Real Estate

Art in a Changing City

23 Ağs 2005
28 Ağs 2005

As part of London in Six Easy Steps at the ICA, B+B have developed Real Estate, a week of projects, events and activities that focuses on the use and ownership of land in London. In a city preparing for the 2012 Olympics and threatened with terrorist attacks, streets and open spaces are commercially managed, regulated by new legislation and surveyed by four million surveillance cameras. Meanwhile cultural policy emphasises the potential of culturally led regeneration to transform the city and artists become accidental property developers through processes of gentrification. In Real Estate, this appropriation offers starting points from which to intervene and disrupt the city.

REAL ESTATE CONTRIBUTORS:
allsopp&weir, Anna Best with Jules Mylius and Paul Whitty, Polly Braden and David Campany, Lottie Child, Phil Coy, Shezad Dawood, Peter Dunn and Loraine Leeson, Jon Fawcett, Hewitt & Jordan and Dave Beech, public works (Torange Khonsari), Spectacle and Roman Vasseur.

Go to: www.welcomebb.org.uk for more information.

The ICA is open daily from 12:00 - 19.30 during Real Estate. Day membership to the ICA includes entry to the exhibition, cafe and bar (£1.50 Tuesday - Friday and £2.50 Saturday and Sunday). The ICA is located on the Mall, at the foot of the Duke of York steps, 3 minutes from Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. For directions and access to the ICA please go to www.ica.org.uk.