Peckham TV is a project featuring artists Harold Offeh and The People Speak, resulting from research into the future of Peckham. The project was launched last month with a live broadcast on a large LED screen in Peckham Square. The broadcast used the format of the game show to create a collective vision for the future of Peckham, screening the results of workshops and 3D visualisations of the future. Gasworks gained a preview of Peckham Spaces’ activities during Gasworks’ project Disclosures when the director Emily Druiff and representatives of Peckham TV discussed issues around openness in cultural production, taking community TV making as its starting point.

This evening of screenings from the project will also feature music from djs Ben Perry (South City Radio); Paul Goodwin (Researcher on Black Urbanism, Tate Modern) and Harold Offeh (artist & Peckham TV collaborator), food and performance will be hosted by Project 133 and we are urged ‘the theme is afro-futurism, so come dressed for the occasion!’

Date: Wednesday 16th July, 7pm - late
Venue: The Bun House, 96 Peckham High Street, London SE15
For more information: see website

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Gasworks studio alumni Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre is the current holder of the Acme Southwark Studio Residency at the Galleria in Peckham. Having been working at the Galeria for the past 6 months de la Torre will open her studio to the public, offering the opportunity to see work in progress. One such project, which was featured in last months newsletter is Night Salon, a regular season of events as part of her research project Night Time, dedicated to exploring media portrayals of night-time in the inner city, and how we respond to these often sensationalist images and stories.

Other artists showing work are: Andrea Carr, Francis Carr, Stanislas Slavomir Blatton, Eva Bosch, Bella Easton, Jenny Franklin, Roxani Giannou, Jane Goodwin, Ting-Fay Ho, Charles Hustwick, Zebedee Jones, Dianne Kaufman, Linda Leroy, Michelle Molyneux, Carly Morris, Duncan Mountford, Pauline Place, Terry Ryan, Julian Sharples, Helen Silverlock, Louise Smart, Dilip Sur, Francis Wardale, Grant Watson.

Dates: Saturday 19 – Sunday 20 July 2008
Venue: Acme Studios, The Galleria, Galleria Court, Pennack Road, London, SE15 6PY
For more information: see website

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‘6 ARTISTS + 6 COLLABORATORS = 6 EXPERIMENTAL PROJECTS’
Using this simple mathematical formulae the curator of this exhibition brings together collaborators from six markedly disparate professions including a forensic psychiatrist, a computer game designer, an architect and a biophysicist. An Experiment in Collaboration forms part of the Jerwood Visual Arts series of exhibitions and initiatives to support and promote emerging talent. 6 artists were invited to choose a collaborator to work with and to submit proposals for an experimental project that looked at the process of collaborative practice. One of the artists is Stick*Stamp*Fly fanzine designer Daniel Baker who for this project will work with computer game designer Ricky Haggett to produce a computer game based on Baker’s fictional world of ‘Glob’.

…Glob is a universe of anthropomorphic characters - tiny grey figures carrying red balloons, monkey-like creatures with long winding tails, flaming eyeballs, and giant disembodied heads that spew forth smoke and flying monsters. Across the debris-strewn, virtual spaces of Glob, these creatures and characters are engaged in battles, power struggles and ambiguous deeds. Within the game the player is encouraged to interact with, and direct, these tiny acts of poignant strangeness, in an ambivalent God-like role…

Private View: Tuesday 29 July 6.30 – 8.30pm
Exhibition Continues: Sunday 31 August
For more information: see website

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This summer Gasworks will present the result of its third open submission project, Showtime. With the focus this year being performance, proposals by artists Laura Gannon, Flávia Müller Medeiros, Ruth Proctor and choreographer Nicholas Quinn were selected for commissioning. Each artist will develop their proposal ready for two evenings of performance to be held in Gasworks' gallery space.

...In an age when “we do no longer just work, we perform”, as Jan Verwoert has put it, Showtime perpetrates the imperative to perform by commanding the delivery of something as yet unknown, but right on time. It is hoped that Showtime will reflect a significant direction in performance and what it means in this moment...

Alongside these projects will be the UK premier of A History of Performance in 20 minutes, a lecture by Guillaume Désanges performed by actor Frédéric Cherboeuf. Considered to be a living exhibition the lecture aims to divide the history of performance into 10 gestures - appearing, receiving, holding back, escaping, aiming, falling, crying, biting, emptying oneself and disappearing - subjectively meandering through seminal works by Marina Abramovic, Chris Burden and Vito Acconci to name just a few.

Bringing a critical and theoretical dimension to the four Showtime commissions will be an open seminar, inviting discussion around the concept of an open submission on performance, and specific themes arising from the selected artists’ work. The seminar will be led by Showtime’s selectors Pablo Bronstein (artist), Vanessa Desclaux (Assistant Curator, Tate Modern) and Marianne Mulvey (Showtime co-curator).

Launch: Friday 1 August, 7-9pm
A History of Performance in 20 minutes, by Guillaume Désanges and Frédéric Cherboeuf.
Performance Evening 1: Thursday 7 August, 7-9pm
Laura Gannon
Flávia Müller Medeiros
Performance Evening 2: Saturday 9 August, 7-9pm
Ruth Proctor
Nicholas Quinn
Discussion: Saturday 9 August, 5.30-6.30pm

For more information: see website

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Curated by Vincent Honoré, Past-Forward is the result of a year-long curatorial residency with the Zabludowicz Collection. Past-Forward will be the third exhibition at 176, featuring more than 30 international contemporary artists whose works manipulate, re-play and disrupt existing structures of cultural production.

Damien Roach who presented the solo exhibition The Deepness of Puddles at Gasworks in 2006 is included in this exhibition alongside other important works from the Zabludowicz Collection by artists including Susanne Bürner, Nathan Mabry, Sigmar Polke, and Andro Wekua. It will also include works from other collections, as well as a specially-created installation by Claudia Wieser and an ambitious site-specific commission by Florian Slotawa.

…The works in Past-Forward make apparent their conceptual and formal origins. These origins, whether art historical references or modes of industrial production, are treated without reverence, and are used as elements of syntax in a renewed aesthetic language. Walead Beshty, for example, engages with early photographic practices to map not only physical manipulations but also his processes of production, while Damien Roach references 20th-century philosophy and popular culture in his sculptural installations…

Exhibitions Continues: Sunday 3 August
For more information: see website

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Borrowing its title from the sunny holiday resort off the coast of South Africa already makes this exhibition attractive to those of use unable to take a break and get away, but a trip to Lanzarote at Keith Talent's new space on Cambridge Heath Road explores much more than sun tans and beach games.

…Named after the impressive volcanic island and the novella by Michel Houellebecq, the protagonist contemplating the islands terrain states 'the conflict of the island, the volcanoes creation and the sea is destruction.' Using both the dynamic and illustrious narrative of the book and the book as an object, Lanzarote brings together five artists whose work uses many additional and reductive processes that either explore a succinct narrative or leave work near a state of collapse...

Walton, who has led numerous education workshops with Gasworks presents new work for the exhibition using various building materials to construct pillars and plinths displaying obscure drawings rendered from found photographic images.

Exhibition Continues: Saturday 9 August
For more information: see website

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Gasworks studio artist Marta Marce, having returned from her recent residency at the British School of Rome is included in this group exhibition.

...Games & Theory brings together the work of international contemporary artists who share interests in play, sports and gaming. With works shown in, on and around Nils Norman's play architecture, viewers are encouraged to become active participants in the exhibition and climb, crawl and experience the gallery in new ways. Taking its cue from Situationist ideologies, Games & Theory explores the radical potential of play as a form of resistance and expression of freedom…Marta Marcé uses semi-random elements from parlour games such as Mikado (pick-up sticks) or puzzles of her own devising to make decisions on composition in her paintings and murals...

The exhibition also includes work by Gustavo Artigas (Mexico), Lottie Child (UK), Marc Herbst (US), Tushar Joag (India), Jakob Kolding (Denmark), Kasia Krakowiak (Poland), George Henry Longly (UK), and Dan Shipsides (UK).

Exhibition Continues: Sunday 7 September
For more information: See the website

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After years of tirelessly working for Gasworks as our Residency Curator, Mia Jankowicz has abandoned ship and decided to embark on a curatorial course at De Appel in Amsterdam. While we want to sincerely congratulate her and wish her the best for her course and her future projects, we are extremely sad to see her go as she has made an enormous contribution to Gasworks and Triangle over the years. We will totally miss her and hope she remembers that she owes us everything and better become good material for this newsletter!

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Lambeth Arts is seeking an experienced artist or organisation to deliver a programme of outdoor arts activities to engage with local communities throughout Summer 2008.

You will design the programme to link with the Cultural Olympiad themes of Light Up and Open Up. You will document your project using a film artist or other means to create a body of evidence demonstrating the programme’s achievements as well as an exhibition in its own right.
The programme will incorporate an anti-litter campaign on behalf of Lambeth Streetcare. Actors will be required to wear costumes to be provided such as cigarettes and interact with passers-by to promote the anti-litter message.

Fee: £15,000 has been secured to cover all costs including artists’ fees, materials, marketing, venue hire, licensing etc. This total includes all costs associated with the anti-litter campaign, (costumes will be provided for this element).

Timescale:
- 6 week programme of arts activites begins and film documentation of work also begins - August 2008
- Programme and documentation continues - September 2008
- Activity designed to respond to Cultural Olympiad themes takes place during Launch - 26-28 September
- Exhibition to celebrate and evidence outcomes in venue yet to be decided (venue and timing of this element is negotiable) - Depending on venue

Application deadline:Thursday 17 July, 12 noon
To apply: Please send your proposal together with a current CV and examples of past work by email to artsweb@lambeth.gov.uk or by post to Lambeth Arts, 1st floor Blue Star House, 234-244 Stockwell Road, London SW9 9SP.
For more information: please telephone Lambeth Arts on 020 7926 0760.

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London Printworks Trust bursary scheme offers a one year residency (September 2008 - August 2009) with professional development support for an artist or designer who has graduated from a UK-based MA course in either 2007 or 2008. The recipient receives: £2,500 towards new work, access to textile print resource, one-to-one support covering all aspects of professional artistic development including studio practice, research, press & marketing and financial planning as well as a free studio space at ASC Studios in Brixton. Applications from artists who may not have worked in printed textiles previously are very welcome.

Entry Criteria:
-You must have graduated from a UK-based MA course in 2007 or 2008.
-You must have UK residency status during the Surface Bursary Scheme
-The nature of the funding source means that short-listed candidates will be means-tested. All information will be treated with the strictest confidence.

Process:
-Prospective candidates should submit a short written proposal (500 words or one side of A4) visual material (CD, DVD etc) and a current CV. Please don't send email attachments.
-Your written proposal should (a) describe your current studio practice and (b) detail how you would develop your work with the aid of the bursary.
-Alongside your creative practice, you should describe how you wish to develop your wider professional practice including marketing, financial planning, exhibition planning or setting up in business.
Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed by a panel consisting of Sian Weston, London Printworks Trust Programme Co-ordinator; London based artist and designer Zakee Shariff, and Zoe Whitley, a curator within the V&A's Contemporary Programme. Zoe and Zakee are both on the Board of Trustees at London Printworks Trust.

Application deadline: Friday 1 August, 5pm (interviews: Monday 18 August)
For more information: see website

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Hayward Touring: Curatorial Open 2009 is the inaugural exhibition of a series of three annual Hayward Touring curatorial open calls. The successful applicant will work in collaboration with the Hayward and four regional museums and galleries in organising their touring exhibition commencing July 2009. Hayward Touring: Curatorial Open provides a honorarium of £3,000 plus £1,000 for research and travel expenses. The curator will be expected to work within a modest exhibition budget that will allow for a small publication.
Selection Panel: Ralph Rugoff (Director, The Hayward) Roger Malbert (Senior Curator, Hayward Touring) representatives of participating museums and galleries and an artist (TBA).

Application deadline: Monday 8 September, 5pm (Short-listing: end of September and interviews: 14 October)
For more information: see website or email: curatorialopen@southbankcentre.co.uk

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The Courtauld Institute invite papers to be presented at a conference that will look to challenge the myth of the visual artist as an intuitive anti-intellectual, and demonstrate the extent and diversity of artists' contributions to modern literature and criticism.
...What motivates artists to write? How do artists view the relation between their visual and textual practice? and how do they use writing to manipulate or challenge the public reception and critical interpretation of their work?...
Please send proposals (max 300 words) for presentations of 20 minutes.

Application deadline: Friday 12 September
For more information: contact Linda Goddard by email: Linda.Goddard@courtauld.ac.uk

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For the twelfth time in 18 years the international residency program Akademie Schloss Solitude - located in Stuttgart, Germany - is granting approx. 65 residency fellowships of three to twelve months in duration. A public foundation opened in 1990 and funded by the State of Baden-Wurttemberg, the Akademie Schloss Solitude operates an international residency program awarding live/work fellowships to artists. Hundreds of artists from over 75 countries have developed and advanced projects at the Akademie since its opening, creating a close-knit, global network of Solitude alumni that expands from year to year.

International artists are invited to apply from the following disciplines: Architecture (architecture design, urban studies, landscape design), Visual Arts (including performance art and curatorial practice), Performing Arts (stage design, directing, dramaturgy, playwriting, dance, acting, musical theater, performance), Design (visual communication, fashion, costume, product or furniture design), Literature (theory/criticism, essay, poetry, fiction, translation), Music/Sound (sound installation, sound and music composition, sound and music performance) and Video/Film/New Media (including video installation).

For the second time, the application round also offers the possibility to apply for a residency fellowship in the art, science & business program. Scholars, scientists and professionals from the disciplines of the Humanities, the Natural Sciences and Economics are invited to apply.

Persons up to 35 or who have completed a university or college degree within the past five years are welcome to apply. Currently enrolled university or college students (at the time of application) will not be considered for selection. Each fellowship recipient is granted Euro 1.000 per month, in addition to free lodging. The independent jury consists of a jury chairperson and specialist jurors who independently allocate the fellowships for their respective disciplines.

Application deadline: Friday 31 October, 2008 (Postmark)
For more information and an application form: see website

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The second Shantana workshop will run from the 4 – 18 July 2008 culminating in an open studio on Friday 18 July (4-8pm). 21 artists have been invited to work in the village of Shantana for two weeks responding to the site and experimenting across different media. Artists from Jordon are joined on the workshop by those from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Morocco, UK, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, The Netherlands and Argentina. With events and work still unfolding on this year’s workshop, I thought this would be a good opportunity to look back on last years workshop and the ‘Triangle Fever’ it stemmed from.

This is a report from Diala Khasawnih, an artist who attended and co-founded the workshop.

…This is the first time an event like this has taken place in Jordan. A site-specific, progress-focused, contemporary art-based intimate meeting of artists, both international and local. Over a year ago, artist Oraib Toukan, inspired by her participation the AIWA workshop in Aley, Lebanon, came back to Amman with Triangle Workshop fever.
Oraib, Samah Hijawi, Ola Khalidi of Makan and I started meeting around June of last year. Alessio Antoniolli, Director of Triangle Arts Trust & Gasworks; Gill Ord, co-founder of Braziers, an annual workshop taking place in Braziers, England; and Ghassan Maasri, organiser of AIWA workshop in Aley, Lebanon came to visit in July 2006 to meet and discuss holding the workshop in Jordan and to locate potential sites for the workshop. Eventually, research led to Shatana, a village left with 150 inhabitants, old stone houses and beautiful landscapes…

…… The Open Day buzz still sounds in my head. On the 20th of July, the Open Day concluded the two-week artist workshop at the village of Shatana north of Jordan. The event acknowledged the interactive and cooperative relationship between the artists, the location and the inhabitants of this old, half-abandoned, beautiful village. The crowd touring the site of the exhibited works brought hustle and bustle, transforming the serene streets and empty houses. In a country where contemporary art is still foreign, even – or rather, particularly – at centres of art and among makers of art, contemporary art in its various illustrations was at home in Shatana… Read more

There will be more news from the artists attending this years workshop in next months newsletter.

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Established in 1995, Braziers International Artists Workshop (BIAW) is recognised as a unique and highly valued opportunity for artists wishing to examine their practice in critically engaged and global contexts.

Artists participating in BIAW 2008 were invited to work collaboratively, to move away from their practice in terms of materials and style and to show a genuine willingness to place themselves and their practice into question; truly exploring areas of artistic and cultural uncertainty and seeking creative solutions through the collaboration, exchange and cultural/artistic dialogue.

Artists and artist co-ordinators invite you to the open day of BIAW 08. An opportunity to meet the artists and find out about the outcomes of this intensive experience.

Workshop Dates: 3-17 August
Open Day: Sunday 17th of August
For more information & to book a place on the coach from London: see website

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Urban Wasanii international artist’s workshop was a way to interrogate and interact with local urban dwellers and urban public space in the Kenyan city of Mombasa. The interaction in public spaces contributed to a positive atmosphere and invited people to participate, to create or to congregate in the artists chosen spaces. The main aim of this year’s workshop was to:

1. Allow the use of identified spaces and thus the production of an artistic event even to non regular audiences.
2. Reduce the costs connected to the production of cultural activities by utilizing unusual spaces.
3. Encourage cultural exchange of experiences and practices with people from different communities and regions.
4. Encourage cultural exchange of ideas and practices among the selected artists.

This year’s workshop was held in city of Mombasa in the old law courts and the open day was held on the 28th of June from 10am til 4pm. This year’s participants were Nayari Castillo Venezuela (USA); Marieke Coenan (Netherlands); Mihret Kebede (Ethiopia); Sheila Nakitende (Uganda); Gordon Shamulenge (Zambia); Isaac Chibua (Botswana); Eveginia Golant (Russia); Michelle Brown (Ireland); Cultural video foundation (Italy) and Max Mason (United Kingdom). These international artists worked alongside Kenyan artists Charles Matathia (potash); Barbara Minishi; Samuel Koigi; Ato Malinda; Otieno Kota; Cyrus Nganga; Michael Makoha; Ukoo Flani and were supported by a work group which included Ogonga Thom, Peterson Kamwath, Beatrice Wanjiku and Soi Michael.

Wasanii would like to thank the national museums of Kenya, royal Netherlands Embassy, Embassy of the United States of America, the Ford Foundation, the British Council, the Alliance Francaise and the department of culture Nairobi.

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In partnership with Acme Studios, the Australia Council for the Arts began operating a residency for Australian-based visual artists in 1992. Managed by Acme on behalf of the Australia Council for the Arts, the residency runs alongside Acme's own programme at The Sugar House which provides work/live spaces for UK-based artists. Visiting artists taking up the Australia Council for the Arts' residency benefit from the networks they make while working within a wider community of artists.

Alison Clouston has been regularly represented in national and international exhibitions, including the First and Second Australian Sculpture Triennials in Melbourne, Australian Perspecta at the Art Gallery of NSW, the New Zealand and Adelaide International Festivals of the Arts, and the Hong Kong International Artists Workshop 2005.

For more information about Burragorang and Alison Clouston: see website

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Gasworker and critic Gemma Sharpe unpicks Skaer’s battle strategies unleashed for her recent solo exhibition at the Chisenhale Gallery in this online critical essay for Afterall.

…If this work does represent a battle scene, then the strategy of each participant becomes the key to deciphering positions of victim and victor, and of attacker and besieged. I would argue that it is the process of making – which differs markedly between the objects on the inside and the outside of the wall – that provides each object with its own battle strategy…

By referencing Frances Stark’s artists book ‘The Architect and the Housewife’ (1999)
and Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s seminal film ‘Riddles of the Sphinx’ (1977) Sharpe methodically explores the processes Skaer uses to make the work –from large gold castings to intricately copied pencil drawings– and her concerns of inside and outside which are considered both physically and socially to draw out underlying gendered themes within the battle.

To read the text in full: see website

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