![]() ![]() ![]() Purge will set up shop as the ‘Liberated Film Store’, selling a collection of lost and forgotten DVDs and an accompanying publication. WEEK 4 will be a joint curation by Purge + Ecstatic Peace Library. With sound and image the week will expand upon the history and releases of the label / publishing house so far, using spoken word records and other recordings alongside artwork from our magazine. WEEK 3, curated by Test Centre, will bring together the work of a number of Test Centre associates. The shop and exhibition will include an underground gallery of audio detritus, a 1960s stereogram playing MoL audio, a specially refurbished dolls’ house of memory, a collection of 100 numbered books from the MoL’s ‘fragments of the lost library’, executed books, stone faces, MoL pamphlets, rare DVDs, a collection of text experiments, signed first editions of Petit’s novel Robinson, and paintings by Emma Matthews. WEEK 2, curated by Chris Petit, will be the first physical manifestation of his Museum of Loneliness project. The curation recalls Sinclair’s many years as a bookdealer. WEEK 1, curated by Iain Sinclair, will include a shop and exhibition of items recently excavated, with posters, framed photographs, new editions of old and recent books, limited edition cassette tapes, a collection of books from Sinclair’s own library, and an accompanying catalogue. ![]() Works published specially for sale in the shop will be sold alongside adapted, rediscovered and collectible works. The exhibition and shop will combine archival displays and discoveries with newly created works, exploiting the unusual architecture and hidden spaces of the building. Works by all of the curators and performers will be on sale, and each week new stock will be added. The pop-up shop will stock a range of books, pamphlets, records, CDs and tapes, including some collectible and rarely available publications. The developing display of film, art, and sound will accompany a new and secondhand book and record shop, also containing specially-produced editions and ephemera. The first residency at this exciting new arts venue will consist of a shop and exhibition space curated in turn by Iain Sinclair, Chris Petit, Test Centre, Purge + Ecstatic Peace Library, and Stewart Home, and will be accompanied by a series of evening events. There’s no point in my even attempting to summarize the farrago of activities, so I’ll just steal a bit of the text from Test Centre’s website: Now, it seems that they’ve snagged the first month of the new art space simply known as F (located in a former Sea Cadets building in Stoke Newington) to house a series of events and a pop-up shop curated by Sinclair, Chris Petit, Stewart Home, and others. Test Centre, just to remind everybody, is a publisher and art event organization that recently published Iain Sinclair’s excellent little book Austerlitz & After: Tracking Sebald, which I wrote about in April. London’s Test Centre has just announced a month of activities that I’d dearly love to see if only I were in London. Iain Sinclair with the jacket for his new book American Smoke. ![]()
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