Exhibition
The Change Room Presents: Aida Adilbek ~ A Table
26 Jul 2019
Event times
7-9pm ongoing, limited time and capacity, booking essential
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Asquith Gibbs Building, Back Gate Lewisham Southwark College
- 2 Deptford Church Street
- London
England - SE8 4RZ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Deptford Bridge station (2 minute walk)
- Deptford train station (5 minute walk)
A participatory installation by Almaty-born, London-based artist Aida Adilbek, where the public is invited to take a place at the table, join in sharing the cooked meals, and reflect on the politics of food, and what it means to eat together.
About
A table, whatever shape, size and form it might take, represents an idea of sharing. It could be a shared piece of bread, a shared piece of information, maybe a secret or an invention, or a homework on trigonometry. Sometimes, it’s even more ephemeral. It’s a shared idea fed by conversations, a shared feeling fed by words and gestures, a shared solitude, a shared anger. A table can break us up, reconcile us, gather us. Unique dynamics that may or may not occur between families, friends and strangers. A table is Aida Adilbek’s ongoing experiment consisting of trials to transform an object into the core of performative actions that proceed to perform without the artist’s involvement.
This participatory installation has a limited capacity. Please arrive early and book a place, for a guaranteed seat at the table. Otherwise, there will be room for viewing only.
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Duration: 7-9pm (one day only event)
For non-MFA Goldsmiths students, you need a card to access the building. Contact us on 07967309048 to be let in.
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The Change Room runs monthly events of newly commissioned or existing bodies of work that engage with climate change concerns, are in dialogue with other species, and engage with environmental questions. Project run by Oana Damir.
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About the artist
Aida Adilbek (1994, Almaty, Kazakhstan) graduated from Kazakh National Art Academy in 2012 in Almaty majoring in BA Art History, followed by work in museums and galleries, art festivals as Assistant Curator and Curator of independent projects. Since 2012 she has expanded on her artistic practice, through performance, whose main themes concern female characters, their submissive or dominant position throughout time and changes in culture.
