Projects - Beaconsfield

The Badger Series – Paul Tarragó

Canteen Gallery 2 FlatScreen

A cycle of eight short videos broadcasting intermittently throughout Spring/Summer 2010.

Beaconsfield Art Works: Salah Days

A sound installation with digital print for the exhibition Proposals for a Socialist Colony, Skydive, Houston, USA

Art & Compromise (V): Jon Thompson

Thursday 18 February 2010 at 2pm

Free entry but booking essential

Art & Compromise is a series of discursive lectures addressing the various forms and occasions when compromise might enter into art-practice. Jon Thompson will discuss changes in art practice over his professional career.

Beaconsfield at Curzon Soho The Way Out…

Sunday 8 November at 12 noon
Short Films and Discussion on the disabled vanguard with Maxa Zoller, Justin Edgar and Aaron Williamson
Curzon Soho, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 5AY

Factory Outlet: Bob and Roberta Smith – Launch

7 November 2009 – 21 February 2010

Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 5pm

Launch: Friday 6 November, from 7pm with performances by The Ken Ardley Playboys, The Apathy Band, Leigh Clarke, Boycott Coca-Cola Experience, The Fucks and Resonance Radio Orchestra

Venue-wide exhibition showcasing the mass output achieved during Bob and Roberta Smith’s time in residence (22 February 2009 – 21 February 2010).

Anniversary: an act of memory – Monica Ross

Saturday 19 September 2009 at 2.30pm

Gallery Three Performance

Monica Ross will lead a collective recitation by artists, from memory, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948.

Soundtrap IV : John Wynne

9th September – 18th October 2009

The combination of multi-channel technology, the resonance of a classic mechanical instrument, sculpture on a grand scale and Beaconsfield

Factory Outlet: This Artist is Deeply Dangerous – Bob and Roberta Smith

16 June – 12 November 2009

As recession bites, Bob & Roberta Smith are making the most of the spacious Beaconsfield premises, turning the former Ragged School into a prolific site of production over one whole year.

Alex Kershaw – 3 films made between 2005 and 2009

9 June – 9 August 2009

Gallery Two FlatScreen

Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 5pm

Alex Kershaw is based in Sydney and works with video and photography to generate unexpected relationships between people and their terrain. Often spending extended periods researching locations and characters, Kershaw’s quiet activism blurs the boundaries between everyday activity and devised performance as ordinary people become involved in the work.

Art & Compromise (IV) – 15mm Films

Wednesday 6 May at 2pm

15mm Films is a collective of disability artists – Aaron Williamson, Katherine Araniello, Laurence Harvey, Simon Raven, Juliet Robson and Philip Ryder – based in the UK who take an experimental approach to collaboration in their delivery of visual art works.

The Way Out – 15mm Films

25 March – 14 June 2009
Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 5pm

The Way Out is a fictional disability terrorist organisation that has been fighting for the rights of disabled people whilst adding to their number by randomly mail-bombing the public…

Monica Ross: fallen idyll – the end of a perspective

17 March – 17 May 11am – 5pm

home movies from 138 St.Lawrence Square, Byker 2003-2008
24’ single screen version, 2008

Art & Compromise (III) Mark Sealy: The Organ that Weeps

11 February at 2pm
free but booking essential

Mark Sealy delivers the third lecture in the Art & Compromise series. In The Organ that Weeps, Sealy will discuss, through his work at Autograph ABP, issues relating to race, representation and human rights.

Courage to Refuse

Katie Barlow / John Buckley / David Crawforth / Shane Cullen
Gallery Two Flat-screen
20 January – 15 March 2009 11am – 4pm

Courage to Refuse unifies documentary footage (Barlow) from Jenin and Israel fused with a Hebrew transcription (Buckley/Cullen) of the 638 members of the military who form the resistance group Courage to Refuse. The visual component has a sonic accompaniment (Crawforth) offsetting the original sounds recorded in the Middle East. The text, sound and moving image are rendered to reflect the radical contrasts and tensions existing in today’s Israeli-Palestinian territories.