#averard

[soulinesims]

eva: beach day and bar night?

aqua: girl, you know you don't even have to ask 😝

[cathcacen]

Brave little birb boar deserves pats and love.

[snipergys]

I have a new way to having fun:

Watching people playing Fire Emblem Three Houses with youtube’s “auto subtitles” on.

Is fun to read the 10000 ways for youtube to subtitle Edelgard name, you end reading stuffs like “Adelguard” , “Del Guard” or “Averard” based in the ingame voices or the youtuber voice.

It doesn’t matter which route you are watching, is always fun to read the wrong way to write any character name 

[aestheticcandy]

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[thecommunityarchive]

2019

March 4th – 30th, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Live in Nottingham with Ethan Assouline, Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, David Bernstein, Tenant of Culture, Cyrus Goberville, Philippe Hallais and Ruby Hoette

2018

November 9th – 11th, Le Reilhac, Paris ’Photos Authentiques, Romantiques, Magnifiques’ with David Brandon Geeting, Xiaopeng Yuan, Nico Krijno, Charles Negre, Melchior Tersen, Nick Sethi, Kamilya Kuspanova and Marie Déhé

October 13th – 20th, DOC, Paris Umwelt Monde with The Community (Paris), TG (Nottingham), Mercy Pictures (Auckland), Unsere Umwelt (Basel), Guimarães (Vienna) and Sydney (Sydney). The Community with Tenant of Culture, Justin Cole Smith and Alexander Kelvy

September 26th, Palais de Tokyo Terrace, Paris Gauntlett Cheng 'Eternal Spring' Performance + Terrace Takeover

July 21st, The Community, Paris Permanent Cuts #09 : Black Zone Myth Chant (Editions Gravats)

July 11th – 28th, The Community, Paris Final exhibition: « Inside the house » with Cali Thornhill Dewitt, David Luraschi, Félicia Atkinson, Ieva Kabasinskaite + “the names of the core team”, Julie Béna, Julien Carreyn + Ernesto Sartori, Julien Lacroix, Laurent-David Garnier, Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann + Anna Athéna Simon, Niklas Hallman, Pieter van der Schaaf & Stéphanie Lagarde, Shauna Toohey & Misha Hollenbach, The Community, Thomas Jeppe + Cyrus Goberville + Black Zone Myth Chant, Léa Domingues + Aapo Nikkanen, (But chérie, today we’re not full – More to be announced!)

June 22nd – 24th, The Community, Paris Double Date with Wigs (Perruques) by Tomihiro Kono and “I’m having a dinner with a friend” by Haruka Spring and Shauna T. June 20th – July 29th, rue de la République, Marseille Installation by The Community for Koché at Le Sud Bébé

June 9th – July 1st, Averard Hotel, London European, Foreign and Domestic with Louis & Marie Amar, Amy & Oliver Thomas-Irvine, Michael Iveson, Jack Brindley, Marc Einsiedel & Felix Jung, The Community, Ittah-Yoda and Ophelia Finke ∩ JJ Lincoln

May 30th, The Community, Paris octopus notes 8 Launch

May 25th, The Community, Paris Launch and book signing: Khichdi (Kitchari) by Nick Sethi (Dashwood Books)

May 12th – June 10th, The Community, Paris Autour de ma chambre with Christiane Blattmann, Women’s History Museum and Femke Dekkers

April 28th, The Community, Paris Permanent Cuts #08 : Dominick Fernow (Hospital Productions)

April 20th – May 19th, COHERENT, Brussels I spy with my little eye with Brendan Fowler, David Luraschi and Niklas Hallman

April 18th, The Community, Paris I will set a stage for you by Ana Iwataki and Marion Vasseur Raluy – based on a project for Art Viewer

April 12th – May 6th, The Community, Paris Angela (An American Hero, Chapitre 2) by Ethan Assouline and Philippe Hallais

April 5th – 7th, The Community, Paris The Community : Living Room with Thami Schweichler (Makers Unite), Ruby Hoette (Goldsmiths University), Julien Pujol and Soft as Snow (Houndstooth)

March 17th, The Community, Paris Permanent Cuts #07 : ssaliva (Collapsing Market)

February 16th, Cotton Club, Paris Ystävänpäivä Party Celebrating Our 500 Days

January 24th – March 18th, The Community, Paris Same Same but Different #04

January 18th – 23rd, The Community, Paris The Community with Producing Love featuring Camper Lab, Chin Mens Intl. and Neith Nyer

January 6th, The Community, Paris Permanent Cuts #06 : Félicia Atkinson (Shelter Press)

2017

December 16th – January 14th, 2018, The Community, Paris How do you do? with David Bernstein, Paul Gagner and Hermanni Saarinen

November 10th – 12th, The Community, Paris The Community : ISLAND with Osamu Yokonami, Daniel Shea, Camille Vivier, Thomas Albdorf, Durimel, Nico Krijno, Charles Negre

October 27th – November 26th, The Community, Paris MILKY WAY with Felicia Atkinson, Giovanna Flores, Elina Laitinen, Cécile Nogues, Adéla Souckova and Sophia Taillet

October 4th, The Community, Paris Gallery 909 SS18 “Empty Zones” Installation via The Community

September 29th – October 4th, The Community, Paris The Community with Novembre Magazine featuring Camper Lab, Ground Zero, MARIEYAT and Neith Nyer

September 27th, The Community, Paris Utopia III “Energy Is Fluid" Launch by P.A.M.

September 23rd, The Community, Paris Permanent Cuts #05 : Philippe Hallais (Modern Love)

September 22nd, The Community, Paris SS18 FEM(M)I by Anne Karine Thorbjørnsen

July 9th, The Community, Paris Dining with Humpty Dumpty Launch and Reading by Reba Maybury with Rottingdean Bazaar 

July 1st – July 30th, The Community, Paris Automated Curation with core.pan, Miša Skalskis, Simone Niquille, Matti Liimatainen, Caroline Pretterebner, Aaron Alexander Arnoldt, and Wille Hyvönen & Sakari Vaelma

June 26th, Maison Louis Carré, Paris The Community with Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann at Maison Louis Carré

June 23rd – 28th, The Community, Paris The Community with Novembre Magazine featuring Chin Mens, Neith Nyer, Ground Zero and Camper Lab

June 22nd, The Community, Paris The Community with SomeWare (Brendan Fowler + Cali Thornhill DeWitt) and Odwalla1221 (Chloé Elizabeth Maratta & Flannery Silva)

June 13th – 18th, Basel  Umwelt Mode with The Community (Paris), MAVRA (Berlin), TG (Nottingham), and UNSERE UMWELT (Basel). The Community with Aamu Salo, Brendan Fowler, Hanne Jurmu and Thompson Street Studio. Umwelt Mode curated by Thomas Jeppe and Benedikt Wyss

May 20th – June 21st, The Community, Paris RUN HOME Collection III with Susan Cianciolo and Kiva Motnyk

May 9th, The Community, Paris Collection revue 5 launch

April 6th, The Community, Paris Permanent Cuts #04 : Ron Morelli (Hospital Productions)

March 25th – May 9th, The Community, Paris A Waiting Room with Susan Cianciolo & Kiva Motnyk (Thompson Street Studio, Run Home Collection), Corinna Helenelund, Lola Mercier, Sara de la Villejegu and Henry Roy

March 3rd – 8th, The Community, Paris Paris Fashion Week Installation with Novembre Magazine : Gauntlett Cheng, Helena Manzano, Neith Nyer, Nhu Duong and BARRAGÁN

February 23rd – 26th, LACMA, Los Angeles LA Art Book Fair

January 29th – February 26th, The Community, Paris Same Same But Different

January 21st, The Community, Paris Permanent Cuts #03 : Pan Daijing

January 20th – 24th, The Community, Paris Paris Fashion Week Installation with Novembre Magazine : Chin Mens and Neith Nyer

2016

December 8th, The Community, Paris Permanent Cuts #02 : Carla dal Forno (Blackest Ever Black)

December 3rd – January 13th, 2017, The Community, Paris The Adventures of You with Jaakko Pallasvuo, Arnar Ásgeirsson, Hanne Jurmu & Anton Vartiainen, and The Community and Lance the Psychic & jasonknudsen414

November 26th, The Community, Paris mummy has the bends again (is the bends the one where you go down deep underwater for a long time and when you surface, you feel funny?), Paris launch of HEROES – Fanfiction, by CENTRE FOR STYLE and 3-ply

November 12th – 16th, The Community, Paris Facing-the-World with Nico Krijno, Yelena Yemchuk, Marton Perlaki, HART+LËSHKINA, Mark Peckmezian, Ye Rin Mok, Camille Vivier, Estelle Hanania, Osma Harvilahti, Sasha Kurmaz, Bea de Giacomo, Birthe Piontek, Jody Rogac, Matthew Leifheit, David Luraschi, Heikki Kaski, Louise Desnos, Charlie Engman.

November 4th, The Community, Paris Permanent Cuts #01 : Bill Kouligas (PAN)

September 29th – November 11th, The Community, Paris BEING-IN-THE-WORLD with Sandra Vaka Olsen, Hadrien Gerenton, François Patoue, Aapo Nikkanen, Gyohei Zaitsu, Lauri Soini, Maria Korkeila, ensaemble, Vivi Raila, NINJAT, NOT, Yashka, Elina Laitinen, Sia Rosenberg, The Art Markets, Khaos Publishing, Jean Boite Éditions and Thompson Street Studio

[phylophe]

Passing the torch. A request from @cathcacen​.

The bells sound - not the melodic tolling that preludes a joyous occasion, but the quick, deep bangs that shake him to the core. His head is ringing from the alarm, and at Averard’s insistence, he tries to block out his sense of hearing altogether. He has to make himself useful, and so he attempts to focus on his bonds with the spirits even in a time of panic and chaos.

People all around him are shouting - some as frightened screams, others as desperate orders, yet some others as hysterical questions. All of it is terribly distracting.

His teacher in the druidic arts, wise despite her unique brand of mania, has foreseen such a situation and prepared him for it. He recalls the overwhelming feeling of doom as the icy water stabbed into his skin, exploded in his lungs, and how, when he came face to face with his primal instincts, rather than choosing between fight or flight, he remembered and chose to reach beyond his body, to his mind and soul - to the realm of the spirits.

He reaches now, and the spirits are close enough to touch him. From where he was training just moments ago, the spirits guide him to places where he is needed: split the earth here, to slow the advance of enemies; move the water there, to dry the flammable powders and oil potions; awaken the fire here, to boost the power of the trebuchet; guide the wind there, to clear the smoke for his fellow soldiers and blind the demons.

He is in the middle of an attempt to imbue ice into the huge bolt of a siege crossbow when Arlais calls out to him. He doesn’t hear him the first and second times, but then the militia captain shouted out to him with Amaethon, and he re-engages with the cacophony around him.

The man screams into his face, but he barely registers the words. Something about the General and needing him somewhere right now this very instant, and he runs. He doesn’t catch the exact message, but he knows - the spirits tell him so: Time is short.

The spirits grow silent as he reaches into another part of his power. By the time he arrives at the infirmary, he is exhausted from teleporting over crowds and through buildings, but he doesn’t stop until he arrives at the cot. Aunt Rei’s hands are hovering all over Uncle Taranis, but she has a certain expression on her that doesn’t really match the desperation her movements seem to suggest.

Arlais arrives, and he wonders what took the officer so long, but when he turns to see the familiar hammer in his hands, he understands.

Time stills; his heart turns to ice, and plunges into the acidic pool in his stomach. He watches as Uncle Taranis - General Cethlion, his superior, his teacher, his mentor, his friend, his other father - reaches out with one bloody, trembling arm. He watches as his bruised, swollen fingers curl around the leather-bound handle, staining the brown leather red. He has watched such movements so many times in the past, always marveling at the strength in those muscles and joints and bones. Why does it suddenly look so unfamiliar?

Amaethon. He’s called by that name again. His eyes refocus and see the hammer held out towards him. Despite his busted lips and bloodstained teeth and the wet rumbling in his breath, Uncle Taranis goes on to say a bunch of things: apologies, requests, pleas, advices, orders… and a single statement:

“This is yours, now.”

He looks at the others. Aunt Rei is biting her lip, but there is a faint trembling in her shoulders. Arlais is shaking, too, but it seems different; he doesn’t want to look at his face.

He looks at Uncle Taranis. His green eyes, though faded with age, still spark with the fire within. But time is short, and he knows.

He wraps his hands around the hammer’s handle, around the dying man’s hand. He sinks to his knees, and his head dips until his forehead rests against the knuckles of his predecessor.

“I accept. General Cethlion.” His voice, despite everything, comes out loud and clear. “I, Amaethon Valdel, will succeed you as leader of the Virkove Militia.”

When all is said and done, he presses his forehead against the outgoing general’s, and makes another promise:

“Rest easy, Uncle Taranis. I won’t let you down.”

[micaramel]

Artist: James Harrison

Venue: Feuilleton , Los Angeles

Exhibition Title: we are all alive together

Date: March 28 – April 11, 2020

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Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.

Images:

Images courtesy of Feuilleton, Los Angeles

Press Release:

Last summer I made a painting with the text ‘we are all alive together’ – pulled directly from the Instagram bio of Patti Smith. The phrase was resonant and in a rare moment whilst scrolling through a familiar feed, I paused – feeling as if here was something I could take with me. In the last month everything has changed; our perspective has been shifted by global events and open-ended phrases like this have absorbed an increasingly specific meaning and vitality. 

The work has been made in private moments – at home, in the evening with my newborn son, or whilst walking for an hour at lunchtime. All is made from observation – be it a one-to-one visual engagement with a thing in the world or an observed thought or phrase, lodged in my head, acknowledged and repeated before making its rhythm visible as text on a page.  

With subject matter drawn from everyday observations, these images of plants, trees, fabric patterns etc. all act as evidence: of gathering and observing one’s thoughts and feelings, of slowing down and observing how to draw upon the slight and overlooked.

In this exhibition, this constant, intimate, diaristic activity has been turned public, bringing with it all the anxieties and embarrassments of sharing private thoughts and feelings. Everything is now in question. The legitimacy of past practices will be scrutinized and it seems like a pairing down to the essentials is in order. We’re all going to ask ourselves what the role of art is now. What’s essential? What’s toxic? What’s superfluous? What feels vital at the moment is an attempt to make resonant, handmade images to be shared and exchanged with a spirit of generosity and communication.

– James Harrison

James Harrison (b. 1984, Southampton, UK; lives in and works in Los Angeles) graduated from the RCA with an MA in painting in 2010. A selection of solo exhibitions includes: Some Trees, Marriott’s Way – Reepham, Norfolk (2017); ’And yes we must remain the wildhearted outsiders’ Supplement Gallery, London (2015). A selection of group exhibitions includes: Use Your Illusion, Herald St, London (2018); Black Light, Twelve Around One – Averard Hotel, London (2016); The Word, The Image and The Gun, tenpm, Copenhagen (2015); End of the Night Cafe (with Lucas Knipscher and Charles Mayton), Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles (2014). 

Link: James Harrison at Feuilleton

from Contemporary Art Daily https://bit.ly/2ybzGOe

[jack-brindley]

YOUR RUIN, 2018

Stained glass, Lead, Site Specific Commission at the Averard Hotel, London.

[blog-quantran]

Dancing through a dilapidated London building - NOWNESS from NOWNESS on Vimeo.

The Listeners Project creates videos in buildings set for demolition; swansongs for dilapidated sites across the UK that provide a final moment of reflection.

Here, London-based director and choreographer Alexandra Green uses the halls of London’s Averard Hotel to set the stage.

Read more on NOWNESS - http://bit.ly/2e1Mko8

[londonmandarinarts-blog]

London Fashion Week Day 5 - Merchant Archive No.2 #londonmandarinarts #photography #photographer #photooftheday #videography #videographer #videooftheday #londonvideographer #londonphoto #londonphotography #londonphotographer #portrait #portraitphotography #fashion #fashionvideo #fashionblogger #londonfashionweek #lfw #lfwaw18 #merchantarchive #sofie #averardhotel #presentation #londonfashion #londonfashionweek2018 @london.mandarin.arts @londonfashionweek @merchantarchive @merchantarchivestore (at Averard Hotel)

[soulinesims]

eva, her husand cade, and THEIR TWINS

[jayrowdenphoto]

London Fashion Week with my super stylish friend @nessymagic Huge thanks to @joe_hutchings72 for getting my name on the list. Here's a quick frame from the fabulous Merchant Archive private show a few days ago...model wearing super cool @grensongirlsofficial 👗 #model #modelmayhem #modellover #lfw #lfwss18 #lfw18 #londonisopen #london #lancastergate #merchantarchive #streetfashion ##ss18collection #grenson #grensongirls #beautifuliseverywhere #openyourheart #eyesonstalks #ss18🌻🌸🌼🌹💝 @merchantarchive http://www.jayrowden.com (at Averard Hotel)

[cathcacen]

Shorter than usual, but... well. I wanted to cap it at 100 words.

Guess what DIDN’T happen AHAHAHAHA.

Lars likes her future husband’s friend’s little birb, okay?

How sweet of Averard, she thinks, as she turns the tiny orange feather around with her fingertips. Surely Mae’s family must know by now, that their son is on the way home, but Averard’s feather means something else – something different, and she alone has it.

She’s always liked the robin. He’s fun to sketch, and often has good critique for her; even though she doesn’t understand the chirps, she knows enough to understand that he doesn’t like to be sketched in colder weather, and that he likes when she emphasises his tail feathers and his orange bib.

The day Mae returns, she leaps at him, almost tackling him to the ground. She has precious few seconds before his family pulls him away, and she knows she doesn’t compare. Besides, she has another to greet. Averard has landed atop her head, and she’s missed the feel of his small, clawed feet in her hair, nonetheless delicate and gentle as he flits from there to her shoulder.

She holds up a finger and waits for permission, and he rubs his beak against her skin, chirping softly. “I��ve missed you too, Averard,” She chuckles softly, running the finger over his smooth, round head and rounding the curve of his skull to the orange patch at his breast. “Welcome home, and thanks for the feather.”

He hops briefly, ruffling his feathers and scuffing her ear with his wing, and she laughs; she fancies there’s some form of a laugh in the way he chirps, too, and is grateful for the affection. She likes the robin, and if his interactions are any clue to go on, she thinks he likes her too. It’s a little presumptuous, so she’s always careful to wait for him to initiate all forms of contact; she doesn’t want to be rude. He presses the side of his beak against her jawline, lets out another soft chirp, then takes flight to Mae’s shoulder.

She watches for a while as the family crowd around him, his sisters hugging his side and Ceth and Iliev both speaking animatedly at him as they flip through a ragged-looking notebook. The little bird lets out a pointed chirp, and she understands what he means.

She goes over to join her family.

[a---z]

Vanessa da Silva Stranger than Paradise Performance with Mary Feliciano Wednesday 24th of January - from 7pm Show Continues until the 28th January 2018 Open on 19th/20th/26th/27th of January from 1-5pm and by appointment - email: anne.duffau@rca.ac.uk Curated by A- - -Z (www.abc-z.org) StudioRCA Riverlight, Unit 1F, Riverlight 1,Nine Elms Lane, SW8 5AU Vanessa da Silva will present a new performance in collaboration with the choreographer Mary Feliciano activating the space and engaging with the sculptures and the structure of the show. Designed to work within the exhibition, the event will explore elements of da Silva's ongoing research on cultural identities through body language, spoken words & improvisation. The land was kissed on the mouth The seed sowed in the South under the burning Sun Black, red, green, blue and white flavours Relish tang A restive feeling gave power to the wind It reached one of seven continents A major island with no hammocks On the way it collected strength from clashing tongues Hispid steams Fused hairs Unrooted fruits An Inland rebound of an outland departure (VdS) A- - -Z is proud to present Stranger than Paradise, the first solo exhibition in London by Brazilian artist Vanessa da Silva. The exhibition consists in a sculptural installation and a live performance – both activating the space as well as exploring ideas of migration, nationality & the transformative effects that signs and symbols act on people and cultural identities. The show includes recent works produced during her time at Ox-Bow Residency (USA) amongst others especially built for the exhibition. Using her own lived experiences as a starting point, being born and raised in Brazil, now living in London for the last decade, da Silva is interested in exploring the space between national traditions and the complicated borders where identities and cultures mix and meet. Vanessa da Silva (b. 1976, São Paulo) lives and works in London. She graduated with an MA Painting from the Royal College of Art, London 2017 and a BA Honours Degree in Product Design from FAAP, São Paulo in 1999. Exhibitions & projects include: Tati, Pandangle House/ Favela Erotica, London, 2007; Fur, curated by Pablo Leon de la Barra, White Cubicle Toilet Gallery, London, 2008; Fine Art WIP Show, Royal College of Art, London, 2016; RCA Secret, Art Dubai, Mina A’ Salam, Dubai, 2016; With Institutions Like This…, curated by Victor Wang and Alex Meurice, Averard Hotel, London, 2016; Notes.app, Dyson Gallery, London, 2016; Stuff We Did, Dyson Gallery, London, 2016; Carry On, Dyson Gallery, London, 2016; 'Seamless Territories', Blyth Gallery, London, 2017; 'Herland', Bosse and Baum Gallery, London, 2017, RCA Graduation Show, 2017, Ox-Bow Artists Residency, USA, 2017, Almacantar Studio Award, London, 2017-18. http://www.vanessadasilva.com/  

[nicolabenford]

At the PV of Michael Iveson's solo show @ The Averard Hotel on till 18/9 👌🏼👏🏼 (at Averard Hotel)

[thecommunityarchive]

European, Foreign & Domestic June 9th – July 1st, Slate Projects - Averard Hotel, London

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European, Foreign & Domestic works from the principle of displacement as the engine that generates identity. We aim to disturb outdated concepts of originality, origins, the original; attempt to destabilize the boundary between individual and the collective, and to locate contemporary subjectivity in its connections with other entities. The self has become synonymous with its meta-data. Identities are created and propagated via reciprocal exchange networks of commerce, information and language. An ecological spirit of re-purposing and re-cycling materials, forms and ideas animates EF&D, mirroring cycles of borrowing and lending cultural meanings in the wider world, whose values are constructed by the operation of displacement from their perceived origins, in time and space. EF&D applies these ideas of reciprocity by working with collaborative artist duos and collectives from across the world, some with established working relationships, others collaborating for the first time in this exhibition, yet others in a contrived cohabitation. Sometimes we need to make less sense to make more meaning; let us communicate without translation.

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European, Foreign & Domestic curated by Alex Meurice Averard Hotel, 10 Lancaster Gate, London W2 3LH open Thu-Sun 12-6pm, and by appointment Louis Amar et Marie Amar (Paris, FR) Amy & Oliver Thomas-Irvine (Cornwall, UK) Michael Iveson (London, UK) Jack Brindley (Glasgow, UK) Marc Einsiedel & Felix Jung (Hamburg, DE) The Community Tuomas Autio, Osma Harvilahti, Jussi Kantonen, Tuukka Laurila, Katja Luostarinen, Aapo Nikkanen, Benjamin Pöntinen, Sini Rinne-Kanto (Paris, FR; Finland; New York, USA) Ittah-Yoda Virgile Ittah & Kai Yoda (Berlin, DE; London, UK; France) Ophelia Finke ∩ JJ Lincoln (Frankfurt, DE; London, UK)