This Is Not A Gateway (TINAG) - 2009 FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

2009 FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

The second TINAG Festival took place on Hanbury Street, East London between 23-25 October 2009. The festival included over 60 events, spread across 2 venues (Hanbury Hall and the Kobi Nazrul Centre). 140 people contributed to the festival and 1200 festival-goers attended across the 3 days.

Download print programme here.

** The schedule below includes all the additions & changes.

AFTERNOON TEA

Euphemia P Niblock: Blue Stocking Salon: Regeneration & The Public Realm

An informal tea and conversation on the theme of contemporary urban renewal and its aftermath. Introduction to walks and research into the Castlefield Urban Heritage Park and Manchester.

Sunday 25 / Hanbury Hall 15:30-17:00

ARMCHAIR

These sessions provide the opportunity for emerging urbanists to have an intimate (small group) conversation with an eminent urbanist. Come ready with questions for someone who has valuable hindsight, experience and knowledge to share. Also be prepared for them to explore some of their latest questions with you.

Michael Edwards Optimism, Pessimism And The Crisis

Saturday 24 / Rehearsal Room 16:00-17:30

Irit Rogoff

Sunday 25 / Rehearsal Room 15:30-16:30

DISCUSSIONS

Barbara Wallace How Women Are Designing Cities

The Women’s Design Service will lead a discussion investigating gender and city planning. Do women have specific urban design needs that differ from those of men? The discussion will trace the main ideas and people underpinning planning, urban design and architectural theory and question if the needs, desires and ambitions of different women are understood in how our cities are considered and subsequently designed. Speakers include Georgia Wrighton (Women's Design Service).

Friday 23 / Hanbury Hall 14:00-15:00

This Is Not A Gateway SALON, Abbas Nokhasteh (Chair) In The Heart Of The City: Faith, Buildings & People*

What are the challenges facing faith buildings and their central role in the spiritual and civic life of cities? Is there a connection between the way places of worship are designed and the urban areas and populations that surround them? Speakers: Hajj Abdulhasib Castiñeira (Director Granada Mosque), Adbullateef Whiteman (Calligrapher), Liz Hingly (Artist), Zarah Hussain (Artist), Richard Gale (Academic), Shynal Khan (Associate Executive Director East London Mosque), Reverend Rosy Fairhurst (St Martin-in-the-Fields).

Friday 23 / East London Mosque 18:00-20:00

* 17:15 // tour East London Mosque (E1 1JX)

Tomorrow's Thoughts Today Productive Dystopias, Or... An Architecture Of Unintended Consequences

Can we conceive of an alternative practice where current power structures of patronage and regulation are channeled, subverted or engaged in new ways? And how might dystopian visions paradoxically offer a productive way of approaching the urban question? Panelists: Tomas Klassnik (Klassnik Corporation), Elena Pascolo (Urban Projects Bureau), Austin Williams (Future Cities Project), Finn Williams (Common Office), Karl Sharro (ManTowNHuman) Alex Warnock-Smith (Urban Projects Bureau, AA) and Amin Taha.

Friday 23 / Hanbury Hall 20:00-21:30

Fugitive Images Should Socially Engaged Artistic Practices Generate Social Cohesion? *

A discussion about the emergence of socially and politically engaged artistic practices. A close look at their motivations, aims and methodologies as well as potential problems. Panelists include, Marsha Bradfield (Artist, Educator and Curator), Dave Beech (Free Art Collective) and Mark Davy (Director of future\city)
chaired by Bill McAlister (Director of ICA 1970-1990)

Saturday 24 / Rehearsal Room 12:30-13:30

* 11:00 // tour I Am Here Meeting point: Suleymaniye Mosque (E2 8AX)

Archinef, Images-A-Mots, Project Trace Monumental Architectural Complexes: Post-Socialist Bulgaria

Memorial sites are of increasing interest due to their privileged location (i.e. town centres) or to their significant scale. An exploration into the new actors and values, swaying between an obsession with memory and amnesia, between destruction and frantic rebuilding. What is the potential for these sites to serve the public realm?

Saturday 24 / Hanbury Hall 13:30-15:30

This Is Not A Gateway: DIY Urbanism / Influencing The City: Legalities Of Space

Do cultural and political movements only produce change when they are translated into law? Is law not an arena urbanists should know significantly more about and participate within? What research are lawyers undertaking within the urban field? The discussion explores a spectrum of examples that highlight how law has been employed to propel urban change and the ways urbanists can take better advantage of the opportunities it provides. Speakers include Bill Parry-Davies (Lawyer) and Elizabeth Fonseca (Environmental Quality Manager)

Saturday 24 / Rehearsal Room 14:00-15:00

Annette Mees, Mel Cook: City As Stage: Art, Narrative & Play

A cross-disciplinary panel on how art, narrative, and play changes the interaction between people and their cities. How do recent advances in art practice and technology change the way we tell stories in the urban landscape? Speakers include Dan Hon (Media technologist) and Lottie Child (Artist).

Sunday 25 / Small Hall 13:30-14:30

European Alternatives The City And The Transnational Commons

The event introduces crucial themes from the project Polis 21, a series of transnational interventions and discussions run by European Alternatives over the month of November in Athens, Zagreb and Belgrade. The themes touched by the salon will be: the way multiple political and cultural factors determine forms of urban exclusions and externality; the potentials for artistic intervention in public spaces regarding forms of exclusions; the potentials for a transnational ‘commons’ and its relations to the urban. Speakers include Jilly Traganou (New School of Architecture Parsons the New School of Design, NY), Maria Theodorou (Director School of ARCHitecture for All, Athens) and Segolene Pruvot (European Alternatives). With an introduction by Lorenzo Marsili, chaired by Niccolo Milanese

Sunday 25/ Main Hall 14:30-15:30

This Is Not A Gateway: DIY Urbanism / Influencing The City: A To Z Of Getting Published

Published literature remains the cornerstone of cultural power and influence. Beyond the web, how do you take your idea or raw research from a concept and get it published and circulating? Young publishers present their own experiences and provide helpful insight into the publishing industry. Speakers include Simon Worthington (Metamute); Anna Minton (Ground Control); Stevphen Shukaitis (Minor Compositions imprint series), Paul Willoughby and Danny Miller (Little White Lies).

Sunday 25 / Main Room 12:00-13:00

This Is Not A Gateway: DIY Urbanism / Influencing The City: Establishing Your Practice

Want to extend your role and capacity in shaping cities? Top tips on starting up your own organisation or company from fellow practitioners who work in different urban based professions. Speakers include Vanessa Swann (CEO Cockpit Arts), Cany Ash (Ash Sakula Architects), Momtaz Begum (Leaders In Community), Ellen O'Hara (Business Development Manager, Cockpit Arts)

Sunday 25 / Rehearsal Room 18:30-19:30

EXHIBITIONS

Hanbury Street

Joy Gregory Sites of Africa

An ongoing photographic study of locations in London that have historical connections to Africa. 6 of the current 20 images will be shown along the Old Truman Brewery wall.

Liz Hingley Under Gods

On the Soho Rd in Birmingham, religion is the defining factor. There are over 30 different religious denominations located along this street. A selection of images taken over two year period whilst living amongst the different sites of worship will be shown along Hanbury Street.

Constantin Demner WALK

Intervention in public space in East London, UK, using the language of street art to bring local history to life in the imagination of passers-by.

Hanbury Street Projections

Victoria Bean Atlas I and Atlas II; Last Meal Request

The film features the mercurial nature of language and meaning - a text piece has it's message altered using permanent and impermanent inks and the corrosive power of the elements.

Jean-Marc Caracci Homo Urbanus Europeanus

Jean-Marc Caracci has travelled across Europe capitals - taking photographs of the people who live in in them and their architecture.

Hanbury Hall

Anthony Luvera Gypsy, Pickwick And Ruben From Photographs And Assisted Self-Portraits

A presentation of works from the archive ‘Photographs and Assisted Self-Portraits, London, 2002-2008’, made by selected contributors who focused on representing aspects of their experience of being homeless in the city of London.

Sonalle Ethnic Minorities Coming Out

Portraits of ethnic minority lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals who are at different stages of the ‘coming out’ process.

Isidora Ilic Youtopia

A video that explores the theme of leaving and searching for a utopian place. Questioning artificially built towns and constructed countries such as Milton Keynes and Yugoslavia.

Rachael Davidson, Moira Lascelles One Line Only: Mapping Memories

In almost every way, Spitalfields is unrecognisable now in comparison to 15 years ago. What traces from the past remain present? What should not be forgotten or misunderstood? What are your experiences of Spitalfields? What new layers of history are being created? Be part of writing the (contemporary) history of Spitalfields.

Aoife Flynn The City & Surburbia

2 paintings based on the city and suburbia: Build God, then we’ll talk and Houses.

Ben Elwes It’s Nice To Know That Some Things In Life Are Certain

A reflection upon advertising methods within urban environments, their increasing scale, sophistication of psychological strategies, and technologies employed in urban spaces, to target consumers.

Annie Besant Gallery

Nikola Mihov Forget Your Past - Communist Era Monuments in Bulgaria

A photographic study of 16 of the most important and largest Bulgarian monuments built between 1948 and 1989.

Eleanor Marx Gallery

Esther Johnson Tune In

A 16mm screening of a short film about amateur radio operators, manned by Barking Radio and Electronics Society (BRES) and Loughton & Epping Forest Amateur Radio Society (LEFARS). Exhibition includes series of photographs and QSL cards.

Match Stick Gallery

LEMEH42 Possible Cities

Exhibition and animation showing imagined cities, each corresponding to a letter in the alphabet. An exploration into the reasons that have taken people to live in cities.

FILMS

Tapio Snellman, Christian Grou: Shades Of Grey

Drawing on a melancholic nostalgia towards the socialist period experienced by eastern Europeans, the film Shades of Grey investigates the pre-cast concrete housing estates of Romania, Ukraine and Russia.

Friday 23 / Hanbury Hall 17:30-18:00

Roberto Santaguida: Miraslava

A young man, his life in tatters, seeks redemption by fleeing the city.