56 Artillery Lane
21 April to 11 June 2017
For this exhibition ‘home’ is imagined as a space for social, sexual and political agency, and the 'domestic’ as a stage on which kinship and self are formed and transformed through acts of love, cruelty and indifference.
A group of works from the recent past and present has been gathered for 56 Artillery Lane alongside a weekly live programme. Visual vocabularies range from bodily waste and bacterial growth to intimate self-imaging. Sculptural forms make reference to temporary shelter and collective occupation, while films are diaristic, improvised and quasi-fictional. The archive is invoked as a ‘homemaking’ space. For instance, photographic ‘genomegrams’ by Fiona Clark describe a personal response to trauma, Ingrid Pollard’s film reflects on her parents' correspondence and Barbara T. Smith’s books comprise Xerox impressions of the artist’s body and images of her children. Installations by Martine Syms and Ben Burgis & Ksenia Pedan work directly with the buildings’ fabric, while a film by Jenna Bliss – commissioned for the exhibition – explores the class, race and gender dynamics of drug use within domestic contexts in Puerto Rico and New York. Colonial legacies and indigenous activism are explored as well as gentrification and familial histories. The exhibition provides a partial map of the domestic as an unstable zone.
A publication has been made for the exhibition in which Amy Tobin builds a picture of a little-documented exhibition titled A Woman’s Place, made in 1974 by a group of artists in a squatted house and women’s centre in South London.
The live programme of performances, screenings, workshops and an off-site project extends the exhibition to include, amongst other concerns, co-housing, modular architecture, non-monogamy, the domestic in narrative film and fiction, living with illness and health activism.
Participants in 56 Artillery Lane include Chantal Akerman, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, Soofiya Andry, Dr Meg-John Barker, Khairani Barokka, Pandora Blake, Phoebe Blatton, Jenna Bliss, Rizvana Bradley, Daniel Brathwaite-Shirley, Ben Burgis & Ksenia Pedan, Autumn Chacon, Channels, Adam Christensen, Fiona Clark, Lucy Clout, Fran Cottell, Phoebe Davies & Nandi Bhebhe, Jemma Desai, Fenixº, Alex Fleming, Keira Fox, Richard Fung, Harry Giles, Carry Gorney, Alice Hattrick, Candice Hopkins, Juliet Jacques, Nazmia Jamal (Sisters Uncut), Alice Jones, Jacob V Joyce, Bhanu Kapil, Morag Keil & Georgie Nettell, Sarah Kent, Las Nietas de Nonó, Gail Lewis, Rudy Loewe, Suzy Mackie (See Red Women's Workshop), Hamish MacPherson, Mira Mattar, Zinzi Minott, Merata Mita, Irenosen Okojie, Lucy Orta, Meera Osborne, Maria PiniÅ„ska-BereÅ›, Ingrid Pollard, Steve Reinke, Su Richardson, Christine Roche, RUSS, Stanley Spencer, Barbara T. Smith, Martine Syms, Anna Szaflarski, Nina Wakeford, Kate Walker, Darcy Wallace, Ed Webb-Ingall, Ria Wilson, Anicka Yi and Rehana Zaman.
The exhibition is curated by Amy Budd and Naomi Pearce, with input from Amy Ball, Gail Chester, Althea Greenan, Lucie Kinchin, Alexandra Kokoli, Imogen and Catriona Laing, Robert Leckie, Suzy Mackie, Sue Madden, Bernard G Mills, Ciara Moloney, Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Su Richardson, Alex Sainsbury, Amy Tobin, Mercedes Vicente and Ed Webb-Ingall.
Exhibition supporters
Selected texts
Events
Friday 21 April 2017
Saturday 29 April 2017
Audio recording
Sunday 30 April 2017
Audio recording
Saturday 6 May 2017
Audio recording
Wednesday 17 May 2017
Friday 26 May 2017
Audio recording
Saturday 27 May 2017
Audio recording
Sunday 28 May 2017
Sunday 4 June 2017
Ingrid Pollard
DENY: IMAGINE: ATTACK, 1991
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Barbara T. Smith
Coffin series, 1965-66
Courtesy of University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Foreground:
Barbara T. Smith
Coffin series, 1965-66
Courtesy of University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Background:
Lucy Orta,
Refuge Wear, 1992-98
Courtesy of Lucy and Jorge Orta
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Lucy Orta,
Refuge Wear, 1992-98
Courtesy of Lucy and Jorge Orta
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Lucy Orta,
Refuge Wear, 1992-98
Courtesy of Lucy and Jorge Orta
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
A durational performance with Lucy Orta's Modular Architecture (1996)
Devised by Phoebe Davies & Nandi Bhebhe
Raven Row, 4 June 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Still from video by Amy Gwatkin
A durational performance with Lucy Orta's Modular Architecture (1996)
Devised by Phoebe Davies & Nandi Bhebhe
Raven Row, 4 June 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Still from video by Amy Gwatkin
A durational performance with Lucy Orta's Modular Architecture (1996)
Devised by Phoebe Davies & Nandi Bhebhe
Raven Row, 4 June 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Still from video by Amy Gwatkin
A durational performance with Lucy Orta's Modular Architecture (1996)
Devised by Phoebe Davies & Nandi Bhebhe
Raven Row, 4 June 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Still from video by Amy Gwatkin
A durational performance with Lucy Orta's Modular Architecture (1996)
Devised by Phoebe Davies & Nandi Bhebhe
Raven Row, 4 June 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Still from video by Amy Gwatkin
A durational performance with Lucy Orta's Modular Architecture (1996)
Devised by Phoebe Davies & Nandi Bhebhe
Raven Row, 4 June 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Still from video by Amy Gwatkin
A durational performance with Lucy Orta's Modular Architecture (1996)
Devised by Phoebe Davies & Nandi Bhebhe
Raven Row, 4 June 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Still from video by Amy Gwatkin
A durational performance with Lucy Orta's Modular Architecture (1996)
Devised by Phoebe Davies & Nandi Bhebhe
Raven Row, 4 June 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Still from video by Amy Gwatkin
Anicka Yi
Deep State, 2017
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Anicka Yi
Deep State, 2017
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Maria Pinińska-Bereś
Krag/Circle, 1976
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Fiona Clark
The Other Half, 1997-99
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Fiona Clark
The Other Half, 1997-99
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Fiona Clark
The Other Half, 1997-99
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Fiona Clark
The Other Half, 1997-99
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Ingrid Pollard
Untitled photographs, 1991-2017
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Candice Hopkins
Sounding the Margins: A Choir of Minor Voices
Raven Row, 29 April 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Mark Blower
Autumn Chacon
Noise Cooking
Raven Row, 29 April 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Mark Blower
Autumn Chacon
Noise Cooking
Raven Row, 29 April 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Mark Blower
Autumn Chacon
Noise Cooking
Raven Row, 29 April 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Mark Blower
Autumn Chacon
Noise Cooking
Raven Row, 29 April 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Mark Blower
Raisa Kabir
'You and I are more alike....'
Sick Time is Resist Time, Raven Row 26 May 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Eva Herzog
Raisa Kabir
'You and I are more alike....'
Sick Time is Resist Time, Raven Row 26 May 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Eva Herzog
Raisa Kabir
'You and I are more alike....'
Sick Time is Resist Time, Raven Row 26 May 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Eva Herzog
Reading by Alice Hattrick
Sick Time is Resist Time, Raven Row 26 May 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Eva Herzog
Nina Wakeford
an apprenticeship in queer I believe it was
A Piece of Land: Alternative communities and living, Raven Row 27 May 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Eva Herzog
Sisters of Jam
It Takes a Million Years to be a Woman, 2010-14
A Piece of Land: Alternative communities and living, Raven Row 27 May 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Eva Herzog
Ben Burgis & Ksenia Pedan
Cloist Gulch, 2017
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Ben Burgis & Ksenia Pedan
Cloist Gulch, 2017
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Ben Burgis & Ksenia Pedan
Cloist Gulch (detail), 2017
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Ben Burgis & Ksenia Pedan
Cloist Gulch (detail), 2017
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Performance by Keira Fox & Adam Christensen responding to Cloist Gulch by Ben Burgis & Ksenia Pedan, 2017
Raven Row, 21 April 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Performance by Keira Fox & Adam Christensen responding to Cloist Gulch by Ben Burgis & Ksenia Pedan, 2017
Raven Row, 21 April 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Performance by Keira Fox & Adam Christensen responding to Cloist Gulch by Ben Burgis & Ksenia Pedan, 2017
Raven Row, 21 April 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Performance by Keira Fox & Adam Christensen responding to Cloist Gulch by Ben Burgis & Ksenia Pedan, 2017
Raven Row, 21 April 2017
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Su Richardson for Fenixº (Su Richardson, Monica Ross and Kate Walker), 1977/2017
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Su Richardson for Fenixº (Su Richardson, Monica Ross and Kate Walker), 1977/2017
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Su Richardson for Fenixº (Su Richardson, Monica Ross and Kate Walker), 1977/2017
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Stanley Spencer
Choosing a Petticoat, 1936
Private Collection
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Stanley Spencer
Choosing a Petticoat, 1936
Private Collection
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Steve Reinke
22 Films
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Steve Reinke
22 Films
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Morag Keil & Georgie Nettell
Punks Not Dead It's Different, 2015
Courtesy of the artists and Project Native Informant, London
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Morag Keil & Georgie Nettell
Punks Not Dead It's Different, 2015
Courtesy of the artists and Project Native Informant, London
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Morag Keil & Georgie Nettell
Punks Not Dead It's Different, 2015
Courtesy of the artists and Project Native Informant, London
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Kate Walker; left to right:
Mother's Day, 1985
The New Realism, 1987
She Gets Her Cards, 1986
Courtesy of the Estate of Kate Walker
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Jenna Bliss
Poison the Cure, 2017
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Jenna Bliss
Poison the Cure, 2017
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Martine Syms
An Evening with Queen White, 2017
Three-channel installation
Brains, Beauty, Breeding, 2017
Custom-made curtains
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Martine Syms
An Evening with Queen White, 2017
Three-channel installation
Brains, Beauty, Breeding, 2017
Custom-made curtains
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Martine Syms
An Evening with Queen White, 2017
Three-channel installation
Brains, Beauty, Breeding, 2017
Custom-made curtains
Exhibition view
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Marcus J. Leith
Fran Cottell
Forced Entry, 2017
Project in Greenwich
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Terry Watts
Fran Cottell
Forced Entry, 2017
Project in Greenwich
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Terry Watts
Fran Cottell
Forced Entry, 2017
Project in Greenwich
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Terry Watts
Fran Cottell
Forced Entry, 2017
Project in Greenwich
56 Artillery Lane
Photo by Terry Watts