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.

The Struggle: SLAM Tour

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.

Rachel Garfield: 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

 

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

University of Kent, School of Arts, Logo

Goldsmiths Logo

 

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

Svein Flygari Johansen: 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

Art & Compromise (VII): Julian Stallabrass with Clive Stafford Smith – Using Images of War

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

SpaceShip Earth: Living Roof

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.

Soundtrap V: Bruce Gilbert and BAW – Diluvial at Beaconsfield

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 

Nooshin Farhid: Conic Trilogy, 2010

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

Beaconsfield at Embrace the Place: A Tate Local Event

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.

Gaming in Waziristan

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

Ian Hinchliffe – the Memorial

Saturday 2 July 2011, 2pm – 8pm
Upper Gallery 1 & Canteen Gallery 2
Tribute to the Northern legend and sometime bad boy of the British Performance/Live Art scene.

Join us on 2nd July as some of the many great performers, artists, musicians, organisers, publishers and friends who were touched by Ian Hinchliffe will celebrate his life/art.