OPEN SOURCE is an artist-lead initiative based in East London. OPEN SOURCE 2016 explores subcultures, identity, fluidity and self-determination, across video, painting, installation and performance.

OPEN SOURCE 2016 features an investigation into Hackney languages, an immersive video game installation, an invasive species of ice-cream, a ride into Futuristic Dalston, an obsessive compulsive drone, a bombastic DJ set sampling West African archives, encrypted street posters coming to life, super-responsive T-shirts, experimental hair salons, fleeting manifestations of gender expression, an hallucinogenic tale of austerity and aspiration in a post-X-Factor landscape, the story of a body falling to the centre of the earth and an after-dark infectious apocalyptic VJ set.

OPEN SOURCE 2016 is curated by Emily Butler, Christine Eyene, Helen Nisbet, Joe Fletcher Orr & Doug Bowen, Richard Parry and Amy Sherlock.

Artists include: Larry Achiampong, Cory Arcangel, Simeon Barclay, Shiraz Bayjoo, Hannah Black, Flo Brooks, Helen Cammock, Leo Chadburn, Cooking Sections, David Raymond Conroy, Danielle Dean, Benedict Drew, Andy Holden, Joey Holder, Lawrence Lek, Rachel Maclean, Alice Marcelino, Richard Muller, Tai Shani, Mariana Simnett and Rachael Young.
Special guests: Frieze Video, The Exchange, Hackney Pirates and Get Hackney Coding.

OPEN SOURCE is born from the collision between two worlds: the art-world private view meets the public space of Gillett Square with its domino players, musicians, families and skateboarders.

OPEN SOURCE presents artworks in the middle of real life. It’s free and accessible to all.

http://www.opensource.london/index.php