For four days in November the Hayward Gallery explores the key ideas of its new exhibition MIRRORCITY.
Over the course of the weekend the events – including performances, walks, talks, live music and film screenings – will transform the gallery and its surrounding spaces into a collaborative forum for discussion and debate, and will provide the opportunity for unprecedented access to the artists and ideas of MIRRORCITY.
THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER
MIRRORCITY Remix: Exhibition
For the duration of the events weekend UNIT present an exhibition of work made as a result of their investigation into the curatorial process of MIRRORCITY.
Hayward Gallery Project Space, Thurs-Sun, 11am-9pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
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Alternative School of Economics: The Fiction of Money
Alternative School of Economics (Ruth Beale & Amy Feneck) lead an afternoon study session exploring the abstracted nature of money. The session starts at the Hayward Gallery and culminates in a behind-the-scenes tour of J.P. Morgan's trading floor in Canary Wharf.
Hayward Gallery Project Space, 2-5pm, free but booking essential
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Charles Hayward: 30 MINUTE SNARE DRUM ROLL
An experimental musical performance taking place within Emma McNally’s MIRRORCITY installation.
Hayward Gallery, 6-6.30pm and 7-7.30pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
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The Rebel: Performance
The Rebel, aka Ben Wallers, performs in Pil and Galia Kollectiv’s MIRRORCITY installation.
Hayward Gallery, from 7.30pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
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FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER
Karen Mirza and Brad Butler: On resistance and non participation
Exhibition artists Karen Mirza and Brad Butler are joined in conversation by philosopher Howard Caygill, following a day of contemplation of the Southbank’s tides.
9am-6.30pm Southbank embankment, 6.30pm Hayward Gallery Project Space, free with same-day exhibition ticket
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Tai Shani: Dark Continent performance
Exhibition artist Tai Shani presents the second instalment of her three-part performance, Dark Continent, staged in her installation in MIRRORCITY.
Hayward Gallery, 6.30-7pm and 8-8.30pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
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Mark Aerial Waller: Dial-A-Ride Episode 1
Screening of Waller’s new video work filmed, daily, in locations around the Southbank.
Hayward Gallery Project Space, 8.15-8.45pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
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SATURDAY 15 NOVEMBER
TripSpace: A Walk & Talk Dance for Liminal Spaces
TripSpace Projects’ Artistic Director Giuliana Majo and choreographer Pepa Ubera – both co-curators of the off-site exhibition Limen – lead an explorative event activating the in-between spaces of the Hayward Gallery site.
Hayward Gallery, from 12pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
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Open Workshop: Neoliberal Ectoplasm
The nanopolitics group and the Museum of non Participation stage an experiment in living politics.
Blue Room, Royal Festival Hall, 2-3.30pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
Unpicking Curatorial Choices
Discussion relating to an educational project that has taken shape alongside MIRRORCITY. Panel comprises Henry Ward, Head of Education at Southbank Centre, and Stephanie Rosenthal, Chief Curator.
Hayward Gallery Project Space, 2-3pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
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Paul Prudence: Cyclotone
Live audio-visual performance inspired by cyclotrons and particle accelerators.
Hayward Gallery Project Space, 3.30-4.30pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
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The Fabricator’s Tale and Other Stories
Katrina Palmer, Samuel Hasler, Francesco Pedraglio and Sarah Tripp read from their work. This event takes place in collaboration with Book Works and Flat Time House.
Hayward Gallery Project Space, 5-6.30pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
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Aura Satz: Dial Tone Operator Live
Vocalists Elaine Mitchener and Jennifer Walshe improvise a live version of Aura Satz’s Dial Tone Operator. This event takes place in collaboration with Measure, a not-for-profit commissioning organisation.
Hayward Gallery, 7-7.45pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
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Volumes Project: Talk
Members of Volumes Project discuss and appraise modes of exhibiting dance within museums and galleries.
Hayward Gallery Project Space, 7-7.45pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
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Mark Aerial Waller: Dial-A-Ride Episode 2
Screening of Waller’s new video work filmed, daily, in locations around the Southbank.
Hayward Gallery Project Space, 8-8.30pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
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SUNDAY 16 NOVEMBER
Emma McNally: In conversation with the Canal & River Trust
Artist Emma McNally is joined by George McSweenie and Andy Slater from the Canal & River Trust to discuss how London’s waterways inform artistic practice.
Hayward Gallery Project Space, 12.30-1.30pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
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Megan Saunders: I’ve Been Going Round in Circles since 1986
15 dancers recreate a large-scale choreography inspired by the M25.
Royal Festival Hall ‘Racetrack’, meet in Hayward Gallery foyer, 2-5pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket.
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Lucy Steggals: Walk
Lucy Steggals invites people to take part in a self-led walk along the Thames from Waterloo Bridge to Tower Bridge, paying attention to when and why the rhythm of the city changes.
Collect a pamphlet from the Hayward Gallery foyer and follow the route. Participants are advised to depart by 2pm, to arrive at Tower Bridge by 3pm.
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Andrea Luka Zimmerman and David Roberts: Screening, Discussion & Walk
Two artists from the collective Fugitive Images trace the passing of the Haggerston Estate in East London and discuss how fiction can challenge contemporary urban policy.
Hayward Gallery Project Space, 2-3pm followed by walk 3-3.30pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket.
Daniel Sinsel: Why Psykhe, Cinderella, Gretchen and I got into Weaving
A relaxed, hands-on presentation by artist Daniel Sinsel on the materials that inform his practice.
Hayward Gallery, 3-4pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
Alternative School of Economics: The Fiction of Money
Presentations by the Alternative School of Economics (Ruth Beale & Amy Feneck) and Nigel Dodd, Professor of Sociology at London School of Economics, followed by a discussion about the abstracted nature of money.
Hayward Gallery Project Space, 3.30-5pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
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Tim Etchells: A Broadcast / Looping Pieces
Improvised performance based on the fragmentary contents of the artist’s notebook.
Hayward Gallery, 4.30-5pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
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Ursula Mayer: In Conversation with Gil Leung
Exhibition artist Ursula Mayer is joined by artist and writer Gil Leung for a conversation about her work in MIRRORCITY.
Hayward Gallery, 5-6pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
Anne Hardy: An Abandonment was Accountable for the Accumulation of Acid After Dark
Anne Hardy's sculptural installation Two Joined Fields performs a recorded soundscape related to the use and making of the objects inside it.
Hayward Gallery, 5-7pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
Mark Aerial Waller: Dial-A-Ride Episode 3
Screening of Waller’s new video work filmed, daily, in locations around the Southbank.
Hayward Gallery Project Space, 6.30-7pm, free with same-day exhibition ticket
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Ursula Mayer, Gonda, 2012, © the artist, 2014, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam; Krobath, Wien|Berlin