UK/ V&A – Disobedient Objects
EXHIBITION – DISOBEDIENT OBjECTS
until 1st February 2015
Explore objects that have been created as powerful tools of social change. Disobedient Objects demonstrates how political activism drives a wealth of design ingenuity, and showcases collective creativity that defies standard definitions of art and design. The exhibition focuses on the period from the late 1970s to the present: a time that has brought new technologies along with social and political challenges. An extensive range of objects from all over the world is on display, from Chilean folk art textiles that document political violence, to a graffiti-writing robot and giant inflatable cobblestones designed to be thrown at demonstrations.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/disobedient-objects/
including, until 2nd November 2014
A WORLD TO WIN: POSTERS OF PROTEST AND REVOLUTION
Paintings, Room 88a and The Julie and Robert Breckman Prints & Drawing Gallery, Room 90
and. 24th October 2014, 7pm – 9.30pm
RICHARD T GIBSON: A WHO’S WHO IN THE WORLD OF PROTEST AND REVOLUTION
Meet Richard T. Gibson, African American expatriate journalist and author who will be in conversation with historian S. I. Martin. Using material from the V&A display A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution, Richard will share stories of his encounters with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Claudia Jones, Robert Mugabe and more.
Free, drop-in Drinks reception £5, no concessions
and 21st November 2014, 6.30pm – 10pm
Explore art and performance as tools for cultural exchange, identity and self-expression. Adopting the premise that anyone can design protest, release your inner activist, your agent provocateur, and attempt to change the world through a self-initiated campaign. Flash mobs, hashtags, selfies, up-cycling, masquerade, spoken word, TEDtalks, PechaKuchas, films and freedom songs are at hand to help you think it, say it or do it!
CONFERENCE, CURATING CONFLICTS: DISOBEDIENT OBJECTS
8th November 2014, 10.30am – 5.15pm
This international conference will explore the challenges in archiving and curating objects and artefacts of recent and historical political conflict. Speakers include Josh McPhee, and Jen Hoyer from the Interference Archive New York, Liberate Tate, Michael McMillan, Pogus Caesar, Jonathan Barnbrook , Ruth Morrow and Carrie Reichardt
£25, £20 concessions, £15 students
In collaboration with the University of Kingston
WORKSHOP – DISOBEDIENT TEXTILES
Saturday 13 – Sunday 14 December, 10.30 – 17.00
Make a Disobedient Object of your own in this Arduino and e-Textiles workshop. Learn how to interact with elements such as LEDs, motors and speakers through the Arduino programming environment before programming an ATtiny chip which will be embedded into a soft object using materials to control an interaction with your object. Led by Codasign £160, £128 concessions
V&A SOUTH KENSINGTON
Cromwell Road London SW7 2RL
10am – 5.45pm daily
10am – 10pm Fridays (On Fridays selected galleries remain open after 5.45)
Admission to the V&A is free but a separate charge may apply to some exhibitions and events.
Exhibition – Disobedient Objects – Victoria and Albert Museum
www.vam.ac.uk
26 July 2014 – 1 February 2015: From Suffragette teapots to protest robots, this exhibition is the first to examine the powerful role of objects in movements for social change. It demonstrates how political activism drives a wealth of design ingenuity and collective creativity that defy standard def…