Friday May 22nd, 6 for 6.30pm

Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell’s 2021 feature documentary Bank Job (1hr 27 mins) explored the truth about money and debt and instigated a community heist on an unjust financial system – setting up a rebel bank on a high street and printing money to cancel £1.2 million of predatory debt.

For most of May, Dan and Hilary will be taking over our ground floor space with their installation Everything Must Go, which features “Big Bang 2” and other artefacts from Bank Job as well as from their other multi-layered 2025 work Power Station.

This screening of Bank Job, which takes place the night before we hold a live auction of the contents of Everything Must Go, will be followed by a discussion with Dan and Hilary.

Opening hours to view Everything Must Go are 12pm to 6pm, Wednesday to Sunday. We will also be screening Power Station on Saturday May 9th and running a money-making workshop on Sunday May 24th. All the tie-in events for Everything Must Go are listed here.

Watch the trailer for Bank Job.

Saturday May 23rd, 6.30 for 7.30pm

“Ten years of artwork. One night. The van from Bank Job — still carrying the physical remains of £1.2 million of debt we abolished — going under the hammer.”

For most of May, artist-activists Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell will be taking over the ground floor of Kairos with their installation Everything Must Go, featuring “Big Bang 2: The Artefact of a Debt Explosion.” Everything Must Go tells the story of the couple’s decade of economic and energy interventions — the multi-layered works that became the feature documentary films Power Station (2025) and Bank Job (2021).

Before the show closes, we’ll be auctioning selected works at this Live Auction on Saturday May 23rd at Kairos, as well as via a digital auction now open that will run until May 31st.

The Live Auction will be conducted by our special auctioneer and friend Gavin Turk. It will be followed by Dan’s first ever cabaret performance, with a chance to sing along. It promises to be historic.

Dan and Hilary work in what they call Method Art — dreaming up an idea and then living it. Bank Job didn’t depict debt destruction; it was an actual debt-abolition action, documented on film. Power Station didn’t depict a community energy project; it was one, with their own Walthamstow street as the material.

Everything Must Go continues that lineage. The auction is not how they are funding the art. The auction is the art — a live, one-night performance work in which two artists put their archive on a rostrum and let the room decide what happens next. The ending is not written in advance. The target for the auction is £250,000 with all proceeds used to repay community bondholders who helped fund Power Station, clear the debts Dan accrued making the project, and development of the next stage.

The title cuts two ways. Everything in the room must go — prints, paintings, the van, the lot. And so must everything that made the work necessary: the fossil-fuel economy, the extractive banks, the debt machine. Clearing the studio is the easy part. Clearing the system is the work.

Everything Must Go!

Sunday May 24th, 1 for 2pm

Many artists have been tempted to experiment with money as a way to critique capitalism and experiment with alternatives. Some integrate coins, bills and promises into their paintings and sculptures. Others invent thought-provoking new currencies and thriving alternative economies.

Perhaps they do so because money represents the cutting edge of economic power, and most artists are made poor by this system. Or maybe it’s because both art and money are ways we represent and imagine the world.

In this talk, Max Haiven will contextualise Dan and Hilary’s work as part of a legacy of interventionist art that plays with money for the radical imagination. Drawing on his 2018 book “Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization”, he’ll ask: What can activists and organisers learn from these daring experiments?

After Max’s talk we’ll have a short break for tea and coffee followed by discussion. Our free Money Making Workshop will then start at 4.30pm.

Tickets include lunch before the talk at 1pm and tea or coffee during the break. Please pay what you can.

This is one of the supporting events for Everything Must Go, artist/activist couple HIlary Powell and Dan Edelystyn’s take-over of our ground floor space.

Sunday May 24th, 4 for 4.30pm

Come and make your own money at the closing event for our series Everything Must Go, a celebration of the work of artist/activists Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn.

We’re issuing a limited edition of 100 notes in our new Kairos currency – designed and produced by Paul Nelson, Charlie Waterhouse (of the Brixton Pound) and Michael Collins from Paris 68 Redux –  which we’re inviting you to customise and complete.

The workshop is free to enter. Kairos notes will cost £20 to buy and customise. They can then be used at the bar or in exchange for tickets for future events. Warning: Their value may decline over time.

The workshop will be followed by drinks to mark the closing of Hilary and Dan’s show and the opening of our new Roulette table. Supper will be served from the bar at around 8pm. The bar will stay open until 10pm.

Saturday May 9th, 6 for 6.30pm

Power Station (90mins, 2025), by artist-activists Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn, began in the depths of lockdown with the question ‘’what could we do from where we live, with the people around us, to build power – of energy and imagination?”

Inspired by lockdown mutual aid initiatives, they decided to turn their street in Walthamstow into an energy-generating powerhouse – a prototype for a new way of living, with the hope of galvanising a wider push towards sustainable alternatives.

Directed by the duo, Power Station charts their turbulent journey, from pitching the idea to their neighbours and sleeping on the roof of their home to raising finance and launching a bid for a Christmas number one single.

Smart, funny and inspiring, Hilary and Dan’s film shows community building in action and the power of art in changing minds about what could be possible.

For most of May, Dan and Hilary will be taking over our ground floor space with their installation Everything Must Go, which features artefacts from Power Station and their other multi-layered work Bank Job.

This screening of Power Station takes place the night after the Opening Night Party for Everything Must Go. It will be followed by a one-pot vegan supper and discussion with Dan and Hilary.

Watch the trailer for Power Station.