Public Occasion Agency
The Public Occasion Agency (POA) has been established as a framework for a new element of the AA’s Public Programme. It aims to expand the field of knowledge at the school through staging events. The nature of the cultural environment is engaged as an energetic force of production. For this reason the POA systematically collaborates with various parts of the wider AA community to actualise a wide, but focused, range of events.
As part of the POA’s institutional enterprise, each event is accompanied by two paper publications, one preview and one review. These will form the basis of the POA public archive.
Iain Sinclair
Ghost Milk (Calling Time on the Age of the Grand Project)
Tuesday 23 February, 6.00
Lecture Hall
‘Expeditions in the Lower Lea Valley. Freedom Pass bus rides down Will Alsop’s SuperCity highway, the M62 from Liverpool to Hull. How National Socialism in Berlin 1936 provides the working model for New Labour’s culture of surveillance and media control. Post-architectural infill among the Olympic wastelands of Athens.’
Iain Sinclair will be available after the talk for book signings in the AA Bookshop. Copies of the new paperback version of Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire (first published 2009) will be on sale at a special price.
Iain Sinclair has lived in (and written about) Hackney in East London since 1969. His prizewinning novels include Downriver, Radon Daughters and, most recently, Dining on Stones. Non-fiction books include Lights Out for the Territory and Edge of the Orison. He has written and presented films for BBC2 and co-directed documentaries with Chris Petit for Channel 4.
Further POA events will take place on 25 February, 4 and 10 March.