Bold Tendencies

To mark its first anniversary, Eating At the Same Table are hosting a Gathering in the Bold Tendencies Straw Auditorium. The Gathering brings together artists of colour working in a variety of media and contexts as well as allies who nurture and recognise the value of black art production.
This first Gathering will make time to discuss, explore and remould the concept of Art Institutions through the lens of different social imaginaries, in the process creating a new Phantasy ...
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The Ecology of Sound marks the culmination of The Dominant Eye, a project by Sian Lyn Hutchings and The Noematic Collective for Bold Tendencies’ 2018 Visual Arts Programme.
This symposium brings together Sian Lyn Hutchings, Salomé Voegelin, Tim Shaw, Angus Carlyle, and Andy Weir to discuss the hierarchy of the senses and accessing other modes of perception to navigate and construct meaning from experience. The event will focus on everyday sound and how it could be further ex...
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Siân Lyn Hutchings & The Noematic Collective present their Sonic Journal Workshop, a unique session tailored toward the Bold Tendencies Sonic Journal Library. The Library hosts a permanent collection of sounds recorded onto cassette tapes installed within the Straw Auditorium.
This workshop consists of ‘ear cleaning’ exercises first developed by R. Murray Schafer to re-engage the ears through a process of active listening. Taking as its impetus that our brain only retains 20...% of what it hears a day— what about the other 80%?
Participants are encouraged to think about dormant, active and extinct sounds as a way of categorising their environment. They will then make their own sonic journal for the day through drawings, writings and recordings. It does not matter how they choose to document their choice of sound, what is important is a focus on an active listening process.
The outcome of the workshop is to teach participants the difference between active listening and hearing. To open their ears to the wealth of sounds and information around them, and to re-engage their sense of listening alongside visual perception.
This workshop will be held in response to the larger project title of Siân Lyn Hutchings and The Noematic Collective’s Bold Tendencies 2018 commission: ‘The Dominant Eye’.
Siân Lyn Hutchings (b. 1994) Siân Lyn Hutchings is an artist concerned with understanding environments through the process of ‘active listening’. Her work approaches experience through an equality of the senses, using sonic representation to present site-specific work through a form of aural architecture. Through her work, Siân aims to highlight the importance of sonic understanding, acoustic ecologies, and our capacity to navigate experience through a multitude of senses beyond the West’s ocular-centric lens.
The Noematic Collective Founded by Siân Lyn Hutchings in 2016, are a collective who explore how we understand place, environments and social impacts through sound. The group currently consists of practicing artists, students and graduates from Arts University Bournemouth: Charles Pritchard, Georgie Ryan, Tobias Gumbrill, Oscar Lockey, Oliver Matich, Maddison Collymore and Siân Lyn Hutchings. They have exhibited in BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, The Drawing Studio, Arts University Bournemouth and have run sonic-based workshops at Goldsmiths University, Northumbria University and Arts University Bournemouth.
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Siân Lyn Hutchings & The Noematic Collective present COBRA, a brand new workshop that draws from the work of experimental composer John Zorn, fostering an acute awareness of our surrounding sonic ecologies and the inherent musicality of day-to-day objects.
Using the Bold Tendencies site as a base to generate experimental compositions, objects will be chosen by The Noematic Collective for their predominantly visual function. These objects will then be transformed into instrum...ents, changing the way we perceive those objects into sonic forms.
Following John Zorn’s 1988 album ‘Cobra’, we will generate a composition with participants using visual references as symbols to conduct with. The workshop will look to foreground our sonic awareness of objects and build on alternative ways of understanding daily experience, particularly within a museum context.
Without the prerequisite of formal training, our participants will organise sounds around themselves through experimental conducting techniques, providing them with the ability to remediate the surrounding soundscape of their day-to-day lives.
This workshop will be held in response to the larger project title of Siân Lyn Hutchings and The Noematic Collective’s Bold Tendencies 2018 commission: ‘The Dominant Eye’.
Siân Lyn Hutchings (b. 1994) Siân Lyn Hutchings is an artist concerned with understanding environments through the process of ‘active listening’. Her work approaches experience through an equality of the senses, using sonic representation to present site-specific work through a form of aural architecture. Through her work, Siân aims to highlight the importance of sonic understanding, acoustic ecologies, and our capacity to navigate experience through a multitude of senses beyond the West’s ocular-centric lens.
The Noematic Collective Founded by Siân Lyn Hutchings in 2016, are a collective who explore how we understand place, environments and social impacts through sound. The group currently consists of practicing artists, students and graduates from Arts University Bournemouth: Charles Pritchard, Georgie Ryan, Tobias Gumbrill, Oscar Lockey, Oliver Matich, Maddison Collymore and Siân Lyn Hutchings. They have exhibited in BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, The Drawing Studio, Arts University Bournemouth and have run sonic-based workshops at Goldsmiths University, Northumbria University and Arts University Bournemouth.
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The Order of Time: Es Devlin from text written by Carlo Rovelli read by Benedict Cumberbatch
We live in an age of wonderful science writing, and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time, is an example of the very best. Time is something we think we know about instinctively; here he shows how profoundly strange it really is — Philip Pullman, CBE
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The White Review in collaboration with Bold Tendencies presents an event which brings together a panel of writers and visual artists whose work engages with one of the most urgent topics of our times: ecology. Join us for an evening of readings and roundtable discussion exploring questions of planetary vulnerability, mourning, ecopoetics and the nonhuman.
Dr. Amy Cutler is a cultural geographer, curator, poet, and film-maker, as well as Early Career Research Fellow in GeoHuma...
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Bold Tendencies with Polly Graham, and her recently formed company, Loud Crowd, are bringing a new opera programme to Peckham, beginning in 2018 with Viktor Ullmann’s The Emperor of Atlantis and a special rehearsed reading of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ Young Blood!, ahead of a major production of this work here in 2019. We believe opera can appeal to many more people than it currently does, but this requires an active shift in mindset and a new, energetic and ambitious approac...
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Bold Tendencies with Polly Graham, and her recently formed company, Loud Crowd, are bringing a new opera programme to Peckham, beginning in 2018 with Viktor Ullmann’s The Emperor of Atlantis and a special rehearsed reading of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ Young Blood!, ahead of a major production of this work here in 2019. We believe opera can appeal to many more people than it currently does, but this requires an active shift in mindset and a new, energetic and ambitious approac...
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On the 1st August 2018, Lawrence Lek presents the launch of Farsight Corporation: a new project which imagines the future of ‘smart cities’. Set in a future London, where intelligent urban systems monitor and interact with their clients, the project speculates on issues surrounding the interaction of architecture and artificial intelligence.
The science-fiction scenario revolves around a Chinese technology company - Farsight - which uses London as a prototype for its range o...
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How ingredients such as sugar, grains and chilli have shaped the globalised world, and how consumption, exchange, politics and economics determine – and are determined by – these elements? Join Fozia Ismail and our friends at @SerpentineUK for a food workshop and talk around chilli #RadicalKitchen

Following the success of OCD Love, Israeli contemporary dance company L-E-V Sharon Eyal | Gai Behar return to our friends at Sadler's Wells this July with the next instalment of their work, Love Chapter 2, exploring themes of love, obsession and loneliness...

Bold Tendencies with Young Turks welcome to our car park home the world-renowned L-E-V Sharon Eyal | Gai Behar presenting their major work OCD Love.
★★★★ "A grave beauty" The Guardian
L-E-V (meaning heart) was set up by Sharon Eyal, one of the world’s greatest choreographers, and collaborator Gai Behar.
... Founded five years ago, L-E-V made its London debut at Sadler's Wells in 2016 and returns to Sadler’s Wells 13 & 14 July to perform Love Chapter 2: https://bit.ly/2zjyQPq
L-E-V present a new event OCD Love specially considered for the raw spaces at Bold Tendencies as a complement to the Sadler’s Wells performances. The dancers are dancing to the pulsating beats created by DJ Ori Lichtik. OCD Love is an important and powerful work in the L-E-V repertoire, and is the precursor to Love Chapter 2.
OCD Love is about love, about love that always misses, or lovers who keep missing each other. Out of sync. Like one person comes to bed and the other gets up. Like something that is full and intact, but has many holes in it. This work is about the holes.
"It is the first time that the core of the piece is shaped in my head, and so figurative, before we have even begun working. I know the way it feels and smells. Like the end of the world, without mercy. A smell of flowers, but very dark. Like falling into a hole and not coming back. A lot of noise, but desperation for quiet. It's not coming from a place that I want to make something sad, but something that I need to take out of myself, like a dark stone I have in my chest" - Sharon Eyal
Since 2006, Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar have been a significant voice in the artistic community, creating a continuous stream of critically acclaimed original works for dance companies around the world. L-E-V is the culmination of years of momentum, choreographed by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, accompanied by the original music of Ori Lichtik, delivered by fiercely talented dancers that move with expressive precision. L-E-V could be equally at home at a techno club or the opera house. L-E-V is the confluence of movement, music, lighting, fashion, art and technology.
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This weekend don’t miss The Multi Story Orchestra Chamber Series: Spoken Word and Music featuring London’s Young Poet Laureate Caleb Femi, Phoebe Wagner and Gabriel Jones alongside members of the Multi-Story Orchestra for a series of sets interweaving spoken word and live music.
Curated by Leke Oso-Alabi (poet) and Fra Rustumji (violin)
With live music by Fra Rustumji (violin), Anna Brigham (violin), Corentin Chassard (cello) and Jude Carlton (percussion)
... Tickets £10/5
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hello from above! 👋

#johannarens “Immobilisations” new commission for 2018 produced in partnership with #packandsend 📦#bold2018 #boldtendencies #ecology @ Bold Tendencies

@irikira “cloudburst” new commission for 2018 produced with support from @cassart1984 @montanacans sits in #richardwentworth “agora” - 📡 we are open today 11-11 pm

What an experience! I had high hopes and it didn't disappoint. From the multi-story car park itself to the straw auditorium everything was brilliant. With the act on the night Abel Selacoe topping everything off - getting the crowd involved at the end - I had a wonderful evening and my first experience of seeing classical music performed live was outstanding. I can't recommend a night out here enough.

Amazing programming year on year, providing so many of the highlights of our summers in London. We feel so privileged to live nearby and to be able to come so regularly. Thank you.

The family day today 7th September was amazing. From the storytelling to the painting the kids had a great time. All the people running the event were very friendly and welcoming. Thank you:)