DOCSLIB.ORG

Network Sonia Boyce

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Network Sonia Boyce PRESS RELEASE Network Sonia Boyce Peckham Space, Camberwell College of Art, 89 Peckham High Street, London SE15 5RS 13 September – 19 November 2011, Launch event 13 September May 6-8pm Peckham Space presents Network, a specially commissioned film from artist Sonia Boyce, which explores how forms of social communication such as mobile phones and social networking sites like Facebook have become the most popular ways for young people to maintain their relationships with friends and family. The artist worked with Southwark Council‟s Visual And Performing Arts (VAPA) Young Women‟s Group to chart the nature of these relationships and the languages that have formed around these technologies. The exhibition will comprise a series of films, choreographed in the gallery space as an installation: a set of dialogues featuring the young people in front of as well as behind the camera. Shot in cinematic high definition, the Network film follows the journeys of four young women from their homes to their weekly VAPA group meeting through the different street systems of South East London. Once there, the young women explain their networks and friendship groups, previously mapped out in collaboration with oral historian Verusca Calabria. The conversations happen face to face and on mobile phones, but the identity of their partner is not revealed: all four young women are involved in the same discussion, bypassing the boundaries of the concurrent discussions. Sonia Boyce said: “I was particularly interested in the type of conversations that are generated and amongst groups of young people. I wanted to explore their inter-connected micro-communities, and that boundary between the public and the private that is bridged online and through personal mobile phones. It‟s fascinating to me that young people‟s communities can reach geographically and culturally distant areas through the use of new technology, and how this can challenge traditional notions of the concept of „community.” For this commission, Peckham Space worked with VAPA to draft the project brief and invited two of its young women members to join the selection panel that interviewed and commissioned the artist. Fahmeeda Khan, a member of the VAPA Young Women‟s Group said: “We wanted to work with artist Sonia Boyce for this project because we liked that she wanted to make a film which looked at social networking and mobile phones from our point of view: at school and at home we often face negative opinions of these technologies. I hope that Network shows how these ways of communicating are important to us, and gives people an insight into the way young people today stay in touch with their friends, classmates and family members.” On 13th October 2011, Artist Sonia Boyce will be in conversation with cultural critic Bonnie Greer, discussing how the artist has explored modern concepts of communities used oral history to develop Network‟s themes. Network at Peckham Space heralds the fifth exhibition in London‟s newest purpose-built art venue which opened in June 2010 with a new approach to commissioning, making and exhibiting art. Peckham Space is an arts organisation that is part of Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. Free public events will take place during the exhibition, including the artist in conversation with Bonnie Greer. Please call 020 7358 9645 or info@peckhamspace.com for more information. For further information or press enquiries please contact Sarah McLean on 07904637569 or info@peckhamspace.com. Notes for Editors Sonia Boyce came to prominence in the early 1980s as a key figure in the burgeoning black British art-scene of that time – becoming one of the youngest artists of her generation to have her work purchased by the Tate Gallery, with paintings that spoke about racial identity and gender in Britain. Since the 1990s Boyce‟s practice has taken a more multi-media and improvisational approach by bringing people together to speak or sing about the past and the present. Boyce has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and internationally. Recent exhibitions and monographs include: Devotional, National Portrait Gallery, London (2007); Like Love, Spike Island, Bristol and tour (publication by the Green Box Press, Berlin, 2010); Afro Modern, Tate Liverpool and tour, 2010; and, The Impossible Community, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (forthcoming autumn 2011). Boyce has just completed an AHRC Research Fellowship at Wimbledon College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London with her concluding research project the Future is Social, and holds a Visiting Professorship at Middlesex University, in the Department of Fine Art. Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA), is part of Southwark Youth Service and offers local young people aged 11-19 access to training and facilities in a variety of visual and performing arts activities, in both an evening and after-schools setting. Young Women‟s Group is one of the regular sessions and is delivered in partnership with Groundwork. The session runs on a weekly basis and offers a safe space for young women to come together, share ideas and learn new skills in a welcoming environment, supported by experienced groupwork practitioners and artist educators. Louise Doherty, the project coordinator, established YWG in 1997 and has worked to ensure young women in Southwark have safe, creative spaces to meet and learn together. This ethos is carried through to all of the sessions and programmes VAPA offers. www.southwark.gov.uk/vapa Peckham Space is London‟s newest purpose-built public gallery dedicated to commissioning location-specific artworks made in partnership with community groups. Located on Peckham Square, London SE15 and part of Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, it seeks to encourage progression routes for young people into creative higher education as well as increase access to cultural and educational activity in Peckham, London SE15. Peckham Space is funded by the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF), Southwark Council and Arts Council England. The permanent venue, designed by PENSON, opened on Saturday 12 June 2010. Peckham Space has been delivering collaborative arts projects since June 2008. The Director Emily Druiff has worked as an independent curator with particular interest in participatory practice, new media and art in the public realm. Peckham Space commissioned artists have so far include David Cotterrell, Jessica Voorsanger, Harold Offeh, Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre, FREEE, Gayle Chong Kwan, The People Speak, Lottie Child & Furtherfield.org, and Neal White & Manu Luksch. www.peckhamspace.com South London Art Map Last Fridays is a late night opening of all galleries in South London on the last Friday of every month. During Network Peckham Space will be open for Last Fridays on 30 September 6-8:30pm and 28 October 6-8:30pm. The South London Art Map is a one-stop resource for the visual arts in South London from Bankside to Greenwich. www.southlondonartmap.com Listings information Peckham Space - Network by Sonia Boyce Peckham Space, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London 89 Peckham High Street, London SE15 5RS Opening times 13 September – 19 November 2011. FREE Launch event 13 September 2011, 6-8pm. Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, closed Sundays, Mondays. Talks and Events A programme of free public talks and events will accompany this exhibition at Peckham Space. Booking required - 020 7358 9645 or info@peckhamspace.com Transport: Buses: 343 from London Bridge, 78 from Liverpool Street/Aldgate, 12 or 171 from Elephant & Castle, 36 or 436 from Victoria/Oval Rail: Peckham Rye and Queens Road direct from London Bridge .
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Gallery Guide Is Printed on Recycled Paper
    THE PLACE IS HERE 22 JUN – 10 SEP 2017 MAIN & FIRST FLOOR GALLERIES ADMISSION FREE EXHIBITION GUIDE THE PLACE IS HERE LIST OF WORKS 22 JUN – 10 SEP 2017 MAIN GALLERY The starting-point for The Place is Here is the 1980s: For many of the artists, montage allowed for identities, 1. Chila Kumari Burman blends word and image, Sari Red addresses the threat a pivotal decade for British culture and politics. Spanning histories and narratives to be dismantled and reconfigured From The Riot Series, 1982 of violence and abuse Asian women faced in 1980s Britain. painting, sculpture, photography, film and archives, according to new terms. This is visible across a range of Lithograph and photo etching on Somerset paper Sari Red refers to the blood spilt in this and other racist the exhibition brings together works by 25 artists and works, through what art historian Kobena Mercer has 78 × 190 × 3.5cm attacks as well as the red of the sari, a symbol of intimacy collectives across two venues: the South London Gallery described as ‘formal and aesthetic strategies of hybridity’. between Asian women. Militant Women, 1982 and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. The questions The Place is Here is itself conceived of as a kind of montage: Lithograph and photo etching on Somerset paper it raises about identity, representation and the purpose of different voices and bodies are assembled to present a 78 × 190 × 3.5cm 4. Gavin Jantjes culture remain vital today. portrait of a period that is not tightly defined, finalised or A South African Colouring Book, 1974–75 pinned down.
    [Show full text]
  • SERP Reactivated 15 March – 22 April 2018
    PRESS RELEASE SERP Reactivated 15 March – 22 April 2018 - new project led by Peckham Platform meaningfully addresses the erosion of arts in education today - public programmes at Tate Exchange and Flat Time House draw on significant archives of the radical and influential Southwark Education Research Project (1989-95) - artists Barby Asante and Barbara Steveni collaborate on new work in schools and with the archive Between 1989 and 1995 the Southwark Education Research Project engaged over 1,500 children and teachers by placing artists in fifteen schools across the London borough of Southwark. SERP created interventions in the schools it worked with, encouraging participants to question the education process and providing new ways for them to engage with the arts. The project created a model for replication across the country by involving the local authority, the inspectorate, teachers and pupils – and in doing so gained recognition nationally and internationally. In 2018 Peckham Platform revisits SERP’s significance, at a time when education policy focuses overwhelmingly on measuring attainment through exam results and league tables, and increased bureaucracy coupled with reduced budgets has seen a reduction in the opportunities for young people to engage with culture and the creative process in-school. Peckham Platform’s project has two main strands – securing and reactivating the archive of the original SERP; and public programmes at Tate Exchange and Flat Time House, which present highlights from the archive alongside new material created through collaboration between artists Barbara Steveni and Barby Asante. Barbara Steveni was one of SERP’s original co-founders and the archive of material that she personally collated includes documents, photographs, correspondence, audio, video and artworks.
    [Show full text]
  • East Central 2020/21 Neighbouroods Fund Award Tables
    EAST CENTRAL 2020/21 NEIGHBOUROODS FUND AWARD TABLES PECKHAM WARD Ref: Name of group: Name of project / activity: Awarded [£]: 1315948 Bells Garden Stepping into Wellness £2,000 1314994 Gloucester Grove TRA Summer Youth Scheme £2,300 1315978 Sporting Recovery Women’s Wellness £3,602 Friends of Kelly Avenue Fun Day £1,000 1309520 Park North Peckham & New Beginnings £1,098 1316220 Commercial Way TRA 1315865 Ignite Hubs Peckham Coding Club £2,500 Link Age Southwark New Seated Dance Class for £1,700 1314135 Older People 1315826 Sumner Residents Assoc. Summer Cultural Day Trip £1,800 1314239 Peckham Platform Youth Platform £3,100 1309916 South London Gallery The Big Family Press £900 1316031 Inspiring DJ’s Inspiring DJ’s £2,500 1311774 Salem Music Academy Salem Music £2,500 1309326 Southwark Youth Advisors Southwark Youth Advisors £1,000 Willowbrook TMO Herb Garden / Pollinator £2,500 1314588 Garden OLD KENT ROAD WARD Ref: Name of group: Name of project / activity: Awarded [£]: 1309326 Avondale Community Picnic on the Green £1,742 Events 1300798 Caroline Gardens TRA Summer Party £1,650 1317179 Civic & Day Learning Mentoring young people £1,000 Centre 1316146 Unwin & Friary TRA Ichon Tae Kwon Do £3,000 1316202 Ladies of Virtue GEM Week £1,000 1314142 Link Age Southwark Harry Lamborne Exercise Group £1,688 1316678 Margaret's Music Adults of Tomorrow - Summer £1,600 Music Project 1314937 Astley Coopers Young Leaders Millwall for All £5,000 Project 1314878 Ledbury – 1st Touch Football Millwall for All £5,000 Project Passion for Reducing Type 1316207
    [Show full text]
  • Allocation of Local CIL Southwark - Phase 2
    Item No. Classification: Date: Meeting Name: 13. Open 19 January 2021 Cabinet Report title: Community Investment Plans – Allocation of local CIL Southwark - Phase 2 Ward(s) or groups Camberwell Green, Champion Hill, Dulwich Hill, affected: Dulwich Village, Faraday, Goose Green Newington, Old Kent Road, Peckham, Rye Lane, South Bermondsey, and St Giles. Cabinet Member: Councillor Alice Macdonald, Communities & Equalities FOREWORD - COUNCILLOR ALICE MACDONALD, CABINET MEMBER FOR COMMUNITIES & EQUALITIES In Southwark we are committed to ensure that regeneration works for all and that our neighbourhoods thrive. The Community Infrastructure Levy, a levy raised on development schemes, is just one of the ways in which developments can benefit the local community and one of the ways in which developers can give-back to the community - especially to those who've been impacted by the building works. Southwark has raised roughly £23m in CIL since 2015. 25 per cent of this - almost £6m - has been designated as local. Following the Cabinet report approved on 8 December 2020, I am pleased to bring forward this second set of community investment plans for approval which have been shaped by our communities. In March we launched an online consultation which generated over 1000 project suggestions from residents. These were then considered by ward councillors. Projects selected by ward councillors are those which are considered to have the most strategic benefit for the whole ward, or alternatively which meet a specific ward issue which councillors for that ward identified as a priority. The proposals presented in these plans range from improvements to parks, the public realm and community buildings and I am sure will bring significant benefits to our residents.
    [Show full text]
  • Creative Southwark 2017 to 2022' Mid-Term Review July 2019 PDF 221 KB
    APPENDIX 2 Creative Southwark Mid-term review July 2019 1 Summary 1. The paper outlines the progress made in the implementation of the creative economy and growth area of Creative Southwark, our cultural strategy. This series of ambitious programmes built on strong, innovative, internal and external partnerships have and will continue to evolve over the life of the strategy leaving a lasting legacy for residents and businesses. Background 2. The creative industries are the fastest growing part of the UK’s economy, and play a significant role in unlocking innovation and growth in other sectors too. This success is fuelled by established international brands all the way through to micro-businesses, self-employed workers and freelancers. At the time of writing this paper, one in 11 of all UK jobs is in the creative economy. 3. The creative industries have long stimulated the transformation of key areas of London but paradoxically, as the city evolves, space to support these activities is being lost. 4. Southwark has always been a centre for creative excellence with a vast cultural footprint that sets it on an international stage. The people living, working and studying in Southwark and our growing visitor numbers all contribute to this diverse unrivalled cultural landscape. 5. To ensure Southwark’s reputation as a borough of creativity, innovation, and opportunity, the council approved Creative Southwark in March 2017, This strategic approach to the development of cultural and creative industries over the next five years recognises the significant part that cultural access and the creative industries plays and will increasingly play to residents.
    [Show full text]
  • Community Council News Update
    Peckham and Nunhead Community Council Newsletter June 2016 Your community council The next community council meeting will be on Wednesday 29 June, and you will meet your new Chair, Cllr Sunil Chopra and Vice Chair, Cllr Sandra Rhule. I am sure we would all like to welcome them in their new roles, and give a big vote of thanks to the outgoing Chair Cllr Johnson Situ, and Vice-Chair Cllr Cleo Soanes for all their hard work and excellent leadership for the last two years As the community council meetings continue to evolve to meet the needs of a changing society, it is important that we continue to deal with the issues that you are concerned about, so we will be looking for your input to determine the themes covered over the new round of meetings. Please let your friends and neighbours know, as the more residents that attend, the better it will be, and local democracy will be all the richer! Peckham Youth Platform If you are 13 – 19 and interested in art, design, technology, music and your local community, then we want you to get involved! The Youth Platform is a fortnightly, youth-led, culture focused group for 13-19 year olds. Together they work on creative projects, meet artists and designers, go on visits and help organize events in Peckham Platform’s gallery space and in the surrounding area. The sessions are free of charge and no previous arts experience is required. The aims of the project run in parallel to Peckham Platform’s aims of increasing accessibility to the arts and strengthening our community.
    [Show full text]
  • Interviews Combined.Indd
    INTERVIEWS OLD KENT ROAD CASS CITIES 2015-16 This is where London works This year, Cass Cities has uncovered the thriving economic We discovered the amazing and surprising things made in this life of the Old Kent Road and its surrounding area. We have part of London, from theatre sets for the Old Vic and decorations investigated the reaches of Bermondsey, Deptford and for Selfridges in London to artisan gin, bread and cheese. Peckham and everything in between, and found out about the people who work there. More worrying however, is the resonance of a quiet but persistent fear for the future of businesses in this part of London. Many of the people who we spoke to had fascinating tales to Many people spoke of the threat posed by rising rents due tell: how they got to be where they are, what has changes, to competition for suitable spaces for their businesses, and what has stayed the same. Many spoke positively about the the growing pressure placed on places of work by demand for strong communities around them and their relationship with the housing. local area. This is what they had to say. MH COACHWORKS 01 UNIT 23-24, ENTERPRISE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE Meet Mark.... Mark runs MH Coachworks, a restoration and businesses to continue supporting the locality. bodywork repairs business, established in Millwall almost two decades ago. Mark feels Local Council and Government in general don’t do enough to protect small businesses. They need to intervene to Mark’s facility contains the only large, automotive oven bake stop developers pushing SME’s out to the M25 and beyond.
    [Show full text]
  • Motiroti Brochure
    motiroti motiroti /The Builders Association’s Alladeen was presented as a cross media perfomance for stage, music video and a web project. It toured internationally (2002-05) to numerous venues and received an OBIE Award in New York. Photo: Simone Lynn. motiroti is a London based arts organisation within visual and live art, new technology led by artistic director Ali Zaidi. For over ten and socially engaged practice, our projects years the company has made internationally are accessible to a wide audience through acclaimed and award winning art that multiple layers of interpretation. We foster transforms relationships between people, the development of a lifelong learning communities and spaces. motiroti works at culture. Learning and art production are the forefront of ever-changing global social part of the same process, and offer equally realities, challenging and teasing perceptions potent opportunities to inspire and develop of artists, institutions and audiences alike. a dynamic exchange between artists and communities. Working with a range of collaborators HITTUCK motiroti is one of the few arts organisations truly to stretch between W international cutting edge work and the lives of people in their own communities. They gain their inspiration from life in all its rich forms – it shows. If only more arts had this breadth of vision. Jenny Edwards, CEO Homeless Link ANDREW PHOTO: This page, clockwise from top right: Harvest it! (2007). Kakatsitsi Drummers performing at the autumn festival in Myatt’s Fields Park. Harvest it! Vassall Voices Children’s Choir. The Seed The Root GOEBEL (1995). From a series A of images installed HITTUCK in Brick Lane.
    [Show full text]
  • Old Kent Road and Beyond
    Old Kent Road and beyond Old Kent Road Area audit CASS CITIES 2015-16 4 Contents City NOT suburb 6 Who we are 8 Why we asked? 10 2014 GLA survey 12 History and context 14 The economic mix 18 Location, location, location 26 An industrial strength economy 30 What is made here? 36 People at work 40 Independent business 44 A city needs mixed typologies 48 Civic life 52 Planned deconstruction 56 Acknowledgements 60 Bibliography 61 A catalogue of businesses 62 345 AINTRODUCTION CITY NEEDS MIXED TYPOLOGIES 6 City NOT suburb The Old Kent Road is simply a fascinating place. An warehouses. Today the Old Kent Road houses a diverse ancient artery to the south east of central London, which array of economic activity, most of which is not always is the fragment of a connection between the heart of visible at first glance. Beyond the main road lies an the city to the counties of Kent and beyond. economic powerhouse. So shouldn’t this grow as well? Built up over centuries from complex layers of urbanity, City making is not simple, there is no one size fits a melting pot of ingredients which make up a living, all approach. Like people, places are individuals and breathing and working piece of city. But how much cities thrive on just that, they are made up of millions longer will the Old Kent Road have the lowest value on of activities, jobs and lives. The Old Kent Road is an the Monopoly board? example of this, what we like to call ‘super-mix’ and we believe there is room for even more mix.
    [Show full text]
  • Feature Guide
    FEATURE GUIDE Issue 20 autumn/winter 2021 difficult and expensive it is to try to do this by yourself, which is the concept behind the magazine: it allows artists to share space in the publication and reach our database of art gallery curators and directors. It’s a great way of capturing the attention of industry leaders; similar to exhibiting your work at an art fair where the visitors are directors and curators of the UK’s top galleries. It would be impossible to get all of these people in one room for obvious reasons, so the magazine is a great way of showcasing your work through the platform of a publication. Inside Artists covers a broad spectrum of the art world. • Exclusive interviews with artists. • Curated profiles of talented emerging and established artists. • Previews of upcoming events & exhibitions. Mission Statement We believe art to be one of the most important parts of humanity and culture. About Us It inspires, guides and challenges us, making people and society better and happier. Art should be accessible for everyone, as well as the opportunity to Inside Artists is a national contemporary arts and culture magazine, experience viewing work directly from the artist’s perspective. showcasing talented emerging and established artists to industry leaders and art lovers alike. Copies are sent out to over 600 of the UKs top galleries and Our publication encourages the contemporary arts by connecting artists, agencies, directly to curators and directors. Digital copies are also sent to galleries and exhibitions to industry leaders and art lovers alike. curators and directors at over 400 galleries across selected European cities and over 600 USA galleries.
    [Show full text]
  • Spsl / Cv 01 / 2018 1
    SPSL / CV www.susanpuisanlok.com 01 / 2018 H: 32 Warren Rd, London E4 6QS | E: info@susanpuisanlok.com | M:+44 (0) 7720303268 W: Middlesex University, Grove G226, The Burroughs, London NW4 4BT | E: s.lok@mdx.ac.uk SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 RoCH Fans & Legends CFCCA 30th Anniversary Progamme, Manchester, UK 2015 RoCH Fans & Legends QUAD, Derby, UK 2014 Faster, Higher MAI (Montréal Arts Interculturels), QC, Canada 2012 Faster, Higher The Gallery at Winchester Discovery Centre 2008 Faster, Higher BFI Southbank Gallery, London, UK 2007-2008 DIY Ballroom/Live Bigger Picture/ BBC Screen touring commission Cornerhouse Manchester; enter_, Norwich; Lumen, Leeds; Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK 2006 Golden (Lessons) Beaconsfield, London, UK 2006 Golden Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK 2000 FCHKUK exhibition, Stuff Gallery, London, UK 2000 Lean To exhibition, East London Gallery, University of East London, UK 1996-1997 Un- (retrospectre) exhibition, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS 2018 Presence: A Window on Contemporary Chinese Art St George’s Hall, Liverpool, UK 2018 Diaspora Pavilion Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK 2017 Diaspora Pavilion Palazzo Pisani a Santa Marina, Venice 2017 Sonic Soundings / Venice Trajectories Venice www.sonicsoundings.com 2015-2016 1st Asia Biennial / 5th Guangzhou Triennial Guangdong Museum of Art, China, UK 2013 The Global Archive Hanmi Gallery, London, UK 2012 Blue Crystal Ball Samsung IOC Media Art Collection, De La Warr Pavilion, UK AND Festival, Manchester, UK 2012 Everything Flows
    [Show full text]
  • Sonia Boyce Reader
    Sonia Boyce Reader Contents 2 Bio 3 Sonia Boyce - Gathering a History of Black Women 4 The Black British Arts Movement 7-12 Artist Interviews - various sources 13 Recent Work in Pictures 1 Sonia Boyce MBE is a British Afro-Caribbean artist and educator who lives and works in London. She went to art school aged 15, making large pastel drawings and photographic collages, exploring issues of race and gender in the media and everyday life. Since then, her practice has expanded to incorporate a wider variety of media, including performance, film, installation and sound - but her true medium is people. In 2007 Boyce was awarded an MBE for services to the arts, and in 2016 was elected a Royal Academician. Boyce is Professor of Black Art and Design at the University of the Arts London. “In the broadest sense, my research interests lie in art as a social practice and the critical and contextual debates that arise from this burgeoning field. Since the 1990s my own art practice has relied on working with other people in collaborative and participatory situations, often demanding of those collaborators spontaneity and unrehearsed performative actions. Working across media, mainly drawing, print, photography, video and sound, I recoup the remains of these performative gestures – the leftovers, the documentation – to make the art works, which are often concerned with the relationship between sound and memory, the dynamics of space, and incorporating the spectator.” - Sonia Boyce, University of the Arts London At age 23, her 1985 painting Missionary Position II was the first artwork by a black artist 2 acquired by the Tate collection – and only the 5th work by a female artist in the collection.
    [Show full text]