OPEN SOURCE festival opens again this weekend. An artist-led initiative based in East London, specialising in time-based media and live events. It will feature 21 artists and 9 specially commissioned works exploring subcultures, identity, fluidity and self-determination, across the disciplines of video, painting, installation and performance.
From the series “Kindumba” (c) Alice Marcelino
Already widely known as a hothouse of exciting talent – just a year on from its original inception – this year’s participating artists include Rachel Maclean, representing Scotland at the 2017 Venice Biennale, Simeon Barclay, showing this summer at the Liverpool Biennial, and Lawrence Lek, whose career has undoubtedly been on a roll since winning the Dazed Emerging Artists Award in 2015. Having recently shown at Glasgow International, he has also just been announced as a winner of the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2017.
OPEN SOURCE 2016 features a fantastic roster of artists and a strong curation of interactive projects, including: an investigation into Hackney languages; an immersive video game installation; an invasive species of ice cream; a ride into Futuristic Dalston; an obsessive compulsive drone; a bombastic DJ set sampling West African archives; encrypted street posters coming to life; super-responsive T-shirts; experimental hair salons; fleeting manifestations of gender expression; an hallucinogenic tale of austerity and aspiration in a post-X- Factor landscape; the story of a body falling to earth’s centre; and an after-dark infectious apocalyptic VJ set.
Boy playing with Lawrence Lek’s DalstonMonAmour in 2015 in Gillett Sq
OPEN SOURCE 2016 CURATORS:
Emily Butler, Christine Eyene, Helen Nisbet, Joe Fletcher Orr & Doug Bowen, Richard Parry and Amy Sherlock.
OPEN SOURCE 2016 ARTISTS:
Larry Achiampong, Cory Arcangel, Simeon Barclay, Shiraz Bayjoo, Hannah Black, Flo Brooks, Helen Cammock, Leo Chadburn, Cooking Sections, David Raymond Conroy, Danielle Dean, Benedict Drew, Andy Holden, Joey Holder, Lawrence Lek, Rachel Maclean, Alice Marcelino, Richard Muller, Tai Shani and Mariana Simnett.
SPECIAL GUESTS:
Frieze Video, The Exchange and Hackney Pirates.
For more details head other to the site: opensource.london/about
OPEN SOURCE Festival Helen Cammock screen shot
