Archive

LEFTOVERS (June/July 2007) is a performance and sound installation by Mem Morrison (with Andy Pink) based on interviews with Turkish Cypriot café owners exploring the relationship between the greasy spoon cafés, the full English breakfast and immigrant cultures.
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SAY IT AS IT IS (October 2007 & November 2006) is an ongoing series of polemical presentations on the art world and its discontents, moderated by Anthony Iles. Project initiated by UNIT2 in collaboration with K-S.
→ Peter Fend, John Jordan, Virginia Nimarkoh
→ Emma Rushton & Derek Tyman

WALKING EAST (March 2007) is a walk around London's East End stopping at cafés. It is being created by artist Susanne Radmann and women from the Somali, Bangladeshi and English communities, produced in collaboration with Chisenhale Art Place, Morpeth Secondary School and Globe Town Education Action Zone.
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QUACK-PROJECT (2003) is a playful CD-Rom/internet language resource for young children, produced in collaboration with REALL, Middlesex University, London Primary schools and Signwave.
→ http://www.quack-project.com/
→ buy it online from the KAHVE-HOUSE shop.

DIE REISE NACH JERUSALEM (June 2002) is a performance by artist Susanne Radmann walking repetitiously between a mosque and a synagogue.
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NOTES TOWARDS THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE (2002) by Elmo, Gum, Heather, Holly, Mistletoe and Rowan, Sulawesi Crested Macaques from Paignton Zoo Environmental Park (UK). Book & accompanying DVD published by Kahve-Society (with Book Works) in a limited edition of 100.
→ http://www.vivaria.net/experiments/notes/publication/

A COFFEE-HOUSE CONVERSATION ON THE INTERNATIONAL ART WORLD AND ITS EXCLUSIONS (at the time of the 7th Istanbul Biennial) (2002) is a FREE e-book (pdf document) resulting from earlier seminars in Istanbul and London. It is published in collaboration with Autograph and i-DAT.

The publication follows 'A Coffee-House Conversation on the International Art world and Its Exclusions' (2001), two day seminars programmed in collaboration with Platform: Osmanli Bankasi Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul and Autograph, London.

The e-book can be downloaded from here:
→ http://www.kahve-house.com/conversations/

CHATROOM IRL ... in real life (2001) was a live mixed reality internet installation in a café, in collaboration with STAR and VX-Labs, Shoreditch Gallery, London.
→ http://www.crowd-like.net/ (now offline)