Great week ahead in London!  The LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images 2012 starts on Wednesday - A four-day celebration of contemporary artists' moving image curated by Rosa Barba, Thomas Beard & Ed Halter (Light Industry), Yann Chateigné Tytelman, Michelle Cotton, Elena Filipovic, Shanay Jhaveri, Martha Kirszenbaum and Ben Rivers, as well as two curators selected from a curatorial open call, Carmen Billows and Shama Khanna. This week's previews include Babak Ghazi / Gareth Jones at Raven Row on Thursday and new work by Leigh Ledare opens on Friday at Pilar Corrias. And much, much more...

Tuesday:
+ Screening: Masao Adachi "Galaxy (1967, 75min, with English subtitles)" at Gasworks
+ Lecture: "How Do You Like Your Diversity?" Unravelling multiculturalism, interculturalism and cosmopolitanism with speakers Handel Wright, Mica Nava, Ashwani Sharma and Roshini Kempadoo at inIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts)

Wednesday:
+ Screening: "LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images 2012" at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
+ Preview: "Babak Ghazi, Lifework / Gareth Jones, Untitled Structure" at Raven Row

Friday:
+ Lecture: Leigh Ledare at Pilar Corrias Gallery

Tuesday, May 22

Preview: Adrian Ryan, Andrew Salgado, Carla Groppi, Charlotte Posner, David Oxtoby, David Tindle R.A, Eileen Agar R.A, John Christoforou, Leigh Davis, Maneka, Patrick Procktor R.A, Stephen Tennant, Yuma Tomiyasu. "Shards" Griffin Rayne Gallery inassociation with Redfern Gallery at The Gallery in Redchurch Street
Westminster: 28 Cork Street, 6-8pm

Preview: Otto Piene "Retrospective" at The Mayor Gallery
Westminster: 22A Cork Street, 6-8pm

Panel Discussion: "Terry Dennett and X Marks The Spot discussing the work of Jo Spence" at Studio Voltaire
Lambeth: 1a Nelsons Row, OFFSITE: Conway Hall (The Brockway Room), 25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL, 7pm

+ Screening: Masao Adachi "Galaxy (1967, 75min, with English subtitles)" at Gasworks
Lambeth: 155 Vauxhall Street, 7pm

+ Lecture: "How Do You Like Your Diversity?" Unravelling multiculturalism, interculturalism and cosmopolitanism with speakers Handel Wright, Mica Nava, Ashwani Sharma and Roshini Kempadoo at inIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts)
Hackney: Rivington Place, 5/3 conc., 6:30pm

Wednesday, May 23

Lecture: "Group Zero Co-founder OTTO PIENE on the origins of ZERO" at The Mayor Gallery
Westminster: 22A Cork Street, 2-3pm

+ Screening: "LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images 2012" at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
Westminster: 12 Carlton House Terrace The Mall, Varying prices, Varying times

+ Preview: "Babak Ghazi, Lifework / Gareth Jones, Untitled Structure" at Raven Row
Tower Hamlets: 56 Artillery Lane, 6:30-8:30pm

Preview: Benedict Drew, Colin Guillemet, Dan Coopey, Fay Nicolson, Giles Round, Hannah Perry, Helen A Pritchard, Leo Fitzmaurice, Peles Empire (Barbara Wolff and Katharina Stoever), Robert Filby, Simon and Tom Bloor, Suzanne Mooney "Things that have interested me" curated by Olga Ovenden, Pierre d'Alancaisez at Waterside Contemporary Hackney: 2 Clunbury St, 6-9pm

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Thursday, May 24

Artist Talk: "Rachel Goodyear In Conversation With Andrea Tarsia" at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
Westminster: 124-128 Barlby Road, 6:30pm

Artist Talk: "Big Ideas on Technology: Interactive Art" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, 6:30pm

Preview: Rudolf Reiber "Suspiria" at PayneShurvell
Hackney: 16 Hewett Street, 6-8pm

Preview: "THREE x THREE Part 4: with MYDOG SIGHS, GARETH MORGAN and LEWIS BANNISTER" at CULTIVATE
Hackney: Vyner Street and Mowlem St, 6-9pm

Friday, May 25

+ Lecture: Leigh Ledare at Pilar Corrias Gallery
Westminster: 54 Eastcastle Street, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: "Rachel Garfield with Socialist Magic from Ian Saville" at Beaconsfield
Lambeth: 22 Newport Street, Free, 6pm

Preview: "Odds Against Tomorrow: Exhibit B" at Bearspace
Lewisham: 152 Deptford High Street, 6:30-8:30pm

Preview: Kathleen Mullaniff "Fade In Fade Out" at Tokarska Gallery
Waltham Forest: 163 Forest Rd, 6-8pm

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