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Happenings

What's your mom's favorite snack?

Nandal Seo

Nandal Seo is starting a journey to collect stories related to foods/drinks, and the first topic is ‘Mother’. Can you think of your mother’s favorite snack? Or is there a special dish you shared with her? Some might not have any memories with one’s mother, then a taste, a texture, a smell that reminds ...

Explain Yourself: What’s Left Behind

Ken Hollings, Sheena Calvert

What’s Left Behind is an expansive collection of texts that came out of the ‘Explain Yourself’ writing workshops conducted by Ken Hollings during the Spring of 2023. The last Year 2 MA Visual Communication students were encouraged to compose a 250-word statement that reflected some key aspect of their practice. Their contributions offer a wide range of perspec...

Triplex

Joo Yeoun Yoo

Triplex starts from individual responses to Research, Design and Publish. The process is an endless repetition between these steps. Publishing is not the end of a project, but a trigger for moving forward. This becomes a collective question of how to expand the boundaries of circulation. This exhibition provides a space for understanding new facets of ...

Explain Yourself: Bigger Than This

Ken Hollings, Sheena Calvert

Bigger Than This is the outcome of the 2022 ‘Explain Yourself’ writing workshops where Year 2 Visual Communication were encouraged to compose a 250-word statement that reflected some key aspect of their practice or a current project. The mood and the message this year, following our return to the studio, is ‘Go Big’ – with expansive statements on bodies and emotio...

DPM+

Cecilia Wee, Neville Brody, Arjun Harrison-Mann

DPM is Dictate Process Mandates Dispel Popular Myths Desire Propel Motion Do Politics Matter Death Pleasure Mistakes Dismantle public monotony Distribute Power Meaningfully De Pause Moment Join us for DPM+ Thursday 13 + Friday 14 January 2022, live online from 09:00-16:00 GMT (London time) Check your RCA inbox for the Zoom link DPM+ is two days of interventions, insights and ...

TERMINAL Graduates Interview

Suthata Suthmahatayangkun

Checking my Thai bank account at midday I found almost 500 pounds had been taken out on my card in the past few days. Gone were the months of planning and pitching ideas for special celebrative content for RCA’s Convocation day. I was standing there in front of Barclays on Kings Road arguing and pleading with my...

Frame

Frame

Text About the Moon Chapter 2

Hairun Li

This is a book written for the Moon. It carries the thoughts of an ordinary human being living on Earth about the Moon. Read Chapter 1 here. Part 5 Forgotten in the Space The 12 astronauts who returned from the Moon rarely talk about their time there. Aldrin once described it as being “stripped out of the whole process of...

Texts About the Moon Chapter 1

Hairun Li

This is a book written for the Moon. It carries the thoughts of an ordinary human being living on Earth about the Moon. Part 1 Home Behind the Thumb In 1972, Apollo 17 carried commander Eugene Cernan, command module pilot Ronald Evans and scientist Harrison Schmitt return back after a three-day stay on the lunar surface. Since then, humans ...

Solid Liquid

Yuqiang Chen

When one solute enters a solution, it fuses with the solvent in a rapidly dissipating manner, with each molecule in the solute trying to expand and stretch in the relatively closed liquid system. You pick up the mug in your right hand and shake it gently, which accelerates the process of dissolution. Soon, the solute and ...

A Brief History of Chinese Graphic Design (Part 2)

Jiarui Wang

Disclaimer To read the first half of this article, please go to A Brief History of Chinese Graphic Design (Part 1). This text is adapted from my MA dissertation, Brutalism, Maximalism and Amateurism of The New Ugly in Chinese Graphic Design. I argued for the historical and cultural significance of the New Ugly [新丑风], after writing this brief overvi...

A Brief History of Chinese Graphic Design (Part 1)

Jiarui Wang

Disclaimer This text is adapted from my MA dissertation, Brutalism, Maximalism and Amateurism of The New Ugly in Chinese Graphic Design. I argued for the historical and cultural significance of the New Ugly [新丑风], a graphic design style populated by Chinese and East Asian designers since the late 2010s. Many works that fall into this style challenge both W...

How do you live in London? Part 3 | Mother & Bride

Joo Yeoun Yoo

I have various ages. You might be wondering what it means but listen first. In Korea and Britain, I am now officially in my 30s. It’s an age when we are under social pressure to be more decent, have plans, and be a little more severe than in our 20s. But I feel I’m stil...

Fodder

Fodder

RCA2023: Graduate Show at Truman Brewery

13 July 23
Public

RCA2023: RCA Battersea & Kensington

30 June 23
Public

MSO: Agent Recruitment Event

29 June 22
Public

Huaco de Maíz (vessel made of corn)

28 June 22
Public

City of Scars Symphony Concert

28 June 22
Public

AGOG

24 March 22
Public

Barter Auction

@barter_archive second exhibition and auction performance!
06 November 21
Public

DisasterLAB

06 July 21
Public

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