Here comes the summer! You are planning to travel this summer. In your everyday working life, it is the most fantastic and entrancing moment when you’re biting into your sandwich during your lunchtime and searching for the tourist agents. You haven’t yet decided where to go. You may go for an ancient temple in the east, a gothic castle in the west, an emerald sea in the south or even a beautiful mountain in the north. In front of your computer monitor, you’ve found the right tourist agent, but suddenly the advertisement of the tourist agent is slightly changing. All the words from the advertisement make a billowy wave that starts spinning in your mind.

Dual Mirage Part 2

Tourists Dream

Dual Mirage Part 2: Tourists Dream begins by presenting the moment when we are dreaming of travelling somewhere and what the engaging free and enchanting moment interprets in the global society. The place that we want to travel is somewhat in-between idealised and practical space, artificial and natural space. The moment longing for somewhere else other than here is as an instantaneous escape and is done in search of other utopia. It is presented as future and nostalgia. It is a mirage.

Tourists Dream also explores the mirage generated at the point at which the service industry circulates, within the ‘transitional space’. This is achieved by considering industries such as the tourism and hospitality industry, financial sector and real estate business, all of which are highly entangled with each other.

Dual Mirage Part 2  Tourists Dream Contributors: Mora Bendesky, Hyunjoo Byeon, Oksun Kim, Uin Kim, Jungmin Kwon, Eunu Lee, Jeong-Hoo Lee, Sôm Lee, Hyemin Son, Gee Song, Juhee Youn

Part 2 Event

The event of Dual Mirage Part 2 consists of the launch of the book and also the video screening. The launching of the publication of Dual Mirage Part 2: Tourists Dream will be introduced by artist Hyemin Son. It is then to be followed by the video screening Tourist’s Dream by the invited curator Hyunjoo Byeon. Both the book and the video screening share and develop the idea of transitional movement in various aspects of global society, reinforcing the theme of tourists’ dream.

Artists: Kyungah Ham, Yang Ah Ham, Stuart Hawkins, Adrian Paci, Lisl Ponger, Jaye Rhee, Hiraki Sawa, Bo Kyung Suh
Curated by Hyunjoo Byeon

Accompanied by the launch of the book Dual Mirage Part 2: Tourists Dream, the video screening Tourist’s Dream draws into varied tourists’ dreams and the underlying political, cultural and socio-economical elements that construct the migratory movements in this age of global mobility. Through the artworks by eight international artists, Tourist’s Dream navigates how global mobility transforms the way to perceive the world and expands geographies by positioning oneself in a space away from everyday life; examining also the effects it has on the diverse migratory movements in our time. In addition, it explores mirages which tourism provides by rebranding spaces in a capital-saturated society and interrogates a fantasy to consume a given culture.

The artists emerged from their common interests in the issues surrounding today’s migratory movements such as tourism, the tourist industry, territoriality, cultural identity, mobility, dislocation, migration, and global communication initiate an essential convergence in Tourist’s Dream. Kyungah Ham’s Travel & Journey (2003-05) investigates a fantasy to experience exotic cultures and cultural hierarchies in tourism by exploring the phenomenon of theme parks in Asia which replicate the symbolic monuments and landmarks of Europe and America. In her Tourism in Communism (2005), Yang Ah Ham travels to the only possible tourism area in North Korea, Mount Kumgang, developed by South Korea’s Hyundai Group. The artist depicts that tourism can be only a superficial exploration which is isolated from ordinary life, as the video was also shot on a touristic horse-drawn carriage. Stuart Hawkins playfully illustrates the artificiality of a touristic approach through her journey in search of the anthropologically perfect native CoCoMan in Souvenir (2006).

The journey reveals the pervasiveness of globalisation that is profoundly connected with the media culture, and it has caused a strange reaction in that it seeks out notions of pure cultural authenticity. Lisl Ponger´s déjà vu (1999) captures our desires for distant lands with its documentary sequences. This collective cliché of exotic otherness, combined with a series of narrations in various languages without subtitles, exposes the western-centered mode of perceiving the world and its hidden colonialism, consequently raising the awareness of our limited perception of reality. In Centro di Permanenza Temporanea (2007), which is named after an Italian refugee camp, Adrian Paci transforms an airport, a symbol of global mobility in our time, into a displaced space. A group of people standing on an aircraft boarding staircase represent migrants who are stranded “in between”, yearning for a better life, and thus an inhumane side of our ever-globalising world is revealed. Whilst Paci draws into the harsh reality of migratory movement in this age, the tiny humans and animals wandering around in the artist’s flat in Hiraki Sawa’s Migration (2003) poetically represent a restless journey in our lives and portrait our nostalgias in the global age. In Mediterranean (2009), Jaye Rhee creates her own Mediterranean setting in her studio with objects which embody images of the location of the Mediterranean. Rhee discloses how tourism and its industry construct common desires through distributing a signified image by envisaging the place with objects that can be found in daily life. In the work Citydel (2005), two separate videos parallel the passers-by looking at a girl in a bikini and a girl who enjoys her vacation on the artificial island in the Han River, which is located in the middle of Seoul. By creating a subtle rupture between them, Bo Kyung Suh questions what we dream for through traveling and where mirage exists.

Project Space 2:
Friday 6 August 2010, 6-9pm
Rivington Place
London EC2A 3BA UK

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The EMD Cinema in Walthamstow was a celebrated building. It is acknowledged as one of London’s finest art deco cinemas and is scheduled by English Heritage as A Grade 2* Listed Building in recognition of its architectural significance. Built in the 1930s by Theodore Komisarjevsky, the renowned Russian stage designer, the EMD cinema is one of the only venues left in London that is designed both for live performances and film showings.

The cinema’s prominence is further made abundantly clear by the list of entertainment names that have passed into legendary status. Names such as The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, The Rolling Stones, John Coltrane and James Brown have all graced EMD Cinema’s beautiful Moorish/ Spanish interiors with their presence. However, the name most associated with the cinema is none other than film director Alfred Hitchcock who grew up in Waltham Forest.

Sadly, in 2002 the cinema had to be sold and this time the buyer hadn’t had the cinema’s rich entertainment background in mind for its use- The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) plan on converting the cinema into a conference centre and place of worship. This has sparked a debate between the McGuffin Film Society along with the residents of Walthamstow (whom without the cinema will be left as the only London borough deprived of one) and the UCKG on the future purposes of the cinema.

The debate has not been resolved despite Waltham Forest Council earmarking £1 million to assist with the redevelopment of the cinema. As EMD has been one of East London’s most significant arts venues for over 70 years, let’s hope that the decision can be made so that this pillar of our cultural heritage gets restored to its former glory.

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News From Nowhere: Visions Of Utopia promises to be one of the largest art events in London this year. A number of public sites in North East London, including The William Morris Gallery, the Changing Room Gallery, The Waltham Forest Theatre situated on an island and surrounded by a moat, Lloyd Park, and a massive building site in the centre of Walthamstow, The Vestry House Museum and Walthamstow Town Hall will be used as stages for exhibitions, interventions, installations, audio visual works, music performances and public art activities during September/ October 2005.

CarnegieBased on the title of the William Morris novel News From Nowhere, and set in and around his birth-place, the project aims to re-examine the legacy of utopianism: upheld by the idealists of the 19th and early 20th century, who believed passionately in the possibilities of radical social change, with visions of a future egalitarian world, it is a distant cry from our post-modern, post-ideological times.

An international line-up of artists, designers, musicians, writers, thinkers and performers will be presenting their work in the context of the various spaces. The events, works in progress and completed pieces will be documented and published on-line in the Visions of Utopia web site. The site will also provide a global forum for open contributions, reports and sightings of utopia.

A special limited edition newspaper, News from Nowhere will be published and distributed, including essays, documentation and interviews with local and global residents, as well as those of the participating artists and organisers. The 18th-century Water House, Morris’s family home from 1848-1856 is now the William Morris Gallery. It is the only public museum in the world devoted to this country’s best known and most versatile designer with internationally important collections illustrating Morris’s life, achievements and influence.

Art Utopia For the first time, a selected group of artists, designers and writers will be given a unique opportunity to place work within the House and permanent displays, resulting in a series of juxtapositions and interventions alongside the work of Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites; featuring the legendary Tony Benn, designers Ralph Ball and Maxine Naylor, architect Meredith Bowles, artists Stephen Williams, Liane Lang, Anderson Inge, Malcolm Barrett, Luis Gonzago Barriera Bras Keith Ball and Steve Wheeler. With sonic work by Isobel Jones and video performance from Claire Robins.

Other Venues
The Changing Room Gallery
Vestry House Museum
Arcadia (a massive building site)
Waltham Forest Theatre, The Moat, Lloyd Park

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Jimmy McDonald, Director of Undu Graduates is eager to “provide the perfect environment to see the next generation of designers from the UK and overseas.” As a branch of the 100% Design contemporary exhibition to be held at Earls Court, Olympia it also forms part of the 100% Guaranteed satellite events which have been increasingly successful over recent years. 100% East will be divided into three key areas comprising of the main exhibitor area, the Talent Zone and the Bombay Sapphire Blue Room.

Whilst the Talent Zone will be of particular interest to emerging hopefuls as it will showcase prototypes from 150 of this year’s graduates, the Bombay Sapphire Blue Room will expose the works of 25 designers short-listed for the international award for excellence and innovation in glass design, the Bombay Sapphire Prize 2005.

Exhibitors include Paul Cocksedge, Thomas Heatherwick and Ross Lovegrove, finalists for the Bombay Sapphire Prize 2005; James Harris Product Design, Modoloco Design Milano, Savannah College of Art and Design, Formfollows, Nice Design, Ryan Frank, Nicolas Destino, Jamie Langfear, Mia Cullin and Andrew Laybourn.

100% Design East
22-25 September 2005
The Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, E1 9SZ
www.100percentdesign.co.uk

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London Fashion Week 2005, awaits. In the hubbub of Fashion Week’s trendy events, East London’s mirrorstudios presents the London Fashion Week 2005 off-schedule fashion show.

Offering a platform, or rather a catwalk for new fashion talent to showcase their creative flair. To be held at mirrorstudios, there will be four fashion shows per day and showcases will run with each designer having their individual fashion shows throughout the day. Among those putting on shows are Jatin Patel, Raishma Islam, Ema Womersley and the labels Son of a Stag and Leathertex.

Designers with Asian influences add to the eclecticism of the show. Bringing flavour to the catwalk is Jatin Patel an exciting Anglo- Indian designer who will be showcasing his debut collection of women’s wear, personify which, according to Jatin competes at “fusing the boundaries between decadent eveningwear with work wear.” Jatin is looking forward to launching his womens wear fashion label, believing in the “individuality and dualities of women” and hopes to emphasise this with his label. Raishma Islam is a couture-trained designer fast making her presence known with a growing celebrity clientele. Already with creations adorning the pages of Vogue Brides and Hello magazine, Raishma boasts an amazing eye for detail producing amongst her creations hand embroidered wedding gowns and catsuits. With that in mind, Raishma operates by, “fusing her East-West roots to produce sexy, elegant clothes with the most beautiful detail, colour and cut.”

The label Son of a Stag comprises of a creative team of four, Emma Gibson, Ricci Williams, Fred Fan and Tai Li, who all operate in and around East London. The team agree that “participating in many other fashion, music and arts events held locally provides excellent brain food for this diverse collective, and allows them to really be one step ahead with trend prediction from hidden side streets.” The label intends to re-launch its new face with their new Spring/Summer ’06 menswear collection.

Ema Womersley, will be bringing her accessories collection, which includes hand-made feather earrings, fabric purses, scarves and belts. Her designs can be found at stalls in both Spitalfields and Portobello markets.
London Fashion Week Off-Schedule Fashion Show
18-26 September 2005
Mirrorstudios
55 Fashion Street, E1 6PX
020 7247 6556

Jatin Patel presents his debut collection ‘Personify’ for Spring / Summer 2006 launching, his Womenswear Fashion label. The contemporary brand blends the boundaries between work wear and decadent eveningwear. The innovative collection is an exploration into the Contemporary representations of feminine displays of power and protection, through the implementation of traditional masculine attire with symbolic armour.

Contact Details
jatinpatel1@london.com
Tel: 07787572700

Raishma
Raishma Islam has long been one of London‘s fashion scene’s biggest secrets. The hugely talented designer has created stunning wardrobes for some of UK‘s wealthiest and most high profile fashionistas – including leading actors, politicians, pop stars and royalty.

Contact Details
Tel: 020 8795 4110
designs@raishma.co.uk
www.raishma.co.uk

Leathertex Direct
stock and sell quality leather jackets made from sheepskin or cow hide

Contact Details
Tel: 015394 88100
Fax: 015394 88300
www.leathertexdirect.com

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The play has had the King’s Head Theatre full for its entire run and a move to a west-end venue is in the pipeline. Taking its leaf out of TV, the play seemed to have been able to re-invent itself and do what TV used to do best: the political satire.

Cue Who’s The Daddy?, a fictional recreation of the events that took place at the sometimes called ‘The Sextator’ (real name, The Spectator, Boris Johnson editor) the most talked-about magazine of the decade as one scandal after another lit up the tabloid front pages, starting with Rod Liddle’s affair with the magazine’s 23-year-old receptionist and culminating with the resignation of Home Secretary supremo, David Blunkett. Also involving Petronella Wyatt, Rod Liddle, Kimberly Quinn and MP for Henley-on-Thames extraordinaire, Boris Johnson.

I have to confess that I can’t wait for Will Smith to walk into my office to study all my moves for his subsequent blockbuster about your very own CEN Mag. Sadly, there will not be any sleazy details written about me or the magazine, as yours truly, has no known – hum – vices.

But who knows, as you get older, with money and intellect showering your face, your values might change. And, that is exactly what the play is about: class and shifting values. From Shakespeare, to Wilde, to Lenny Henry, the class struggle always got the laugh and in the 21st century, guess what? It still does.

It took some doing, or rather methodology. Follow me:

Act 1
The finest team of writers in town, at the moment anyway, was assembled. A team of sharp pens made of theatre critics of ‘The Spectator’, Toby Young and Lloyd Evans, with additional material provided by Jeremy Lloyd, the co-creator of Are You Being Served? and ‘Allo ‘Allo…, the pinnacle of street & TV credibility, I agree with you.

Act 2
The next move was to base their bedroom farce loosely on real events and make sure that scantily-clad women and trouserless men dash in and out of cupboards. Some like Boris Johnson might even say that their rendition of the events is an “inverted pyramid of piffle”, but this is another debate and as often in those cases, reality supersedes fiction.

Act 3
Put together a serious cast of solid actors- Tim Hudson (Boris Johnson), Sara Crowe (Petronella Wyatt), Saul Reichlin (Michael Howard), Paul Prescott (David Blunkett), with a penchant for comedy, but not too much as ex-eastender Michelle Ryan (Tiffany the mole) is brought in as the male(s) interest.

Act 4
Hire director Tamara Harvey (One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest), producer Ian Osborne (How to Lose Friends & Alienate People) and Nica Burns (Some Girls) in the hope that the tiny King’s Head will sustain the assault of a crowd shredded to pieces by their own laughter. You get me?

As a conclusion, we will all agree that if sex is still a short-cut to rise above your station, a good laugh is still the best way for a producer to laugh all the way to the bank. Show Me The Money, sorry Who’s the Daddy at a bigger theatre near you, soon.

For further information on the play, please browse www.whosthedaddyplay.com
Nica Burns and Ian Osborne present

WHO’S THE DADDY?
By Toby Young and Lloyd Evans
with additional material
by Jeremy Lloyd
Hair and Wigs Designer
Richard Mawbey
Composer and Sound Designer
Matt Clifford
Lighting Designer
Chris Davey
Designer
Christopher Woods
Director
Tamara Harvey

Cast
Paul Prescott, Saul Reichun, Michelle Ryan, Caludia Shear, Sara Crowe, Jot Davies, Peter Hamilton Dyer

King’s Head Theatre
115 Upper Street
Islington, N1

Tuesday – Saturday 8pm
Saturday 3.00pm and Sunday 3.30pm
Box Office 020 7226 1916

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