A Rotten Corpus
The Institution of Rot
(1993 - 2013)
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The Institution of Rot
(1993 - 2013)
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A 20 years anniversary
lecture/symposium
with interventions,
interjections, ‘interferences’, ‘hearings’, readings and screenings by Richard Crow (Institution of Rot Archive), Nick Couldry, The Bohman
Brothers, Lucia Farinati, Richard Thomas, Anna Teresa Scheer, Douglas Park, Dr
Kevin Zdaniecki, The Hafler Trio, Caroline Bergvall, Sandrine Nicoletta, David
Ellis, Robert Spragg, Marie Gabrielle Rotie, Marta Poznanski and others tba
Tuesday
11 June, 6 – 9pm
Small Hall/Cinema, Richard
Hoggart Building,
Goldsmiths College, London
Goldsmiths College, London
Doors will open at 5pm, with a reception
and a chance to view archival documents and traces.
The event will begin at 6pm, ending by 8pm.
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The event will begin at 6pm, ending by 8pm.
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All are welcome, and entry is free
(donations welcome)
Part of the ‘20 years of the IOR - a secret
unrest’ event series - Be the first to
hate this.
The Institution
of Rot is not financially co-opted by the Arts Council of England
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A SHORT HISTORY
OF DECAY
"In history as in
nature, the rotten is the laboratory of life. Karl Marx
The wonderful
Schreber...ought to have been made a professor of psychiatry and director of a
mental hospital. Sigmund Freud - Please Note: There are
many 'histories/herstories' of the IOR, you may not recognise/Identify yourself
with what is written below. - Speak according to the
madness that seduces you. - The Institution of Rot
(IOR) was founded by artist Richard Crow and writer Nick Couldry in 1992 as
part of London’s Secret Spaces. Situated in a Victorian House in North London,
Richard Crow's working and living space, the IOR has been (from 1992 - 1996) an
active artist-run space dedicated to performance, audio works and site-specific
installations. Rooted in a mindset of do-it-yourself production and
collaboration, the IOR significantly contributed to the extraordinary dynamism
of London’s artist-run spaces phenomenon of the 90's documented in the
"Life/Live" anthology edited by Laurence Bossé and Hans-Ulrich Obrist
(Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1996). IOR’s specific concerns (and
obsessions) were the privacy of the human body and its public transformations
(ingestion, expulsion, cleansing, confession, rituals and taboos). - At present the IOR
remains a ‘living archive’ - a kind of hauntology of recordings, objects, texts
and images. Since 2002 (and until July 2009) the space of the IOR remained
'open' as a point of contact for international collaborations and occasional
(unofficial) artists’ residencies in partnership with the curator in residence
Lucia Farinati.
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