We’re leaving our current home at 84 Tottenham Court Road and we’re going out with a bang. Between Saturday May 9th and Monday May 25th, we’re hosting Hilary Powell and Dan Edelystyn‘s installation “Everything Must Go” featuring “Big Bang 2”.
Tie-in events include the Opening Night Party, screenings of their films Power Station and Bank Job, a talk by Max Haiven on the Art & Activism of Money, a Money Making Workshop and a Live Auction of works in the show.
Everything Must Go!
“Everything Must Go” by Hilary Powell & Dan Edelstyn
Saturday May 9th to Monday May 25th
Free entry: 12-6pm, Wednesday to Sunday
Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell‘s installation Everything Must Go, tells the story of the artist/activist couple’s recent economic and energy interventions – the multilayered works that became the feature documentary films Power Station (2025) and Bank Job (2021).
Bank Job 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. Power Station saw them imagining themselves as both Central Bank and Central Government to unleash a green new deal in microcosm and involved rooftop sleeping, sunflowers and singing in the pursuit of energy democracy.
Exhibits on show include “Big Bang 2”, the gold van full of debt detonated during Bank Job; the bed the couple slept in on their roof during Power Station; an ingot and a coin, both smelted by hand at London Sculpture Workshop from the metal of the destroyed van engine; the original HSCB printing plates (the source plates for the banknotes already in the V&A’s permanent collection); as well as other prints and artefacts from the two films.
On Saturday May 23rd, we’re holding a Live Auction of selected pieces from the show, along with a few set price items. The auction will be conducted by Kairos regular, artist Gavin Turk – with proceeds going towards Hilary and Dan’s next project to set up a community energy centre in Nigel Farage’s constituency – will be followed by Dan’s first ever cabaret performance, with a chance to sing along. It promises to be historic.
Past Tie-In Events for “Everything Must Go”
“Everything Must Go”: Opening Night Party
Friday May 8th, 6 to 11pm
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We’re celebrating the opening of Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn’s take-over of our ground floor space with cocktails, a live musical set by Afro-Brazilian roots musicians Aleh Ferreira, George Fogel and Lizzie Ogle, and other amusements.
Dan & Hilary’s installation, Everything Must Go, tells the story of the couple’s recent economic and energy interventions – the multilayered works that became the feature documentary films Power Station (2025) and Bank Job (2021).
Bank Job 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. Power Station saw them imagining themselves as both Central Bank and Central Government to unleash a green new deal in microcosm and involved rooftop sleeping, sunflowers and singing in the pursuit of energy democracy.
Everything Must Go, featuring “Big Bang 2 – Artefact of a Debt Explosion” will be at Kairos between Saturday May 9th and Monday May 25th. Opening hours to view the show are 12 to 6pm, Wednesday to Sunday.
We will also be screening Power Station on Saturday May 9th, screening Bank Job on Friday May 22nd, holding a Live Auction of the contents of the show on Saturday May 23rd, and running a money-making workshop on Sunday May 24th.
Entry to the Opening Night Party is free but space will be limited so booking is essential.
Live Auction: Everything Must Go! conducted by Gavin Turk
Saturday May 23rd, 6.30 for 7.30pm
Artist-activists Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell have taken over our ground floor space with their installation Everything Must Go. The show features “Big Bang 2″ the van they detonated for their film Bank Job.
We’re holding a Live Auction of selected pieces from Dan and Hilary’s show, along with a few set price items.
The auction will be conducted by Kairos regular, artist Gavin Turk. It will be followed by Dan’s first ever cabaret performance, with a chance to sing along. It promises to be historic.
The bar will then stay open until 11pm.
Proceeds from the auction will go towards Hilary and Dan’s next project – setting up a community energy centre in Nigel Farage’s constituency. They’re trying to raise £250,000 so potential buyers and art world influencers are particularly welcome!
“Big Bang 2” and other works are being auctioned online, so as to reach the widest audience. To access the Digital Auction click here.
The title of the show 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!
Screening of “Bank Job” with Dan Edelstyn & Hilary Powell
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.
Screening of “Power Station” with Dan Edelstyn & Hilary Powell
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.
Money Making Workshop & Show Closing Drinks with Paris 68 Redux, Hilary Powell & Dan Edelstyn
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.
The Art and Activism of Money with Max Haiven
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.
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