Roman Ondák, ‘Teaching to walk’ (2002)
Every day a young mother spent half an hour in the gallery helping her child take its first steps.
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Amalia Pica
Amalia Pica, ‘I am Tower of Hamlets, as I am in Tower of Hamlets, just like a lot of other people are’ (2011-2012)
Sculpture based on the Echevaria plant, a species native to South America but popular in domestic environments world-wide due to its ability to thrive under any condition.
Residents of Tower Hamlets are invited to look after the sculpture (hand carved by Pica in pink granite) for one week, then passing it on to the next participant. This exchange happens every Saturday throughout the year. The sculpture’s travels will be recorded on a ‘lending card’, serving as a document of the meetings and exchanges between neighbours that made its journey possible. In June 2012, the sculpture will return to the gallery.
Stijn van Dorpe
Stijn van Dorpe, ‘Gilbert Gilbert (The space between my thumb and my middle finger)’ (2010)
Ken Okiishi
Stills from ‘(Goodbye to) Manhattan’ by Ken Okiishi
Okiishi has been living between New York and Berlin since 2001, and (Goodbye to) Manhattan combines materials from that experience (filmed between 2006 and 2009) into a seventy-two-minute, semiautobiographical transposition of Woody Allen’s classic Manhattan. Okiishi’s cast of characters is pared down to Manhattan‘s three female protagonists, interpreted by key players in the artist’s actual New York/Berlin life; its script is the Google translation, into English, of the German version of Allen’s original.
Watch the video here
