Artist’s Studio
Beatrice Gibson
24 July – 19 September
Sackler Centre for Arts Education
Premiere: Park Nights, Friday 23 July, 8.30pm: The Future's Getting Old Like The Rest Of Us (2010, 45mins, 16mm transferred to Blu-ray) by Beatrice Gibson, with Paradigm (1969, 8mins), directed by B.S. Johnson. In the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 designed by Jean Nouvel. Click here for info on the Premiere.
The Future’s Getting Old Like The Rest Of Us is a 16mm film conceived in the format of a TV Play and set in an older people’s care home. Part documentary, part fiction, the script for the film was a collaboration between Beatrice Gibson and writer and critic George Clark, and was constructed from transcripts of a discussion group held over a period of five months with the residents of four of Camden's Care Homes. Taking B.S. Johnson's 1971 experimental novel House Mother Normal as its formal departure point and employing the logic of a musical score, the script is edited into a vertical structure, featuring eight simultaneous monologues. The Future's Getting Old Like The Rest Of Us features actors Roger Booth, Corinne Skinner Carter, Janet Henfrey, Ram John Holder, Anne Firbank, John Tilbury, William Hoyland and Jane Wood.
The film is one of five commissions that have taken place as part of the Serpentine Gallery’s Skills Exchange Project in which artists, designers and architects work in collaboration with older people, care workers, young people and activists to develop ideas for social and architectural change. Camden Council has co-commissioned the film with the Serpentine Gallery. In addition to the film, stills and scripts will be installed in the new care home, due to be completed in 2012 at Maitland Park.
Saturday Talks
George Clark, Saturday 24 July
Beatrice Gibson, Saturday 7 August
Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
Funded by the National Lottery through Big Lottery Fund
Developed with the support of FLAMIN, Film London
Skills Exchange
The Urban Transformation and the Politics of Care project involves artists working in collaboration with elderly people, market traders, care workers and young people to swap skills and develop ideas for social and architectural change.
Work will be presented at the Sackler Centre for Arts Education at the Serpentine Gallery in summer and autumn, 2010.
Åbäke & Markus Miessen (Westmead Care Home), Barby Asante (Inspire, Southwark), Marcus Coates (St John's Hospice,Westminster), Beatrice Gibson (Camden Homes Eranda Foundation for Older People), Tom Hunter (Age Concern, Hackney)
The project has been developed in partnership with Age Concern, Westminster Housing and Care Services and Goldsmiths’ Centre for Urban and Community Research.
Further information
Janna Graham, Projects Curator
+44 (0)20 7298 1535
jannag@serpentinegallery.org
Beatrice Gibson with Adam
Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
Voice A (Low, shifting volumes.
From loud to mumbling. Fast but
fumbling…) 2009
Beatrice Gibson
A Necessary Music 2008
Film still
Courtesy the artist
© 2009 Beatrice Gibson
Marcus Coates
Journey to the Lower World (Tea and Sandwiches) 2004
Archival inkjet print 115 3 163 cm
Courtesy Workplace Gallery
Photograph Nick David
© 2009 Marcus Coates
Tom Hunter
Holly Street Tower Block Project Series: Residents of Cedar Court 1997–98
C-type print on foamex
243.8 x 304.8 cm
© 2008 Tom Hunter
