Magic Format presents live levitation, designing illusion, disappearing buildings, political delusion and dictators’ favourites.
Jonathan Allen is a visual artist, writer and magician, who edited Cabinet magazine's issue on 'Magic' in 2007.
www.jonathanallen.info
Sam Jacob is an architect and writer who teaches at the AA and Yale University.
www.strangeharvest.com
David Copperfield famously made the Statue of Liberty disappear in 1983.
Further Format events:
30 June
Philosophy format
Diagrams, dialogues and ideologues
With Oscar Guardiola-Rivera (Senior Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London & Associate Professor at Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá), Robin Mackay (Founder of Urbanomics and editor of Collapse journal), and Alberto Toscano (philosopher, Goldsmiths University of London
Guest appearance: Jacques Lacan
6 July
Lecture format
Addressing the audience directly or not, sometimes with a soundtrack
With Victoria Camblin (writer and Cambridge University PhD candidate), Mark Cousins (director of History & Theory Studies, AA) and Tuomas Toivonen (architect & musician).
8 July
Library format
Repositories, books in film and Abby Warburg’s shelving system
With Charles Arsène-Henry (writer and editor), Geoffrey Streatfield (actor), Anna Madeley (actor) and François Quiviger (Assistant Librarian, Warburg Institute and writer)
11 July
Anniversary format
The numerology of remembering the past and revising history
Guest edited by sexymachinery (Shumon Basar, Dominik Kremerskothen, Patrick Lacey, Dagmar Radmacher, Benjamin Reichen, Kajsa Stahl, Maki Suzuki)