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The Golden Machine: A Tour of the Olympic Park with Iain Sinclair

21 July, 11am & 3pm From Old Ford Locks, River Lea, E3 2NN, Tower Hamlets

The Hackney-based author Iain Sinclair (London Orbital; Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire) offers an alternative travelogue to accompany a canal trip into the Olympic Park, based around the search for El Dorado, the mythical city of fools’ gold. Booking essential.

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Futurology: Iain Sinclair at the QE Hall, Southbank

As London looks forward to 2012′s Olympics, the self-styled ‘greatest show on Earth’, Iain Sinclair projects his vision of the post-games future by visiting the ruins of previous grand projects. His new book, Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project, starts out from the East London Olympic site and takes in Athens and the [...]

Learning from Barcelona: Art, Real Estate and the Olympic City

WORKSHOP Learning from Barcelona: Art, Real Estate and the Olympic City Friday, 28 – Saturday, 29 January 2011, Birkbeck Stratford, London

A two-day workshop bringing together for the first time academics, social activists and artists from Barcelona and London to discuss, through position papers and the showing of participants’ artistic production, how the Olympic Games [...]

The Independent and Boyd Tonkin on “Ghost Milk”

The Independent (today: 31st Dec) has flagged up ‘Ghost Milk’ as one of the ‘cultural highs’ of the coming year.

Boyd Tonkin:

‘Trust Iain Sinclair, East End literary archaeologist, visionary vagabond and granddaddy of “psychogeographers”, to get his Olympic revenge in early. His wander around ruined and forsaken “grand projects” amounts to an elegy for [...]

Landscaping: Artists, Maps and Britain – British Library Conference Centre

11th September 2010

14:30 – Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair: Swandown – Ordnance and Surveying “Swandown will be a travelogue and odyssey. A poetic film-diary about landscape and Culture, undertaken on board a plastic swan-shaped pedalo. In the summer of 2011, multi-talented, multi-platform artist and film-maker Kötting (Gallivant, Ivul) will pedal from Swan Lake in [...]