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ENB x Akademi present Aamad Aamad was a collaborative dance work choreographed by English National Ballet Associate Artist, Kirsten Ho, and Akademi Associate Artist, Parbati Chaudhury, and performed by students from Mulberry School for Girls and St Angela’s Ursuline School. Inside Out: Public Art, Nature and Mental Wellbeing Inside Out: Public Art, Nature and Mental Wellbeing is a three-day public programme that bring together academics, artists, arts practitioners and mental health specialists in an engaging range of activities, tours and discussions. Community Callout Apply to be part of a community group, working with The Line to help shape three new public art installations in Newham. Destination London A new commission by Anne Hardy at London City Airport Artwise x IQL: Lothar Götz and Troika  Two commissions for International Quarter London Visible / Invisible A substantive collaboration between The Line, the National Portrait Gallery and London College of Fashion to explore themes of identity and representation in the digital and public realms. Nature and Heritage on The Line Images from leading museums and archives reveal the hidden history and nature of East London's waterways Rana Begum: No. 1104 Catching Colour A collaboration between Rana Begum, English National Ballet and London Film School for London City Island Conversation in Colour A collaboration between Paul Huxley RA and Holly Rowan Hesson at arebyte gallery, curated by Royal Society of Sculptors

Artwise x IQL: Lothar Götz and Troika 

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The Line’s Curatorial Advisors, Artwise, were commissioned by Lendlease to support the development of two major commissions for the public realm at International Quarter London (IQL). Home to the British Council, Transport for London and Cancer Research UK, IQL is an exciting creative quarter on the edge of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and East Bank. Alongside works by Lothar Götz and Troika, other design highlights include a pavilion by ACME, a ‘mobile’ orchard by Tom Massey, Hothouse by Studio Weave and a number of buildings by The Line’s architects, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.

Troika’s Labyrinth of a Straight Line at Endeavour Square consists of a labyrinthine, twisting, turning and meandering path of tessellated natural stone. When seen from particular viewpoints, it creates an optical illusion of a three-dimensional architectural structure that appears to protrude from the ground. Passers-by become maze-wanderers by simply following the path from the start to the finish. To formulate this labyrinthine pattern, Troika used an artificial intelligence pathfinding algorithm inspired by the site’s history: a complex network of railway tracks by the Eastern Counties Railway. This algorithm, called ‘Depth First Search’, was first investigated in the 19th century by Charles Pierre Tremaux. It is a surprisingly simple algorithm and step-by-step procedure, which today is used to organise big data and to search data networks making it a fundamental building block for artificial intelligence.

Lothar Götz’s Porte de Couleur at Glasshouse Gardens was conceived by the artist as a ‘continuous line drawing in space’. Porte de Couleur is a gateway sculpture formed of a steel ‘line’ that intersects to form triangles. The ‘walls’ are open structures that frame views through to the landmarks of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The architectural sculpture plays with the changing levels of the land on which it stands by forming slanting parallelograms rather than rectangles. The ‘roof’ is formed by an open geometric structure that holds triangles of different coloured glass that intersect at the corners, allowing natural light to cast coloured shapes and shadows on the ground that are in constant flux depending on the time of day and year.

If you are on The Line in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, don’t miss these installations at IQL!

Images:
1 Troika’s Labyrinth of a Straight Line © Hufton + Crow
2 © Conny Freyer
3-4 Lothar Götz’s Porte de Couleur © Michael Franke

 

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