Beaconsfield: summary of activities 1994-2001

2001

25 October: Earthshaker Ox1, Oxford
1 September/1 October: Element Beaconsfield Artworks, UKS Biennial, Alta, Norway.; Earthshaker Beaconsfield Artworks, UKS Biennial, Oslo, Norway. 18 October/25 November; Shozo Shimamoto New Beaconsfield commission featuring the former Gutai artist
30 June/22 July: CLUB presented by Wilken Schade, Eva Stenram and Simon Wood. Artists including Caroline Achaintre, Ekkehard Altenburger, Mark Applegate, Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen, Julia Boettcher, Anthony Bradbury,Tina Boles, Cab Gallery, Luis Carvajal, Luke Caulfield, Brian (Dawn) Chalkley, Lali Chetwynd, John Clayman, CRASH!, Don Air Elmeques, Marcia Farquhar, Jess Flood-Paddock, Vasiliki Gkavaise, Nigel Grimmer, Gaby Hartel, Kevin Heavey, Helen Hewitt, Norman Hogg Cassie Howard, William Hunt, Susan Ibreck, Ernst Kahl, Dan Kennedy-Martin, Chuck Lamoine featuring Jules and Sue, Kinni Leung, Peter Liversidge, Duncan MacAffee and Andrew Miller, Duncan McLaren, Dorian MacFarland, .Mari and Andy, Pat Magnolo, Mathieu Mercier, Takuro Mikame, Mathieu, Mercier, Corrado Morgana, Paul-Aymar Mourgue d1Algue, Hayley Newman and Matt Wand, Luke Oxley, Frederic Pradeau, Rakel, Mari Reijnders, Suzette Santos, Hideatsu Shiba, Richard Stone, Jonathan Thrupp, Trio Cutty Sark featuring Bruce McLean, Rachel Tweddell, Ben White, Peter Zangrillo.
16 May/10 June: Afterlife. Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey. Co-produced by Artsadmin and Beaconsfield.
April 28: Oh Lover Boy. Franko B. Performance co-produced by Artsadmin and Beaconsfield.
March/April: Fragmens sur les Institutions Republicaines IV, Shane Cullen. From the collection of Irish Museum of Modern Art
February: Earthshaker, Beaconsfield Artworks, Clare College Mission Church, Café Gallery Projects, London
January: The NOSEPAINT-BEACONSFIELD archive 1991-2000, installation and publication, Century City, Tate Modern, London

2000

December: FATE. A Christmas Fair. Various artists.
October/November: Drawing Space. Sheila Gowda, NS Harsha, Nasreem Mohomedi curated by Suman Gopinath and grant Watsom and co-produced by Beaconsfield and inIVA with the Victoria and Albert Museum.
September: Realm of the Senses. Various international artists. Turku Art Museum, Titanick Gallery and environs. Curated by David Crawforth and co-produced by Titanik and Beaconsfield.
August: Fabienne Audeoud and John Russell. FIELD VI
July: Bcnsfld . Rout, Anna Best, Prang. FIELDV
June/July: MARY ANNE FRANCIS: GROUP SHOW. FIELDIV; Field II, Franko B
June: Earthshaker. Artworks, Combo, Stavangar Bienial, Norway
May/June: Modern . Ben Cockett, Naomi Siderfin. FIELDIII
April: I Miss You. Franko B performance in FIELD series

1999

Nov/Dec: Newcontemporaries 99, co-hosted with Milch and the South London Gallery.
Sept/Oct: Little Dancer . David Crawforth launches first exhibition in the artist led series, FIELD.
May/June: Chris Marker - Silent Movie and selected screenings. Co-produced with Pier Trust; British Links
April/June: British Links in collaboration with offside, Henie Onstad Centre and Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo.
February/March: Clouding the Issue, by Beaconsfield Artworks, installation as part of Passion, Gasworks, London.; SYZYGY - Orphan Drift and Ccru. New multi media commission including publication, CD and video.
January: Rise & Fall, Randy as Fuck, Random Automatic Fire, by Beaconsfield Artworks at Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin. Live interventions within the exhibition Sensation - young British artists from the Saatchi Collection.; Rude Mechanic CD launch. Pan Sonic, Crawforth/Newman and guests.

1998

November/December: Mikey Cuddihy - New Paintings.
October/November: Estate - the Ian Hinchliffe Retrospective. A new live art commission in the context of an archive documenting thirty years of performance art (this went on to form part of: Flashes From the Archives of Oblivion: Stuart Brisley, Ian Hinchliffe, Alastair MacLennan and Tatsumi Orimoto between 17 November 2007 and 13 January 2008 at Chapter, Cardiff).
June: Glean. A four week exhibition project, curated by Naomi Siderfin, focusing on a variety of processes within the work of the four artists Anna Best, Robert Beard, Keith Coventry and Tamsin Pender.
April/June: Beaconsfield in residence at Dartington College of Art. A fellowship allowing the research and development of a new screen based work by Beaconsfield Artworks alongside teaching on Visual Performance course.
January/February: Instantaneous. A four week exhibition project , curated by David Crawforth, focusing upon the presence of short-lived and incidental occurrences within the practices of six artists. A series of new commissions from Mark Dean, Michelle Griffiths, Stephen Nicholas & Matthew Caley, Tal Shoshan, Claire Shilito, Sol Sneltvedt.

1997

Tomoko Takahashi
November/December: Tomoko Takahashi. An installation in both the lower and upper gallery spaces responding to Beaconsfield, the venue. In collaboration with composer Neill Quinton, Takahashi responded to the "visual music" she perceived in the space and embraced qualities such as tempo and rhythm within her installation. The installation is now in the Saatchi Collection.
August: between the devil and the deep (blue) sea. Presented the work of seven British artists city-wide in Helsinki, Finland. This temporary visit to Helsinki was compounded by the emphasis on 'performance' or physical presence as a component of each artists work. The project combined interventions in public space with gallery based installations and was part of the annual Helsinki Festival. Beaconsfield Artworks, Stuart Brisley, Robert Ellis, Tracey Emin, Bruce Gilchrist, Hayley Newman, Mark Wallinger.
July: W.A.F.S. (Update). The presentation of a new film by Keith Coventry.; Ground Control, Scanner
May/June: Ground Control. A collaborative project with artist-run space Jutempus in Vilnius and the Baltic Flour Mills in Gateshead, manifesting in exhibitions in London and Vilnius, a book, a web site and symposium. Artists projects focused upon the relationship between 'East' and 'West' Europe through their experiences as visitors, exploring the implications of travel and global communication and the potential of the artist as commentator and contemporary seer. Fiona Banner, Ceponyte & Ozarinscas, Lucy Gunning, Evaldas Jansas, Linas Liandzbergis, David Mollin, Deimantas Narkevicius, Aturas Raila with Darius Cuita, Scanner, Thomson & Craighead.
February: Classic. Presentation of the inaugural concert by [rout], a recently formed alliance of young British composers and performers, directed by Sam Hayden, Paul Newland and Paul Whitty. [rout] performed in conjunction with the work of contemporary visual artists including Pete Smith, O(rphan) d(rift>) and Dianne Harris with Hex.

1996

Rude Mechanic, Hayley Newman
November: Rude Mechanic. Project concerned with the visualisation of sound; conceived and curated by David Crawforth, co-founder of Nosepaint and Beaconsfield, Hayley Newman and Finnish sound duo Panasonic. Collaborators include squarepusher, Jimi Tenor, Simon Fisher Turner, Kaffe Matthews, David Cunningham and Susan Stenger.
September: Soap Opera (feast), by Beaconsfield Artworks and guests as part of BANK TV, London and Manchester.; RAX, Roi Vaara; RAX. The first group show of contemporary Finnish art in London. Co-produced with MUU ry. The Finnish artists all show internationally and are amongst the most acknowledged in their country. The show includes work in public space in the neighborhood of the gallery and offers, on the one hand, an extrovert, up-front approach to contemporary fast culture and, on the other, darker, more contemplative insights into present day paradigms. Eija Liisa Ahtila, Andy Best & Merja Puustinen, Pia Lindman, Pekka Niskanen, Roi Vaara.
15/16 August: Disorders. Event taking place at St Thomas' Hospital, produced by Beaconsfield and curated by Nosepaint: a collaboration between invited artists, the management, staff and patients of St Thomas' Hospital and Beaconsfield to intervene, record and comment upon the ongoing battle with mortality over a cycle of 24 hours. The project takes place to celebrate the launch of the Guys and St Thomas' Sleep Centre, the first unit for research, diagnosis and treatment of the full range of sleep disorders. Work includes performance, site-specific installation, video and sound by Kirsty Alexander & Paul Burwell, Anne Bean, John Carson, Sarah Cole, David Cunningham, Bruce Gilchrist, Matthias Jackisch, Michal Klega, Rona Lee, Alastair Maclennan, Guillaume Paris, Sonja Zelic.
June/July: Robert Ellis. One man show curated by Beaconsfield including drawings, photoworks and sound compositions.; Keg Work by Beaconsfield Artworks as part of Collectibles at Conducters Hallway, Camberwell.; Maps Elsewhere, Chris Ofili; Gargantua. Event from 12 noon-12 midnight, produced by Beaconsfield and curated by Nosepaint. A range of artists invited to work with gargantuan themes in a live event scheduled to complement the launch of Julian Stallabrass' book Gargantua-Manufactured Mass Culture published by Verso. Orphan drift, Keith Arnatt, Uli Aigner, Polskadavians, Ronald Fraser Munro & Jeremy Blank, Patricia Scanlan, PUT PUT, Debbie Booth, Wayne LLoyd & Laurence Harvey, Trebor Scholtz, Strike.
March: Maps Elsewhere. Exhibition produced and curated in collaboration with the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA) bringing together new commissioned work by artists concerned with ideas about maps and mapping. Jo Stockham & Deborah Levy, Chris Ofili, Alistair Raphael, Anne Tallentire, Beaconsfield Artworks.

1995

Cottage Industry, Sonya Boyce
November: Cottage Industry. Exhibition reflecting upon the relation between artists, the art market and their audience and upon the responses of contemporary artists to their professional and domestic constraints - conceived and curated by Naomi Siderfin, co-founder of Nosepaint and Beaconsfield. The allocation of exhibition space which includes home and studio-based installation and a specially commissioned catalogue essay as well as a display in Beaconsfield's main space. Sonja Boyce, Kate Bush, Mikey Cuddihy, Siobhan Davies, Clare Palmier, Naomi Siderfin.; Plein Air, Matthias Jackisch
September/October: Launch project Plein Air with internationally renowned performance artist Matthias Jackisch from Dresden, Germany and French nineteenth century painter Felix Ziem, curated by Beaconsfield. Jackisch installs himself for the duration of four weeks in an environment incorporating a single work by Ziem. The month long inhabitation of the gallery is accompanied and informed by research undertaken by Jackisch in the local vicinity of Vauxhall. The commission draws upon tensions and relationships between the contemporaneous and the historical and examines conventions surrounding the artistic process and its preservation.
13 September: Beaconsfield opens a new space for art in central London . The venue is situated at the west end of the riverside walk which leads to the South Bank Centre and the site for the new Tate Gallery of Modern Art. The nineteenth century building has a main exhibition space of 150 square metres with a wall height of 10 metres. It has been renovated to a high specification.
July: Accompanying Dialogues. Recording by Beaconsfield for Artifice CD-ROM including an interview between Nicholas Logsdail of the Lisson Gallery and Greg Hilty of the Hayward Gallery and soundloops produced in collaboration with the Ministry of Sound.
February: A Public Work of Art. Site-specific installation conceived and produced by Beaconsfield Artworks and hosted by the South Bank Centre. An outdoor installation combining sound and matter; the only visible component being a controversially inscribed bronze-cast manhole cover with a 1000 watt speaker installed beneath emitted the sound of a person dying of pneumonia.

1994

20 October: Beaconsfield at the Ministry of Sound. Event produced by Beaconsfield, curated by Nosepaint and hosted by the Ministry of Sound, leader in European club culture. Combining state of the art visual and audio technology with traditional techniques, Beaconsfield presents a range of time based work - performance art and installations - from eighteen artists and groups including Loophole Cinema and Lindsay John together with new music including Talvin Singh and Zuveya and DJ's including Judge Jules, Billy Nasty and Eastern Sound System - in a club context.
March: 'The Lisson Gallery' produced in collaboration with Nosepaint. Exhibition including drawings, texts, live guinea-pigs and work published in advertisement form. Matthew Arnatt, David Crawforth, David Mollin.