth Wright
  Cell Project Space, London, opens Fri 16 Jan | PV 15 Jan
• Sabrina Bockler
  Beers Contemporary, London, opens Fri 16 Jan | PV 15 Jan
• A Stone in My Pocket
  Union Pacific, London, opens Fri 16 Jan | PV 16 Jan
• Resolution
  Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, opens Sat 17 Jan | PV 16 Jan
• Dee Ferris
  Neither, London , opens Sat 17 Jan | PV 17 Jan
• The Shape of Time
  Vivienne Roberts Projects, London, opens Tue 20 Jan | PV 21 Jan
• Mario Merz
  Sprovieri, London, opens Thu 22 Jan | PV 21 Jan
• Joe Moss
  Matt’s Gallery Nine Elms, London, opens Sat 24 Jan | PV 23 Jan
• Lineages
  October Gallery, London, opens Thu 29 Jan | PV 28 Jan

Selected Digital Resources

• Reading List: Publishers for Palestine, Afterall 
• Afropunk Countercultures, Autograph
• What I Am Reading Now... , Cooper Gallery 
• DIS_PLACE, Online Gallery 
• Permanent Beta, Fotomuseum 
• Moving Image Programme, Frith Street Gallery 
• Amaal Said Film, FVU Watch 
• Decolonising Black British Gospel Music: A Musicological Experiment with Robert Beckford, Gasworks 
• Antechamber, Gossamer Fog 
• ONE WORK Online Series, LUX 
• MattFlix Archive, Matt’s Gallery 
• Palestine Reading Resources, The Mosaic Rooms 
• Black British History Portal, The National Archives 
• Rhizome, New Museum 
• Ukrainian. Photographies, Open Eye Gallery 
• Artists’ Moving Image Network, Pavilion
• Video Art Streaming Service, Pérez Art Museum Miami 
• Rallying the Commons, Performing Borders
• Screen Walks, The Photographers’ Gallery and Fotomuseum Winterthur
• Unthinking Photography, The Photographers’ Gallery
• Online Resources, The NewBridge Project 
• Art Branch of Library Stack, NN Contemporary 
• Third World: The Bottom Dimension, Serpentine 
• Tai Shani, Channel, Somerset House 
• Free to Forage, Tape Collective 

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