Longplaying
A series of free talks and events at Trinity Buoy Wharf (to book a place, see below)
Trinity Buoy Wharf lighthouse
Wednesday 28 September: David Rooney
"On reaching the corner of Greenwich Park, a quiet suburban district, the police had found, amid a motley debris of trees, bushes and railings, the charred and shattered remains of a man." (Newspaper report, 1894). "Wait till they start on the Greenwich Observatory. London without time will cause them to wake up." Suffragette conversation, 1913.
David Rooney is currently a curator at the Science Museum and formerly curator of timekeeping at the Royal Observatory, and was involved in the installation of Longplayer listening posts at both museums. He is interested in the roles played by material artefacts in long-term institutional survival strategies, and the ways people can seek to destabilise experiments in normalisation.
The talk commences at 7pm at The Lighthouse, Trinity Buoy Wharf, Orchard Place, London E14 0JW and will run for one hour. Drinks will be for sale in the Chainstore, from 6pm - 9pm, provided by the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club. The Longplayer listening post in the Lighthouse will be open before and after the talk, from 6pm - 7pm and 8pm - 9pm.
The talk commences at 7pm at The Lighthouse, Trinity Buoy Wharf, Orchard Place, London E14 0JW and will run for one hour. Drinks will be on sale, from 6pm – 9pm, at Fat Boys Diner.
Admission is FREE – to book a place please write to