Parade: modes of assembly and forms of address

Critical Practice would like to invite you to Parade. This landmark event will explore the diverse, contested and vital conceptions of being in public. Set in a bespoke structure designed by Ola Wasilkowska and Michał Piasecki, with a host of international contributors, Parade will challenge the lazy, institutionalised model of knowledge transfer. Our modes of assembly, our forms of address and the knowledge we share will be intimately bound.

THE MARKET OF IDEAS: SUNDAY 23RD MAY, 2pm - 6pm:

Critical Practice would like to invite you to Parade. This landmark event will explore the diverse, contested and vital conceptions of being in public. Set in a bespoke structure designed by Ola Wasilkowska and Michał Piasecki, with a host of international contributors, Parade will challenge the lazy, institutionalised model of knowledge transfer. Our modes of assembly, our forms of address and the knowledge we share will be intimately bound.

LAUNCH: FRIDAY 21ST MAY, 5pm - 7pm
Potluck snacks (bring and share) while Open Music Archive plays music from the commons.
More info: http://criticalpracticechelsea.org/wiki/index.php?title=Parade_Launch_Ev...

A DAY OF CONSECUTIVE BAR CAMPS: SATURDAY 22ND MAY, 10am - 6pm:
These open, participatory workshop-events will explore being in public past, present and future. Come and contribute.
More info: http://criticalpracticechelsea.org/wiki/index.php?title=Parade_BarCamps_...

THE MARKET OF IDEAS: SUNDAY 23RD MAY, 2pm - 6pm:
Markets are good at distributing resources. Based on the model of the ancient bazaar, Parade will convene a Market of Ideas in which 'stalls' staffed by artists, academics, urbanists, geographers, environmentalists, health workers, anthropologists, economists and others will allow for the exchange of knowledge with the milling public. The Market of Ideas will explore the distribution of public knowledge, embody peer-2-peer exchange, and build communal resources.
More info: http://criticalpracticechelsea.org/wiki/index.php?title=Parade_Market_of...

Location: The Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art and Design (beside Tate Britain) 16 John Islip St., London, SW1P 4JU (Tube: Pimlico, Vauxhall (Victoria Line, buses 2, C10, 36, 77A, 88, 185, 436)

Annie Abrahams (b. NL 1954, lives and works FR) is an internationally regarded pioneer of networked performance art. If not you not me at HTTP Gallery in London is the first solo exhibition of her work in the UK. While social networking sites make us think of communication as clean and transparent, Annie Abrahams creates an Internet of feeling - of agitation, collusion, ardour and apprehension. This exhibition presents three new collaborative works alongside documentation of recent networked performances created and curated by the artist.