Occasionals was a peripatetic project between 2007-2013 for artists, writers and curators to make their work public, usually over a single day or an evening. These took the form of exhibitions, screenings, readings, performances, discussions, and publications, presented in a non-commercial space. Organised by Philomene Pirecki.
previous / Saturday 31st August 2013 - Screensaver/Desktop Images Wysing Arts Centre Festival - Space Time: Convention T
Occasionals and Supplement have collaborated to invite a group of artists to contribute a screensaver/desktop image that will occupy the digital in-between spaces of the festival - between or in the background to where the main action will happen. These will be used as the screensaver/desktop images on Wysing computers, including at the reception desk and those being used for the events. They will also be available to download for the duration of the festival from the Wysing, Supplement and Occasionals websites. The screensaver/desktop images on the Wysing computers will be set to select at random, with any transition effects determined by the computer's user, so the images will appear in random order for random amounts of time. The resulting unpredictable forms of display could include the reception desk computer, or projected during the change-over of acts on stage, maybe in the bar area, they could appear if something goes wrong technically, or might even be seen around the site on festival-goers phones. The images were available to download on 31st August 2013, the day of the festival. Occasionals More information about Wysing Art Centre's festival - Space Time: Convention T Wysing Arts Centre
5th February - 8th March 2013 - Provisional Information opening on Tuesday 5th February 5:30 - 8:00pm
Download the Provisional Information booklet (4.6MB pdf)
There will be performances on the following dates: Tuesday 5th February during the opening Friday 22nd February at 6:30 Tuesday 5th March from 6:00
www.camberwell.arts.ac.uk/camberwellspace
Thursday 3rd November 2011 - Provisional Information 6:30 - 8:30 pm Anna Barham -------------------------------------------- LOCATION: NOT at the Occasionals space in London --------------------------------------------
Anna Barham Tom Benson John Cage's Radio Music Sara MacKillop Dexter Sinister MK Gallery -------------------------------------------- 6:30 - 8:30 pm MK GALLERY project space NOT at the Occasionals space in London --------------------------------------------Thursday 21st July 2011 - Dust Bowl 5:30 - 8:30 p.m an exhibition for one evening, withJesse Ash Using the natural phenomenon of the dust storm as a figure to think through processes of concealment, the project incorporates strategies of interference, contradiction, repetition and recital to acknowledge how the material and formal properties of 'something concealed' can say more about the truth of the 'thing' than its 'naked' self.
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For more information about the film, see also http://www.cinenova.org.uk/filmdetail.php?&filmId=152
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and Beatrice Gibson
Beatrice Gibson and Will Holder will perform Prologue, A Conversation. Prologue is an attempt, in the form of a conversation, to set out and generate ideas around form and content for an as yet unwritten book about speech, fiction and landscape. Exploring the score as a paradigm for the production of speech, the conversation will also include fragments of related sound, image and text.
Beatrice Gibson is an artist based in London. Manifest largely as film, performance and text, her practice explores ideas around sound, sociality, models of collective production and the problems of representation. Her latest film, The Future's Getting Old Like The Rest Of Us, whose script was a collaboration with curator and critic George Clark, will premiere at the Serpentine Gallery in July. www.dliub.org
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Friday 11th December 2009 - Single, Plural, Multiple a screening of five short films, selected by five different people, accompanied by twenty-five short texts about the films. The contributors and their chosen films are
The short texts, twenty-five in total (five from each participant) are not intended to be comprehensive accounts, rather indicators of ways of looking at and thinking about the same films, reflecting the writers' shared or differing interpretations and points of reference. Download the Single, Plural, Multiple booklet (452kb pdf)
image from the cover of the booklet Single, Plural, Multiple Download the Single, Plural, Multiple booklet (452kb pdf)
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Friday 24th July 2009 - Will Holder Will Holder presented "Middle of Nowhere", a book he has been writing and publishing since 2005. It is an adaptation of William Morris' "News from Nowhere (or An Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters From a Utopian Romance)" of 1890. Morris' original novel, a utopian description of a 2004 society, rooted in Victorian Socialist ideologies. Holder's "Middle of Nowhere", also set approximately 115 years in the future, follows the chapter structure of the original, whilst taking significant phenomena into account of which Morris could have no knowledge. Central to the original, the chapter "Questions and Answers", is a discussion between the visiting protagonist and a historian, who recounts the history of the previous 130 years. In the case of "Middle of Nowhere", the historian will account for the history of the 21st century. "Middle of Nowhere" has been described as "a guide for design education and practise set in 2135" and is written in a serialised form, published in dotdotdot magazine and various publications. It is an account of the formation of an adaptive, self-conscious and collective voice that could represent a history whose closest description to date is "Some time then there will be very kind of a history of every one who ever can or is or was or will be living. Some time then there will be a history of every one from their beginning to their ending. Sometime then there will be a history of all of them, of every kind of them, of every one, of every bit of living they ever have in them, of them when there is never more than a beginning to them, of every kind of them, of every one when there is very little beginning and then there is an ending, there will then sometime be a history of every one there will be a history of everything that ever was or is or will be them, of everything that was or is or will be all of any one or all of all of them." (Gertrude Stein, "The Making of Americans, a History of a Family's Progress").
image from William Morris' 'News from Nowhere'
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Friday 16th January 2009 - Lois Rowe occasionals presented 'Argument from Design' 2006, and 'Mannerism to Mind' 2007, two videos by Lois Rowe. Both works were shown twice (4'48" and 10'32"), from At 7:30 there was an informal discussion between Lois Rowe, Philomene Pirecki and everyone who wanted to participate. video still of 'Argument from Design'.
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Saturday 14th June 2008 - Double Object a group exhibition curated by Leigh Robb Six artists have been invited to respond to the construct of the double within their practice. Using the exhibition as a site of research, the artists will present works which investigate the potential of the double in some of its guises to see how, or if such a simple construct can open a more complex field of possibility both formally and conceptually. From a pair, copy or diptych to studies in repetition, synchronicity and comparison, the double is a structure that forces questions of singularity and difference. This exhibition is an opportunity to think about why it recurs as a pivotal strategy for Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roni Horn, for example, to artists working today. Participating artists
Earlier works by Dieter Roth, Barry Flanagan, Glenn Ligon and Michel Francois were also included.
At 7:00 p.m.
installation view of Double Object. Artists from left to right - Jason Dungan, Glenn Ligon, Barry Flanagan, Maria Zahle. installation view of Double Object. Artists from left to right - Elizabeth McAlpine, Vanessa Billy (floor), Dieter Roth, Bradford Bailey, Sam Porritt, Michel François. More images from Double Object >
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Saturday 15th March 2008 - Juan Cruz occasionals presented 'In The Shape of What We Know', a video work by Juan Cruz. Two videos are projected onto a wall where they partly overlap; one uses images and sound of the artist and his immediate environment, the other uses text recounting intimate memories and thoughts. The videos differ in length, which changes their synchronisation as they loop and continue to play. This presents us with a literally overlapping, contextually shifting structure that inflects upon the relationships between what is read, seen and heard. In part it is a reflection upon reconciling daily life and art practice, upon unexpected recollections triggered by seemingly unrelated events, and the contradictions and compromises that many of us are often faced with.
the video and the crowd during the projection of In The Shape of What We Know more images from Juan Cruz's event > www.mattsgallery.org/artists/cruz/home.php
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occasionals presented 3 projections by Ian Whittlesea. Each projection shows a series of names and is an attempt to list chronologically everyone an individual met in their lifetime. The names are projected as white text on a white wall in an illuminated space. Each name slowly appears and fades away to be replaced by the next. This is an ongoing work, altered and added to as the artist acquires new biographical information about the subjects. The work could be viewed from beginning to end, or at any time between 2:59 – 8:00pm. 2:59 – 4:53pm > Everyone - Peggy
Guggenheim
image from Everyone - Frank O’Hara more images from Ian Whittlesea's event >
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Friday 5th October 2007 - Andrew Chesher Andrew Chesher showed his video 'Changing the System', a documentary about musicians rehearsing. In 1973, taking his title from a remark by Tom Hayden, a key figure of
the Student Movement of 1968, the American avant-garde composer and erstwhile
student of John Cage, Christian Wolff, wrote a score called ‘Changing
the System’ - a kind of ‘participatory democracy’ for
a large scale musical ensemble. Following the preparations for a performance
of the piece to celebrate Wolff’s 70th birthday in 2004, Andrew's
film observes the musicians and their discussions during rehearsals, elucidating
the score, its significance and the experience of rehearsing it through
comments by the musicians themselves.
video still from Changing the System more images from Andrew Chesher's event >
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