Smoke: JM Barrie, My Lady Nicotine, a study in Smoke, Illustrated by MB Prendergast, 1890.




Onions: Anon., onion pot, private collection.




Beards: Winner of the freestyle category of the 2006 International German Beard Championships Master hairdresser Elmar Weisser. Anon., ‘Battle of the Facial Hair’, Spiegel Online, 1 May 2006, www.spiegel.de

Past events

Netting Smoke with Implicasphere
Thursday 16 August 2007, 6pm (drinks) / 7pm (talk)
Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1.
For tickets and information, visit www.cornerhouse.org.uk or phone +44 (0)161 200 1500.
Implicasphere's co-editors ask specialist speakers and the audience to help chase all things smoky from the collective mental thicket into Implicasphere’s nets for a new issue of the publication. Pre-recorded readings and interviews with a Soho jazz raconteur and a celebrity chef, interspersed with film footage, anecdotes, cultural arcania, Foley art and lives sets by The Montgolfier Brothers and magician Bobby Reader, will provide smoky insights. Come along with images, texts, ideas for leads or simply vague thoughts on the theme of smoke to add to the possible content.
This event is produced by Implicasphere as guests of artist-in-residence David Blandy.

Peeling onions with Implicasphere
Monday 11 June 2007, 7pm
Photographers' Gallery, 5 & 8 Great Newport Street, London WC2.
For tickets and information visit www.photonet.org.uk or phone +44 (0)20 7831 1772.
Implicasphere's editors invite specialist speakers Gerry Gilmore, Alexandra Neel and Ian Saville to give onion-oriented insights from the fields of cosmology, literature and magic.
The audience, too, is invited to bring along images, texts, ideas for leads or simply vague thoughts for the content of a forthcoming edition of Implicasphere on the theme of The Onion.
The editors of Implicasphere, Cathy Haynes and Sally O'Reilly, will chair and introduce the event with a glimpse at some overlooked alliums in film, literature and music to stir our collective pot of memory and association. The talk will be followed by audience drinks.
This event is part of the Gallery's public programmes for the Joachim Schmid exhibition.

Gerry Gilmore is an international authority on the Milky Way galaxy: he was the first person to weigh the Milky Way and discovered its Thick Disk. He is Professor of Experimental Philosophy and Deputy Director, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University. His research involves weighing the invisible, attempting to find the true nature of reality. For this event he will explore onions in cosmology.
Alexandra Neel is a literary scholar completing her PhD at Princeton University on literary and photographic explorations of Antarctica. She joins the Department of English at the University of Oregon in September. She will elaborate on James Joyce's theory of the world as an onion.
Ian Saville has been performing Socialist Magic for the past twenty-five years on picket lines and at comedy clubs, festivals and theatres all over the world. He is the award-winning author of the first full-length socialist magic show Brecht on Magic. Classics from his act include 'The Class Struggle Rope Trick' and 'The vanishing of the military-industrial complex'. Tonight he will attempt to combine materialism and idealism by interrogating his soul – in the form of an onion. (www.redmagic.org.uk)

Implicasphere: an itinerary of meandering thought, from beards to...
Thursday 24 May 2007, 11am-2pm
Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London, W2.
For information visit www.serpentinegallery.org or phone +44 (0)20 7402 6075.
Come and collaborate with the editors of Implicasphere, Cathy Haynes and Sally O'Reilly, to sketch an associative string of ideas, from the rare and beautiful to the horrifying and funny, starting with beards and leading who knows where...
This is an informal lunchtime project presented as part of the Gallery's public programmes for its Paul Chan show.

Please note: all events may be video and audio recorded and presented online or in other public media by Implicasphere Ltd and the host galleries.

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