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.
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.
4-6 July 2012
Thursday July 5 2012, 6-9 pm: bend over shirley Open/Close
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
6.30pm Rachel Garfield in conversation with Naomi Siderfin
8pm Ian Saville performs Socialist Magic
Beaconsfield hosts the Bankside Afterparty until late.
Friday 27 April, 6.30-8.30pm, LAST Fridays Late opening
SLAM tour leader Adam Walker in conversation with Rachel Garfield at 6.30pm.
The SLAM April LAST Friday’s tour visits Kennington & Vauxhall, as chosen by a public vote. The tour will visit Beaconsfield, Greengrassi, Gasworks and the newly relocated Space Station Sixty-Five.
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
Click here for special events programmed throughout the exhibition
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 Dwoskin, Here There Then Now, 2009
Friday 30 March 2012, 6-8.30pm
A free drop-in drawing session for all ages inspired by our current exhibition.
Friday 16 March, from 12 noon
Presence & Absence: discussions on the intervention of censorship with guests Kirsten Cooke, Mark McGowan and Alex Wolfe
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
Friday 27 January from 6pm
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?
12 November 2011 – 12 February 2012
Thursday – Sunday, 11am-5pm
Influential Norwegian artist shows solo for the first time in London, with cultural references ranging from the London stock exchange to the Utoya massacre.
Special Events:
Friday 11 November 2011, from 6.30pm: Exhibition Preview, with live performance by experimental musician Arne Borgan.
Friday 25 November, 6-8.30pm: LAST Fridays late opening:
Friday 27 January at 7pm: Svein Flygari Johansen and Jonny Bradley, as part of January LAST Fridays
Bruce Gilbert and BAW (David Crawforth & Naomi Siderfin)
Post-Diluvial Performance
With October LAST Fridays & Bankside Afterparty
Friday 28 October, 6pm till late
Wednesday 19 October, 2011 at 2pm
What now does it take to confer artistic status on an image? At what point does documentary evidence become ‘art’?
Academic Julian Stallabrass will discuss such issues in conversation with international human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith.
Free but booking essential.
Image: Noor Behram, 2010.05.21 Fatima Picture, Documents from the Frontier, Gaming in Waziristan, Beaconsfield, July 2011, Image courtesy the artist
Friday 30 September 2011, 6-8.30pm
Performance at 7pm: Noshin Farhid’s Conic Trilogy: Screening with Live Narration by Ross Mullan
Beaconsfield joins participating galleries throughout South London open late for the South London Art Map LAST Fridays.
The exhibition Soundtrap V: Bruce Gilbert and BAW, Diluvial, 2011 will be on show throughout the evening.
Sunday 18 September at 2pm: Green Walk
Sunday 18 September, 3.30-8pm: Living Roof Launch
Masterminded by Mark Pavey, Michael Shaw and Dafna Talmor, the sustainable, living roof at Beaconsfield has been more than a year in the making, built by volunteers, working under strict principles, only from donated and salvaged materials.
8 September – 30 October 2011
Wednesday 7 September 6-9pm: Exhibition Preview
Friday 28 October 7pm: Post-diluvial performance (Part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays)
Diluvial is an evolving soundscape and environment by Bruce Gilbert (ex Wire) and Beaconsfield ArtWorks (David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin).
image: Field Recordings, Sizewell Beach, Suffolk, April 2011
Parabola 22:00 / Hyperbola 26:00 / Ellipsis 9:00
8 September – 30 October 2011
Wednesday 7 September 6-9pm: Exhibition Preview
Friday 30 September at 7pm: Screening with live narration by Ross Mullan
(Part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays.)
A series of three digital films made in part on Orford Ness, Suffolk, a small island which politically resonates through its history of espionage, atomic testing and international communications.
image: Nooshin Farhid, video still, Parabola, Conic Trilogy, 2010, Courtesy the Artist and The Agency
Saturday 3 September, 1-5pm
Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1
Beaconsfield joins invited artists to Embrace the Place with Tate Local.
A Tate Local event in partnership with CityWest Homes Great Communities Day. Embrace the Place is produced by home live art in collaboration with Tate Britain.
Noor Behram | Butler Brothers | Nooshin Farhid
Exhibition: 19 July – 5 August, 2011, Tuesday – Friday, 11am-5pm
Exhibition Extended: Thursday & Friday 25/26 August, Thursday 1 September, 11am – 5pm
Friday 29 July, 6.30 – 8.30pm: LAST Fridays: Gaming in Waziristan as part of Becks South London Festival of Art Night
