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Week 1

What will the onboard community look like and what will they wear? The Gate and KSA Fashion are using this space to develop costumes for the people who will inhabit the boat as well as for the performances which will take place on and around the boat in autumn 2020. Taking inspiration from the Thames, its history, the local environment, as well as alternative groups who have suggested a new way of living, the contributors are experimenting with material and form to develop adaptable, transformable clothing. 

Check back to this page to see how they progress!

The Gate (7 June)

Produced by a member of The Gate

KSA Fashion (7 June)

Meerim Mamatova

Meerim Mamatova

Meerim Mamatova

Eimear Kennedy

Eimear Kennedy

Klaudia Proskornicka

Klaudia Proskornicka

The Gate (6 June)

Produced by a member of The Gate

KSA Fashion (6 June)

Sayeon Kim

Sayeon Kim

Izzy Oldland

Erin Fairall

Erin Fairall

Erin Fairall

The Gate (5 June)

Produced by a member of The Gate

KSA Fashion (5 June)

Meerim Mamatova

Meerim Mamatova

Yusun Lee: Yusun was directly influenced by the triangular architecture of the boat that will be on the River Thames. By studying movements he designed interesting patchwork costumes that represent the diversity of a community.

Yusun Lee

The Gate (4 June)

Produced by a member of The Gate

KSA Fashion (4 June)

Meerim Mamatova: Meerim was inspired by the deconstruction of existing garments and performance art for her designs.

Daisy Gray - Development: Recycling a broken inflatable bed and crocheting an old bedsheet lead Daisy to her costume sketches.

Daisy Gray - Development

Daisy Gray - Development

Daisy Gray - Development

Izzy Oldland

Izzy Oldland

The Gate (3 June)

Produced by a member of The Gate

KSA Fashion (3 June)

Sohyun Lee - Development

Sohyun Lee

Sohyun Lee

Sohyun Lee

Joana Dias: Joana tests different approaches of incorporating knitwear into the costume. Here in shape of headpieces made from stockings.

Sebastian Nissl - Suit

Sebastian Nissl - Triangle 1

Sebastian Nissl - Triangle 2

The Gate (2 June)

Produced by a member of The Gate

KSA Fashion (2 June)

Eimear Kennedy Design 1: Influenced by the isolation of living on an island, Eimear based her designs on Celtic symbols and macramé.

Eimear Kennedy: Celtic symbols and her own experience with islands lead to Eimears impressive seaweed prints.

Milica Ceklerevac: Milica took a closer look at the Kingston heritage and life on a boat, which inspired our designs to be transformable.

Milica Ceklerevac

Milica Ceklerevac - Development 3: Knotting and tying used in shipping applied to the performance pieces.

Milica Ceklerevac

The Gate (1 June)

Produced by a member of The Gate

KSA Fashion (1 June)

Sebastian Nissl: Inspired by the work of The Gate and with the performance in mind Sebastian recycled an old T-shirt of his to create fringe for his costume approach. Creating new materials and surfaces from what is accessible for the community.

Sebastian Nissl: Deconstructing class defining garments like a suit jacket to create individualised performance pieces for a classless, stateless and humane society. This approach reflects on what certain clothing symbolise and to giving them a new meaning.

Klaudia Proskornicka: The Kibbo Kift wanted to lead civilisation out of social collapse, create a new culture and lead to a new world. This message is very similar to ours.

Klaudia Proskornicka - Development 2

Klaudia Proskornicka

Sebastian Nissl: To personalise the costumes in every way Sebastian thought about recycling pull rings, which were collected by veterans, to create individual embroidery.

The Gate

The Gate is an arts and resource centre for people with learning disabilities based in Shepherds Bush, London. Largely we’re an arts centre but we see ourselves as a base where people can come and be free to be themselves and express that in a creative manner and we think there should be a Gate on every street corner, for everyone. For more information visit The Gate’s website and Instagram @54thegate

KSA Fashion

We are a collective of BA Fashion students with a special interest in this art project and performance. In direct collaboration with Ben Judd and the help of two MA Fashion alumni we are designing costumes that are influenced by our cultural, social and historical research. With the importance of community in focus we want the costumes to manifest a sense of belonging together. Our goal is to create performance pieces that generate a meaningful environment for the public to share their stories and encourage the evolution of our society.

Group Members: Izzi Oldland, Erin M. Fairall, Meerim Mamatova, Milica Cekerevac, Zainab Qureshi, Milli D. Welsh, Eimear M. Kennedy, Dharyl E. Usina Pantoja, Sayeon Kim, Sohyun Lee, Rachel Hall, Hester R. Cooper, Klaudia Proskornicka, Joana Santos Moreira Dias, Daisy I. Gray, Yu Zhao, Rebecca G. Wong, Yusun Lee, Sebastian M. Nissl, Maria Piene, Caroline M. Alexander. For more information about Fashion at Kingston School of Art, visit their website.

Artist Talk: Judy Price in conversation with Pamela Windham Stewart

Wednesday 19th February 2020

The End of the Sentence presents artist Judy Price’s research into the history of Holloway Women’s Prison. The exhibition reflects on the impact of the criminal justice system on women and features new work by Price, archival material, and artists and writers invited by Price including Erika Flowers, Hannah Hull, Nina Ward, Katrina McPherson, Carly Guest and Rachel Seoighe. The project draws on networks, collaborations and relationships developed through Reclaim Holloway, which has been actively campaigning for a Women’s Building on the former prison site since 2016.

As part of The End of the Sentence, Price presents a new moving image installation in collaboration with Dorich House Museum, which features a bronze sculpture of a baby by Dora Gordine (1895-1991) commissioned for the Mother and Baby Unit at Holloway Women’s Prison in 1948. The soundtrack to the film explores incarcerated pregnancy, drawing on the writing and fieldwork of midwife Dr Laura Abbott and forensic psychotherapist Pamela Windham Stewart. The script is re-voiced by actors from Clean Break, a women’s theatre company whose members have lived experience of the criminal justice system. For the duration of the exhibition at Stanley Picker Gallery, the original bronze sculpture, on loan from the National Justice Museum, will be on display at Dorich House Museum in Kingston, Gordine’s former studio home.

Pamela Windham Stewart has worked for over twenty years as a psychotherapist in several prisons, including HMP Holloway, where she has developed and facilitated therapy groups for mothers and babies who are incarcerated. Pamela lectures widely and is the founder of the Saturday Forensic Forum. She has a private practice and is a clinical supervisor. With Jessica Collier, she co-edited The End of the Sentence: Psychotherapy with Female Offenders (Routledge, 2018) from which the title of the exhibition is borrowed. This seminal book documents the rich and varied psycho-therapeutic work undertaken by dedicated specialists in HMP Holloway, and the often difficult environment where attempts to provide psychological security were often undermined by conflicting ideas of physical security.

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OFFSHORE’S CV

We are recruiting: Gallery Coordinator (Operations & Programme) Full Time

 

Kingston University’s Stanley Picker Gallery is entering an exciting new phase of strategic development that aims to broaden the ambitions of the venue, aligned with the public-sector ethos and key priorities of its core funders and partners, by providing high-quality professional opportunities to a diversity of practitioners from across a broad range of creative disciplines and, together with its university partner venue Dorich House Museum, increasing access to the contemporary arts and cultural heritage through prioritising support for less advantaged individuals and communities.

The Stanley Picker Gallery Coordinator (Operations & Programme) will be responsible for the effective coordination of all daily activities and ensuring the smooth running of all operations at the venue, undertaking the efficient coordination and implementation of the full range of essential venue maintenance, administrative, financial, participation and marketing activities, and assisting with staging and promoting the Gallery’s public programme of onsite, offsite and online exhibitions, fellowships and events.

The job purpose of this full-time role includes: assisting with delivering all aspects of the Gallery’s onsite, offsite and online programmes; acting as first point of contact for all general enquiries; preparing for visitors and opening the venue at the advertised times; coordinating and staging programmed activities and events; coordinating all publicity and marketing, including social media and web; maintaining the venue diary; leading and coordinating the Gallery Assistant & Volunteer teams; administrating budgets and financial transactions and ensuring the venue is fully stocked and equipped; overseeing and reporting any maintenance of the building, its contents and grounds

Deadline for applications: 29 March 2019

For further details and to download the full job description please visit Kingston University Jobs.

Stanley Picker Gallery awarded British Council ‘Art Connects Us’ grant in support of Design Fellow Yemi Awosile’s research

 

Stanley Picker Gallery is one of 6 recipients of the British Council ‘Art Connects Us’ research grant, which will support Yemi Awosile’s Stanley Picker Design Fellowship research.

‘Art Connects Us’ is a British Council led-strategy that seeks to develop stronger creative sectors and foster new relationships within Sub-Saharan Africa. Building on her 2017 presentation Orishirishi at the Gallery, Yemi Awosile will be leading on a research project in Senegal, visiting local organisations doing outstanding work with international artists, such as the Raw Material Company in Dakar, as well as practicing designers based in the region. 

Awosile is a textile designer who lives and works in London with a special interest in materials, technology and the visual arts which she expresses through textiles and material processes.  In her research she looks at the emergence of new sub-cultures created through virtual space and imagined proximity, enquiring into the migratory movement of people, exploring unexpected parallels through textiles, technology and audible soundscapes.

Awosile’s Stanley Picker Fellowship exhibition Orishirishi was informed by African sub-cultures rooted in an urban village in Delhi. The principle motivation for the project was to explore the social significance of textiles and its capacity to express collective narratives, with the aim of creating a textile collection that reflects creative dialogue between different social groups.

OFFSHORE GLOSSARY

 

OFFSHORE: A structure that enables EVERYONE (some of whom will have met before, some of whom will not have met) to maintain a state of rehearsal, over a number of days, in public.

EVERYONE: A group of performing persons who are paid to create an ALIBI and in doing so activate OFFSHORE.

ALIBI: A public performance or exhibition commission for AUDIENCE.

AUDIENCE: Persons who visit the ALIBI.

OPEN: EVERYONE exchanges, or manipulates STANDARDS.

STANDARDS: Performance repertoire that is resolved and can be scored.

ANNOUNCED MOMENTS OF TENSION: Whilst being OPEN, EVERYONE momentarily pays attention to the room and to each other. ANNOUNCED MOMENTS OF TENSION are mini-exercises in activating the weighted attention needed to be IN COMPANY.

IN COMPANY: EVERYONE activates their attention towards one another to perform a combination of STANDARDS, the order of which is not decided on in advance. This combination is a PLOT-FORM.

PLOT-FORM: Always just beginning, or yet to form, a PLOT-FORM arrives from the improvised decision-making of EVERYONE when IN COMPANY. PLOT-FORM comes from the theatre and is unlike industrial and commercial Platforms, that function through adoptions of use and produce reliance as forms of control.

YESTERDAY: EVERYONE talks about what happened IN COMPANY, the day before.

XXX DAYS AGO: EVERYONE talks about what happened IN COMPANY, XXX days ago.

INVENTORY: List of all resolved STANDARDS.

OPEN INVENTORY: List of unresolved STANDARDS.

ORATIONS: INVENTORY is performed from start to finish, in no particular order.

AGAINST THE PERFORMATIVE: A lecture or a reading group.

GRADATIONS OF CONTROL: A workshop on scoring STANDARDS.

READING THE READER: EVERYONE reads THE READER.

THE READER: Selected reading material, generated or suggested by EXTERNAL INFLUENCES, printed and perfect bound for EVERYONE.

AUDIENCE READER: Selected reading material from THE READER.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCE: Persons who contributed to building the organising principles of OFFSHORE through a number of GATHERINGS, but who are not paid to make the ALIBI.

GATHERINGS: Public transdisciplinary gatherings with philosophers, artists, writers, scientists etc., which defined and shaped OFFSHORE.

ROTA: A human-scale matte black vinyl wall ROTA, stating the number of days OFFSHORE has assembled the times at which all items in this glossary take place on a given day.

ARCHIVE: That which is left behind when OFFSHORE disassembles.

 

OFFSHORE ROLES

LEGIBILITY COORDINATOR, 
ACCOUNTANT, ALIBI BROKER 
& FICTION WRITER Cally Spooner

ORGANISATION, CARE
 Meret Kaufmann

DANCER, ARCHIVE
 Maggie Segale

DANCER, ARCHIVE
 Jasmine Attié

DANCER, ARCHIVE
 Alice Mackenzie

DANCER, ARCHIVE 
Juli Brandano

DANCER, ARCHIVE Stève Paulet

DANCER, ARCHIVE 
Emily McDaniel

DANCER, ARCHIVE 
Dina Khuseyn

KEEPER OF SPACE & TIME Jesper List Thomsen

READER WRITER DRUMMER Lynton Talbot

SOUNDTRACK & RHYTHM Chloé Turpin

METABOLISM William Crosby

METABOLISM Joe Zeitlin

SCORE TECHNICIAN Roland Brauchli

PSYCHIATRIST
 Dr. Isabel Valli

ERASURE, TOUR GUIDE, ORDINARY MAN
 Michelangelo Miccolis

 

INVENTORY OF STANDARDS *
(in no particular order, not subject to change)

TOUR OF THE ROTA: A tour of the ROTA

THE JACKAL: A four to six person dance

DUET: A one person dance with one person’s voice

DRAG DRAG SOLO: A three person dance

TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE
: Two bodies, from two groups, share knowledge and build a manageable, exchangeable solo for a new foreign body

AN EXCHANGEABLE SOLO: A solo built from the knowledge of two non-exchangeable groups

DEFECTIVE BABOON, THE BABOON WHO WON’T GIVE UP: 
Impromptu reading of the transcribed words of Dr Chuck Feldstone, Texan behavioural psychiatrist

BEDTIME BEATS
: A hotel alarm clock

HOT 97
: Live stream radio

6500K 30000 LUMENS: An artificial daylight condition

36.5°C: A room heats to as close to healthy body temperature as possible

BY ALL ACCOUNTS THIS WAS 
A VERY ORDINARY MAN: An ordinary man handles soap and language

WARM UP: A continual warm up

WE THE COMPANY: Aggressive business literature, counter to OFFSHORE’s spirit

AGAINST THE PERFORMATIVE
: A lecture

 

OPEN INVENTORY OF STANDARDS *
(in no particular order, subject to change)

PASSED TIME: 
Bronze or stone casts of handled soap

WE RUN SHORT 
ON LONDON BRICKS: 
A blue window filter, mostly used in construction and to protect from heat, voyeurs and bricks

SCORCHED EARTH OUCH: 
A song

METRE: Music for Cello

STILL LIFE: 
A tour of Paul Cézanne’s painted apricots

DEAR KEVIN SPACEY: Erased and censored fan mail

SHIT-POST
: Series of contemporaneous postings relating to the present future culture wars and the erosion of language

AN EXPANDED DIAGRAM OF POWER: to reverse engineer an ALIBI

UNITED IN STOMACH FLU, LONDON WEEPS: 
An operative fiction, our present condition, re-presented as a novel-in-progress, written by 
the LEGIBILITY COORDINATOR, ACCOUNTANT, ALIBI BROKER & FICTION WRITER

Stanley Picker Fellow Oreet Ashery wins the Jarman Award 2017

Congratulations to Oreet Ashery who has won the 10th edition of the Jarman Award for Revisiting Genesis.

The Jury who selected this year’s shortlist are: Iwona Blazwick OBE, Director, Whitechapel Gallery; Catherine Bray, Editor, Random Acts, Channel 4; Shona Illingworth, Artist; Peter Taylor, Director, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival; Tyrone Walker-Hebborn, Director, Genesis Cinema; Andrea Lissoni, Senior Curator, International Art (Film), Tate Modern and Film London Board Member.

The other artists who were shortlisted for 2017 are: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Adham Faramawy, Melanie Manchot, Charlotte Prodger and Marianna Simnett.

This year’s Jarman Award Tour travels to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, showcasing work by the six artists from 1 October 2017 to 19 November 2017 in 12 venues around the UK. The winner of the 2017 Film London Jarman Award is announced on 20 November 2017 at a celebratory event at the Whitechapel Gallery. The winner will receive prize money of £10,000. Channel 4 will also support the award by commissioning all the shortlisted artists to produce new films for their acclaimed Random Acts arts strand.

Oreet Ashery is an interdisciplinary visual artist with an unorthodox, multi-layered and eclectic practice spanning photography, moving image, mass-produced and unique artefacts, text, music, workshops and performance. Ashery’s work confronts ideological, social and gender constructions within the fabric of personal and broader contemporary realities.

Ashery’s recent large scale projects include: Passing Through Metal, a sonic performance commissioned by LPS, Malmo, 2017; web-series Revisiting Genesis, commissioned by Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University London and supported by the Wellcome Trust, 2016; The World is Flooding, a Tate Modern Turbine Hall performance re-enactment of Mayakovsky’s play ‘Mystery Bouffe’, 2014; and Party for Freedom, a moving-image album, concerts and performances commissioned by Artangel, 2013.

The Gallery is currently closed and will re-open on Tuesday 15 May for the launch of Meriem Bennani’s new exhibition, Siham & Hafida, from 6.00pm onwards.

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