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5/3/2012

On the Edgware Road

Serpentine Gallery, London

On the Edgware Road makes public three years of research generated by the Serpentine's Edgware Road Project. The exhibition includes installations, films and performances, both at the Serpentine Gallery and at the Centre for Possible Studies, the Project's home. The exhibition allows visitors to experience the findings of the artists and local partners involved in the Project and highlights future programmes that will unfold throughout the next year.

The Edgware Road Project links artists with people living and working in this London neighbourhood. The diversity of the local people and their interests are reflected by the varying practices and geographies of the artists invited to take up residency at the Centre for Possible Studies. Their responses have been political, reflexive and revealing. An accompanying publication will mark this moment in the Project's development with descriptions and propositions for the future, answering the question 'What is a possible study?'.

The exhibition will include Rania Stephan’s film The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (2011), winner of the Sharjah Biennial Prize 2011; a performance by the now renowned Chicago Boys: while we were singing, they were dreaming, a band and study group formed by Hiwa K; films by over sixty people on the Edgware Road, made in collaboration with London artists no.w.here and the London/Cairo-based actors Khalid Abdallah and Cressida Trew; and Emily Wardill’s film Fulll Firearms which will have it’s cinematic premiere at the Hackney Picturehouse.

The Edgware Road Project was initiated and curated by Sally Tallant with Janna Graham and Louise Coysh, in partnership with Christine Tohme and William Wells. Assistant Curator: Amal Khalaf. Project Advisor: Nav Haq.

History of the area
The Edgware Road has a deep and important history in London. Its history is known to date back to Roman London, and due its position along the bank of the river Ware, it has always been a stopping place for travellers in and out of the city. It continues to be an important entry point for people moving into the area.

Centre for Possible Studies
The Centre for Possible Studies is the itinerant base for the Edgware Road Project. Previously housed in a former hair salon and a disused curry restaurant, it is currently situated over two floors of a mansion and former printing press. The Centre for Possible Studies is a space for artists, neighbourhood residents, workers and students to meet and collaborate.
Where other models of research deal with knowledge as a fixed idea which is taught and learned, the Centre for Possible Studies encourages discursive enquiries to be developed through encounters between participants. This integration of education, research, artistic work and neighbourhood interests mirrors the approach taken by Edgware Road

Project partners: the Townhouse, Cairo and Ashkal Alwan: The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts in Beirut. It is through exchanges with these and other partners that political dynamics are explored locally within a global context, producing active cartographies, subversive diplomacies and imaginative modes of exchange.

ARTISTS

Åbäke
Khalid Abdalla and Cressida Trew
Etel Adnan
Tammy Arjona-Wheeler
Bidoun
Polly Brannan
CAMP
Gill Clarke
Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad with Westminster Academy
Susan Hefuna with Westminster Academy and Townhouse, Cairo
Lamia Joreige
Hiwa K
Jackson Lam
no.w.here/Brad Butler, James Holcombe and Karen Mirza
Marwan Rechmaoui
Frances Rifkin
Wael Shawky
Rania Stephan
Ultra-red with the St. Marylebone C.E. School
Emily Wardill

RESEARCHERS

Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre: Project 5
Goldsmiths MA in Aural and Visual Cultures
Migrants Resource Centre
People's Research Seminars
Public Space Seminar/E.V.S.A., O.D.V., Public 10
the x:talk project

The exhibition On the Edgware Road is curated by Janna Graham, Joceline Howe, Amal Khalaf, Nicola Lees, Sophie O'Brien and Lucia Pietroiusti.

Events:

A regular programme of talks, workshops and events responding to the question 'What is a Possible Study?' will take place during the exhibition.

All events are free unless otherwise stated.

Tuesday 6 March, 7pm
William Wells, Director, Townhouse, Cairo
Talk at the Serpentine Gallery

Thursday 8 March, 8pm
Hiwa K, Chicago Boys: while we were singing, they were dreaming...
Concert and study group, 8pm

Saturday 10 March, 4pm
Janna Graham, Projects Curator and Amal Khalaf, Edgware Road Project Assistant Curator
Talk at the Serpentine Gallery

Thursday 15 March, 7pm
Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon
Book Launch

Saturday 17 March, 2-5pm
The Possibility Archive, Polly Brannan and Jackson Lam
Public workshop at the Serpentine Gallery

Tuesday 20 March, 6:30pm
Serpentine Cinema: Lili Reynaud-Dewar and Pierre Giquel
Gate Cinema, Notting Hill

Saturday 24 March, 2-5pm
The Possibility Archive, Polly Brannan and Jackson Lam
Public workshop at the Serpentine Gallery

Saturday 24 March, 5pm
Direct Speech Acts
Free Cinema Salon at the Centre for Possible Studies

Monday 26 April, 6:30pm
Emily Wardill, Fulll Firearms, London cinematic premiere
Hackney Picturehouse Cinema

Participating and partner organisations:

Al Arez Restaurant; The Arts Catalyst; Casco: Office for Art, Design and Theory; Church Street Library; Church Street Neighbourhood Management; The Delfina Foundation; Dunya Restaurant; FreqOUT!; Gasworks; Gateway Primary School; Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre: Project 5; If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution; Migrant Resource Centre; Raven Row; Rose Issa Projects; St. Marylebone School; Al Shishawi Restaurant; The Showroom; 60 Penfold Street; Tyburn Convent; Westminster Academy; Westminster Libraries & Archives; Wyspa Institute of Art and X:talk.

Image: Marwan Rechmaoui, Nahr al Bared 2 2011 (detail). Acrylic and oil pastel on wood. Courtesy Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut and Hamburg © 2011 Marwan Rechmaoui

For press information, contact:
Tom Coupe, 020 7298 1544, tomc@serpentinegallery.org
Rose Dempsey, 020 7298 1520, rosed@serpentinegallery.org

Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens W2 3XA London
Open daily, 10am - 6pm
Admission free

Centre for Possible Studies
21 Gloucester Place
London, W1U 8HR
Open 10am - 6pm Saturday and Sunday, 6 - 28 March, and otherwise by appointment.

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