Exhibitions & Events
Social Fabric
Exhibition 19 January - 10 March 2012
This timely exhibition focuses on textiles and explores labour, capital, international trade and radical politics. In the 19th Century Karl Marx’s account of the cotton industry tracked fifty years of boom and bust and the effects this had on workers in Britain and its colonies, in particular India. Contemporary artwork by Sudhir Patwardhan and Alice Creischer is shown alongside journals by Marx, chintz, Company Paintings and mill workers' audio recordings.
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Talks & Events
Labour Relations workshop with Meena Menon
18 February 2012
Workshop putting the spotlight on labour and human rights issues in India.
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Social Fabric
Exhibition tour
1 March 2012
Curator Grant Watson gives a tour of the exhibition
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On view on the 1st floor of Rivington Place. Acquire a limited edition portfolio by artists such as Sonia Boyce, Isaac Julien, Hew Locke and Chris Ofili created specially for Rivington Place
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Books
Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and Autograph ABP who programme exhibitions at Rivington Place have established an international reputation for
their publications including exhibition catalogues, artists’ monographs and anthologies of new critical writing.
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