The Permanent Bookshop

Friday 20 - Saturday 21 June 2008
Weekend exhibition of posters to coincide with Tight Lip story and poetry night on Friday. See gallery website for more details.

Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 May 2008
Permanent Gallery is pleased to present the third Testing Grounds - a quarterly programme of Live Art, Performance Art, Sound Art and Music, that will this time run over two days. See gallery website for more details.

Saturday 3 May - Sunday 11 May / Preview: Saturday 3 May 6pm - 9pm
Permanent Gallery launches the new 'Bootleg' edition of the architectural production Sexymachinery compiled by St. Pierre & Miquelon.

The new edition is a printed publication; and also an exhibition at Permanent Gallery. The magazine will be available to purchase in six different exchange situations that are common to the market economy.

The publication brings together a variety of contributions from practitioners in the creative industries and their work and views on copyright, open source software, policing the internet, plagiarism and free culture. Fashion designers, Illustrators, artists and writers have contributed fragrances, recipes, adverts, stolen films, essays, and comic strips. What is given is a rounded discussion of copyright and how it affects us all, for better or worse.

EXHIBITION EVENTS
Film Screening: Steal this Film II, Sunday 4 May, 2pm
From the Steal this Film series that documents the movement against intellectual property, released in 2007 via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol. The film examines the technological and cultural aspects of the copyright wars, and the implications of the internet.

This month, The Permanent Bookshop is re-locating to Phoenix Gallery, for the duration of “Press & Release”, an exhibition of artists’ books and independent publishing, at Phoenix Gallery.

The show opens on Friday 25 April from 6 – 8 pm, and runs from 26 April – 7 June, and is accompanied by a gallery talk, performances, workshops and an artists’ book fair. Full details and news can be found on www.phoenixarts.org.

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Saturday 29 March – Sunday 27 April 2008
Preview Friday 28 March 6 – 9pm
Permanent Gallery presents: Following Line, an exhibition of intricate constructions by the French artist Benoit Carpentier. See Permanent Gallery website for more details.

Neasden Control Centre
Saturday 15 - Sunday 23 March 2008
Preview: Friday 14 March, 6-9pm
Neasden Control Centre present new installation work incorporating an experimental mix of graphic media, video and construction. A specially made zine will be available to coincide with the show, as well as screen-prints and copies of the latest full colour book 'Lost Control'.

Saturday 2 February - Sunday 2 March 2008
Keith Harrison
In association with Fabrica and the Regency Town House

Saturday 24 November – Sunday 23 December 2007
Permanent Gallery presents two new works by filmakers allsopp&weir. A Permanent Printed edition of responsive texts accompanies the show. See gallery website for more details.

3 - 11 November 2007
Rachel Ortas' outer-space creations the Ai Ai arrive in Brighton.


Preview: Friday 2 November, 6-9pm
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22 September - 28 October 2007
Photograpphy by Victoria Emes, Claire Strand, Shannon Taggart and Richard Wiseman, curated by Benedict Burbridge. See gallery website for more details.