Sinta Tantra featured as part of London Fashion Week’s limited edition book
celebrating 10 SEASONS of ON|OFF.
The book includes images from many of the 185 designers who have showcased at
On|Off, including Jasper Conran, Sinha Stanic, Emma Cook, Allegra Hicks, Karen Walker,
and Gareth Pugh.
www.thedoll.org/onoff
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As part of Poetry International, a series of events were created by the Learning and
Participation department in response to Sinta Tantra’s installation at the Saisson Poetry
Library, Southbank Centre.
Sign Language Poetry
Performances of sign language poetry and written word poetry translated into sign
language. With poets Ilan Dwek, Fletch@, Caroline Parker, Paul Scott and
Donna Williams. Flickr slide show created by Southbank Producer, Cathy Woolley.
Giving Breadfruit
An evening with poets Malika Booker and Karen McCarthy.
GB Poets
A poetry reading celebrating the poetry scene in Britain today with poets Tom Chivers,
Valeria Melchioretto and Sascha Aurora Akhtar.
www.poetrylibrary.org.uk
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Audiozine Interview with Sinta Tantra on her recent commission at The Southbank
Centre, 2008. Edited by Helen Babbs. Music by Felisa Skibicki.
www.ilookbothways.co.uk
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Nothing Works is a group exhibition that brings together 20 visual and
cross-disciplinary artists and designers to produce a series of installations in the
basement of Shoreditch Town Hall. Part of London Open House 2008.
Featuring new works by artists and designers: Alex Bettler, BDP sound + light,
Chelsey Browne, John Cake, Margaret Calvert, Michael Czerwinski, Simon Donald,
Joel Dunmore, Rosy Greaves, Kay Harwood, Tommas Klassnik, Lee Maelzer,
Paulo Munn, Darren Neave, Delpine Perrot, Lucienne Roberts, Amanpritt Sandhu
Sinta Tantra, Chris Turrell, Melanie Watkins and Ben Youngman.
http://nothingworks2008.blogspot.com
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Seven artists engage new work in a historic space, a homage to and appropriation
of the narrative space of a 19th century ice cream-maker. Featuring works by
Nick Hornby, Abigail Hunt, Liane Lang, Patricia Lennox, Andy Parker, Kieren Reed
and Sinta Tantra. Part of London Open House 2008.
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www.gattiexhibition.com
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Curated by Sinta Tantra.
An exhibition of recent work by previous Deutsche Bank Award Winners.
With artists Katie Cuddon, John Noi and Clare Strand (pictured). The exhibition
explores the duality between presence and absence ranging from the bodily and
physical to the surreal and poetic.
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www.communityuk.db.com
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Sinta Tantra discusses her new installation in the Southbank Centre’s Saison Poetry
Library. In conversation with writer and editor Sam Phillips. Tantra will reveal the wide
range of topics that have inspired her work including the 1951 Festival of Britain.
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www.poetrylibrary.org.uk
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Curated by Sinta Tantra.
A performance by Rosie Cooper in relation to Nick Hornby’s exhibition
Tell Tale Heart. The show presents an idea of what might happen if
one decides to put on a play. With performers Dominique Baron-Bonarjee
and Rachel Matthews.
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www.rosiecooper.info
www.camleystreetprojects.org
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A public commission for the Saisson Poetry Library, located on Level 5 of the Royal
Festival Hall, Southbank Centre. An interactive stage inspired by the Festival of Britain
1951 investigating the performative aspects of poetry.
Download southbank_press_release.pdf
The stage became the viewing platform for the Hayward’s Psycho Buildings exhibition’s
(May 28 - Aug 24, 2008) outdoor boat piece by Austrian art collective Gelitin, entitled
Normally, Proceeding and Unrestricted With Without Title (2008).
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/psychobuildings
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www.poetrylibrary.org.uk
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SINTA TANTRA “A good time and a half” from cesar harada on Vimeo
Sinta Tantra’s commission, A Good Time and a Half! opens at the Southbank
centre and is launched as part of London Literature Festival 2008.
Video features Southbank’s poet in residence Lemn Sissay giving a speech for the opening.
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www.poetrylibrary.org.uk
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Curated by Sinta Tantra.
In response to Camely Street Natural Park, London Wildlife Trust and the
redevelopment of Kings’ Cross St. Pancras, artist Nick Hornby has built a 16 foot
tall sculpture inspired by Disney’s Sleeping Beauty castle. Part of London Festival
of Architecture 2008.
Download press release
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www.nickhornby.org.uk
www.camleystreetprojects.org
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Commissioned by Camden Council, Sinta Tantra presents a series of prints on six Camden
women living at time before the Women’s Vote 1832: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Annie Bessant,
Reina Lawrence, Beatrice Webb, Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Wolf.
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www.theseer.info
www.camden.gov.uk
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Sinta Tantra, Project Manager
Funded by Awards for All, Young Parlour Tessellation! held a series of workshops
with young people in the Camden area to create an art installation inspired by
Islamic art and culture.
With art educators: Natasha Morrisson, Feroza Bari, Seda Ozgul and filmmaker Guy Bolongaro.
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youngparlourtessellation.blogspot.com
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Sinta Tantra, Project Manager
In collaboration with Go Partnership and Camden Council, Mapalim have
received funding to launch Young Parlour - an arts education programme
aimed for 11 – 15 year olds. The pilot gave 15 young people from Camden the
opportunity to work with professional artists resulting in a public exhibition and
launch. Participants were involved with all aspects of curtating, installing and
promoting the exhibition.
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Download young_parlour_press_release.pdf
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Sinta Tantra, Arts Educator
Watch this Space 4, funded by Engage, London, UK
Watch this Space is a funded professional development programme for galleries, teachers
and gallery educators, to enable them to gain first hand experience of each other’s work,
in order to initiate, build and sustain relationships.
For Watch This 4, Sinta Tantra worked with a group of Year 12 students from Camden School
For Girls, investigating the nature of public, site specific and installation art.
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www.engage.org
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