Past Projects

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Paint Club

PAINTING as RESEARCH

Friday 26 April, 6-8pm

April LAST Fridays

 

One-off opportunity to see what PhD/MPhil researchers and their supervisors are painting in a salon of more than 40 works exhibited in the Upper Gallery from 6-8pm as part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays late openings.

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Begged, borrowed and stolen 

- random works from the digital ether

FlatScreen 1 & 2: Lower Space 

 

25 April – 3 May 2013

Wednesday – Friday, 11am-5pm 

A rolling programme of experiments in film, video, performance and dance existing free-to-view in the digital realm.

Selected by David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin.

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Tamsyn Challenger

Monoculture

Exhibition

 

20 February – 13 April 2013 

exhibition extended until Sat 20 April or by appointment until Wed 24 April
Wednesday – Saturday, 11am-5pm

 

Venue-wide exhibition of new works developed during the artist’s residency with Beaconsfield since June 2012.

Combines participatory sculptural objects and a small farm.

 

 

 

 

Special Events

Friday 22 February, from 6pm: Exhibition opening event, as part of February LAST Fridays with Bankside Afterparty

Saturday 16 March at 3pmInterpreting Monoculture: Selfies & Sadism, with Naomi Siderfin and Judith Dean

Saturday 23 March at 3pm: Tamsyn Challenger in conversation with Fran Cottell, Rebecca Fortnum and Hannah Philp, chaired by Naomi Siderfin: How far do contemporary women artists identify with feminism?

Wednesday 27 March at 11amMonoculture Coffee Morning

Saturday 6 April at 3pmRachael House responds to Monoculture

 

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Begged, borrowed and stolen 

- random works from the digital ether

FlatScreen 1 & 2 Canteen Gallery

 

9 January – 16 February 2013

Wednesday – Saturday, 11am-5pm 

A rolling programme of experiments in film, video, performance and dance existing free-to-view in the digital realm.

Selected by David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin.

 

 

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Touch.30 at Beaconsfield

Atmospheres 4

Wednesday 5 & Thursday 6 December 2012 

Two-day festival at Beaconsfield celebrating 30 years of Touch, with performances, installations and displays, plus a series of presentations and talks.

Curated by two of Touch’s founders and the current creative team, Mike Harding and Jon Wozencroft.

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Please note that during this event Beaconsfield’s site will be closed to non ticket holders.

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Tereza Buskova & Matthew Cowan
Experiments in Ritual

Friday 30 November 2012, 6-8.30pm
November LAST Fridays

Earlier this year Buskova and Cowan joined Tamsyn Challenger in her ongoing investigations into Monoculture.

This special screening will premier new video works from this engagement.

As part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays late openings.

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Monica Ross and Children of Class 4

Act 47

Anniversary – an act of memory

solo, collective and multi-lingual recitations from memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

a performance series in 60 Acts

 

Closed workshops in November: Cathedral Primary School of St Saviour and St Mary Overy

Public Performance: Tuesday 13 November 2012 at 1.30pm

Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, London SE1 9DA

 

A public recitation of the entire text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from memory by the children of Class 4, The Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary Overy with artist Monica Ross.

As part of Anniversary – an act of memory: a performance series in 60 acts.

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FALL

Matthew Tickle | Angus Sanders-Dunnachie | Thomas Kvam | Minna Haukka

27 October – 1 December 2012

Wednesday – Saturday, 11am-5pm

Exhibition preview: Friday 26 October from 6.30pm, as part of October LAST Fridays with Bankside Afterparty

 

Group exhibition.

 

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Atelier: artists at work on site

Tamsyn Challenger | David Crawforth | Judith Dean | Rachel Garfield | Bruce Gilbert | Naomi Siderfin | Caroline Wright

Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 September 2012, 11am-5pm

As part of Open House London

 

Weekend-long public dialogue about the ideas governing Beaconsfield as a creative base for critical enquiry.

Explore the venue through traces of past projects, permanent on-site artworks, resident artists, temporary installations and a series of live events.

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Telepathy Research

Wednesday 5 September 2012, from 7pm

MyPeople Project host a talk by talk by Prof. Christopher C French, Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London.

To accompany the exhibition Solar Plexus at our South London neighbours Space Station Sixty Five.

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MotoPoetic

Will Alsop | Edward Chell | Jennifer Cooke | David Lawrence

Poetics of the Motorway

Friday 27 July, 6-8.30pm

July LAST Fridays

Talk and readings celebrate the recent launch of In the Company of Ghosts: the Poetics of the Motorway, a book created by artist Edward Chell and poet Andrew Taylor, through their common interest in the physchogeographics of the motorway.

With guests Will Alsop, Edward Chell and David Lawrence and sonic performance poetry from Jennifer Cooke.

 

This event forms part of the South London Art Map July Not the Opening Ceremony LAST Fridays.

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MA Fine Art - Camberwell College of Arts at Beaconsfield

4-6 July 2012

Thursday July 5 2012, 6-9 pm: bend over shirley Open/Close

 

 

 

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Tamsyn Challenger
Monoculture

Commission and residency

From 28 June 2012 – February 2013
Wednesday – Saturday, 11am-5pm

 

A new project conceived by Challenger to focus on the homogenised nature of global culture and explore alternatives.

 

Special Events:

Monoculture Launch: Friday 29 June 2012, 6-8.30pm

Monoculture Exhibition Opening Event: Friday 22 February from 6pm

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Socialist Magician

Friday 25 May, From 6pm

LAST Fridays Late opening

6.30pm Rachel Garfield in conversation with Naomi Siderfin

8pm Ian Saville performs Socialist Magic

Beaconsfield hosts the Bankside Afterparty until late.

 

Galleries open for an evening viewing of The Struggle as part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays.

Image: Rachel Garfield, The Struggle, Part 1: The Straggle, video still

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Friday 27 April, 6.30-8.30pm

LAST Fridays Late opening

With South London Art Map People’s Choice Gallery Tour

SLAM tour leader Adam Walker in conversation with Rachel Garfield at 6.30pm. Booking Required.

Galleries open for an evening viewing of The Struggle as part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays.

April’s Bankside Afterparty takes place at Hotel Elephant.

Image: Rachel Garfield, The Struggle, Part 1: The Straggle, video still

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The Struggle

19 April – 3 June 2012

Thursday – Sunday, 11am-5pm

Exhibition extended until 23 June, Thurs-Sat Only

Fridays during June: Rachel Garfield at work on site

 

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The Struggle is a dynamic new series of films exploring the impact of politicised familial interactions on the formation of subjectivity in the individual – starting with The Straggle: a study focusing on individuals whose parents were left-wing activists, and the socialist magician Ian Saville.

Exhibition includes: Rachel Garfield and Stephen DwoskinHere There Then Now, 2009

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A View from the Other Side

Drop-in Draw

Friday 30 March 2012, 6-8.30pm

A drop-in drawing session for all ages inspired by the current exhibition.

The galleries will be open late for an evening viewing of IC-98: A View From The Other Side.

As part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays late openings.

Image: IC-98, A View from the Other Side, 2011, animation detail

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The [Blank] Collective

Friday 16 March, from 12 noon

Presence & Absence

discussions on the intervention of censorship

with guests Kirsten Cooke, Mark McGowan and Alex Wolfe

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A View from the Other Side

1 March – 14 April 2012

Thursday – Saturday, 11am-5pm

Closed Easter Week 5/6/7 April

Artists Talk and Reception: Friday 2 March at 6.30pm

Drawing Workshop & Evening View: Friday 30 March, 6-8.30pm

Meticulously drawn, slow–burn cinematic animation by Finnish duo IC-98 with other works from the same series on FlatScreens 1 and 2.

(Image: IC-98, A View from the Other Side, 2011, animation detail)

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Friday 27 January from 6pm

Svein Flygari Johansen and Jonny Bradley talk at 7pm

Live Performance by Metamono at 9pm

Beaconsfield is delighted to host an evening when artist Svein Flygari Johansen returns to London to ask Am I making up what really happened?

A discussion with code maker Jonny Bradley will unpack their long-term collaboration and the marriage of digital revolution with landscape tradition in our current exhibition.

 

As part of January LAST Fridays at Beaconsfield with Bankside Afterparty till late…

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Friday 25 January  2013, 6-8pm

Beaconsfield’s galleries open late as part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays.