The Serpentine Gallery’s Edgware Road Project links local and international artists with people living and working in this London neighbourhood. The project base is the Centre for Possible Studies, home to screenings, events and an ongoing project archive.
Centre for Possible Studies
64 Seymour Street
London W1
+44 (0)20 7298 1535
Opening hours:
Wed 3-8pm
Thur-Sat 2-5pm
Janna Graham, Project Curator
jannag@serpentinegallery.org
Amal Khalaf, Edware Road Project Assistant
amalk@serpentinegallery.org
EdgwareRoad.org website
COMING SOON
Participating artists include:
CAMP
Susan Hefuna
Lamia Joreige
Hiwa K
no.w.here, with actors Khalid Abdalla & Cressida Trew
Marwan Rechmaoui
Wael Shawky
Rania Stephan
Ultra-red
DOWNLOAD THE EDGWARE ROAD POSTER
AND SUMMER PROGRAMME HERE
(1Mb PDF)
Events and Projects
In Residence: Marwan Rechmaoui
18 August – 18 October 2010
Free Cinema School Salons
Wednesday 1 September 2010, 7pm to 9pm
Centre for Possible Studies
64 Seymour Street, W1H 5BW
Free
Since March, on Wednesday evenings, artists in residence Lamia Joreige, Rania Stephan, no.w.here, Khalid Abdulla, Cressida Trew and members from the local Edgware Road community have been coming together in cafes along the road and at the Centre of Possible Studies to screen and discuss films as part of an ongoing conversation about independent film production/distribution and its relationship to place.
Free Cinema School Salons continue now on the first Wednesday of every month where film, video and research is presented with collective discussion drawing on some of the wider topics and possible studies ongoing at the Centre of Possible Studies.
Park Night: Edgware Road and Etel Adnan
Friday 3 September 2010, 7pm
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel
Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA
This is a ticketed event, see below
The Lebanese-American poet, essayist and visual artist, Etel Adnan convenes an evening of readings and music.
Biography
Born in Beirut in 1925, Etel Adnan is a poet, essayist and visual artist who currently divides her time between Lebanon, France and the USA. She retired from a permanent teaching position in the late 1970s and now devotes herself to her art and writing. Adnan, is a powerful voice in feminist and antiwar movements and has published several works of poetry and fiction. Sitt Marie Rose (1978) a novel set before and during the (1975-1990) Lebanese Civil War, is translated into over ten languages and considered a classic of Middle Eastern literature.
Park Nights
Park Nights is an annual series of music, theatre, performances, talks and film screenings stages on Friday nights in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, this year designed by Jean Nouvel. Park Nights culminates on the weekend of 16 and 17 October with Serpentine Gallery Map Marathon, the latest in the Serpentine Gallery's series of Marathon events, conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Tickets £5/4
Available from the Gallery Lobby Desk
or Ticketweb: (0)8444 771 000
www.ticketweb.co.uk
Learn about the Nouvel-designed Pavilion and the Serpentine's Pavilion programme.
Etel Adnan: Master class
Saturday 4 September 2010, 3-5pm
Centre for Possible Studies
64 Seymour Street, W1H 5BW
Free but booking is essential. To book or for more information contact: amalk@serpentinegallery.org
Following an evening of readings at the Serpentine Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel, Etel Adnan will be leading a poetry master class at the Centre for Possible Studies.
Marwan Rechmaoui in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist
Tuesday 7 September 2010, 7pm
Centre for Possible Studies
64 Seymour Street, W1H 5BW
Free
Artist in residence Marwan Rechmaoui will be in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist discussing the artist’s practice.
Biography
Marwan Rechmaoui is a Lebanese artist who has lived in the Abu Dhabi, Boston and New York, and is now based in Beirut. His work was featured in the Saatchi’s ‘Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East’ show in 2009. His work has also been shown at the 27th Sao Paolo Biennial (2006), 7th Sharjah Biennial (2007), Tent, Rotterdam (2007), Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels (2008), Homeworks, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2003 and 2010)
November–December 2010
Cairo Stories and Free Cinema School (Cairo)
Parallel events in London and Cairo.
January–March 2011
Writing the Possible
Visiting artists and local groups develop propositions for the future.
April 2011
Studies on a Road
An international forum including presentations of ‘possible studies’ that have been undertaken by artists and local people on the Edgware Road and abroad.
Recent events:
Study Group: Perhaps Here and Elsewhere
Wednesday 28 July
7-9pm
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Free Cinema School Salons
Wednesdays in July
7pm
Free Cinema School Salons continue at the Centre for Possible Studies, screenings and discussions collaboratively programmed and facilitated by no.w.here. These salons will run every Wednesday evening through summer.
Wednesdays in the Basement
Wednesdays in July
3–8pm
A drop-in swap session inviting people to generate posters, placemats, websites and typefaces related to the Edgware Road. Facilitated by åbäke design collective.
Course: Free Cinema School III: PLACE/OUT OF PLACE
Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 July
11am–6pm
A two-day workshop on being and not being from a place, led by Beirut-based artist/film-makers Lamia Joreige and Rania Stephan. Booking is essential as spaces are limited.
Wednesday 14 July
This Wednesday 14 July, the Free Cinema School Salon will be run by Lamia Joreige, artist in residence at the Centre for Possible Studies. She will be screening A Journey (2006), the screening will be followed by a discussion.
About Lamia Joreige
Born in Lebanon in 1972, Lamia Joreige is a painter and video artist who lives and works in Beirut. She uses archival documents and fictitious elements to reflect on the relation between individual stories and collective History. She explores the possibilities of representation of the Lebanese wars and their aftermath, and Beirut, a city at the center of her imagery. Her work is essentially on time, the recordings of its trace and its effects on us. www.lamiajoreige.com
Wednesday 7 July
Excerpts and discussion of film El Jou3/ The Hunger (1986) directed by Aly Badrakhan and starring Souad Hosni, facilitated by artist in residence Rania Stephan. While in residence Rania Stephan has continued her ongoing research on the Egyptian film star, Souad Hosni, who died in the Edgware Road neighbourhood. The screening is followed by discussions about the future of the Free Cinema School Screening Salons.
The Edgware Road Project
The Edgware Road Project is in collaboration with:
Ashkal Alwan: The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Beirut Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
Free Cinema School 09 (extract 2 / dance superimposition) from freecinemaschool on Vimeo.
Beirut Caoutchouc 2004-2008 (Detail)
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© Marwan Rechmaoui
The Centre for Possible Studies
© Peter Erni
