GILES ROUND: 'LIVING STRUCTURE' IN THE MEADOWS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE

Living Structure by Giles Round

For The Institute of Beyond Wysing has programmed an ongoing series of events, talks, screenings and a large outdoor music event. Giles Round has created a semi-permanent sculptural structure, commissioned as part of the year’s programming, within and on which, this activity has taken place. Through discussion, and building from Alberto Pérez-Gómez’s reference to The Open City of Ritoque that the “possibility of founding a city in poetic acts removes architecture from abstract geometry and centers it on the poetic word”, Round has interpreted the structures of Ken Isaacs. Isaacs’ book How To Build Your Own Living Structures (1974) formed a basis for the project. In it Isaacs describes his Matrix Idea of building sustainable, eco-friendly, modular, flexible, multi-functional living structures which reconfigure the entire volume of a room, being bigger than furniture and smaller than architecture. Isaacs covers the philosophical meanings of surplus and uses the designs as a means of addressing life as whole; a simple place that has a low impact on the surrounding natural environment. Isaacs’ structures are endlessly re-configurable and can be made to fit any number of potential uses. Round has appropriated Isaacs’ methods of construction and ideology and created a performance platform which can be re-configured afterwards to fit future possible uses.

http://www.gilesround.co.uk/

GILES ROUND AND MARK AERIAL WALLER AT SANAA'S SERPENTINE GALLERY PAVILION PRESENT: 'KAFFE PITTORESK: L'EXPERIENCE DU MONDE VISIONNAIRE'

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 Designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA


Giles Round, poet Kenneth Bostock, curator Vic Brooks and friend


Serpentine gallery co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist wearing African parangole with Tate Modern curator Jessica Morgan


Simon Popper watching the film from outside...


Oliver Robb and Philipa Horan watching the film from the grass...


Guztav Metzger going home...


hairy chest and misoginist anti-hero...


Hans Ulrich and Serpentine Gallery Director Julia Peyton Jones


Charles & Ray Eames 'Black Top' film overlapped over Barbet Schroeder's 'More'


Serpentine Gallery Public Programme curator Nicola Lees dressed with Sponge Bob caftan


Sponge Bob singing Surf Board appears on screen


Sponge Bob appearing on real life


Serpentine pavilion at night, notice Sponge Bobs to the left


The End, Japanese girls leaving with fake Jeff Koons!


Kafe Pittoresk: l’Expérience du Monde Visionnaire
Giles Round and Mark Aerial Waller
Serpentine Gallery Park Nights:
Friday 14 August 2009, 8pm

Giles Round and Mark Aerial Waller present an evening that uses Barbet Schroeder’s counter-cultural film More, 1969, as a framework for a psychedelic presentation of music, sculpture and performance. The London-based artists take influences from sources including Constructivism and the artist Jeff Koons, and they re-edit some of the film’s sequences, mixing them with footage from modernist abstract films.

KAFE PITTORESK: L’Expérience du Monde Visionnaire is an evening presented by Giles Round & Mark Aerial Waller that uses Barbet Schroeder’s counter cultural 60s film 'More' as a framework for the presentation of actions, music & sculpture. The event presents a tragic hippy trajectory played out through the summer dust of Ibiza. This, the vista of the Kafe Pittoresk constructs its own suggestive narrative based on a psychedelic & disjointed history beginning with Constructivism & terminating with the corporatisation of culture. L’Expérience du Monde Visionnaire presents a series of increasingly psychedelic experimentations through diversions into key modernist abstract film, a re-working of the soundtrack & spatial/temporal incongruities.

Kafe Pittoresk is a franchise of the universal mega-brand Taverna Especial. Irrespective of Taverna Especial’s original singular vision & ideological mission statement, Kafe Pittoresk adapted to become a platform for plurality.

TAVERNA ESPECIAL, A biography, 2003 to present
Established in the summer of 2003 Taverna Especial is both a kitchen & a salon for the reception & consideration of a singular art work. Co founded by Giles Round & Mark Aerial Waller, Taverna Especial has a dynamic & mythic core, as such it was created through a constantly evolving system of chance happenings. The original premises situated on an estate parade off Hackney Road closed it’s doors in 2006 following the traumatic metamorphosis of the area by the set dressers of dystopic science fiction fable Children of Men. With no permanent location the now nomadic kitchen Taverna Especial continues to develop it’s ideological stance & adapts it’s structure to create situational shifts. Taverna Especial embraces contradiction.

Park Nights 2009 Park Nights is an annual series of events staged every Friday night in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. This year’s programme includes music, theatre, performances, talks and film screenings. The website gives details of the events that run over the summer until September. The season culminates in October with Poetry Marathon, the latest in the Gallery’s acclaimed series of Marathons, conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Gallery Co-Director.

All events are held in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 Designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA

http://www.serpentinegallery.org

GILES ROUND AND MARK AERIAL WALLER WITH RODEO GALLERY PRESENT 'SIMON AND THE RADIOACTIVE FLESH' IN ATHENS

Sylvia Kouvali, Mark Aerial Waller, Giles Round


Sylvia Kouvali dancing to the Radioactive Flesh


Stuart Comer, Sylvia Kouvali and Willem de Rooij

SIMON AND THE RADIOACTIVE FLESH
A film and intermittent art video screening that transcends into a purgatorial nightclub setting.

Simon and the Radioactive Flesh uses Luis Buñuel's 45 minute film 'Simon del Desierto' of an ascetic, Simon (played by Claudio Brook), a devotee of Simon Stylites, who proclaims his faith through standing on a column in the desert. The devil (played by Silvia Pinal) visits on several occasions to lure him from his duty, eventually succeeding in transposing him to purgatory; an existential beat nightclub in 1960's New York. In this reworking of the original film, each time the devil appears the narrative is interrupted by the insertion of a contemporary video art work. The interruptions continue throughout the film until finally we too are spatially interrupted, finding ourselves in a parallel to the purgatorial nightclub setting of the film's last dance, Carne Radioactivo (the Radioactive Flesh).

Artists' videos in running order:
Sophie Brown & Catherine Evelid / It's Time to Give In, Bernhard Willhelm & Dirk Bonn / The Rose, Pablo Bronstein / Trojan Horse, Benjamin Callaway / Plane, Omer Ali Kazma / She has had it, Mark Leckey / We are (untitled), Assume Vivid Astro Focus/ Relevee.

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