Lawrence Lek 陆明龙

Lawrence Lek creates immersive environments, virtual worlds and prosthetic objects that reconnect the individual and collective body. Using audio, video, text, sculpture and architecture, he transforms primal archetypes into habitats for private sanctuary and public assembly.

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PUBLIC ASSEMBLY: AN ALTERNATIVE SUMMER SHOW

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Deadline 17th June

Free Cooper Union UK (FCUUK) and Lawrence Lek invite you to submit your work to a collaborative project celebrating free education around the world.

http://publicassembly.info/

The exhibition pays tribute to New York City's last tuition-free university - the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science, whose Board of Trustees voted to end the school's 154-year historic mission of providing merit-based tuition-free education to all admitted students.
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PYRAMID SCHEMES : A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT

Thursday 2nd May 2013

'Pyramid Schemes' is a collaborative exhibition organized by Lawrence Lek and The White Review to showcase a collection of short stories about real and imaginary buildings. Drawing inspiration from the work of Victor Hugo, Apollinaire and Jorge Luis Borges, the project invites sixty contemporary artists and writers to submit 100-word texts that explore architectures of their own creation.

For one night only, an immersive installation at The White Building in Hackney Wick will shape the collected texts into a panoramic cityscape. Please join us on Thursday 2nd May from 7-10pm to celebrate the spectacle of this fictional city. A limited edition of fold-out artists’ books will be produced to accompany the event.

Darran Anderson ▲ David Bainbridge ▲ Anna Blair ▲ Jorge Luis Borges ▲ Martin Byrne ▲ Jen Calleja ▲ Steven Chodoriwsky ▲ S.J. Christmass ▲ Calvin Chua ▲ Holly Corfield-Carr ▲ Rishi Dastidar ▲ Adrian Dannatt ▲ Alexandre Dumas et al. ▲ Rachel Falconer ▲ Jon Ferguson ▲ Adam Nathaniel Furman ▲ Niall Gallacher ▲ Patrick Goddard ▲ Oliver Griffin ▲ Evan Harris ▲ Rye Dag Holmboe ▲ John Holten ▲ Matt Hutchinson ▲ Miranda Iossifidis ▲ Daniel Ivec ▲ Claire Jamieson ▲ Verity-Jane Keefe ▲ Clare Kirwan ▲ Miles Klee ▲ Alana Kushnir ▲ Léopold Lambert ▲ Patrick Langley ▲ Lawrence Lek ▲ Bella Marrin ▲ Dorrell Merritt ▲ Thomas More ▲ Amanda Oosthuizen ▲ Daniel Rourke ▲ Andi Schmied ▲ Jack Self ▲ Camila Sotomayor ▲ St. Augustine ▲ Viktor Timofeev ▲ Karen Whiteson ▲ Eley Williams ▲ Nathan Witt ▲ Alan Worn

http://pyramid-schemes.tumblr.com/

The project continues themes explored in Lawrence Lek’s essay ‘Pyramid Schemes: Reading The Shard’, featured in The White Review No. 7 alongside works by Luc Tuymans and John Stezaker.

Supported by SPACE Studios and the White Building.
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NIGHT LOOPS II // IF NOT NOW // @LEGION-TV

Wednesday 20th March 2013

Every night from the 20th March – 20th April, IF NOT NOW will take over the Legion TV website and replace it with a video loop that will play until the morning. The loops will come from a range of contributors, the inspiration being the night screen loops that television channels play when they close for the night.

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BRING YOUR OWN BEAMER | LONDON 2013

Sunday 10th March 2013

BYOB - ‘Bring Your Own Beamer’ is a series of one-night exhibitions hosting artists and their projectors. As a kind of 'open-source' event format, it celebrates the moving image and explores how we interact with the virtual world. I organized at the White Building 18 artists took part in one that in Hackney Wick on 10th March 2013. More here.

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WONDER @ THE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION

Thursday 7th February 2013

T-R-E-M-O-R-S hosts a night of projected dreams and improvised construction at The Architecture Foundation, London. Featuring artists Daniel Swan, Lawrence Lek,Viktor Timofeev and Marie Kaus.

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