A Room for London - Roi des Belges
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London
January 2012 – December 2012
Designed by David Kohn architects in collaboration with Fiona Banner. Programmed by Artangel and produced by Living Architecture.
A Room for London - Roi des Belges, is a temporary building on the roof of Queen Elizabeth Hall. It is a studio for writers and performers who will live there for up to a week. The residents will create work in situ, which will be performed live and published on www.aroomforlondon.co.uk. The programme has been built around the themes and concerns of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
A Room for London - Roi des Belges is also a one night only bookable hotel room http://aroomforlondon.co.uk/bookings/make-a-booking
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Orson Welles' unrealised script for Heart of
Darkness, 1939
Thames and Hudson
Fiona Banner presents Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London
Saturday 31 March, 2012
Orson Welles wrote a screenplay based on Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness in the late 1930s. It would have been his first film but it was rejected by the studio RKO, and he went on to make Citizen Kane instead. At the time the script was considered too political, too expensive, and too uncompromising artistically, not to mention its narrative parallels with the rise of fascism in Europe. Today other parallels could be drawn.
The entire screenplay will be performed for the first time ever, live to camera on the Roi des Belges. It will be broadcast on the web and as a live projection into the Royal Festival Hall below. www.aroomforlondon.co.uk
The Greatest Film Never Made, poster design by Graham Humphries, 2012
1301PE Gallery, Los Angeles
17 March 2012 - 28 April 2012
Fiona Banner commissioned iconic film poster designer Graham
Humphries to create an image based on Orson Welles' unrealized
script for Heart
of Darkness. This will form part of a suite of posters commissioned from film poster designers. The brief was to read the screenplay and interpret it at will.
Harrier and Jaguar Ingots, 2012
Metal from BAe Sea Harrier aircraft, ZE695 and
Sepecat Jaguar aircraft, XZ118
Post exhibition the airplanes were broken up and melted down, then recast into ingots. Combined weight of ingots,1005 kilos.
Harrier and Jaguar Ingots, 2012 (detail)