Upper Gallery 1 & Canteen Gallery 2
23 March – 11 April
Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 5pm
On-Site Residencies open to the public
An ongoing conversation brings Michael Curran and Lucy Gunning together for their first collaboration. The artists are working from zero – seeing what can happen in the space through experimental and investigative studio practice.
3 March – 21 March 2010
Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 5pm
On-Site Residency open to the public
Kane’s Revolutions: a gangster tale of architectural regeneration in South London.
Friday 19 March, 8.00-10pm: Kane’s Revolutions Residency Event
Screening of Kane’s Revolutions – work in progress, performance and installation with live electronic soundtrack by Zon on n. With closing performance at 9.55pm
Image: TestBed 1: Anthony Gross, Kane’s Revolutions, 2010, video still
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.