DEPARTMENT STORE + GUTBUSTERS

Rich Wilson and Adam Latham

DEPARTMENT STORE + GUTBUSTERS

15th - 24th July

Preview 14.07.11

Take Courage

New temporary space
192 Southgate Road
Dalston
N1 3HU

Thursday - Sunday 12 - 6pm

DEPARTMENT STORE

15th - 24th July

Following on from the very critical success of their Elephant Man Tours historical walking tours project, artists Rich Wilson and Adam Latham have turned their back on tourism and turned their busy minds to the business of opening a DEPARTMENT STORE.

For ten days visitors and customers alike will be able to peruse over three floors of a mid-renovation Georgian townhouse full to brimming with luxury, semi-luxury and affordable consumer items.  From squirrel flippers to umbrella trees, sock scarves to shell spoons; everything, as they say, is under one roof. 

On the top floor they launch their dazzling new clothing label 'Trendy Boy.com', a collection that has already inspired one Japanese fashion expert to buy everything they had on their stall.  On the first floor there's Homeware, and on the ground floor a well-stocked gift shop with all the toys, gadgets, musical instruments and tropical paraphernalia that fans of their online shop have come to view as essential to a happy life in the modern world.

GUTBUSTERS

22nd & 23rd July, 12-9pm.

As if that wasn't all just about enough, on Friday and Saturday the following week a two-day performance takes place in the disused shop at the front bottom of the building.  The performance is called GUTBUSTERS, the empty shop will be transformed into a beautiful rustic looking working café, serving delicious, often inedible delicacies that will make your eyes water and your mouth cry with joy.

Staffed by an as yet unconfirmed rota of laconic, gauche and pugnacious indie bands (TBA), tired shoppers can treat themselves to a whole gastroparesis of poetically confused dishes. 

For a sample menu please go to http://elephantmantours.com/cafe.php, the café will be open from 11am to 8pm on both days, please come at different times as tables are limited.  To apply for  any waiting/waitressing jobs, please send contact details and a picture of your band to info@elephantmantours.com.

www.takecourage.co.uk
www.elephantmantours.com

Adam Latham

PERFORMANCE ART EVENT: The Dandyism of Contempt

DATE: Thursday, 20th January 2011

LOCATION: CAMDEN TOWN UNLIMITED,

15 Camden High Street, London, NW1 7JE

www.camdentownunlimited.com

The Dandyism of Contempt is a performance art event curated by Vanessa Mitter and Joshua Y'Barbo with performances by: Mark McGowan, Brian 'Dawn' Chalkley, Jack Catling, The Skinjobs, Nicola Ruben Montini, Robin Bale, Douglas Park, Adham Faramawy, Alec Dunnachie, Pauline A. Amos, John Wild, James Gardiner, Kiki Taira, Lennie Lee, Frog Morris, Karl Weill and Edward Cotterill.

Skinjobs on at 7.15 pm

preview of new track 'Beautiful Sea'

from upcoming musical 'South Pacific (A Short Play in Black and White)'

www.adamlatham.co.uk
www.myspace.com/theskinjobs

Adam Latham in Publication being Launched at the Two Jonnys'

"Bevel, Chamfer"
The launch of a publication by Adam Burton, containing old and new work and texts by 25 artists previously involved with the two Jonnys' project space
Featuring:
Adam Latham, Alastair Levy, Alice Walton, Berry Patten, Cornelius Dupre, Dean Kissick, Des Hughes, Dominic Allan, Ed Atkins, Jo Addison, Kit Hammonds, Lawrence Leaman, Lee Marshall, Leo Fitzmaurice, Matthew
Noel-Tod, Mike Goddard, Nicolas Deshayes, Rachel Tweddell, Robert Filby, Ruairiadh O'Connell, Ryan McLaughlin, Samual Nias, Simon Newby, Toby Christian, Tom Woolner.
At the launch, Bevel, Chamfer will be available to buy for the special price of five pounds, after this it will be available from the two Jonny's website.

The Two Jonnys
191-205 Cambridge Heath Road
London
E2 6JR
http://www.thetwojonnys.org/