by James Hines. Copyright James Hines
B.C. are proud to be hosting the bar at SUNDAY Art Fair from 11th – 14th October.
www.sunday-fair.com/
Chez Baz, Chez Chaz whilst being a café/bar with all the usual trimmings, will be the setting for a series of artist projects and goings-on by Infinity Hospitality, Simon Whybray, James Hines and Ryhs Coren.
Each day of the fair will see a different artist or artist duo creating an environment in the bar. The works will range from producing novel food and refreshments, through to subtle alterations and additions to the bar environment, as well as events.
Thursday 11th October – Infinity Hospitality
Friday 12th October – Simon Whybray
Saturday 13th October – James Hines
Sunday 14th October – Rhys Coren
As well as the daily artworks there will be an Art Pub Quiz on Friday 12th October, which will launch the new London Art issue of Elephant magazine. Hosted by a special, soon to be announced quizmaster.
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Chez Baz Chez Chaz programme
Thursday 11th October
Infinity Hospitality (Samara Scott and Olga Winterbottom) Infinity Hospitality will be catering for the special breakfast preview and throughout the day. They will present food and drinks that are both a sculptural display as well as offering tasty nourishment.
Samara Scott is an artist and theatrical prop maker who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2011. She collects together symbols, surfaces and fashions to produce ‘situational design’, merging boundaries between sculpture, props, installation and theatre and transforms bad taste, cliché style and vile colour schemes into whimsical and sublime environments. As part of her practice she produces pop-up café environments in collaboration with art chef Olga Winterbottom, including Café Chateau, for the Royal College of Art, which turned the modernist interior of the RCA’s café into a tropical paradise of palm tree inspired decor, pastel cocktails and fancy canapés.
Recent shows include Seventeen Gallery, Folkestone Triennial and New Gallery.
Olga Winterbottom is a creative chef who collaborates with Practice Architecture. She currently designs the cocktails for Frank’s Campari Bar in Peckham and works in collaboration with Samara Scott to produce pop-up cafés.
Friday 12th October
Simon Whybray will present an installation creating a green screen studio (a post-production technique for compositing two images or video streams together), and will encourage guests to film and photograph each other in the space. “Everyone at the bar will have the potential to be anywhere, doing anything. Though mostly drinking.”
Simon is a designer whose work often incorporates bold type, colour and humour to communicate simple and powerful ideas. His work spans all media and he approaches each with the same mentality, striving for clarity and purity of communication.
Based in his studio in Shoreditch, Simon has worked with some of the world’s biggest brands including Nokia, Yahoo!, Boots and Getty Images, enabling him to dedicate time to smaller, and personal projects. He designs the lo-fi DIY publication Fever Zine and is the production director of L_A_N, a technology and style magazine “for the fashionable futurist”. He has shown posters, digital projection and animation at Mexico Leeds, The Peckham Hotel, Beach London and Primitive Gallery.
In the cross-bred, energetic spirit of professionalism and DIY, Simon describes his work ethic as doing “difficult stuff for fun”.
Art Pub Quiz in collaboration with Elephant Magazine
7pm: Launch of special London edition of Elephant Magazine that charts the London art scene from the Brit Art ‘90’s to now.
8pm-10pm: Art Pub Quiz. The quiz will take a skewed and humourous look at London art. Hosted by special soon to be announced guest.
Saturday 13th October
James Hines has created an environment of uncertainty through the subtle manipulation of chance and the use of various ancillary ephemera along with contributory and subliminal devices. Utilizing print, sculpture and performance,
in this environment you become the unwitting player in a series of choreographed dramas. These inconspicuous vignettes will repeat over the course of the day, but will they get noticed, and who else is in on it? Where and what is the sculptural element of the piece? Are the prints on the walls, in your hands or on the floor, and what do they tell you about this altered reality? James hopes that instead of feeling any anxiety, you instead, enjoy the feeling of not knowing or needing to know where the reality ends and the piece begins.
James graduated from the University of Brighton Illustration course in 2011. He has presented work in B.C. group shows as well as the B.C. 2011 Christmas party, One Night at the Peckham Hotel. His work combines graphic design and music and he is the founder of the late Sex Is Disgusting records. His work was recently featured in the New Heroes of Design section of Computer Arts magazine.
www.jameshines.co.uk
Illustrious Lawns & Terraces, 2012 by Rhys Coren. All images copyright Rhys Coren.
Sunday 14th October
All day:
Rhys Coren will present a series of experimental video works. His work revolves around subcultures and their visual language. British culture, the internet and music are continuous references in his production, which experimentally varies from video, animation, 2D images and installation, constantly merging both analogue and digital processes.
This majority of work included in the exhibition explores the hypothesis of an interrelation between British football social culture and rave music. Using popular designs from British football kits, training kits and clothing worn by fans in the late 80s and early 90s – the brightest era of acid music and rave culture – he has developed a series of graphic animations, lasercut paintings and sound work (in collaboration with Benjamin John Power) that celebrates the “smiley face”, a stylized icon of the same period.
Rhys has exhibited extensively worldwide, notable shows include Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2007, SPACE, Seventeen Gallery and Spike Island. He is co-founder of online gallery bubblebyte.org and travelling exhibition/zine InterCity MainLine and also runs the leisureonly.com.
www.rhyscoren.com
www.bubblebyte.org
www.intercitymainline.co.uk
12 – 2 pm: Launch of a new publication by artist Ruth Ewan. Ewan is exhibiting at SUNDAY with London based gallery, Rob Tufnell
3 – 5 pm: Artist Ryan Gander launches Ampersand, a publication written to accompany his exhibition of the same name, which is currently being shown at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Ampersand is a collection of short essays that take objects of all pedigree – artworks alongside coloured toilet paper – as their starting point.
Admission: Free
Opening hours:
Thursday 11th October: 12 – 8pm
Friday 12th October: 12 – 8pm (with late night bar opening until 10pm. During which the fair will be open for viewing).
Saturday 13th October: 12 – 8pm
Sunday 14th October: 12 – 6pm
Address: Ambika P3 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
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