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© London Design Biennale
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London Design Biennale, Somerset House, London WC2R 1LA
INI ARCHIBONG
1 - 27 June 2021
The Pavilion of the African Diaspora was born from the need for a space on the global stage centred on the voices and contributions of people born of the African Diaspora. Swiss-based designer Ini Archibong has been working together with a Collective who have been dispersed to countries far and wide, some by choice and others by force. It is a sacred reimagining of the journey of African permanence and resources.
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© Tincti, 2019. Photo: Gina Folly
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Liverpool Biennial, Lewis's Building, Liverpool L1 1JX
RETO PULFER
19 May - 27 June 2021
The ‘indoor’ chapter of the Liverpool Biennial 2021 features Reto Pulfer among more than 50 international artists exploring notions of the body. Drawing on non-Western ways of thinking, The Stomach and the Port challenges an understanding of the individual as a defined, self-sufficient entity.
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Illustration view © Eva Herzog, courtesy the artist and Drawing Room, London
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The VOV ft. Drawing Room, online
MARC BAUER
Until 6 June 2021
Navigate the exhibition and explore its online contents! The VOV is sharing a virtual revival of the 2019 exhibition Mal Ȇtre/Performance, by Marc Bauer, presented at Drawing Room in London and at De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea. Marc Bauer addresses key themes such as nationalism, power, heredity, gender and identity through his chosen medium, drawing.
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Photo: Serge Hoeltschi © Diogenes Verlag
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CHARLES LEWINSKY
The Story of the Storyteller
To coincide with Charles Lewinsky’s 75th birthday, Shaun Whiteside, a translator from German who in 2015 translated Lewinsky’s Melnitz, interviewed him about his life and works for New Books in German. The Swiss publisher Diogenes has re-released several books by Lewinsky, as well as a new book in which the author reflects on his own writing.
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© Jeanne Tullen
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JEANNE TULLEN
Get ready for a full body workout! Presented as a website offering a range of interactive workout tutorials, theworkout.ch is in fact an experiment, developing innovative ways of physically engaging with digital mediums. It plays with the willingness of the user to perform to its screen; the more the user engages, the more the website gives.
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Petri Dish: On Launching V/A - Various Artists © Pro Helvetia
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V/A - VARIOUS ARTISTS
The online magazine V/A – Various Artists, initiated by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, is aimed at internationally active arts and cultural practitioners with the intention of sharing their perspectives, experiences and domain knowledge in selected contributions. V/A offers a free and editorially independent forum in which authors from various countries, artistic disciplines and scenes can present their point of view and their practice.
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