Event
Art Licks Weekend 2017
28 Sep 2017 – 01 Oct 2017
Locations Across London
London, United Kingdom
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'Two Years', Performance Installation, Sarah White, Cast of My Shape, 2017
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'Two Years', Performance Installation, Sarah White, Cast of My Shape, 2017
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Concept Model for public art gallery, James Watts, 2017
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Concept Model for public art gallery, James Watts, 2017
Exhibition
Show Home
29 Sep 2017 – 1 Oct 2017
Event times
29 Sep, 6-9pm
30 Sep 12-9pm & 01 Oct 12-6pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 114-116 Amersham Vale
- London
England - SE14 6LG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: 36, 436, 171, 53, 177.
- Overground/East London tube line: New Cross tube, 4 mins walk. New Cross Gate tube, 15 mins
- Deptford Train Station - 8 Min Walk
Event map
A collaborative project between RCA Interior Design student James Watts, and Chelsea MA graduate Sarah White, held at the Old Police Station in New Cross as part of the Art Licks Weekend 2017.
About
The exhibition will respond, through installation and performance, to the current situation of the Old Police Station building, a listed Edwardian building currently resisting being converted into commercial housing.
The work will explore the absurdity and confusion around ideas of home and home-making. Beginning with the artists’ personal histories and experiences - notably feelings of expectation and loss - the exhibition will interrogate domestic coping strategies and embodied practices. The work exists in the context of London's 'housing crisis', and references White’s ongoing research into the body’s physical understanding of loss and grief, and its relationship with site and location: in particular experiences of claustrophobia, suffocation, and the distortion of domestic objects designed to support or comfort the body into objects of restriction and oppression. Watts is concerned to investigate the way domestic places are constituted through both specific everyday practices and cultural histories, and what the show home represents in the process of home-making.
Shortlisted for the Workweek Prize 2017
www.sarahwhite.org.uk / @sarah_white16
www.jamesgawatts.co.uk / @jamesgawatts
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