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THE OVERGROUND/UNDERLAND CONVERSATION. WALKING IN ONE DAY AROUND LONDON’S RAILWAY NECKLACE.

“While we were plodding, not yet foot-foundered, through Andrew Kötting’s familiar Surrey Quays territory, I told him how much I enjoyed his fragmented contribution to the anthology, “London, City of Disappearances”. All those clashing memory raids and riffs. He has a profound and undeceived sentimental attachment to streets, shops (selling hard hat, big boot, work-fetish [...]

fallen empire photobook trailer

The second edition of London 2012, Fallen Empire first photographic book will be realsed in July 2012 – date TBC.

It will be available directly from the fallen empire website

fallen empire have prepared a trailer of the book with music by  Cheveu (http://www.myspace.com/cheveu).

 

Fallen Empire, the book

we meet in an italian restaurant on upper street, not because we’re all italians, just because it seems to be the only place open late enough to accommodate for the late arrival of alex and valentina, the couple behind “fallen empire” – each coming from a different part of london. earlier that day, alex has [...]

Darkest London with Iain Sinclair and Sebastian Groes

Description

Victorian London is often portrayed as a city of darkness, oppression, crime and squalor – but was this really the case? Renowned writer and London psychogeographer, Iain Sinclair, considers the capital’s depiction in the literature of Charles Dickens and his contemporaries with Dr Sebastian Groes, author of Making of London.

Instructions

£6 (Concessions £5, [...]

Imagining Hawksmoor

RA Forum

27 February 2012

At the Geological Society, Piccadilly

Tower of St George in-the-East, Wapping (1714–29) by Nicholas Hawksmoor. Photo © Royal Academy of ArtsA panel discusses the work of one of Britain’s most original and enduring architects and explores how his architecture – both built and unbuilt – has left its mark [...]