The Knight's Move: Charles Avery
The registration of the full lecture can be viewed on dvd in the library of Stroom Den Haag.
Thursday 26 February 2009, 20:00 uur
Location: Hogewal 1-9
Language: English
Lecture by the artist Charles Avery (Scotland,
1973), focusing on his project ‘The Islanders', which will be shown in Museum Boijmans van
Beuningen in Rotterdam from 28 February thru 7 June 2009.
Since 2004 Charles Avery has been working on ‘The Islanders', an
epic project about an imaginary island off the Scottish coast. It is a
gripping story of a land without a name and without money, where the
inhabitants can foretell the future and are addicted to Henderson's
pickled eggs. Avery's drawings and sculptures take us on a journey
through a world that blurs appearance and reality, myth and fact. They
will alter your perception of the ‘real' world entirely and
simultaneously not at all.
Website Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.
Interview with Charles Avery
in Metropolis M (November 2007)
The Knight's Move
This year Stroom Den Haag kicked off 'The
Knight's Move', a series of lectures by eminent international speakers
who stand out by their unusual, enlightening and inspirational visions
concerning the city, urbanity, the public domain, and community. Just
as the knight moves in an atypical and unusual way across the
chessboard, Stroom likewise wants to cut across all disciplines and
thus stimulate rethinking the city.
This series of lectures is made possible by the financial support of the Netherlands Architecture Fund.
Archive 'The Knight's Move' 2009-present
- Thursday 26 Feb '09 8 pm
- Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
- Entrance: free
