Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art AND Trevor Paglen: From "Apple" to "Anomaly"

Friday 4 October 2019
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Barbican Centre
Silk Street
London
EC2Y 8DS
United Kingdom
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Rudolf Schlichter, Damenkneipe (Women's Club), c. 1925. Watercolor and India ink over pencil on paper. Private collection © Viola Roehr v. Alvensleben, Munich. Photo: akg-images

Special opening of Into the Night, celebrating the role of cabarets, cafés and clubs in modern art across the world from the 1880s to the 1960s. The exhibition reveals how artists, writers, performers, musicians and designers congregated to push the boundaries of artistic expression, from Cabaret Fledermaus in turn-of-the-century Vienna to the electrifying performances of the Mbari clubs in 1960s Nigeria. Also a newly-commissioned installation by Trevor Paglen in The Curve, comprising 30,000 individually printed photographs pinned in a complex mosaic of images, exploring ideas around machine learning and the biases and prejudices embedded in AI systems.

Location

Barbican Centre


Silk Street
London
EC2Y 8DS
United Kingdom