04/10/2008 - 19/10/2008

The Beautiful Children

Preview: Friday, 3rd October 2008 6pm - late
Open 4th to 19th October, Wed to Sun, 12 - 7pm
The Wenlock Building, 50-60 Wharf Road,
London, N1 7RN, (see map below)

E:vent presents The Beautiful Children, a group exhibition of drawings; a banquet inside the belly of an Iguanodon; and a chilling return to The Night of the Hunter.

Curated by Joakim Borda and Colm Lally

Featuring work by Maurizio Anzeri (IT) / Fergal and George Brennan (IE) / Bernard Debaillie (BE) / E:vent (UK) / Kino Fist (UK) / ambientTV.NET with Shiho Fukuhara (UK/JP) / Foreign Investment (UK) / Chad Horn (US) / Eric Length (SE) / Cyril Lepetit (FR) / EvaMarie Lindahl (SE) / Julie Nord (DK) / /seconds (UK) / Matteo Rosa (IT) / Liam Scully and Vanessa Scully (UK) / Iv Toshain (AT)

PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS
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3rd Oct 2008, 7 - 11pm
• Immaculate Conception, dinner performance by Foreign Investment
• The Night of the Hunter, music performance by Fergal and George Brennan
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5th Oct 2008, 2 - 5pm
Apocalypse! film screenings and fanzine publication from Kino Fist
- La Soufrière (1977), Werner Herzog
- Threads (1984), Mick Jackson
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12th Oct 2008, 5 - 6pm
Teatime, performance by Cyril Lepetit
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12th Oct 2008, 6 - 11pm
Horror! film screenings from Liam Scully and Vanessa Scully
- Heavenly Creatures (1994), Peter Jackson
- Its Alive (1973), Larry Cohen
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16th Oct 2008, 7 - 11pm
Vanishing Point: The Vicious And Virtuous Circle, launch event for the latest issue of /seconds published by Peter Lewis
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17th Oct 2008, 2 - 5pm
ambient.vista: presentation by Shiho Fukuhara as part of her artist residency at ambientTV.NET
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18th Oct 2008, 7 - 11pm
Victorian Gardens, dinner performance to launch E:vent’s upcoming Victorian Garden project by Joakim Borda, Verina Gfader, Colm Lally, and Gerald Straub
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This exhibition is part of The Wharf Road Project organised by V22.
The Wharf Road Project brings more than 20 innovative contemporary art initiatives together for the first time in a central location, creating a seminal showcase for the more unusual and innovative. The Wharf Road Project is not an art fair, but a large-scale exhibition featuring the best of London’s specialist and experimental art spaces, complemented by a programme of performances, screenings, music and guided tours.

Participants include: The David Roberts Art Foundation; Martin Creed for V22; Martin Westwood for V22; Carter Presents; David Risley; E:vent; The Hex; Parade; Seventeen; Stedefreund, Berlin; Supplement; Collecting Live Art; Everyday press; Fieldgate; igloo; Linda Persson and Natasha Rees; PILOT; Poignancy passing Muster; TOM ROWLAND FINE ART; Truck Art; MOT Presents: THE NEW DOME; Fergal Stapleton, courtesy Carl Freedman; Laura White invites Alison Wilding, Bettina Buck and Phyllida Barlow; Peter Jones, courtesy of Pizza Horse and the Fat Sisters; Frog Morris with Lee Campbell; Matt Williams; Dallas Seitz, Lisa Penny & Trevor Hall.

The Wenlock Building, 50-60 Wharf Road,
London, N1 7RN