The Showroom Talks: I can't live without...

Curated by Shama Khanna

Saturdays 18 & 25 August and 1 September
Opening times 12.00 - 18.30hrs

This Saturday 1 September

From 12.00hrs exhibition of:

New work by:

Stella Capes

Tom Woolner

Kate Owens and Tommy Grace

Ian White

Kit Craig

Frances Stark

Stuart Bailey

Jesse Ash

Stephen Beasley and Lesley Sharpe

Mike Cooter

'Pyramid Newspaper' launch by Hardcore is More Than Music

Contribution by Hannah Rickards

Screening of the 'Freee Showreeel '07' by The Freee Art Collective

'Graphic Recording' of a talk by Lisa Lefeuvre by The Hut Project and Don Braisby

Lawrence Weiner reveals what he can't live without

As well as the conclusive parts of:

Publish and Be Damned collaboration

Performance devised by Mark Beasley

From 15.30hrs

'I can't live without...' Panel discussion with contributors focusing on the themes behind the show

From 17.00hrs

Reading of 'Timothy and Tanya get even' written by Dominic Eichler

End of day refreshments

 

I can't live without... is a one-off series of live events, screenings and a changing exhibition taking place at The Showroom across three Saturdays from mid-August to early September 2007. I can't live without... aims to address the view that 'the non-essential is the most essential component of contemporary art'[1] by examining attitudes towards the essential and the non-essential in contemporary practice.

A selection of artists, writers, theorists and curators new to The Showroom as well as those with an existing relationship to the gallery are asked to contribute to the project by considering what, when it comes to making work, they can't do without. Over three weeks during the late summer the gallery will become an active space for the trial of new thinking and emergent working processes reflecting The Showroom's role as a seedbed for bold new practice and experimentation.

Respondents include; Jesse Ash, Stuart Bailey, Mark Beasley, Stephen Beasley and Lesley Sharpe, Dave Beech, Bernd Behr, Stella Capes, Mike Cooter, Kit Craig, Dominic Eichler, Liam Gillick, Tommy Grace and Kate Owens, Dan Griffiths, Hardcore is More Than Music, Emma Hart, The Hut Project, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Publish and Be Damned, Lisa Lefeuvre, Andrea Phillips, Hannah Rickards, John Sealey, Mike Sperlinger, Frances Stark, Anne Tallentire, Lawrence Weiner, Ian White and Tom Woolner.

 

To see images from the event series click here

 

[1] Quote taken from 'Factories in the Snow' a talk by Liam Gillick given at the Frieze Art Fair2006.

A publication documenting the events and artworks included as part of I can't live without... and featuring texts by Liam Gillick and Jan Verwoert will be produced following the event series. For further information contact Shama Khanna at the gallery on 020 8983 4115.

*** I can't live without... celebrates the launch of Dot Dot Dot issue 14 and 'For Some Perverts the Sentence is a Body' On the work of Frances Stark by Mary Leclere. Both publications are available for sale at each event day. Please also refer to www.theshowroom.org/go/art/publications/2005-2008 to peruse publications produced by the gallery ***

The Showroom is financially assisted by Arts Council England, London Office.