Anti Design Festival

Sunday 26 September
Future Finale, curated by Cecilia Wee
Jennifer Walshe presents a voice and electronics performance with Irish outsider artist Caoimhin Breathnach’s texts and “subliminal tapes”
Artist Tom Badley talks about breaking and being broken in Anti-Design
” “[sic] TIM GOLDIE (one of the most original noise musicians today)
6th Hour Productions ask the public to partake in a perilous artistic act
The Anti-Design Festival ends with Makiko Nagaya and Peter Lewis (with Peter Fillingham) making 4 Flags/4 Stops using Rorschach blots, and spraying four circles

Saturday 25 September
Sub Cosplay ball, curated by Emily Wolf (Grand Cos Play Ball)
An evening of spontaneous entertainment from installation artists including guest performers Emily Bastian, Chococat, DJs, fashion show, cabaret and art throughout the night inspired by Japanese pop / culture, cosplay and spontaneous art.
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Obsessive Classification Disorder

Join us to explore the power of symbols within communication, and collectively compose a musical score. Help guide a trio of musicians in a performance of a kind you have never heard before.

On Friday night we take your words, convert them into symbols, hand them to our musicians and make sweet music together.

On Saturday we take your words, convert them into symbols, hand them to The Librarian and make the books that will change how you interact with the world.

At close of business on Saturday, our Librarian will send several books out on a 13 week journey to help the world reconnect with the intuitive basis of language and interaction.

An afternoon of talks on Friday afternoon (24th Sept) around the theme of Renewal & Strategy to Destroy and Rebuild; presented by some of the most respected contemporary artists and designers around, including:

Jonathan Barnbrook

Neville Brody

Stuart Semple

Adrian Shaughnessy

Morag Myerscough

Gerald Laing

and Peter Kennard

Talks start at 1.30pm, each speaker will have 20 minutes before opening up to a debate. As tickets will be sold on a first come first serve basis arrive by 1pm to avoid disappointment.

Tickets cost £30, or £20 concessions.

Held in the ADF main space at 28 Redchurch Street, E2 7DP.

Wednesday 22 September
Curated by Emily Wolf
A unique visual collection of 3 live energetic bands. Alongside a spectacular daring installation performance by Begona Fernández and guest DJ Kitten:
JOHNNY Lazer^^
Raven Beats Crow
Pharaohs From the Grave

Friday 23rd September, 1-5pm, £30.00
The ADF are delighted to announce further details of their afternoon of short presentations, ideas and debates this coming Friday 23rd September. Running between 1pm and 5pm key guest speakers include Peter Kennard, Adrian Shaughnessy, Stewart Semple, Johathan Barnbrook, Neville Brody and others to be announced. Tickets will be available from the ADF space at 28 Redchurch Street from Wednesday onwards, or on the door – priced £30.00 per ticket / £25.00 for concessions (Students – with valid photo ID). For further information please check the ADF blog where a more detailed programme will be made available as soon as possible.

Tuesday 21 September
Anti-Matters, curated by Richard Thomas (Resonance FM)
An evening of talks about negation, negative space, negative aesthetics, trash culture and anti-matter, including:
SHREDS – Stewart Home discusses anti-art, auto-destructive art and shreds books in an homage to John Latham.
The Psychoanalysis of Trash – Ken Hollings gives a lecture on how Ludwig II of Bavaria and Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Big Daddy Roth, Morris Lapidus and Kenneth Anger can never be recycled
Sewer Side – Anthropologist and broadcaster Bruno Rinvolucri (University of Oxford) has spent the last two years exploring London’s sewer system, a subterranean negative space if ever there was one.
Destruction and Negative Space – Curator Mathieu Copeland discusses auto-destructive art, and art and voids.
Anti-Matter – Dr.Ed Gerstner, physicist and the editor of Nature Physics magazine discusses particle physics and matter and its opposite, anti-matter.

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Monday 20 September
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Technology,
Exploring electro-magnetism, data and ownership through lecture, performance and sounds, curated by Cecilia Wee:
A performonstration, Manually Decode the Magnetic Stripe (or When Crafting Leads to Hacking) by Jenny Leary
Ken Hollings, a lecture on sex, death and design, Towards A Sexual History Of Machines
Less Crouton Jonez perform a shamanistic noise project based on electromagnetic interference and voltage switching miniature turntables

Sunday 19 September
Subverting belief – an evening of performance curated by Cecilia Wee including:
Mark McGowan on what it is like to be a football hooligan
Bill Thompson discusses digitization and giving the enlightenment another 500 years
Steven Ounanian performs audience experiments about belief
Ryan Jordan presents Sensory Response Systems – immersing, hypnotic, and sometimes hallucinatory noise performance

The Anti Design Festival are pleased to announce Mestakes and Manifestos (M&M!), curated by Daniel Charny, which echoes the ADF’s call to shake off bad habits, to refresh and engage, be awake and active. Presenting a series of works and activities pulled together to excite conversation, the M&M! space is an invitation to think, make and talk about design.

Manifestos are calls to action, inciting response, setting principles and direction, responding to the past and conceiving the future, proudly declared and highly desirable to those who create them. They are briefs. Mistakes on the other hand are unwanted results. Together they hold the creative process from opposing sides. Both, undeniably, are sources for new creative directions. And like parenthesis they contain only the sides.

Running for the first four days on the ADF (18th to 21st September 2010), the M&M! space will be an open programme of selected exhibits and some scheduled events. Among these will be performance artist Giles Ripley’s self help film I’m a Winner (Why Aren’t You!!!); Social interventions designer Hwang Kim’s short film series Star Pizza; people will be able to sit on Cut up Benches by David Amar; see material and gesture experiments in Archive by Maker Therese Morch; experience Speed Creating an ambitious project by designer Dominic Wilcox; hear a talk by anti designer Jerszy Seymour entitled A New World Adventurers Guide (Saturday 18th September 16.00pm); and listen to other manifesto readings which will be megaphoned from a new take on the speakers corner by designer Alon Meron.

A manifesto wall, Open Spike, by designer Martino Gamper will accumulatively display both commissioned and open submission manifestos, and will be vying for attention with The Fabrats, led by Stu Bannocks, who will be making low tech rapid prototypes to test out the ideas. Guesting Master Makers who will join The Fabrats, and be setting some the agendas, include Matt Jones of Berg. Surprise manifesto readers will be taking part throughout the days.

At best we expect [ M&M! ] to be a lively scene of investigation offering new directions, in the least an alternative to well rehearsed design and at worst another trendy hyped up London show.

Now available for your viewing displeasure – the ADF NON-Designed Guide.

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The ADF Beta Guide is now available to download. Full and incomplete details of every and most of the events that will be happening over the coming weeks.
Watch this space for updates, dates and correcting spelling mistakes.

Download the Designed ADF Guide beta NOW.

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The Launch of the Anti Design Festival is almost upon us. To celebrate, we are giving away ADF Gun – the brand new Font designed by Neville Brody.
This font is absolutely No Rights Reserved and Copyright Free.

Click here to Download the ADF Gun Font

A bank holiday weekend present from the Anti Design Festival.

Research Studios are doing a one-day workshop at the Anti Design Festival and are looking for poster submissions to feature as part of an interactive floor-to-ceiling poster wall in a large workshop space.

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Neville Brody launches the next phase of the Anti-Design Festival (ADF) in Paris this week, when he is joined by the French illustration and activist group Bazooka.

Brody and Bazooka will be in conversation at the OFFF festival, talking about the French groups retrospective taking place at the Aubin Wills Gallery in London, organised as part of Stuart Semple’s contribution to the ADF. The Bazooka retrospective will be accompanied by new publications and works, including a collaboration with Neville Brody.

Bazooka will preview work being prepared for ADF, while Neville Brody will explain inspiration behind his manifesto.