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DEPTFORD X LONDON’S FOREMOST CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTS FESTIVAL WWW.DEPTFORDX.ORG 24 SEPTEMBER– 03 OCTOBER 2010 Photo by Liam Helm: www.flickr.com/photos/myxi/ 1 Deptford X 2010 24 September – 03 October 2010 Deptford X Deptford X exists to promote the best Creative Crypt contemporary visual art and celebrate that art St. John’s Church with the widest possible audience. 73 Waterloo Road SE1 8UD It is an arts event born of Deptford’s creative 020 7928 1000 community and based on a belief in the [email protected] limitless potential of the area. deptfordx.org For full listings please visit the Deptford X deptfordx.org Credits Please read Lead Artist: Mark Titchner Copy was correct at time Project Director: Matthew Couper of going to press. Project Assistant: Aroé Ortega Education Programme: Lewisham Education Arts Network Press Officer: Sandra Ross Event Manager: Lis Ssenjovu Heath and Safety: Tim Byrne Banner installation: Concorde Graphics Evaluation: Terry Adams Design: Studio Raw Deptford X Board Key Julia Alvarez Jane Hendrie Numbers listed refer to Natalie Brett Paul Marks the venue: # John Cierach Liz May Mark Davy (Chair) Simon Parris Bea Denton David Sullivan Amanda Francis Reuben Thurnhill Helen Goodier Alma Tischler Wood 2 Lead Artist Mark Titchner 27 31 34 flushed by the rain. It doesn’t matter what ‘it’ happens to be, The Old Police Station, Lewisham but ‘it’ is experienced and ‘it’ Arthouse and Seager Distillery is lived. Deptford X has invited Daily discoveries uncovered by internationally renowned, local chance encounters on busy streets. artist Mark Titchner (nominated for the Turner Prize, 2006) as the Not art but everyday life. lead artist for Deptford X 2010. Get up, go to work, come home, His statement of intent outlines get up, go work, come home but our aims for this year. with an added element, something that wasn’t there the day before, Grand and spectacular, ephemeral something that actually makes or concealed, art qualified and you think about all this routine, created by daily life. this place we live and call life. An incongruous video on the Ridiculous, odd, generous, CCTV monitors at the Job Centre, pretentious and maybe a bit strange sounds on the PA system stupid but something that reminds at the station, a message chalked us that real life is not elsewhere. on a wall, glimpsed and forgotten, It’s here. Again, Again, Again: Artwork by Mark Titchner with original photography by students from Deptford Green School seen on refuse trucks around Deptford. 3 Photography Project Peter Anderson 6 HERE AND NOW Arch Gallery Private View: Friday 24 September 6 – 9pm Monday to Thursday, 10am – 5pm Friday to Sunday, 10am – 6pm The exhibition comprises huge hand-printed black and white photographs capturing the street style of young people who live locally. Their urban attitude reflects the iconic early hip hop photographs Anderson made on the streets of New York City in the early eighties. 4 Deptford X Award Chris Rawcliffe 21 Artists were invited to make a response to Mark Titchner’s IN DEPTFORD EDITION statement of intent. Gallop Friday to Sunday, 10am – 6pm The following artists were selected by a panel of judges including Deptford Edition is a web-based Julia Alvarez (BEARSPACE), project, a random appropriation Amanda Francis (artist), of internet-generated images of Simon Parris (South London Deptford where anything and Gallery), and Mark Titchner. everything is indiscriminately One of the artists will receive gathered into an indefinite and the specially commissioned infinite visual catalogue of Renewal Award. the world. The Deptford X Award is supported Many thanks to The Two Jonnys. by the Renewal Group. editionof1.org Renewal’s focus is Surrey Canal: London’s Sporting Village — the regeneration of a 30 acre site in North Lewisham which will bring up to 2,700 new homes, 2,000 jobs and a regional centre of sporting excellence. For more information please visit: surreycanal.com 5 Harry Blackett, Bernat Daviu, 18 Samuel Whittaker DRIVE-THRU (Old Bridge) Deptford Train Station In 1565 Cosimo De Medici commissioned Georgio Vasari to build a bridge connecting the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, in Florence. This project presents abstracted images of that bridge, installed Eduardo Padilha 31 at the Deptford Train Station; a shifting of space and history CELL SPEAKERS connecting Deptford to Florence. The Old Police Station Thursday to Sunday, 12noon – 6pm A site specific installation of found images and objects, newspapers headlines and fabric transforming the police cells into a welcoming environment. Cell Speakers will feature four guests who will discuss their disciplines with audience. Yasmina Reggad (Director of Photo-Festivals) Emma Smith (Artist and Co-Director of Delta Arts) Giorgia Mesquita (Artist and publisher of Artist Projects) Mario Pires Cordeiro (artist and Studio Manager at The Old Police Station) Please visit the Deptford X website for discussion times. Supported by the Arts Council, England. 6 Jan Hendrickse 15 UPFRONT DeptfordDoubleDecker ‘Up Front’ is an interactive sound installation. You are invited to call a freephone number* and tell us your suggestions as to how the world could be improved. Your messages will then be broadcast on the front of a Double Decker bus. Please call 020 3094 1660 *messages are free from UK landlines. 7 Liz Harrison 18 WHY BIRDS SING UP Deptford Train Station A sound installation of bird recordings, promoting an awareness of how songbirds are adapting to their urban existence. Liz Harrison’s installation, based in the echoing stairwells of Deptford Train Station, is inspired by recent scientific research into the rising pitch of birdsong and its fight to combat the noises of the city. 8 Trisant (Julian Hughes Watts) 20 Matthew Verdon PRODUCT RANGE REPEAT HAMMONS PIECE A101 Faircharm Trading Estate 25 Tanners Hill Friday to Sunday, 10am – 6pm Three letters have been removed The digital animations use a from a statement made by artist vocabulary found in many David Hammons. commercial adverts — in the presentation of objects and in the The text is presented as a stimulation of desire. It explores discrete and subtle intervention the impact of advertising on the on Deptford High Street, taking individual, creating a frenetic a form that reflects the myriad of sequence that echoes the relentless surrounding signage and political pressure created by images of banners, while questioning luxury brands and consumer authorship, productivity products in modern life. and labour. 9 Artists in Residence Projects Deptford X has commissioned artists to work with groups representing the population of Deptford with the aim of producing new work. Creekside Artists 4 Drawing Marathon The Albany Drawing: 24 & 25 September 2010 Exhibition: 27 September to 2 October Anna Pickering 4 DEAR Participants Creekside Artists will transform The Albany The Albany into a giant blank 3, 10, 17 & 24 September canvas. Attendees and local artists & 1 October 2010, 1 – 2pm will have the opportunity to draw on the walls to create a large Under the guise of a weekly exercise collaborative drawing inspired class, the project Dear Participants by their own day-to-day lives. (New Movements) at the Albany Passers-by will be encouraged to promotes the possibility that step in and participate or watch rhetorical tools for effective democratic others at work. communication may be sampled, danced and displayed by everyone. Drawing will continue over the weekend with local artists on hand To book your place on the workshop, for ideas and inspiration. The please contact Deptford X on: completed work will be on display 020 7928 1000 in the foyer of the Albany during the festival. [email protected] Spaces are limited All are welcome to come and draw! 10 Leila Galloway, Sophie Hope and 13 residents of Crossfields Estate Saying NO Mat Do 16 Crossfields Estate Sunday 3 October 2010 Deptford Market Friday & Saturday 24 & 25 September On this day, Sunday 3 October & 1 & 2 September 2010 2010, we call upon the citizens of Crossfields Estate, Deptford Utilising the core iconography to come together in a collective of Deptford, Mat Do will look uprising to celebrate your everyday to excavate the complex layers rebellions, different types of behind its history, archaeology doing and creative acts of refusal. and ongoing renewal. Constructed Together we will transform our around a merging of historical and community and for one day cultural references, Do will offer the reclaim our freedom from the common populous of the market, pressures of capitalist living. the traders and the punters, a new Down your tools and revel in your temporary artwork, to be held on common acts of resistance, no their person as along as they see fit. matter how quiet or concealed sayingno.org 11 Fringe Awards Deepa Chudasama 39 Cluster J Wavelengths Leisure Centre A chance encounter with Cluster J is a momentary glimpse into a pseudo-scientific world, or maybe this week’s ‘new look’, transient temporary and fleeting. Thanks to Parkwood Leisure. Annabel Tilley 31 Drawing THE likeness OF BRICK The Old Police Station Thursday to Sunday, 12noon – 6pm Annabel Tilley’s project Drawing the likeness of brick consists of a series of concealed miniature drawings that emulate our surroundings. These coloured pencil and paper mimics will be secreted on the brick surface itself, and in such a way that they are camouflaged and must be carefully sought out. 12 Fred Aylward 39 THE VIEW FROM MY DENTISTS CHAIR Wavelengths Library A panoramic view featuring aircraft flying across the New York skyline. The aircraft never quite reach the Twin Towers....Above this is a smiling face. Aylward only ever sees these images briefly, when he visits his dentist and always finds them worrying. 13 Hanna Clarke and Kit Merritt 1 WEEK 17 Resolution Way Friday to Sunday, 10am – 6pm The product of seven 24-hour instalments, 1 Week documents the heterogeneous archival practice of both artists.