Music from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon played by a 1970s revival band assembled by Hiwa K

10–11 April, 2010, 2–4pmShishawi, 51–53 Edgware Road W2 www.serpentinegallery.org

Music from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon played by a 1970s revival band assembled by Hiwa K

10–11 April, 2010, 2–4pmShishawi, 51–53 Edgware Road W2 www.serpentinegallery.org

MARCH

1 March–15 AprilArtist in Residence: Hiwa K

Thursday 25 March 7pm The Seventies: Research in ProgressDonya Restaurant, 436 Edgware Road W2An evening with artist Hiwa K and global researchers.

APRIL

1 April–30 MayArtists in Residence: no.w.hereFree Cinema School II: Make a Scene!Inspired by the Free Cinema movement artists no.w.here and actors Khalid Abdalla and Cressida Trew move through the Edgware Road neighbourhood to make scenes for a collaborative film.

Saturday 10 April, Sunday 11 April 2–4pm dailyChicago Boys: while we were singing, they were dreaming... Shishawi, 51–53 Edgware Road, W2A weekend of music played by a 1970s revival band assembled by Hiwa K, followed by discussions about the 1970s in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan and America.

22 April–1 May Possible Studies Abroad (Beirut) Homeworks V: A Forum on Cultural Practices Artists CAMP and Hiwa K participate in Home Works V: A Forum on Cultural Practices, hosted by Edgware RoadProject partners, Ashkal Alwan: The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts.

MAY

1–15 MayArtists in Residence:Susan Hefunano.w.here

Saturday 1 May 11am–6pmPossible Exchanges: Deschooling SocietyNeighbourhoods SummitCentre for Possible Studies, 64 Seymour Street W1 A discussion between artists, activists, scholars and local people about the desires driving arts organisations to work in local neighbourhoods. Booking essential.

Wednesdays 5, 12 and 19 May 7–9pm Free Cinema School: Screening SalonsVarious locations. Check www.serpentinegallery.orgArtists no.w.here with actors Khalid Abdalla and Cressida Trew lead screening and discussion salons to inform a collaborative film about the Edgware Road. Open to anyone.

Thursday 13 May 11am–1pmSusan Hefuna: Fantasy SpacesWestminster Academy, 255 Harrow Road, London W2A competition for students in Year 9 at Westminster Academy. The winning structures will be realised by students in collaboration with designers, textile artists and dancers.

Monday 24 May7pmPossible Exchanges: From Archive to Action Centre for Possible Studies, 64 Seymour Street W1 Join curator Bassam El Baroni (Alexandria), artists-in- residence no.w.here (London) and Rania Stephan (Beirut) to discuss international exchanges of art, ideas and desires.

Sunday 30 May 2–8pmCentre for Possible Studies: We’re Open! Centre for Possible Studies, 64 Seymour Street W1 Celebrate the opening of the Centre for Possible Studies in its new location. View ongoing projects by artists-in-residence.

Edgware Road. Free Cinema School, 2009 © no.w.herePhotograph: Sarah Pucill

Cairo Stories 2009. Special Edition postcard © Susan Hefuna

Clockwise: Bendaly Family, © Bendaly Family; Googoosh © Googoosh tv; Chicago Boys: while we were singing, they were dreaming... members include: Cihat Arinc, Janna Graham, Hiwa K, Helene Kazan, Amal Khalaf, Bland Mahdi, Roshi, Abbas Nokhasteh, Noura Sanatian, Shimon Sakakibara and Nicolas Vass. Photograph: Sophie Ballmer

JUNE–JULY

Artists in Residence:Lamia JoreigeRania Stephan

Saturdays in June11am–6pmFree Cinema School Course: Make a Scene! Centre for Possible Studies, 64 Seymour Street W1Young people with a relationship to the Edgware Road are invited to an intensive course to make films with artists from no.w.here and actors Khalid Abdalla and Cressida Trew.

Tuesday 29 June7pmPossible Exchanges: Image and Movement Centre for Possible Studies, 64 Seymour Street W1 Lamia Joreige and Rania Stephan, in conversation with members of the London-based XTalk: free language classes for migrant sex workers.

Wednesdays in July3–8pmWednesdays in the BasementCentre for Possible Studies, 64 Seymour Street W1 A drop-in swap session inviting people to generate posters, placemats, websites and typefaces related to the Edgware Road. Facilitated by åbäke design collective.

Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 July 11am–5pmCourse: Free Cinema School IIICentre for Possible Studies, 64 Seymour Street W1 Weekend film and video Master Class with Rania Stephan and Lamia Joreige. Booking essential as spaces are limited.

AUGUST–SEPTEMBER

1 August–30 SeptemberArtist in Residence: Marwan Rechmaoui

Friday 3 September7pmSerpentine Gallery Park Night: Edgware RoadSerpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 designed by Jean Nouvel

Tuesday 7 September7pmPossible Exchanges: Forming the Political Centre for Possible Studies, 64 Seymour Street W1 Artist’s talk by Marwan Rechmaoui.

UPCOMING

September–October 2010Re-AssemblyStudent opera by Ultra-red and St. Marylebone School

November–December 2010Cairo Stories and Free Cinema School (Cairo)Parallel events in London and Cairo.

January–March 2011Writing the Possible Visiting artists and local groups develop propositions for the future.

April 2011Studies on a RoadAn international forum including presentations of ‘possible studies’ that have been undertaken by artists and local people on the Edgware Road and abroad.

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The Centre for Possible Studies64 Seymour Street London W1Opens 30 MayWednesdays 3–8pm and Thursday–Saturday 2–5pm

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ContactJanna Graham, Projects Curatorjannag@serpeninegallery.org+44 (0)20 7298 1535

Amal Khalaf, Edgware Road Project Assistantamalk@serpentinegallery.org +44 (0)20 7298 1535

The Edgware Road Project in collaboration with

Ashkal Alwan: The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts (Beirut) (Cairo)

Projects supported by

The Edgware Road Project supported by

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Omni ColourWestminster Arts

Serpentine Gallery supported by

The Serpentine Gallery’s Edgware Road Project links local and international artists with people living and working in this London neighbourhood. The project base is the Centre for Possible Studies, home to screenings, events and an ongoing project archive. Participating artists include:

CAMPSusan HefunaLamia JoreigeHiwa Kno.w.here, with actors Khalid Abdalla & Cressida TrewMarwan Rechmaoui Wael ShawkyRania StephanUltra-red

The Edgware Road Project

25 March– 1 October 2010

Events

Artists, Possible Studies

Re-Assembly: Civis Sum, 2009. Ultra-red with year 9 students at St. Marylebone School © Mark Blower

CAMP is a Mumbai-based collective that tests the ground between art and the public. Working with people involved in the infrastructures of water, cable TV and the internet, CAMP have developed temporary TV and radio stations, annotated film archives and websites. For the Edgware Road Project, CAMP have created edgwareroad.org, an open publishing platform for local research to be distributed as journals, placemats, pamphlets and webcasts. Their residency is a collaboration with Gasworks and The Arts Catalyst.

Susan Hefuna takes up everyday aspects of life in her work. Working in photography, video, drawing, sculpture, and digital media, much of Hefuna’s work is informed by her dual heritage (German–Egyptian). Hefuna is working in collaboration with students at Westminster Academy on the production of fantasy architectures for public speech and education. Her residency is undertaken in collaboration with Townhouse Gallery in Cairo.

Hiwa K is an artist and musician who is interested in informal knowledge, performativity and the artist as amateur. Born in Iraq, he is now based in Germany. On the Edgware Road, Hiwa has created a 1970s revival band, recalling music and politics from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon. His residency is undertaken in collaboration with The Showroom, where he has co-curated Estrangement, an ongoing exchange between artists in Poland and Iraq.

The end of... 2007 © Lamia Joreige

Lamia Joreige's work explores notions of archive through writing, installation and film and video production. She is co-founder of the Beirut Art Center and among many exhibitions, has developed projects for the Sharjah and Venice Biennials. She is engaging in ongoing cinema investigations on the Edgware Road. Her residency is undertaken in collaboration with The Delfina Foundation.

Formed in 2004, no.w.here is an artist run space in London where the place of the moving image within contemporary art can be explored and expanded. They produce projects, events, facilities, workshops and education programmes. On the Edgware Road, no.where work with actors Khalid Abdalla and Cressida Trew to recall histories of Britain’s Free Cinema movement, producing a collaborative film made by those with links to the neighbourhood.

Actor Khalid Abdalla, known for his lead role in the film The Kite Runner, spent his youth on the Edgware Road. He iscurrently producer of In the Last Days of the City, a feature length film shot in Cairo, Baghdad, Beirut, Alexandria andBerlin. Abdalla and collaborator Cressida Trew link the Free Cinema School to global independent cinema networks. His residency is undertaken in collaboration with Townhouse Gallery in Cairo. Marwan Rechmaoui studied Fine Arts in the United States. He lives and works in Beirut. He has taken part in many exhibitions and projects, including: Unveiled: New Art from the

Middle East, the Sharjah Biennial, Homeworks (Beirut) and the Townhouse Gallery (Cairo). His investigation of the Edgware Road can be seen at The Centre for Possible Studies in August and September. His residency is undertaken with Ashkal Alwan: The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts.

Rania Stephan was born in Beirut. She has worked as a sound engineer, editor, first assistant and producer with renowned filmmakers including Simone Bitton and Elia Suleiman. Her filmography includes: Tribe (1993), Attempt at Jealousy (1995), My First Camera (1998), Arrest at Manara (2003), Wastelands (2005), Lebanon/War (2006). She is currently working on a documentary about the legendary Egyptian film star Suad Hosni, rumoured to have died mysteriously in the Edgware Road neighbourhood. Her residency is undertaken with Ashkal Alwan: The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts.

Wael Shawky lives and works in Alexandria, Egypt. His works include Télématch Sadat, a presentation of the events surrounding the assassination of Sadat in 1981 re-enacted by children and Al-Aqsa Park, an animated film installation in which the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is displayed as a fairground carousel. His work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art, New York; the  Riwaq Biennale, Palestine; the Moscow Biennial, and Ashkal Alwan, Beirut. His residency is undertaken in collaboration with Townhouse Gallery in Cairo.

Ultra-red is a sound art collective that includes artists, researchers and organisers from a range of social movements. Collectively, the group have produced radio broadcasts, performances, recordings, installations, texts and public space actions featured on their fair-use online record label, Public Record. Ultra-red work with students at St. Marylebone School and local organisations on an opera that explores the politics of citizenship and migration. Their residency is undertaken in collaboration with Raven Row.

Edgware Road Project CollaboratorsAl Arez Lebanese CuisineThe Arts CatalystChurch Street Neighbourhood CentreThe Cockpit Theatre Delfina Foundation Donya RestaurantFreqOUT! Gasworks GalleryAl Shishawi (Miramar) Restaurant Raven Row St. Marylebone School The Showroom Tyburn Convent60 Penfold Street Westminster Academy Westminster ArtsWestminster City ArchivesXTalk

Eranda Foundation

DAMAGE: For Gaza ‘The Land of Sad Oranges’ (Ghassan Kanafani) 2009 © Rania Stephan

åbäke

Untitled 22 (The Arab World), 2005 © Marwan Rechmauoui