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Showing posts with label Hackney Wicked. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hackney Wicked. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
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On Saturday afternoon I was invited to a table discussion. What I didn't expect was that I'd be building the table. The Arbeit Gallery, where I'd seen Christopher Matthews' performance piece the night before, commands an imperious view of the Hackney Wicked crowds. From their balcony you can look right down at the fashionable, young visitors to Hackney Wick guzzling roasted cassava and washing it down with a swig of coconut water. It's all very East London. But up here things are a bit more hands on.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
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Being at Hackney Wicked feels like standing in the eye of a cultural hurricane. The event, set in and around the old industrial workspaces of Hackney Wick, celebrates the new prime industry of the area: art. Like a peacock fanning his feathers, Hackney Wicked is showing off what it can do: warehouse doors are thrown open, stalls are set up, canal barges lash themselves to the tow path and plastered all over practically every available wall is a neat and new art. Covering the whole event would be a fools errand - just looking at the guide to the festival is bewildering. It's a multi-fold out, huge double sided piece of paper in a tiny font laid out in rather Byzantine arrangement. "Is what I'm looking for an exhibition, an open studio or a performance?"
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