inIVA presents Candy Pop & Juicy Lucy on Tour by Chila Burman

All roll up to the ice-cream van!

This summer inIVA will bring a deliciously fun mixture of ice-cream, art and music to East London with Candy Pop & Juicy Lucy on Tour a new participatory art project and exhibition, toured in an ice-cream van.

Candy Pop & Juicy Lucy series by Chila Burman

This summer inIVA will bring a deliciously fun mixture of ice-cream, art and music to East London with Candy Pop & Juicy Lucy on Tour a new participatory art project and exhibition, toured in an ice-cream van.

The project by artist Chila Burman, culminates with a Summer Ice-cream Party open to all on 18 August, when the ice-cream van will be driven to inIVA and Autograph ABP's new arts venue Rivington Place. Inside the van a soundtrack mix of rap, reggae, bhangra and bollywood music, will create a sensuous and fun environment for visitors to view Burman's mixed-media artwork whilst participating in family workshops and enjoying free ice-cream, served from the hatch throughout the day.

Artist Chila Burman's Punjabi father sold ice-creams in Liverpool and she was the envy of her schoolmates, helping herself to soft scoop and Flakes every day of the week. Over the last few years she has revamped his ice-cream van as a vehicle for displaying and touring her work. Her seductive paintings, collages, photographs and sculptures made from an array of ice-lollies and cornets celebrate personal and collective histories while challenging social and political stereotypes, in particular media stereotypes of Asian women.

Candy Pop & Juicy Lucy on Tour will include three weeks of workshops for young Hackney residents held in a specially designed tent erected alongside Burman's ice-cream van from 23 July-10 August 2007. Their works will be exhibited at the Summer Ice-cream Party.

Listings

Summer ice-cream party and family workshop: 18 August 2007, 12noon-6pm (open to all)

Hackney resident workshops: 23 July-10 August 2007 (by invitation only)

Summer ice-cream party address: Rivington Place, off Rivington St, London EC2A 3BA

Tube: Old Street and Liverpool St

Information: +44 (0)20 7729 9616, www.iniva.org, institute@iniva.org

Free/No admission charge

Supported by

Arts Council England & The National Lottery, Awards for All

Also with thanks to Hackney Council Youth Service and Museum & Culture Services

Editors Notes

Chila Kumari Burman was born in Liverpool and is part of a Hindu-Punjabi family, she now lives and works in London. Since the mid-1980s she has been exploring the experiences and aesthetics of Asian femininity in paintings and installations, photography and printmaking, video and film and her more recent works explore new cultural contexts of national and international politics in the twenty-first century. Her work has been shown extensively both in the UK and internationally and is in private and public collections worldwide. She was nominated for Asian Woman of the Year Award 2004, Lloyds TSB Asian Jewel Award 2005 and is a graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art. (www.chila-kumari-burman.co.uk)

inIVA creates exhibitions, publications, multimedia, education and research projects designed to bring the work of artists from culturally-diverse backgrounds to the attention of the widest possible public. (ww.iniva.org)

Candy Pop & Juicy Lucy on Tour by Chila Burman is part of an exciting build up to the public launch of Rivington Place on 4 October 2007. Rivington Place is inIVA and Autograph ABP's new contemporary visual arts space in East London. Supported by the Arts Council England Lottery Capital 2 Programme, it will be the UK's first permanent home for culturally-diverse visual arts and photography. Barclays Bank plc is the Rivington Place founding corporate partner, contributing £1million towards the development. This innovative partnership reflects Barclays history of supporting positive social change and making a real and lasting difference to the diverse communities in which it operates. (www.rivingtonplace.org)

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Josie Ballin Press and PR Manager +44 (0) 20 7729 9616 or josie@iniva.org