Raven Row

Jacob V Joyce | 'Don't break down, break out' | Symposium Saturday 20 May, 2017 A symposium addressing historic and contemporary forms of political activism and art-making, in a programme of screenings, performances, and discussions, taking as a starting point the publication within this exhibition 14 Radnor Terrace: A Woman’s Place. With contributions by Amy Tobin, Harry Giles, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinsk...

Harry Giles | 'Don't break down, break out' | Symposium Saturday 20 May, 2017 A symposium addressing historic and contemporary forms of political activism and art-making, in a programme of screenings, performances, and discussions, taking as a starting point the publication within this exhibition 14 Radnor Terrace: A Woman’s Place. With contributions by Amy Tobin, Harry Giles, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski,...

Düsseldorf ↔ London, presented by Petra Lange-Berndt, Dietmar Rübel and Max Schulze Friday 24 February A foray into the rich exchanges between the Düsseldorf and London art scenes in the early 1970s. Otherwise inaccessible films by the Düsseldorf Film Group will be shown as will a newly digitized anarchic tape slide work by Achim Duchow, Buick Adventures (1974), featuring Sigmar Polke and Gallery...

Graham Stevens, presentation Saturday 25 February Graham Stevens, a pioneer of pneumatic art, presents his work, as Art to Reverse Global Warming including screenings of his key documentary films Desert Cloud (1974) and Hajj Walkway Shade Structure (1983). --- Presented as part of the exhibition 'This Way Out of England: Gallery House in Retrospect' at Raven Row Gallery House was one of London’s m...

History or Not: Addressing Omissions in the Retelling of Art's Stories Saturday 18 March With Felicity Allen, Sonia Boyce, Amy Budd, Susan Hiller, Antony Hudek, Hilary Robinson and Alex Sainsbury, chaired by Alexandra Kokoli. A discussion about how curatorial and art historical work can address and redress the marginalisation of artists of colour and women artists in the recent past; and how curat...

John Latham, 'Lectures', performed by Patrick Goddard Saturday 25 March Continuous performances, 2-5pm During his time at Gallery House, John Latham wrote a number of text scores titled Lectures, each only a few minutes long. These will be performed for the first time since 1973 by artists, writers and performers including Patrick Goddard, Holly Pester, Carlyle Reedy and Sue Tompkins, in a program...

Sigi Krauss, Founder/Director of Gallery House, and Lisa Reneé Newman, in conversation with Antony Hudek and Alex Sainsbury via Skype Sunday 19 March A panel of artists and art historians return to the notion of the avant-garde, which Rosetta Brooks invoked in her three-part exhibition 'A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain'. Opening with a screening of three films by Stephen Dwoskin, and conclud...

Autumn Chacon 'Noise Cooking' Saturday 29 April 2017, 4pm Autumn Chacon’s Noise Cooking is a performance of cooking with mic’d knives and other utensils. Chacon collaborates with local artists and chefs to perform recipes traditional to the region, allowing audiences to re-experience familiar foods. Autumn Star Chacon is a Diné/Chicana multimedia and performance artist from the Southwestern United...

Nina Wakeford | A Piece of Land: Alternative communities and living Saturday 27 May 2017 An afternoon of presentations considering alternative structures of collective living and models of domestic life. Fran Cottell and her daughter Maisie Richards Cottell will discuss 'House Projects' (2001 - present); a series of architectural installations built in the artists' home, a former cemetery lodge in...

Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski | 'Don't break down, break out' | Symposium Saturday 20 May, 2017 A symposium addressing historic and contemporary forms of political activism and art-making, in a programme of screenings, performances, and discussions, taking as a starting point the publication within this exhibition 14 Radnor Terrace: A Woman’s Place. With contributions by Amy Tobin, Harry Giles, Ego Ahaiwe S...

Dr Alice Correia | 'Don't break down, break out' | Symposium Saturday 20 May, 2017 A symposium addressing historic and contemporary forms of political activism and art-making, in a programme of screenings, performances, and discussions, taking as a starting point the publication within this exhibition 14 Radnor Terrace: A Woman’s Place. With contributions by Amy Tobin, Harry Giles, Ego Ahaiwe Sowi...

Channels | 'Don't break down, break out' | Symposium Saturday 20 May, 2017 A symposium addressing historic and contemporary forms of political activism and art-making, in a programme of screenings, performances, and discussions, taking as a starting point the publication within this exhibition 14 Radnor Terrace: A Woman’s Place. With contributions by Amy Tobin, Harry Giles, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, Su...

Amy Tobin | 'Don't break down, break out' | Symposium Saturday 20 May, 2017 A symposium addressing historic and contemporary forms of political activism and art-making, in a programme of screenings, performances, and discussions, taking as a starting point the publication within this exhibition 14 Radnor Terrace: A Woman’s Place. With contributions by Amy Tobin, Harry Giles, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, S...

Introduction To 'Don't break down, break out' by Amy Budd | Symposium Saturday 20 May, 2017 A symposium addressing historic and contemporary forms of political activism and art-making, in a programme of screenings, performances, and discussions, taking as a starting point the publication within this exhibition 14 Radnor Terrace: A Woman’s Place. With contributions by Amy Tobin, Harry Giles, Ego Ah...

Screening of 'Resistance' (1976) by Ken McMullen | Introduction And Afterwords Sunday 26 March Screening of 'Resistance' (1976, 90 minutes) by Ken McMullen, who will introduce the film along with Stuart Brisley. Resistance uses an assembly of film fragments and a psychodrama, partly overseen by a psychiatrist, to examine the sociological and psychological roots of resistance to military occupation...

John Latham, 'Lectures', performed by Carlyle Reedy Saturday 25 March Continuous performances, 2-5pm During his time at Gallery House, John Latham wrote a number of text scores titled Lectures, each only a few minutes long. These will be performed for the first time since 1973 by artists, writers and performers including Patrick Goddard, Holly Pester, Carlyle Reedy and Sue Tompkins, in a programme...

John Latham, 'Lectures', performed by Holly Pester Saturday 25 March Continuous performances, 2-5pm During his time at Gallery House, John Latham wrote a number of text scores titled Lectures, each only a few minutes long. These will be performed for the first time since 1973 by artists, writers and performers including Patrick Goddard, Holly Pester, Carlyle Reedy and Sue Tompkins, in a programme...

John Latham, 'Lectures', performed by Sue Tompkins Saturday 25 March Continuous performances, 2-5pm During his time at Gallery House, John Latham wrote a number of text scores titled Lectures, each only a few minutes long. These will be performed for the first time since 1973 by artists, writers and performers including Patrick Goddard, Holly Pester, Carlyle Reedy and Sue Tompkins, in a programme...

Exhibition tour with Peter Kapos Thursday 24 November 2016, 6.30pm Curator Peter Kapos will lead evening tours of the exhibition The Ulm Model. --- This event was presented as part of 'The Ulm Model' at Raven Row. The Ulm Model 5 October - 18 December 2016 During its short life from 1953 to 1968, the Ulm School of Design (HfG Ulm) in Southern Germany pioneered an interdisciplinary and systematic a...

A new magazine of contemporary writing on art and other subjects, the second issue of A-or-ist explores the idea of being ‘a kind of care or sustenance’. At a moment when state-provided care is receding, what might it be to ‘take care’ of ourselves or others? What if we’re all past caring – all already polluted, toxic? This event at Raven Row has been organised by the A-or-ist contributor-editors....

A-or-ist no. 2: A kind of care or sustenance. Caspar Heinemann by Raven Row

A new magazine of contemporary writing on art and other subjects, the second issue of A-or-ist explores the idea of being ‘a kind of care or sustenance’. At a moment when state-provided care is receding, what might it be to ‘take care’ of ourselves or others? What if we’re all past caring – all already polluted, toxic? This event at Raven Row has been organised by the A-or-ist contributor-editors....

A new magazine of contemporary writing on art and other subjects, the second issue of A-or-ist explores the idea of being ‘a kind of care or sustenance’. At a moment when state-provided care is receding, what might it be to ‘take care’ of ourselves or others? What if we’re all past caring – all already polluted, toxic? This event at Raven Row has been organised by the A-or-ist contributor-editors....

A new magazine of contemporary writing on art and other subjects, the second issue of A-or-ist explores the idea of being ‘a kind of care or sustenance’. At a moment when state-provided care is receding, what might it be to ‘take care’ of ourselves or others? What if we’re all past caring – all already polluted, toxic? This event at Raven Row has been organised by the A-or-ist contributor-editors....

Chris King: Video Circuits Thursday 2 June, 6.30pm Artist Chris King leads a live demonstration of early media art and video synthesis technologies, working with a selection of different techniques used by the Vasulkas and other video artists during the 1970s and 80s. --- London-based artist Chris King uses electronic video and audio synthesis techniques to perform live visual music. A collector a...