FX – August 2019

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DW! Sao Paulo Design

Weekend

18 – 25 August

Sao Paulo

The largest design festival

in Latin America is the Sao

Paulo Design Weekend,

where the Brazilian city

links up its various

galleries, museums, NGOs,

educational institutions and

more, putting on events

throughout the city to

promote the importance of

design and how it connects

with urbanism, art,

business and technology

designweekend.com.br

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Get Up, Stand Up Now:
Generations of Black
Creative Pioneers
Until 15 September
Somerset House, London

Somerset House celebrates
the Windrush generation
and the subsequent 50
years of black creativity in
Britain. Covering art, design,
photography, music, film
and fashion, around 100
artists are represented,
including Horace Ové
(pictured), Sonia Boyce,
Steve McQueen, and the
influential Althea McNish.
somersethouse.org.uk

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Lis Rhodes: Dissident Lines

25 May – 1 September

Nottingham Contemporary

The pioneering filmmaker,

programmer, educator and

campaigner for women’s

rights will have almost 50

years of work recognised

in an exhibition across

the entire Nottingham

Contemporary. Works will

span installation, sound art,

performance and writing,

with known pieces such as

Dresden Dynamo and Light

Music alongside specially

commissioned work.

nottinghamcontemporary.org

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Design Biennale Zurich

28 August – 1 September

Zurich, Switzerland

The second edition

of the Design Biennale

Zurich has been given the

theme ‘Play’, prompting

participants to question

notions of freedom, rules,

winners and losers in

design. A ‘playful’

programme invites design

interventions, exhibitions

and workshops across the

city to find productive

common ground between

play and design.

designbiennalezurich.ch

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Hito Steyerl: Actual Reality

3 June – 25 August

Serpentine Gallery,

London and online

As part of a series on

‘Power’, artist Hito Steyerl

has created the augmented

reality app Actual Reality.

Using collectively sourced

data on the stark social

inequality of the local

London borough, this

unseen reality is made

visible – viewed through a

phone, the data warps the

form of the Serpentine

building in real time.

serpentinegalleries.org

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1. HORACE OVÉ, ‘PSYCHEDELIC SISTER’, 1968. COPYRIGHT OF THE ARTIS

T 2. LIS RHODES, LIGHT MUSIC, 1975. TWO-SCREEN 16MM FILM, 25

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