Richard Parry

Open Source 2016 contemporary art festival is on at Londons’ Gillett Square in Dalston, running May 28 to 29.

The free weekend event and artist-run initiative brings together the art world private view into the public space with a series of screenings, live performances and installations from the likes of Larry Achiampong, Cory Arcangel, Benedict Drew, Joey Holder, Hannah Black, and Rachel Maclean, among others.

Organised by Emily Butler, Christine Eyene, Helen Nisbet, Joe Fletcher Orr & Doug Bowen, Richard H M Parry and Amy Sherlock, the theme this year follows “subcultures, identity, fluidity and self-determination” and will also include an immersive video game, ice cream, drones, VJ and DJ sets, street posters, experimental hair salon, and more.

See the Open Source website for details.**

Larry Achiampong performing at All Of Us Have A Sense Of Rhythm: An Evening of Live Music at DRAF, 2015. Photo: Dan Weill — Larry Achiampong @ *All Of Us Have A Sense Of Rhythm: An Evening of Live Music* (2015). Performance view. Photo by Dan Weill. Courtesy DRAF, London.

London’s Project Native Informant celebrates the launch of the new Pelican Haus album on August 1.

The anonymous contemporary art collective – created by artists Richard Parry and Carlos Noronha Feio – functions as a collaborative artistic project, accepting commission and producing merchandise in a sprawl of “crypt-impressionistic fiction”.

Following some recent projects, including a Closing Down Sale at Narrative Gallery as well as a warehouse show in Peckham, the art collective is introducing the launch of an album at Project Native Informant, which will later also be featured at the Wysing Arts Center‘s Annual Music Festival alongside Arcadia Missa, Piper Keys, and Kate Morrell.

See the Pelican House press release for details. **

Open Source 2016, May 28 – 29

Pelican Haus @ Project Native Informant, Aug 1