On Sat 22 August 2009 in the Bussey Building the fourth annual Collision event will be taking place including appearances by Genetic Moo.

“…a creative experiment in which artists and audience will simultaneously engage in a form of social interaction based on game theory… Alongside a collection of site specific works, artists and performers will facilitate altered versions of familiar social situations and games in which the audience is invited to participate…”

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Skye Sherwin guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 August 2009

It’s said that Hackney houses the highest population of artists in Europe: a sure sign of imminent gentrification. As rents have rocketed, many younger artists have in fact headed south of the river. The Peckham-based gallerist Hannah Barry is proving to be one of that area’s great pioneers. Earlier this summer she staged the first Peckham Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; now she has established a sculpture park on top of a local multi-storey car park. The work by emerging artists includes James Balmforth’s Failed Obelisk: snapped in two, with its phallic point bobbing absurdly on a giant spring, it makes for a droll twist on lofty abstract expressionist Barnett Newman’s best-known sculpture. A short bus journey away, in Elephant and Castle, there’s also another chance to see the astonishing work that earned Roger Hiorns his nomination for this year’s Turner prize. Seizure is a brutal transformation of a disused council flat, where copper sulphate mindlessly encrusts its once homely surfaces with hard blue crystal. Read more…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/aug/14/exhibitionist-art-this-week