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The Showroom presents two newly commissioned projects that address
questions of (in)visibility in relation to how social structures and
conditions are experienced in everyday life and made visible, or not, and
why this is so. Both are produced within Communal Knowledge—an
ongoing programme of artists' commissions that involve collaborative
research and knowledge-exchange within The Showroom's locality, the Church
Street neighbourhood.
Andrea Francke's
Invisible spaces of parenthood: A collection of pragmatic propositions
for a better future explores issues surrounding childcare in
collaboration with local nurseries, childminders, children's centres, and
parent groups, and looks for new models and possibilities. This includes
setting up a workshop in The Showroom's gallery during the exhibition for
visitors and workshop participants to test out DIY designs for furniture
and play, some of which will be gathered through an open call. These ideas
will feed into a manual, to be published in September.
Annette Krauss' Hidden Curriculum looks at
unintended and unrecognised forms of knowledge that are part of learning
processes and daily life within schools. Working with two groups of
15–17-year-old students from local schools in a series of workshops,
videos have been produced that look at the invisible values and beliefs
that accompany official learning processes, and the informal knowledge and
normalisation processes that influence the way we know, see, and act in the
world. The videos will be exhibited in a new installation in the
exhibition.
Event: Spaces of Equality
Monday,
2 July, 7–9pm
Annette Krauss; Andrea Francke; and Dennis
Atkinson, Professor of Art in Education at Goldsmiths, University of London
explore 'spaces of equality' and notions of (in)visibility, leading from
collaborative research between The Showroom, Goldsmiths' Department of Art
in Education and FLAG, Chelsea School of Art and Design.
Further
workshops and discussions will be advertised on The Showroom's website: www.theshowroom.org
Background
Annette Krauss (born in
Germany, based in Utrecht) is The Showroom's Artist Fellow during 2012/13,
researching notions of unlearning and (in)visibility. Her artwork employs
performance, video, research, and pedagogy to explore the possibilities of
participatory practices, performativity, and investigations into
institutional structures in order to work/think through the questions: How
do we know what we know? What do we see? What do we not see and why?
Andrea Francke (born in Peru, based in London) is part of
the collective Making Do, who publish a magazine of the same title,
and is developing The Piracy Project with AND Publishing, an
exploration of the philosophical, legal, and practical implications of book
piracy. She was a recipient of the Red Mansion Art Prize, 2011.
The Showroom is a space for contemporary art that operates on the
intersections between art, research, and participation, focusing on
collaborative and process-driven approaches to production, and enabling new
work by artists who have not had significant exposure for their work in
London before.
Led by curator Louise Shelley, Communal
Knowledge is an ongoing programme of projects by local and
international artists and designers that involve collaborative research
with people who live and work in The Showroom's neighbourhood, creating
playful and experimental spaces for critical reflection on local issues,
and how to think about change.
(in)visibilities is
produced in the framework of COHAB, a two-year project with Casco,
Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht and Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm,
supported by a Cooperation Measures grant from the European Commission
Culture Programme (2007–2013). Communal Knowledge is
supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, John Lyon's Charity, Esmée
Fairbairn Foundation, Arts Council England, The Showroom Supporters Scheme,
and by Westminster Cultural Olympiad (Westminster City Council, BNP Paribas
and Vital Regeneration), and Outset as The Showroom's Production Partner,
2012.
For further information please contact Holly Willats:
holly@theshowroom.org
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