December 2012
SOUTHBANK CENTRE’S 2013 HIGHLIGHTS
Festivals and Series / Classical Music / Contemporary Music / Literature
Visual Arts / Performance and Dance
FESTIVALS
LONDON INTERNATIONAL MIME FESTIVAL
Saturday 12 – Sunday 27 January 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room
The best contemporary visual theatre from around the world returns to Southbank Centre for its 37th
year. In 2013, the festival will present cutting-edge pieces from France, Germany and Australia in an
unmissable programme that includes two UK premieres: My!Laika’ s Popcorn Machine, a French circus
theatre piece featuring acrobatics, a Chopin waltz and a popcorn volcano, inspired by Frank Zappa,
Jacky Chan, Kurt Schwitters and The Ramones; and multi award-winning Circle of Eleven’s Leo, which
combines world-class acrobatics, visual artistry and clever film manipulation in a journey of joyful
discovery and invention reminiscent of a wordless Samuel Beckett scenario.
YEAR-LONG THE REST IS NOISE FESTIVAL RETELLS STORY OF 20TH CENTURY
THROUGH 250 CONCERTS, FILMS, TALKS, DEBATES AND EXHIBITIONS
19 January – December 2013, Southbank Centre
The Rest Is Noise Festival, a cultural and musical history of the 20th century told through 250 events –
concerts, film screenings, talks, debates and exhibitions – opens on 19 January 2013 and runs
throughout the year until December 2013.The London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC and The Open
University are partners of the Festival. At the heart of the programme will be a series of 100 concerts
featuring key works from across the century, in a chronology which begins with Richard Strauss and
concludes with John Adams. Running alongside the concert series, 12 weekends throughout the year
explore specific moments in the 20th century. Eighteen orchestras are taking part including Resident
Orchestras, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, and Philharmonia Orchestra, as
well as the BBC Concert Orchestra, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, The Hallé, Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra and Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductors and soloists include: Vladimir
Patron: Her Majesty The Queen. Chairman: Rick Haythornthwaite.
Chief Executive: Alan Bishop. Artistic Director: Jude Kelly OBE
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Jurowski, Marin Alsop, Michael Tilson Thomas, Simone Young, Barbara Hannigan, Karim Said and
Katia and Marielle Labèque. Speakers featured in the weekends include: Alex Ross, Marcus du Sautoy,
Edmund de Waal, Nuria Schoenberg-Nono, Alain de Botton, Neil Bartlett, Rachel Bowlby, Julian
Joseph, Dominic Muldowney, Julian Johnson and Jonathan Cross.
CHILDREN TAKE OVER SOUTHBANK CENTRE’S 2013 IMAGINE FESTIVAL
Monday 11 – Sunday 24 February 2013
Sponsored by the Book People
This year Southbank Centre is working with a panel of children who are helping to shape all aspects of
the festival, including programming a series of debates on topics that matter to them. The popular Kids
Takeover returns, and during the festival, children will help show visitors to their seats, sell programmes
and make sure shows start on time. Each day, Imagine offers a packed programme of free and ticketed
events for all ages, from opera for babies to talks for adults, and the chance for children to meet their
favourite authors who will bring much-loved characters to life. A highlight of the festival is a staged
adaptation of The Queen’s Knickers, a co-commission between Southbank Centre and The Egg at
Theatre Royal Bath based on the best-selling book by Nicholas Allan. The Red House Children’s Book
Award, the only national book award voted for entirely by children, return to the festival for a starstudded awards ceremony hosted by James Campbell.
WOW – WOMEN OF THE WORLD
Wednesday 6 – Sunday 10 March 2013
Sponsored by Bloomberg
Now in its third year, WOW 2013 – Southbank Centre’s annual festival, which celebrates women’s
achievements and provides a platform to discuss the challenges women face across the world – will
again take over the site for five days. It features a diverse programme of keynote talks, topical debates,
concerts and performances, as well as networking opportunities. WOW will mark International Women’s
Day on Friday 8 March, with a day of speed-mentoring, as well as talks and seminars by leading
businesswomen, entrepreneurs and policy-makers, sharing their knowledge of business and the
workplace.
E4 UDDERBELLY RETURNS FOR FIFTH SEASON
11 April – 14 July 2013, adjacent to Jubilee Gardens
The iconic upside-down Purple Cow returns to Southbank Centre on 11 April for its fifth summer,
hosting exciting comedy, cabaret and theatre from around the globe. Full programme to be announced
on 30 January.
ALCHEMY
Sunday 14 – Sunday 28 April 2013
Alchemy, Southbank Centre’s festival of South Asian culture, returns for the fourth year with the most
potent mix of music, dance, literature, film, fashion and design celebrating the rich diversity of art and
culture inspired by the Indian-subcontinent in a contemporary UK context. Highlights of Alchemy have
included Susheela Rahman collaborating with Pakistani Qawwali singers, Bellowhead with Raghu Dixit,
Meera Syal performing in The Vagina Monologues, and a fashion show starring actress Laila Rouass.
With Alchemy’s formula of contemporary and traditional music and dance; hard-hitting topical
discussions; displays of traditional crafts and modern fashion; and a wide range of free events, this
year’s festival will take the next step in exploring the confluences and juxtapositions of this exciting and
fast-changing cultural context.
LONDON WONDERGROUND
6 May – 29 September 2013
The splendid Spiegeltent returns for a second year, bringing to Southbank Centre a dazzling mix of the
world's finest cabaret, circus and kids' shows. Full programme to be announced in February.
LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL
Friday 24 May – Wednesday 5 June 2013
London Literature Festival, now in its seventh year, will this year start in May, with programme
highlights including a strand on Alternative Lifestyles; artistic and scientific perspectives on the world’s
Bees; a celebration of the history, neighbourhoods and creative tensions of London; as well as a line-up
of the world’s best writers, poets, performers and thinkers and the ever-popular Women’s Prize for
Fiction Readings.
Part of Festival of Neighbourhood with MasterCard.
FESTIVAL OF NEIGHBOURHOOD WITH MASTERCARD
4 May – 8 September 2013
Following the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain in 2011 and Festival of the World in 2012,
Southbank Centre’s third summer festival with MasterCard will explore the idea of neighbourhood.
From nearby Elephant and Castle in South London to Pelhourino in Salvador, Brazil, what it means to
be a neighbourhood will be explored through site-specific art installations and a diverse programme of
events running throughout the summer.
YOKO ONO TO CURATE SOUTHBANK CENTRE’S 20TH MELTDOWN FESTIVAL
Friday 14 – Sunday 23 June 2013
Worldwide cultural icon Yoko Ono will bring a lifetime of achievement in music, visual art and peace
activism to Southbank Centre when she curates the 20th Meltdown festival in 2013. Meltdown invites
some of music’s biggest names to take over the site, and directors from David Bowie to Massive Attack
have created not-to-be missed events. Yoko Ono’s Meltdown will be led by the artist’s dedication to
music across all genres, environmentalism, feminism and peace, as well as featuring iconic names and
emerging international talent from the world of music and arts.
Part of Festival of Neighbourhood with MasterCard.
LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL
Friday 15 – Sunday 24 November 2013
London Jazz Festival returns in 2013 with a host of world-class artists and emerging stars, packed into
back-to-back concerts, workshops, talks, masterclasses and free events across London. A number of
key events will take place at Southbank Centre, following in the footsteps of Herbie Hancock,
Esperanza Spalding, Kurt Elling and Mara Carlyle who performed during the London Jazz Festival in
2012. Produced by international live music producers Serious.
CLASSICAL MUSIC
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA DEVOTES 2013 TO 20TH CENTURY MUSIC AS
PRINCIPAL ORCHESTRAL PARTNER OF THE REST IS NOISE FESTIVAL
19 January – December, Southbank Centre
London Philharmonic Orchestra provides the orchestral backbone of The Rest is Noise Festival,
charting the orchestral and choral works of the 20th century decade by decade. Principal Conductor
and Artistic Advisor Vladimir Jurowski opens the festival with an all-Strauss evening on 19 January and
he conducts four concerts in the first half of the year, including a rare complete performance of Kurt
Weill’s The Threepenny Opera (2 March). Principal Guest Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads two
major programmes, one devoted to Rachmaninov (15 February) and the other featuring Stravinsky’s
The Rite of Spring (16 February). Other highlights include Sir Mark Elder conducting Elgar’s The Dream
of Gerontius (26 January) and Marin Alsop’s exploration of works by 20th-century American composers
such as Ives, Gershwin and Copland (22 February).
LONDON SINFONIETTA PERFORMS WORLD PREMIERE OF STEVE REICH’S RADIO
REWRITE
5 March 2013, Royal Festival Hall
Southbank Centre Resident Orchestra London Sinfonietta gives the world premiere of Steve Reich’s
Radio Rewrite at the Royal Festival Hall. Commissioned by the London Sinfonietta and New York’s
Alarm Will Sound, Reich’s latest large-scale work was sparked by a meeting with Jonny Greenwood
and his interest in two Radiohead songs, Everything in its Right Place and Jigsaw Falling into Place,
which supply some of the harmonic/melodic material for the new piece. In the same concert, Steve
Reich will take part in a performance of his legendary Clapping Music.
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA CELEBRATES LUTOSLAWSKI CENTENARY
7 and 21 March 2013, Royal Festival Hall
As part of the major series Woven Words ‘Music begins where words end’, celebrating the centenary of
Witold Lutosławski, Southbank Centre Resident Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra and Principal
Conductor and Artistic Advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen present two works by the Polish composer: Cello
Concerto with soloist Truls Mørk, and Concerto for Orchestra. The programme also includes Debussy’s
La mer (7 March). On 21 March the Orchestra and Salonen perform Lutosławski’s Symphony No.4, Les
espaces du sommeil with baritone Matthias Goerne, and Chain 2 – dialogue for violin and orchestra
with soloist Jennifer Koh.
SIR SIMON RATTLE AND ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT PERFORM
MOZART’S LAST THREE SYMPHONIES
29 January 2013, Royal Festival Hall
Resident Orchestra the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment re-unites with Principal Artist Sir Simon
Rattle for Mozart’s final three symphonies Nos.39–41, culminating with the Jupiter Symphony. The
concert concludes a major European tour that the OAE will be undertaking with Sir Simon in January
2013.
MARIN ALSOP CONDUCTS OAE IN QUEENS, HEROINES AND LADYKILLERS SERIES
8 March 2013 (Queen Elizabeth Hall) and 3 June 2013 (Royal Festival Hall)
The OAE’s series, Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers, launched in September 2012 to celebrate strong
female characters in opera, continues with Marin Alsop conducting arias from Mozart’s Idomeneo,
Beethoven’s Fidelio and Webern’s Oberon with soprano Emma Bell. The evening is also part of
Southbank Centre’s Women of the World festival (8 March). The OAE’s series concludes with
Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Anna Stephany and Renata Pokupic performing Handel arias conducted by
baroque legend William Christie, in a tribute to one of the greatest sopranos of our time, Lorraine Hunt
Lieberson (3 June 2013).
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS RETURNS TO CONDUCT VIENNA PHILHARMONIC AS PART
OF SHELL CLASSIC INTERNATIONAL
1 March – 9 June 2013, Southbank Centre
Southbank Centre’s Shell Classic International series continues to bring to London leading international
orchestras. Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker perform Kurt Weill in an evening of 1920s Berlin
cabaret (on 1 March – also part of The Rest Is Noise Festival). The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
returns to the Royal Festival Hall with American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas in a programme that
includes Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with soloist Yefim Bronfman (9 April – also part of The Rest Is
Noise Festival). Iván Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra return to perform their signature
work, Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra (22 April). Spira mirabilis performs Richard Strauss’
Metamorphosen (9 June), which is also part of The Rest Is Noise Festival.
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
AIMEE MANN PERFORMS SONGS FROM HER NEW ALBUM
Monday 28 January, Royal Festival Hall
Singer Aimee Mann comes to the Royal Festival Hall in January, performing songs from her new album
Charmer. Her latest project is influenced by the super pop of the 1970s and 1980s. Named one of the
‘13 Funny Musicians You Should Be Following On Twitter', Mann has gained a diehard social media
following for her quick wit and stinging observation, adding to stage presence and musical attraction
alike.
ETHAN JOHNS + Marika Hackman
Monday 25 February 2013, Purcell Room
Acclaimed music producer Ethan Johns takes to the stage, performing tracks from his debut album 'If
Not Now Then When?'. Collaborating with Kings of Leon, Laura Marling, Ryan Adams and Rufus
Wainwright, Ethan Johns won a 2012 Brit award for Best Producer. The multi-instrumentalist brings his
rock, folk and blues informed sound to Southbank Centre.
PORT ISAAC’S FISHERMAN’S FRIENDS + Show of Hands with Miranda Sykes
Sunday 3 February 2013, Royal Festival Hall
Hailing from the small harbours of Port Isaac, shanty singers Fisherman’s Friends bring their a capella
harmonies to the Royal Festival Hall as part of The Rest Is Noise festival. Winning the prestigious BBC
Radio 2 Folk Award, these shanty-men are out on the road and gathering fans along the way including
David Attenborough, Seth Lakeman, Chris Evans and Jackie Oates. They are joined by fellow BBC
Radio 2 Folk Award winners Show of Hands and Miranda Sykes.
Also part of The Rest Is Noise Festival.
TRANSATLANTIC SESSIONS
Wednesday 6 February 2013, Royal Festival Hall
Transatlantic Sessions gathers the finest Celtic and Americana musicians at Southbank Centre’s Royal
Festival Hall. This year’s all-star cast include Mary Chapin Carpenter, fiddle maestro Aly Bain and
dobro legend Jerry Douglas.
UK PREMIERE OF PANTHA DU PRINCE’S MOST AMBITIOUS PROJECT TO DATE
15 February 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Southbank Centre presents the UK premiere of electronic experimenter Pantha du Prince’s most
ambitious project to date, a symphony for electronics, percussion and bell carillon. Together with The
Bell Laboratory and their three-tonne and 50-bell carillon, Pantha du Prince creates a fusion of
electronic music and classical composition, drawing on house and minimalism, jazz and new music,
gamelan and western sacred music, taking influences from John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Steve Reich,
LaMonte Young and Moondog. Pantha Du Prince has been celebrated for pushing electronic music
through his own original compositions including the highly acclaimed Black Noise on Rough Trade and
remixes for high profile artists such as Animal Collective and Philip Glass.
LITERATURE
T S ELIOT PRIZE READINGS RETURN FOR 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF PRIZE
Sunday 13 January 2013, Royal Festival Hall
The TS Eliot Prize readings return to Southbank Centre for the 20th anniversary year of the prize.
Audiences can expect an electric atmosphere at this performance, which is a unique opportunity to
hear the best contemporary poets reading their own work. The shortlisted writers are Simon Armitage,
Sean Borodale, Gillian Clarke, Julia Copus, Paul Farley, Jorie Graham, Kathleen Jamie, Sharon Olds,
Jacob Polley and Deryn Rees-Jones. Introduced by Ian McMillan, poet and presenter of BBC Radio 3’s
The Verb, the TS Eliot Prize Readings showcase the best poetry of the year.
In association with the Poetry Book Society.
SYRIA SPEAKS
Tuesday 29 January 2013, Purcell Room
Revered Arabic novelist Nihad Sirees launches his first novel in English, The Silence and the Roar
(Pushkin Press, 3 January 2013), which was banned in Syria, as part of an evening of discussion.
Sirees, who is currently living in exile in America, is joined by celebrated poet Golan Haji and Robin
Yassin-Kassab, journalist and author of the novel The Road from Damascus. The three writers will offer
their responses to the current crisis in their country and explore how literature can contribute to and
shift our understanding of political instability.
In partnership with Pushkin Press and Literature across Frontiers.
JAVIER MARIAS
Wednesday 20 March 2013, Purcell Room
Widely tipped for a Nobel Prize, Javier Marias is one of Spain’s most celebrated writers. Published in
more than 30 languages and with over five million sales worldwide, he recently caused shockwaves by
turning down a £16,000 prize saying he did not want to be favoured by any particular government.
Marias discusses his latest novel of murder, love and obsession, The Infatuations (Hamish Hamilton, 7
March 2013), in which he re-imagines the murder novel as a metaphysical enquiry, addressing
existential questions of life, death, love and morality.
MOHSIN HAMID LAUNCHES LATEST NOVEL AT SOUTHBANK CENTRE
Monday 1 April 2013, Level 5 Function Room
As his previous global bestseller, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, is released as a film, Mohsin Hamid
launches his latest novel at Southbank Centre. How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (Hamish
Hamilton, 28 March 2013) is a novel that reads like a business self-help book, telling the extraordinary
story of a man’s transformation from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon. It is a modern morality
tale and a sharp satire on contemporary Asia that is set to become one of the most talked about books
of the year.
AFGHANISTAN: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW DAY OF EVENTS
Sunday 21 April 2013, Purcell Room
As part of the Alchemy Festival, Southbank Centre presents a day of events devoted to the people,
politics and poetry of Afghanistan. Ahmed Rashid, ‘Pakistan’s best and bravest reporter’ (Christopher
Hitchens), discusses the complexities of the politics in the region with novelist Kamila Shamsie, as they
imagine what Afghanistan will be like once the Western allies have left.
Felix Kuehn has been reporting on Afghanistan for the last five years, and is an expert on the Taliban.
He will discuss his anthology Poetry of the Taliban (co-edited with Alex Strick van Linschoten). The day
will include a screening of the inspiring short film Skateistan and a discussion of the work of the Kabulbased Afghan NGO of the same name, which uses skateboarding as a way to engage with young
people. There will also be a concert by the renowned Pakistani pop group Zeb and Haniya, fronted by
Zebunnisa Bangash and Haniya Aslam, both of whom are ethnic Pashtuns.
WORLD BOOK NIGHT
Tuesday 23 April 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hall
World Book Night returns to Southbank Centre with another star-studded line up, including live
performances from many of the World Book Night authors who include Jojo Moyes, Malorie Blackman,
Jeanette Winterson, Rose Tremain, Ian Fleming, EH Gombrich, Alexander McCall Smith, Victoria
Hislop, Jackie Kay, Andy McNab, Robert Louis Stevenson, Philippa Gregory, Patrick Ness, Tracy
Chevalier, Sebastian Barry, Sophie Hannah, Jasper Fforde, Bernard Schlink, Josephine Hart and John
Wagner. The event will be followed by a free performance by The Bookshop Band, who write songs
inspired by books.
WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 SHORTLIST READINGS
Tuesday 4 June 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Now in its 18th year, the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 was set up to celebrate excellence, originality
and accessibility in writing by women throughout the world. Known from 1996 to 2012 as the Orange
Prize for Fiction, it is the UK's most prestigious annual book award for fiction written by a woman and
previous winners include Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, Lionel Shriver, Rose Tremain and Barbara
Kingsolver. Introduced by the Chair of Judges, actor Miranda Richardson, this event offers exclusive
readings and discussions with each of the shortlisted writers.
NATIONAL POETRY DAY LIVE!
Thursday 3 October 2013, The Clore Ballroom
The live expression of National Poetry Day, an annual nationwide celebration of all things poetic,
National Poetry Day Live! organised by Southbank Centre and The Poetry Society will again feature a
day of free readings, performances and activities.
MAN BOOKER PRIZE READINGS
Monday 14 October 2013, Royal Festival Hall
An opportunity to hear the shortlisted authors for the UK’s premier literary prize discuss their work on
the eve of the prize being awarded. The Man Booker Prize highlights the strength and diversity of fiction
in the UK and the Commonwealth.
PERFORMANCE & DANCE
CHRIS ADDISON
Monday 4 February, Queen Elizabeth Hall
The star of The Thick of It and Mock The Week brings his twice-extended, critically-acclaimed tour The
Time Is Now to Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall for one night only.
ROLF HARRIS
Friday 8 February 2013, Royal Festival Hall
Rolf Harris, the legendary Aussie who in 2010 made his sixth appearance at the Glastonbury Festival
before a record breaking 130,000 people, will appear for one night only at Southbank Centre. This
event will be a rare opportunity to see Rolf doing two of the things he does best – painting and singing.
LOVE LETTERS STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART
Wednesday 6 – Friday 8 February and Tuesday 14 – Thursday 16 February 2013, Blue Room
Returning after a sell-out run at Southbank Centre in 2012, Uninvited Guests stage their hit show Love
Letters Straight from the Heart in time for Valentine’s Day. Somewhere between a wedding reception, a
wake and a radio dedication show, Uninvited Guests take requests and dedicate songs to audience
members’ loved ones – the living, the dead and the missed.
RUBBERBANDance Group’s UK PREMIERE OF GRAVITY OF CENTER
Thursday 2 – Friday 3 May 2013, Purcell Room
Canadian company RUBBERBANDance Group bring their explosive blend of ballet-hip-hop to
Southbank Centre with the UK Premiere of Gravity of Center. The piece for five dancers is inspired by
the financial crisis triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and presents a semiabstracted portrait of what can happen to a society in turmoil. Choreographer and
RUBBERBANDance Group founder Victor Quijada contains the ferocity of hip-hop within a tight
structured choreographic language, which explores the tension between the need to be part of a
group or to break away and be an individual.
UK PREMIERE OF THE ORACLE CELEBRATES CENTENARY OF STRAVINSKY’S THE
RITE OF SPRING
Friday 31 May 2013, Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall
Southbank Centre will stage the UK premiere of The Oracle by acclaimed Australian choreographer
Meryl Tankard, an adaptation of the groundbreaking first performance of Nijinski’s choreography for
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, which caused an audience riot when first performed in 1913.
VISUAL ARTS
HAYWARD GALLERY
LIGHT SHOW
30 January – 28 April 2013
Light Show is the first exhibition of its kind in the UK, bringing together the most visually stimulating
artworks created in recent years with rare works not seen for decades and re-created specially for the
Hayward Gallery. Exploring the experiential and phenomenal nature of light, Light Show presents
sculptures and installations, which use light as a medium. The exhibition will showcase artworks since
the 1960s in which light itself is used as a material to sculpt and shape space, creating evocative
environments and sensory works that operate at the edges of the viewer’s perception. From being
immersed in atmospheric installations to moving around, and even through, intangible sculptures,
visitors will experience light in all of its spatial and sensory forms. Artworks will utilise a variety of
lighting technologies including specialist bulbs, fluorescent tubes, neon, LEDs, and computer-controlled
lighting. Light Show features works by more than 20 artists including: David Batchelor, Carlos CruzDiez, Olafur Eliasson, Dan Flavin, Ceal Floyer, Jenny Holzer, Ann Veronica Janssens, Anthony McCall,
François Morellet, Ivan Navarro, Katie Paterson, and Conrad Shawcross..
THE ALTERNATIVE GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE
11 June – 26 August 2013
The Alternative Guide to the Universe will present maverick creations by ‘outsider artists’; self-taught
architects and artists, photographers and filmmakers, futurists and choreographers, healers and
scientists who together will conjure a parallel universe where ingenuity and inventiveness trump
received wisdom. This exhibition will bring together compellingly original artworks and artefacts from
the last 25 years by a wide range of people who are largely self-taught, and whose work elaborates
alternative ways of perceiving, imagining, describing, and moving through the world around us.
Featuring a range of contributors from fringe physicists to the inventors of new language systems, from
schizophrenic artists who chronicle secret Utopias to others who fabricate new technologies in order to
more accurately record what they see, the participants in this show fearlessly depart from mainstream
conventions and accepted ways of thinking. Driven by a spirit of invention and an obsessive interest in
their chosen subjects, they chart their own, often highly eccentric, paths of discovery and innovation.
Part of Festival of Neighbourhood with MasterCard.
HAYWARD TOURING
A UNIVERSAL ARCHIVE: WILLIAM KENTRIDGE AS PRINTMAKER
Opens at The Bluecoat, Liverpool from 7 December 2012 – 3 February 2013 and then tours
A Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker will be the first UK exhibition to focus exclusively
on the pre-eminent South African artist’s prints, including a new series shown here for the first time.
Although best-known for his animated films and drawings, Kentridge is a prolific printmaker and many
of his key themes were first explored in prints. This major exhibition will include nearly 100 prints in all
media from 1988 to the present, which range in scale from intimate etchings and dry-points to linocuts
measuring 2.5 metres high. The exhibition will focus on experimental and serial works, highlighting
Kentridge’s distinctive use of light and shadow and silhouettes, his concern with memory and
perspective, and his absorption in literary texts. The exhibition will open at The Bluecoat, Liverpool (7
December – 3 February) will then move on to MAC, Birmingham (16 March – 2 June 2013) and QUAD,
Derby (15 June – 18 August 2013), continuing into 2014.
THE UNIVERSAL ADDRESSABILITY OF DUMB THINGS CURATED BY MARK LECKEY
Opens at The Bluecoat, Liverpool from 16 February – 14 April 2013 and then tours
Turner prize-winning artist Mark Leckey explores the transformation of our relationships with art and
common objects alike in the age of new information technologies. The exhibition enters the realm of
'techno-animism', where the inanimate comes to life in modern communication and technologies,
introducing an animistic relationship with the things around us. The Universal Addressability of Dumb
Things includes historical and contemporary works of art, videos, mechanical objects and
archaeological artefacts: man and bodies, animals, and machines. Artists featured in the exhibition
include: Derek Boshier, Louise Bourgeois, Prunella Clough, Martin Creed, Robert Gober, Georges
Hugnet, Allen Jones, Pierre Molinier, David Musgrave, James Rosenquist, Jim Shaw and Tøyen. The
exhibition will continue at Nottingham Contemporary (27 April – 30 June 2013), followed by De La Warr
Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea (13 July – 20 October 2013).
CURIOSITY: ART & THE PLEASURES OF KNOWING
Opens at Turner Contemporary, Margate from 25 May – 15 September 2013 and then tours
Curiosity: Art & The Pleasures of Knowing explores the themes of fascination, inquiry, obsession,
monstrosity and invention, and playfully crosses the boundaries between art, science, literature,
philosophy and popular culture. By taking as a starting point the cabinets of curiosities prevalent in the
17th century, this exhibition will explore ways that artists today engage with the themes of curiosity. It
will include natural wonders and historical artefacts alongside contemporary works by Agency, Gerard
Byrne, Tacita Dean, Aurelien Froment, Laurent Grasso, Thomas Grünfeld, Nina Katchadourian, Katie
Paterson, Aura Satz and others. The exhibition will move on to Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
(28 September – 5 January 2014), Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (March – April 2014) and de
Appel, Amsterdam (June – August 2014).
JEREMY DELLER CURATES ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO AIR
Opens at Manchester Art Gallery from 10 October 2013 – 19 January 2014 and then tours
In All That is Solid Melts Into Air Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller explores the roots of working-class
musical culture, from 19th century industrial folk to glam and heavy rock music in the 70s and 80s. The
exhibition will combine contemporary works with a vast range of objects and images, from historical
paintings depicting factories and forges to oppositional broadsheets, political tracts, poems and popular
ballads. The exhibition will be accompanied by a programme of events, performances and screenings,
and will include a newly-commissioned film by Deller, along with banners and murals specially made for
each showing. After Manchester the exhibition travels to Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery
(31 January – 22 April 2014), Mead Gallery, University of Warwick (2 May – 21 June 2014), Laing Art
Gallery, Newcastle (12 July - 26 October 2014).
ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION
ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION OF HENRY MOORE’S WORK GOES ON DISPLAY
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath from 13 April – 23 June 2013
Henry Moore (1898-1986) is a key figure for the Arts Council Collection. He was an important advisor to
the acquisitions committee during the early 1950s, shaping the sculpture collection by advocating the
acquisition of a significant group of post-war British sculpture by artists including Kenneth Armitage,
Lynn Chadwick and Barbara Hepworth. Moore's representation within the collection is also very strong
with sculptures and works on paper spanning five decades. This display celebrates the work of Henry
Moore in the Collection, bringing together our complete holdings of eleven sculptures and thirteen
works on paper. Seen together, the works provide a succinct history of Henry Moore's practice between
1929 and 1962, with key creative developments and themes visible in both two and three dimensions.
NEW ACQUISITIONS FOR THE ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION ON SHOW
Open at Leeds Art Gallery now until 31 March 2013
This display brings together new works acquired in 2011–2012 as part of the Leeds Art Gallery’s new
partnership with the Arts Council Collection. Painting, sculpture and moving image by Turner Prize
winner Tomma Abts, Becky Beasley, Varda Caivano, Ruth Claxton, Michael Fullerton, Graham Gussin,
Georgie Hopton, Haroon Mirza, Elizabeth Price, Cullinan Richards, Ben Rivers, DJ Simpson, John
Smith, Renee So, Jon Thompson, Bedwyr Williams and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye are seen together for
the first time.
GARTH EVANS EXHIBITON SELECTED BY RICHARD DEACON
Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 22 March – 28 April 2013
Garth Evans is one of Britain’s most prolific sculptors whose practice is defined by geometric,
asymmetrical forms and a commitment to simple, everyday materials. Part of the generation between
Anthony Caro and Richard Deacon, Evans is noted for a body of work that offers a bridge between
1960s modernism and the lyrical experimentation. This exhibition presents the Arts Council Collection’s
significant holdings alongside key loans from the artist and UK collections. Selected by his friend and
former student, Richard Deacon, it takes a fresh look at a fascinating and diverse practice during an
important period of inquiry and development. The show also celebrates the launch of Garth Evans
Sculpture: Beneath the Skin – a major new monograph on the artist and his work, published by Philip
Wilson Publishers Ltd.
THE NEW ART OF LANDSCAPE IN BRITAIN, 1967–81 (working title)
Opens at Southampton City Art Gallery, 9 May – 4 August 2013 and then tours
This exhibition explores the unique characteristics of the new British landscape art of the mid-1960s to
early 1980s and questions why it took the particular forms it did in contrast to tendencies seen in the
US and in Europe. It will examine why some of the most celebrated British artists of the period focused
on what was then considered the exhausted genre of landscape, and how landscape and nature came
to be key concerns of the emerging Conceptualism. Exploring a key period of recent British cultural
history this thematically structured exhibition will also reflect some of the key social and political issues
of the period. Drawing largely from the Arts Council Collection, alongside loans from the artists
themselves and major institutions, the exhibition includes some of the most important and vital British
artists working in the latter part of the 20th century, including Tony Cragg, Gilbert & George, Antony
Gormley and Richard Long, amongst others.
The tour includes Southampton City Art Gallery, 9 May – 4 August 2013; National Museum of Wales,
Cardiff (September 2013 – January 2014); Mead Gallery, University of Warwick (January –March
2014); Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (April – July 2014).
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Notes to Editors
Southbank Centre is the UK’s largest arts centre, occupying a 21-acre site that sits at the heart of
London’s most vibrant cultural quarter on the South Bank of the Thames. The site has an extraordinary
creative and architectural history stretching back to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Southbank Centre is
home to the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery as well as
The Saison Poetry Library and the Arts Council Collection. The Royal Festival Hall reopened in June
2007 following a major refurbishment and redevelopment of the surrounding area and facilities.
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