Projects

3 March – 18 July

On-Site Residencies open to the public.

TestBed 1 reflects popular practice by commissioning six new digital screen-based works, to be made through readily available modes of production.

TestBed 1 is produced as part of Beaconsfield’s curatorial mentoring scheme for emerging artist-curators. Mentees: Dafna Talmor and Joseph Walsh.

Image: TestBed 1: Michael Curran and Lucy Gunning, Rella, 2010, Residency view, Lucy Gunning filming, Upper Space

Canteen Gallery 2 FlatScreen

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

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

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.

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

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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…

17 March – 17 May 11am – 5pm

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

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.

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.

5 December 2008, 6pm — 10pm

Tate Britain Millbank London SW1P 4RG

20 September – 21 December 2008
Wednesday – Sunday 11am – 4pm

John’s House is a digital body of work in progress: a response to the spaces within and beyond the former home of the playwright John Osborne.

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.