Projects

27 June – 1 August
Friday – Sunday, 12 – 6pm
By appointment only – please contact Beaconsfield to arrange visit

Friday 27 June, 6 – 9pm
preview and free live performance with Aleks Kolkowski (musical saw),Lydia Kavina (theremin) and a Barbershop Quartet.

In association with lumin

live music performance-art electronica film eclectic dj’s

7, 8, 9 June 2008

28 May 2008 at 2pm
free entry but booking essential

A series of lectures conceived by Beaconsfield in collaboration with City & Guilds of London Art School.

Saturday 8 March 2008, 8pm-3am
Admission: £10 (£8 concessions)

live music performance-art electronica film eclectic dj’s

6 February 2008 at 2pm
free entry but booking essential
Presented during Self-Cancellation – 2-9 February

Mark & John Bain / John Butcher / Michael Colligan / Rhodri Davies / Benedict Drew / Robin Hayward / Gustav Metzger / Lee Patterson / Sarah Washington
Commissioned by Arika & the London Musicians’ Collective and developed withBeaconsfield.

Ten experimental sound artists are invited to explore in public the principles of self-cancellation in sound through conferencing, workshops and performance in London and Glasgow.

17 November 2007 – 13 January 2008

Flashes From the Archives of Oblivion brings together four pioneers of the performance genre with established practices that date back to the 1960s. The exhibition explores elements of each artist’s practice in relation to the discourse that surrounds the documentation of performance art.

Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 September
Opening hours 1-5pm
http://www.londonopenhouse.org/

For Open House London 2007, there will be two co-existing performances within the Beaconsfield venue at 22 Newport Street. Each activity will reflect the respective characters of two linked sites: the remaining wing of a Victorian school building and its adjacent double railway arch.

Beaconsfield Artworks / Karl Burke / Mark Dean / Bruce Gilbert / Leafcutter John / Fergus Kelly & David Lacey / Pan sonic / Bob and Roberta Smith / DJ Tendraw / Nina Hynes

Thursday 6 – Sunday 16 September 2007

Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin

Curated by David Crawforth in association with Beaconsfield and TBG&S, Dublin.

Wednesday 25 July 2007
From 1.30pm
Free – all welcome

A cultural quarter in Vauxhall/Kennington? How likely is that? The truth is, it’s not so far fetched. When plans for an Artisan School, an Arts and Crafts Museum and Damien Hirst’s proposed Newport Street development are positioned against galleries, art spaces and studios already flourishing in the area, the idea is not only a distinct possibility, but almost a reality.

13 June – 22 July 2007

Exhibition open Wednesday – Sunday 12-6pm
Preview Tuesday 12 June, 6-9pm
Free entry

One hundred and sixty years of history impregnates the wooden floorboards of the Upper Space at 22 Newport Street ­ the former Lambeth Ragged School ­ where London-based composer, artist and musician Leafcutter John is in residence. During June and July the old wooden floor will be symbiotically linked to software specially written to coax out sonic stories, old and new, re-told with the arrival of each visitor.

15 March – 29 April

An ambitious new exhibition project by London Fieldworks. Working with the legacy and personal myth of Walt Disney, the commission embraces the latest developments in animatronics, primal hibernation patterns and the practice of cryonics in its exploration of fantasy and death.

18 October – 10 November 2006
Open Wednesday – Friday 12-6pm

Ballroom and song are recurring motifs in Golden (Lessons), a research residency that expands on susan pui san lok’s ongoing project, Golden, exploring themes of nostalgia, cultivation and aspiration in diaspora.

part of the Open House London weekend

16-17 September 2006
Opening hours: 1-5pm
17 September at 4pm: book launch

For Open House London 2006, Carina Diepens will animate all three spaces at Beaconsfield with a series of her living sculptures. Using cloth, thread, metal, coal and human beings, Diepens’ sculptures create a tableau vivant that intermittently comes to life.

Part of the Lambeth Riverside Festival

Wednesday 19 July 2006, 2pm – 6.30pm

Speakers include – SHEENA WAGSTAFF – Chief Curator, Tate Modern – TONY CARTER – Artist and Principal of City and Guilds of London Art School – ANNA HARDING – Chief Executive, Space Studios – RICHARD GRAYSON – Artist and Independent Curator – PETER ST JOHN – Director, Caruso St John Architects – JEFFE JEFFERS – Director, Lady Margaret Hall Settlement

Saturday 24 June 2006, 8pm-3am
Admission: £6 (£4 concession)

21 – 25 June 2006
Wednesday – Sunday 12-6pm
Preview Tuesday 20 June 6-9pm

Part of Architecture Week

22 February – 30 April 2006
Greenwich Degree Zero is the first collaboration between artist Rod Dickinson and artist/novelist Tom McCarthy.

2003-2006

There is always a bar, food and some form of thought-provoking entertainment – be it a film programme, performance, live music or interactive installation. The basic Society structure is uniquely ignited on each occasion by the participating artists and transformed into whatever they want the event to be.