Projects

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.

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.